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Show All Sides of the Telephone Question. Clipped from Pocatcllo Advance. Patrons of tho local exchange of the Bell Telephone company, havo evidently evi-dently concluded that patience has ceased to be a virtue and have taken steps to register vigorous objection as the following protest which Is being be-ing circulated will Indicate: To the Bell Tel. Co., Pocatcllo, Idaho Wc regret to Inform you that for some time past the telephone service in the city has been so bad that Instead In-stead of being a convenience to patrons It is nothingshortof a nuisance. Calls aro frequently neither answered promptly nor at all. Frequently after spending valuable time in futile attempts to get "central" it has to be given up and the applicant for telephone service has to go on errands himself or send a messenger, after having lost his time and his temper as well. Again and again it has been given out from central, in answer to Inquiries, that trains on time wcrclato and that trains late were on time; that persons wanted were out of the city when they were at home and this, too, In urgent cases, where the person wanted was a doctor and had a phone. This state of tilings has been represented re-presented again and again without any good results untlll wc have now arrived at a point where patience ceases to bo a vlrturc. In the words of. President Roosevelt, tho situation is Intolerable, and we do not proposo to tolerate It much longer either. Briefly the situation Is this: Wo aro willing to pay for good service, but wc will not much longer endure such service ser-vice as we liaving been getting for some time past. If we aro to have no service, or such a service as we cannot rely on, there is no use In paying for It. Wo do not know whose fault it Is nor do wo care. What we want Is ctllcient service and not excuses why wc don't get it. For the foregoing reasons wc take this method of In-formlngyour In-formlngyour company that wo request some promise and assurance from you that you will see to It that In the future wc get a proper and efficient telephone serylec, such promlso to be followed by satisfactory fulfillment within a reasonable time, and falling In tills wc hereby pledge ourselves to have your 'phono removed from our residences and places of business without with-out further parley. Furnished by the Bell Co. From the Worlds Almanac 1003 The following arc the latest statisics made .public by the American Bell Telephone Co.,whlch at present practically practi-cally monopolizes the Telephone business busi-ness of the United States. Either tho world Almanac has made a bad mistake or tho so-called Utah Homo Telephone Co. has misrepresented. "On Jan. 1, 1002, 3,005 exchanges and branch exchanges had one million, twenty thousand, six hundred and forty seven subscribers." Tho year 1002 shows the greatest growth ever experienced by tho Bell Co. It Is difficult to reconcile tho statement of facts with tho letter of the Utah Homo Telephone Co. of Feb. 14, wherein they say there aro more than 0,000 independent telephone exchanges In the United States, having hav-ing more than 3,000,000 subscribers. Tho veto t)f Acting Mayor Nye of the franchise for the Utah Home Telephone Tele-phone company was sustained by the city council tonight by a vote of 7 to 1. Cross voted to sustain tho action of the council of the week before. Payne was absent. Tho veto was along the lino as outlined in Sunday's Herald, and befcro voting on the veto, tho council ascertained from tho city attorney at-torney that immcdlcatc action must be taken on a veto message. Ogdcn item In Herald. |