Show CHEAP CABLING thic THE bottom must have been reach reached at last in the matter of commercial cable rates from the united states to europe at the beginning the rate was five dollars here and one pound in england per word for a message across the atlantic in this charge all the letters including the date address and signature were counted and divided by five the quotient representing so many words this was so excessively ces high as to be practically beyond the reach of ef people in ordinary circumstances and was only submitted to by the wealthiest on very important occasions the weight of the enormity brought it doan do rn a little but opposition did more than anything else and fenall finally with i th the completion of the bennett ol mackay kay cable the tolls tells have been so reasonable that no complaints have been made so far as heard yesterday came the announcement that the rate has been brought down by that company to twelve cents per word for messages to the united kin kingdom adom and france and 15 ceu cents S to germany this thia is so much too tob c cheap deap that it cannot last long competition competti on which merely cuts out profits fro from n an opponent also injuries the cutter and aad eventually they will compromise on a 11 paying basis |