Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-11-30 | Page 10 | Have No More Free Telephones

oo HAVE NO MORE FREE TELEPHONES San Francisco. Nov. 30, Free use of 5,100 telephones in this city was ended today by a superior court decision deci-sion dissolving a restraining order granted eight months ago in connection connec-tion with litigation that grew out of the Bale to the Pacific States Telephone Tele-phone company of the Homo Tele-phono Tele-phono holdings In thLs city Efforts wore made by an organization of taxpayers tax-payers to have the so-called merger set asldo, and the restraining order resulted. Subscribers soon became aware that tho Pacific company could not remove Homo company telephones without being In contempt of courL and accordingly ac-cordingly ordered tho instruments removed, re-moved, and refused to pay service bills Tho free feature was made possible by the fact that tho Home telephones tel-ephones are automatic. Tho Pacific company said today that It had given $117,000 worth of free service during the eight months oo