The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-08

Some days ago the dispatches an
uounced the fact that the Standard
Telephone company had Just been or
gained in New York with a capital
ref $S60.000.0 coo. its avowed purpose be-
ing to wage merry war on the Bell
Telephone company. Now comes the
Chicago Times-Herald and declares
that among the hackers and incorpor-
ators Of this gigantic concern is
President George Q. Cannon. while
General James S. Clarkson also cuts
an important figure in the affairs OF
the corporation. which has officially
announced that it will put in systems
all over the United States and furnish
telephones at uniform annual rental
of SIS.
Already a move has been made 10
secure telephone competition here in
Utah and throughout the west, and
the Mountain Standard Telephone
Company. of Salt Lake city. Denver
and AlbuG UerQue. with a capital stock
OF $4,000 900. to operate in Utah. Colo
n -. Arizona and New Mexico. VIII
bevSpeedily organized. The matter of
its organization has been detailed to
MIR. Cannon. and that gentleman, with
his associates. will soon have the
necessary preliminaries disposed of.
Ii will be a great thing for Utah and
the west, in common with the entire
country. but it is said that the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company pee
pie and the officials Of the
other old-time companies doing bust
ness with the Bell Telephone company
have already received an linking of
the proposed plan of the Standard or
ganizers and are preparing for the
battle which will surely take place.
They are even now reducing their
rentals. Salt Lake viii get cheaper
tele phones.
Already the Standard company has
nine state branches fully organized
and eleven more forming. These TWEEN
ty concerns. with the parent company,
will cover every state and territory in
the union and also Canada and Mex
leo The Pacific Standard Telephone
company. with capital of So.OOO,OJO.
will cover the territory made up OF
Idaho. Wyoming. Washington, Mon
tana and Oregon.
The parent company. which furnish
es the model for the organization @
all Of these branch concerns. has
capital stock of S10.000.O00, and its
Headquarters are at 6S Broad street,
New York Its board of directors is
made up of ThurloW Weed Barnes,
president of the company. capitalist
land a grandson of ThurlOW Weed, so
potept in New York politics a genera
ton ago; John a. Brill. president OF
the J. G. Brill company, car builders.
rShiladelphia: Carl +. Baker. of the
hardware. steel and iron house OF II.
Baker & Co.. New York; John w. can
dler. ex-congressman. railroad presl-
dent and merchant, Boston; George
Croker. San Francisco. representing
the great Croker interests OF Cahror-
MIA; Senator John P. Jones. OF Nevada
Henry MerZ. president of the Heller
Merz company. manufacturers or col
ors. New York; Allen T. Nye. the pro-
motor of the company: Manning u
Palmer. president of the Syracuse Ma
tional bank and electric hght com
many. Syracuse. \. Y; Felix RakeInan'
of Bulch & Brakeman. Boston; John b. |
Searles. secretary and treasurer OF the
American Sugar Refining company
better known as the sugar trust, New
York: Charles 7. Strauss. or Cnarles
II. Strauss & Brother. importers Oh
lace. New York and st. Gall. Swltzer-
ssnd and Louis Windmueller, OF
:TViTdmueller & Rocker. one of the
leaders of the reform element OF the
Democratic party in New York.
General James S. ClarkSon Is one oL |
the members of the directory OF the
Northwestern Standard Ielepit I,l.
company, which will operate IN I'M
nOiS. Iowa ana w lSCOliS1lA.
pany's capital is $1,000 oOo
Of he general purposes of the great |
being launched and the rnel.
at their back, the Times-Herald OF
Friday saws; lotto,
'sThe finest combination OF capltai
and poIitical influence ever gotten To-
gether has been organized to enter me
felephone field, and rout the Bell mo
nopoly, by giving cheaper, ana II Is
better telephones.
GAS was stated in the Times-Heralo
Yesterday. the new enterprise is backed
bv the sugar trust, the Standard Oh
COMPANY the immensely wealthy
Cocker interests OF SallLornld a - t .iie
Pullman company interests. II las
also among the men who are IN on
the ground hoor.'' some of he shreM d.
est capitalists Il every city IN the
union.
parallel with its Inc of capitalists
are a line of politicians, VINO RANK
anong politicians in the same feshlon
hat the Interested capitalists do
among moneyed men. Am onS these
are lanes 5. ClarKson, of Iowa; 1thn
" chandler, of Boston; Colonel Con-
ger of Ohio; eX-Congressman Cannon,
IF Utah. the virtual head f the Nor
,,on CHURCH: Louis Windmueller, of
governor Of Vermont; Leon ALBEIT
IF New Jersey; General Felix Agnus.
= baltimore; Charles A. Pillsbury, OF
and in Illinois, w. j.
campbell, who also represents the
Standard Oil interests; John s. Run
iaIjs who also represents the Pullman
interests, and W. ". Tracy, of Spring
1T is this combination that is behind
he COSMOPOLITAN Electric ordinance,
.Sniol1 nlaved such an important part
= ire recent municipal election. The
',,firs country as far west as the Missis-
,ippi river has been parceled out, and
,laced in the hands OF local companies,
'acb of which is organized along these
;oubIe lines of capital and influence.
The aggregation of capital that is in
-olved is S36O.OoO,OOO. The amount of
political influence concentrates Is
carceIv calculaDle. 1t is safe to say,
,owever. That it is enpugh TO make