Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-05
BELL CO.'S NEW RIVAL.
State Organizations, With Many Mil.
lions Capital, OrSa,ized

George William Moore. Detroit attorney.
when shown a dispatch from Chicago re-
garding the formation of a new telephone
syndicate, to rival the Bell company. said
that the standard telephone company is the
company referred to. He added that the
home or parent company, whose main office
Is at Is Broad street, New York, is stocked
for Sl0,0o0000 Its board of directors in
clude Thurlow Weed Barnes, president; Jno.
~ Brill, Philadelphia; Carl +. Baker of H
Baker & Company, New York; John w.
Gambler Of Boston, George Crocker of San
Francisco and New York, Senator Jones of
Nevada, Henry Merz of New York, Allen
I. Nye, general manager; Manning c. Pal
mer, Syracuse, N. Y; Felix Rakeman,
Boston; John Z. Searles
The state companies which have already
been formed to operate as licensees of the
parent company are the New York Stand
ard Telephone Company, capital. $4,000, GOO;
to operate in the state of New York East
ern Standard Telephone Company, Boston:
capital, $60O0000; to operate throughout
New England. New Jersey Standard Tele-
phone Company; capital, 5000, coo: Jersey
City, to operate in New Jersey and Della
ware. Pennsylvania Standard Telephone
Company, Philadelphia; capital, s., COO 600;
to operate in Pennsylvania. Columbia
Standard Telephone Company, Washington.
d. c., Baltimore and Richmond; capital.
81, coo. 600; to operate in Maryland, District
of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia.
Company, Cleveland, Cincinnati and india
napolis, to operate in Ohio and Indiana,
Michigan Standard Telephone Company.
Detroit; capital, 100000; to operate in
Michigan. Northwestern Standard Tele-
phone Company, Chicago, Davenport and
Milwaukee,; capital s6G00,cOO; to operate
In Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Northern
Standard Telephone Company. St Paul
Minneapolis and Pierre; capital. 81. 600 600:
to operate in Minnesota, North and South
Dakota.
The Central Standard Company, St Louis,
Kansas City and Lincoln; capital, s., 900 600;
to operate in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska
end Arkansas, is in process of organization
the promoter being Griffith Colt, president
The organization of the Mountain Standard
Telephone Company, in Denver, Albu-
querque and Salt Lake City; capital, $1,000
600; to operate in Colorado. New Mexico,
Utah and Arizona, is in the hands of Geo
.. Cannon, the head Of the Mormon Church.
CHICAGO, April 5.-The Times Herald
today reiterates that the big new telephone
enterprise in opposition to the Bell is
backed by the sugar trust, the Standard
OIL Company. the Crocker interests of
California and the Pullman company in
terests. 1t is added that this combination
is behind the Cosmopolitan Electric ordi-
nance. which played such an important
part in the recent Chicago municipal cleo
ten. The new company is the Standard
Telephone Company of New York. The
electric devices to be used are those of
Allen T. Nye, who made such prolonged
fight on the original patent covering the
transmission of speech by means of a wire.
The company proposes to put in telephones
all over the country at uniform price of
s25 year. The Nye devices are already
in use in New York city and state and in
New England, it is said, and it is promised
that 5000 of them will be in use in Chi
cago within the year. The company which
proposes to operate in Illinois, Iowa and
Wisconsin is styled the Northwestern
Standard Telephone Company, and Is capi-
talized at $4,000, 900. Nine local companies
have already been formed east Of the
Mississippi river, and ten other companies
are in process of organization to cover the
remainder of the territory in the United
States, British provinces and Mexico.