Show GREAT TELEPHONE SCHEME THREE IN ST I 1 LOUIS COMBINE I 1 will control the telephone and electric lighting and rower power systems of the mound city I 1 st louis mo to dec 6 A fl gantle deal involving n a revolution in III the tele phone and lighting business ot of st loula louia ling ha been three bla big companies anith an all aggregate paid up stock of 0 nearly have been organized iy ay iy ay about twenty vt of tile the most prominent and d wealthy citizens of st louis one of tile the companies will introduce a telephone BY system in st louis at much lower service rates raica than those prevailing at al present it A n III establish IL a home telephone plant which tile will in III time lime extend to neigh bethig points tile the second company owned ly by the he same persons persona will operate at an I 1 immense electric plant supplying power of 0 nil kinds for public und and private use iwo the third company will III const construct duct the tele telephone and clec electric plan a for the tio other oilier companies manufacture the equipments and will construct a complete system of 0 u underground conduits A fourth company la is also in the deal but it will atilt not figure in the proceedings at present the local parties panics to lie interested in tile new low corn companies panics are lillis bibs waln w ight adolphus busch august gehner sum sain kt anard julius S walsh walli Ito llOrt wells charles 11 turner W F Ila iLick W F foster nicholas george J xo ko husch phillip stock lawrence n B patice pat ice jones C P K X walsh otto von schrader william 1 U and it if S priest tile the telephone tolf phone company la is tin tile name of it a company chartered by tile the secretary of nt state slate at jet jef ferona city mith a up stock the incorporators ln were tile the st A a it jut named and Il J I 1 hanford I 1 a n fo id rif n P evanston Hv van anston ton ill drift and jagues I 1 II 11 1 pa Iari rl a sli 1 I of I 1 I 1 brooki n ny the capital stock ot of tile the roni pAny Y will ull all be taken by the st bouls partis articles of of if tho the st louis oil and n roin pany pan alth ali a full paid capital of GOI were file d in ili the lle onie oni fit e contala til of thin flits city the papers contain the e same list of cincot tors late yesterday afternoon tho the same gentlemen held a mf ellner and closed a dal d ion al which put them in possession posses 11 or of the citizen Cl llena a El electric lighting a and n 1 power company roro pany and the telephone and telegraph Teles raph service coni company panY both bath of which have had hut but a nominal bu siness business for many yea it tit th citizens elect ia lighting and rower power company waa nas then pratt cally leaDy with a a full paid capital stock ot of and officers A were ere elected file deal Is one ot or the largest ever accomplished in st louis and hi it effects are arc far reaching the combination was vas made for ohp the avowed purpose purposive pur posie or it the 1116 telephone and general elect electric business in st louis the local start out with the announcement that the nw now telephone company avi n 11 provide telephones at la 16 36 per year for residences t 10 tor for claim and 60 tor for bu business aness houses the present telephone fatels late is sirio per year for the bell telephone service tho the new company will open general offices next week and will ivill fit at once ret get out and hustle after prospective e the local capitalists apparently mean business as they billed their applications a for conduit space with the board of public improvements late YE yea afternoon and also r filed four bonds 1 aggregating 1 I ich the mayor I 1 I 1 and council |