Show iii TELEPHONE COMBINE FORMS Chicago to Become Center of Great Independent System FRANCHISE IS ASKED FOR Long Lilg Service It and amI Will ViII Be lIe Given to Independents cuts cul III In Several SC States C Chicago Juno 28 Chicago S Chicago Is is to become tho the center coaler of a great greut Independent hide Inde pendent telephone system built with Manufacturers Manufacturers' tho the newl newly incorporated ers ers' Telephone company as Its center Tins Tin's was announced today on the tho authority of persons In close touch with the Illinois Manufacturers Manufacturers' association association as as- sedation and the National Independent ent Telephone association now In In convention in Chicago Long Lon distance e service ser and connections will vill bo given of tho the Independent telephone s systems Missouri Michigan an VI Wisconsin Illinois Iowa Indiana lana 0 Ohio Ii In Pennsylvania amid and andall all the southern states stales Following the that Chicago Chi Chi- cage cago will have e connections with the Independent companies outside e It was recalled that a committee of oC the National National Na Na- Independent Telephone association association tion Ion has made malIc three attempts at different different dif dif- ferent times limes to secure Chicago con con- In the committee making these attempts it U was vas said were wert represented sentell telephone com pan Is with 1 11 1 subscribers IS and antl an Investment Invest ost ment approximating Claim c Service 1 The Thc independent companies claim to have ha 1 5 per lIei cent more telephones 85 Sri per cent more exchanges and 90 per cent more toll stations in their territories than the Bell companies arc are operating At the closing session sc of the convention convention con eon of th the National Interstate Telephone association this evening a resolution was unanimously adopted appealing to the tho city 0 of oC Chica Chicago o for fora a a. franchise franchi foi fot an independent telephone tele tei- phone service to be given l en to some sonic company compan that thatis is a member of oC Iho tho asso asso- Tills This is believed behoved to refer to the tho concern organized orga by hy the Illinois Manufacturers Manufacturers' association To 10 Chicago Another resolution adopted In Instructed In- In the lie president and advisory board of C the association a to confer with lie Iho Chicago Commercial aSo association laUon for for- early action rC tile tho i cn-i o n J J. J I J 1 h LjJ t I 1 eu y I ln m IOlI 01 niO pan ff l or rif t n S Officers for fur tho ensuing year ar were verc elected as a follows President B l. B liege Hose Cleveland C 0 O. n pres vice Theodore Th lOl 1 Gary Gar Macon Maon Mo second i j Jr resident Charles I Ji E. Sumner Sum- Sum ncr ner Portland Oro treasurer J J. J G G. Pa ra secretary Charles C C. C Dc Deeming Dec Boone o ne Ia la ad assistant assistant assist assist- l. l ant s secretary cl tat J. J A A. Harm Harny Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land O. O I |