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Show II TELEPHONES USED IN DISPATCHING TRAINS Ijiegraph. Inrtromenta Displaced on I 60,000 Out of 250,000 Mfles 3aI of Eailroads. AjtKW 10RK pnl S Telephones Sue displaced telegraph instruments Btrain dispatehme service om JB0 000 tot the 350.000 miles ef ralSoads in nntrj, c H Wdsoa tmrffnatead SleaK distance mrei of the Amcr-B"iepiM Amcr-B"iepiM and Telecraph company, Kpenal Examuter 'ilanhal of tie Ercus commerce commission, wlto it pig a heannjj on the complaints of jra n dealers association of Chi 4 The g ais dealers allege diaenm Kgon b the telegraph companies, by K"jg telegraph wires privately to the jatvantage of the public. B Folev ceneral superintendent ft the Delaware, Lackawanna A f Vgjfcrn railroad,, testified that his road BnEfO operating trains for five yean WlHsskone dispatehea without a oris nSaEe favored the use of the tele-instead tele-instead of the telegraph deelar-S deelar-S that from 80 to 160 words a nun could be transmitted by telephone Itais t 30 to 40 words a minute by Heraph unless the .duplex or quad Me systems were a a liable. 'K WUham N Fashbauxh. general tiaper-leident tiaper-leident of traffic or the Western ussb Telegraph compan said that the fpnler of compla nt received about fellies amounted to on It one-tenth of t Be per cent of the messages earned B&ie hearing w 11 be cont nued tomor |