Show MERCER INCLUDING POST l Nl V NJ gw YORK TonK Nov Xo The 17 The report that Iho tho controlling interest in iii the Iho Yc Union Telegraph com pa obtained b by the lie American Telephone and Telegraph ph n would ouM lend lead to toa ton tou a n u closer coser community of or Interest between t the he companies and ull Ih the tho Telegraph company an 10 m a ultimate merger of the thc tUl three companies was given n ln more color tOlla today when officials of f the American i Telephone and Tele- Tele mph graph company frankly said aill that the Po tl ta was aa the l largest biniC in iii their Pr President Theodore N. N Vail nil nil of ot the American Telephone und aud Telegraph nc company is in iii Hos Ho ton on today loday H it is said paid I Conferring with wih other high i of the company comp and that thit tile tho ll ao of the new nC commission iou in regard to tho the Po Post Lost Postal's t tal al al's als il I interest t anti and aul other other- other matters matters would woul be considered There was a n report current tOlla tommy today that Special Assistant Attorneys en I cral Elis and Harrison had come to this ci city to in investigate ti the mtr merger C of the American compan with wih the thy We west western ter t- t ern er Union It It- I Itis i is is known that tho government o tins hns hince sluice May HOS IPOS investigating in e the thc tel and telephone companies c in accordance with wih a rc resolution on adopted b by the senate |