OCR Text |
Show FACTS ABOUT TELEPHONES. Independent Has Moro Unlimited 'Phones Than Its Older Rival. Some rather surprising Information has bien gathcrad by the commltteo of business busi-ness men edguged In tlio campaign for lower telophona rates in the city. The figures obtained by this commltteo show thnt the Bell Telephone company has Sll 1 unlimited business telephones In tho city, - H at tho rato of $90 a year per phone, -while ) ' IH tho Independent company has 1253 unllm- j. IH lted telephones nt $48 11 year each. The r Bell has 21SS houso telephones, which are j ' tM on party lines of four telephones to the ! j IH line, giving G47 llne.H, while the Indcpend- 1 , ) cnt has 7SS direct houso lines and no party H lines. The committee, of which Lester ' JH Freed Is chairman, Is counting on a very 1, IH largo and enthusiastic meeting of business ( v IH men at the meeting to be held Monday I jH night at the Commorclal club, for the pur- Vft lH peso of formulating a formal demand for t i v IH a readjustment of the Bell company's '71 IH rates. T'VH |