| Show TELEPHONES WERE NERE THE TUE TOPIC Joint Committee on Municipal Laws Listen to Arguments SPIRITED SESSION on Department lire 0 III 1110 liol a Ill relic so of i i I ii lime II I And tIUi In The rIte Joint committees committee on out municipal of the lie city council had u it very and spirited sea HOS last Is s night t In Iii thu council coli rooms In Imi fact their helm occupied HO tin much time thuma that hardly any of the other com coat eio ruble tu to get together The lie in hum the lie matter of if gi nut hog Ing a franchise to tIme thu I company Huth sides ides a of lie presented to lie thu commute cola unit cc by k und ii ad iii Tho applicants wen melt by Cov Cv Wells Well T r H 14 V F I John Hall and linier H Ii Jonies Ito the for time thu nun lion PU II y File Tho Stole by uhf W V 8 ti James Ivors Ivers Mi Mr M C Kox mind and lou Cloo louy V y Wallace Mr Itt being the lie chief for tiit old telephone company Chin n announced that each Mf side nn was allowed 30 to present theIr arguments AfUr A baum us as to which should open the lie arguments Mr Jones made a us brief UH as to thu Ito of thu lie now company He lie suit said that t hit t It I I Ed put lilt t In Iii a it modern and im un tin limited telephone that hunt It would bo be entirely out th Independent mimi and would cut the tue m itts of the ut old company to Just their latcH linking n a charge of 18 48 your eur tot for business houses amid 30 her your tom for residences Ho I Ic at a hd limit Hint I t io ne non would ivoti iii glue give the city 80 20 free telephones antI al ni low hour It to Iii iso tiso their heir poles holes for stringing tire lire alarm wires He lie see why tIme the people of Utah should not the benefit of nn ut it Independent I e telephone He lit tu to that neatly evory In time the Union hind had nn nut Independent system but Utah In conclusion ho said We v dont think that lint the lie Hooky Mountain Hell Bell Telephone company cou lint lius any more right to 0 object to the Ito council grunting this lila franchise huami tho iii owner of come ot of these large business blocks would have to 0 object to o lie tho framing of a permit to 0 another party for a new building Just It might tube tue some of hula his tenants tenant from him We admit that our system will hurt the Hell Telephone company financially n a great deal but shows that competition will stIll benefit the lie people of any community anti and we know thou that Ute the independent nys tern tem lisa has been a u success In other states fluid think that ha t It will be a mu to the people of time the state of Utah WALLACE HAS AN tIr Wallace began his arguments the lie franchise by iy rending the tho proposed franchise clause by hi clause and cind pointing out time the defect therein Time the Ural point was In regard to the t ut time t of commencing work stork on th rOllS new Hue I the franchise fru allows it I nix nil x months to p commence work stork Mr that lf it Mr Mm had i M MM ii or ut that hint he lie begin work us as soon form nut tIme the franchise Is granted amid not hut lx Tho Thu point relied upon by Mr allace that hint there was stag only ono one person Mr tIm for hit franch franchIse s Ik lit soul on nit that lint point If the of this thil city nty In any number would ink usk for another telephone coma coin puny you would be bi justified In iii granting but lute here is ono man ask mg hag a franchise und timid nothing Is shown that other citizen wants the lie new nets system Continuing he lie said If they lucy are uie ci this franchise It means an art set of poles Elates on your streets We e have mundo with time the riots jiow vt 1 company to UH their Pales Jointly ther i ino Ing one umie get of poles from time tho We o havu nn nit established nr covering Colorado Wyo Wyoming ming Idaho and Montana and have n u It IH is true run we have m niad do mOrley money but bitt we me ame not it Salt Lake city it hut are making It Iton on oil toll lint limits No company In the hn has given its Ifs customers a cheap Cu r toll than the belay Mountain Hell Bell Telephone company HO it contended that lint none of the lie bush busl new firms wanted more inome telephones that they hay have too many now Turn Ing to t Mr Mn ho said You dont louit want yant arty any more inure do you Mr Me Mc To which Mr Mm No sir we too many now hots 1 l beg h of you gentlemen continued Mr Wallace that unless the citizens ask for fp a that hint you will not grant It ADVANTAGES OP COMPETITION Mr Jones then hen closed tin hue arguments In a ft very er brief pointing out time the advantages of competition In this the telephone mie business that lint where till resident directors of the old mId corn com company pany lanY the of Its divi dividends lends there would be lie people In Who would be benefited by ii time the companion In Imi prices which would be brought about by the granting of a franchise of nn an Independent system 1 It is IC no new liCit thing he lie sold It has hast t en tried neil In every ever state slate in time the ant found to bo be a it success This Tha committee then took the matter under tinder advisement and will trill meet In thor rooms on Monday night lo to for formulate insulate a is report on tho ho matter At that meeting the tite application of O 7 A libba anti and for a street railway will be also OTHER MATTERS The committee on out streets recommend recommended ed cC the granting of thin the petition of tIme tho Oregon Short Line Railroad company for lor permission to put In in a new lien switch on Third West Vest street upon the comB condi condition inn tion that It be run In from tie tho north instead of the south as proposed Tho Th committee on lire ihre department recommended the purchasing of n a new to cost about SOO an aerial truck for HMO 1010 feet of hose and the tho construction In tIme tho business die dis districts rids Of three storage to tocos toos cos os anti and five cisterns for Thu committee also recommended the following Increase In salaries In the Chief 1 to assist assistant ant ch chit f W to Ilir six captains 10 to fd ISo lieutenants S G to SS secretary anti and operator 0 to NOO engineer 50 to 90 |
