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Show WORKING OUT DETAILS OF QUICKER SERVICE Telegraph and Telephone Officials In Conference; Operators Get I Increaced Pay. Salt Lake. May 2G. An all-day conference con-ference look place Wednesday -between General Manager B. Brooka and staff of the Western Union Telegraph Tele-graph company President H. Vance Lane and staff of the Rocky Mountain Moun-tain Bell Telephone company. The J meeting was for the purpose of perfecting per-fecting details of the joint operation of (he wires of the companies, and it was agreed to work out the traffic traf-fic alliance on the lines already detailed. de-tailed. The telephone will ue its wires for the distribution and collection col-lection of telegraphic messages, and tho telegraph company on Its part will f accept from every telephone subscrll-er subscrll-er any message over the phone without with-out prepayment, to bo billed monthly. month-ly. Immediately there will be established establish-ed in the Telephone building on State street a branch office of the Western Union, and In the present Western I Union ofllco will be established a f eentral ofllco with swltchloard, tho whole plan bHng to facilitate the de-livery de-livery and rrcoipt of messages. Thi now phone in the Wstrrn Union will handle all moHsages by wlr If possible, pos-sible, so that a phone utiliseriber can receive his telegram a few minutes after it Is received hero and later It will be sent by messenger In the rog-ular rog-ular way. All this added accommodation accommo-dation will be giveu tho public without additional cosi. Anolh'T Important confernco wa3 held between Vlco President W. If. Bancroft and Superintendent of Telo-graph Telo-graph n, F. Forbes of the Short I-lue I with th Western Union forces. The f latfr will string many, additional 'wires to th north nnd northwest via this road, arwd these matters had to he gone over. While, here the officials alo made glad numerous employes In the local office, which is under the able direction direc-tion of Arthur Txmg, hy raising many of the salaries of the efficient staff. A nw and Independent through wlro to New York ""'Hi bo placed In operation soon, and this will mean a vast Improvement In the service. All in all, tho visit of the Western Union managing officials at tills time Iri fraught with much In the way of vastly Improved service In this Im- ' rortant P'iMIr utllltr. v |