Show I MERGER GROWING 1 1 The Telephone Combine May Postal Telegraph I Ieli New eli York Nov No l The r report port ot of the thc controlling Interest in III the West em rn Union Telegraph company compan oh ob obtaIned gained IJ by time tho American Telephone 8 i I Telegraph company would lead to a I closer community of interest r those companies anti and time tho Postal Id I Io o raph and probably an lii u ti limato merger of Uto th three ret compani j was given more color toda of the th American I frankly said that thu the tho Postal svgs the tho largest single in th their h coal t vany iI I I 1 tt Theodore Theodor N ail of oC ho I American Telegraph Co Cois 0 is In Boston Doston today It was said con I ferring with other r high officials of or of orthe I the company and tho lino plans of oC oCt t the now combination in r regard ard to the tho I Portals interest md and other matters I would bJ be could not be o learned lit In its his absence I Thero Thera was a report current today that Special A Attorn rs Gen oral Mal Ellis and HarrIson had como come to th this city tl to lt the merger or of the company compall with the tho Union It Is known that alto has since sinco May In 1908 1903 h heen the telegraph and tole phone companies in accordance with a resolution adopted b by the United States senate I Boston Noy XO 1 There is In time the stor story was the tho or of President oro X N Vail Vall of tit the American T Telephone anti com pa his aUrnt t lion ion was ryas ro rim a report from N New W York that n a nl merger of the Iho Postal PONtal company lie American rol Telegraph company might follow tollow that or of the tho telegraph company with the Western Union Rc to the report that lint time thc rot go I prosecuting attorneys might in JI tito the lie merger of oC the VJ fm with the com pan Mr Fall all remarked that lint its corn com piny Inn had to fear from I urh action Hi Hit HiR l a R t A |