The Portland daily press., 1895-04-18

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dard Company. which has lately taken
the field in Chicago with great capital.
The debate was important and inter
esting, and went over the subject of poles
and wires quite carefullyv.
Alderman Dam presented the petition
of the Casco Bay Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company for leave to erect poles
and moved that they be heard. The
streets where permission is asked, with
the number of poles each is as follows:
Plum to Brackett, on Commercial, %.
Commercial to Danforth on Brackett
5.
Brackett to Emery on Danforth, 9.
Danforth to Spriug, on Emery, 3.
Emery to Thomas on Spring, 9.
Spring to Pine, on Thomas, 6.
Congress to Promenade, on Pine, 10.
Plum to Monument Square, on Mid
dle,s7.
Middle to Commercial, ,Eon Plum, 5.
Centre to Eastern Promenade. on Fore,
90.
Plum to India on Middle, 10.
India to Monument Square, on Fed
eral, 90.
Fore to Congress, on Centre, Z.
Congress to Kennebec, on Preble, 10.
dsuluStOu 10 0roVe, on Cum Derlauu,
43.
Middle to High, on Free, 12.
Centre TO Emery, on Spriag, 81.
Preble to st. John, on Portland. 80.
Eastern Promenade to Congress, Oh St.
Lawrence, 9.
Congress to walnut, on North, g.
Plum to India. on Commercial, 13.
Commercial to Congress, on India, 9.
Washington to Portland, on Oxford,
23
Franklin to Green, on Kennebec, 49,
Danforth to Arsenal, on Brackett, 90.
Commercial to Congress, on Park, IL.
Park to Centre, on Pleasant, 10.
Danforth to Pine, on Clark, 8.
Fore to Middle. on Cross, 5.
Comm ercial to Congress, on Pearl, 9.
The hearing began at once.
Seth L. Larrabee, Esq, said that the
petition meant new telephone system
for the whole city Of Portland. 1t was
believed that the new company could es-
tab1ish larger and more efficient sys-
tenn than the present one and could fur
nlsh service at half the rate. The Casco
Bay Telegraph Company had been char
tered in 1891. That charter had been
kept alive, and five or six months ago a
DSCEIpbIOu 1OE Su OSCIlOOIS VI UdhcIS
was solicited.
A sufficient numb ber we're pledged to
Indicate that ten or fifteen hundred
sul,scri bers could be obtained. Since
then by the decision of the courts, the
Berliner patent has been determined
in such a way az to remove ali doubt
Of the ability of the company to have
the unhampered use of instruments
The capital was 500, 900, and could be
increased to $500, 0o0 The capital was
raised and the company was organized
with the following directors: George S.
Hunt, W.T.. Milliken, John ". Deering,
Georg P. Wescott, E. B. Winslow, Geo. W.
Brown and Seth L. LARA bee.
The company intends to furnish
METALLIC CIRCUITS
only. The introduction of the electric
cars will render ground circuits, which
are in use considerabl. by the present
company, very unsatisfactory.
Alderman Little asked what connec-
tion could be made with other cities.
Mr.. Larrabee said that they should
adopt the instruments of the Standard
Company, which is extending rapidly in
other cities.
Alderman Thompson asked how they ex-
pected to serve subscri bers on Congress
and Middle treets if they did not have
the poles there.
Mr.. Brown explained that the system
had been carefully laid out. The CEN
trai station will be in the vicinity of
Union CT Plum streets. . .--.
Mr.. Brown called attention to the fact
that the stock holders of this company
would be largely Portland people. The
other company was owned largely out of
the state.
Collector Deering was next called on.
He believed that the new company
meant business. While he wished to say
nothing derogatory to the old company,
be believed that If the company had
been local one complaints might have
been attended to better. 1t was ITO
light task to put in new system, but
he believed that the new company
could do it and give an improved sys-
TEN. The service afforded by the new
instruments is superior to that affored
by the instruments in use here. The
present company would be delighted if
the city government would insist on
placing all wires under ground in con-
duits. The new company didn't want the
right to put its conduits beside those of
the old Mr.. Deering said that foreign
connections had already been made by
the Standard Company, and the instru-
ments in use by that company would al
low one to talk 800 miles, a distance
which he thought the Bell Company
had not been able to reach.
e. B. Winslow, Esq, said that the new
company woxldrgiye the best service
that was to be obtained. He thought the
new servics could.b be furnished in about
six months.
Clarance Hale, ESQ.,, said that he was