The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-23
TELEGRAPHIC ENTERPRISE.
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COM
PANY OPEN FOR BUSINESS.

what 1t Has Already Done In the Reduce
tien of Tolls.
To-day the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com
pany open their lines for the transmission of
Geographic dispatches to ell points in the United
states and Europe and as 1t is an enterprise that
has already reduced telegrsphio tolls
FIFTY PER CENT
TO the various points in this country. with alao
reduction 10 cable telegrsphic rates. that f.st
should commend it to liberal patronage from,
our citizens.
The lines are now in complete working order
from the Office No. 50 st. Charles streat
which o''
is THE MAIN OFFICE.
and ut which will be found the COMMANDS .oent
Mr. Leloupe, ready to give all inform alton rpya.
tive to tolls, cable connections. etc Tbrea
months ago this company found thst liz fin.nci.l
condltion would justify an extension OF its lines
south from Louisville, and at that time tba
necessary instructions were given by it's presi-
dent, Thomas I. Eckert, very able and exne-
rienced electrician and manager, and ia order
that the work might be pushed forward vivor-
ously, MIR. Doran, the vice president, came sou.h
70 personally supervise the construction. An
~~~o~s hi0nR
ways, bat here the
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COMPANY
mes o. with opposition through the courts from The
western Union Company, who claimed that their
contracts with the railway companies gave them
the exclusive right OF way ever the lines of the
railways and, In the outset, obtained iniuuctions
from the courts restraining the new company
road or within the space on either side allotted y,
tne railways. Able counsel was EMPLOYED bv Tire
Atlantic company. and In some cases they won
'ns Sststs suits and IN Others they were defested.
pelled 70 DO 80 by the courts, strung their poles
where the
SAME FIGHT WAS MADE
upon them in the courts, and while the cults were
pending Mr. Doran with hjs legal advisers attend
% 70 them, while Mr.. Charles A. Tinker, the gen.
eral superintendent, with large focre of work
men, pushed the lines through the State over the
highways. ~
The State Of Mississippi was reached. wbere
me war was again opened by the Western Union
Company. In Alabsma similar suits ara now
pending, and while these were pending the new
company
PUSHED THEIR LINES THROUGH,
having built the entire distance, over 900 miles.
III three months from the day they were started.
surmounting difficulties that would have an.
heartened any but the gentlemen having the
1rs ~ IuaAso. DuJ snort Time ago, when the
Western Union Company discovered That the new
company
WOULD REDUCE RATES,
they also reduced their rates to the princinsf
points, being compelled to do 80 by the new com
pany; but had not the latter pushed their lines
through the nigh tolls would not have been re-
duced; As the new company produced this ro-
suit, the pubic should show it's appreciation OF
the fact by extending to the new company, or the
opposition, as it is termed, liberal patronage.
which we feel confident will be done
The fficient and prompt manner in which this
new line will operate was fairly illustrated yes
terday. The DEMOCRAT WAS furnished by il with
PARTICULARS or THE GREAT RIOT
OF the Pittsburg strikers within an hour after IL
had begun, and was thus enabled to furnish on,.
citzens the first news OF what promises to be one
our country. VI