Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-11
GETTING UNDER COVER BEFORE
THE BERLINER STORM BREAKS.

"The Trenton, New Jersey, standard
Telephone Company has surrendered
TO the Secretary of State its certihcate
of incorporation. This formally puts
the concern out of business. The COM
pany was formed some time ago Dy
prominent business men OF that city
to conduct a general telephone Dusi-
ness. Poles were erected, wires
strung, and a few machines put IN. =
Electrical Review.
I'm the judgment of the Board OF
Directors Of the Passaic and Bergen
Mutual Telephone Company, corpor-
alton organized under the laws OF New
Jersey, il has been deemed advisable
and most for the benefit of such cor
poration; that the same should be dis
solved before the expiration or the
time limited in its certificate or IN
corporation. Paterson Volksfreund.
"a mechanics lien was placed on
record yesterday by Paca & Newbold,
attorneys for the Eastern Electric
Company, against all the property OF
the Home Telephone Company. Ii is
claimed by the Eastern Electric Com
pany that they have a lien for bal
ance of 9,249.73 due them by the New
York Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany for work done in building the
lines of the Home Company as sub
contractors. Baltimore Sun, July 2S.
THE New York Telegraph and Tele-.
phone Construction Company through
David NJ. Newbold, Jr.. attorney, en-
tered two suits in the Superior Court
yesterday by titling-one against the
Home Telephone Company and the
other against the Home Telegraph and
Telephone Company. claiming 100000
in each case. Baltimore American,
July %.
The Norfolk Evening News, OF July
26, publishes some interviews with
prominent capitalists, in which the
latter deny any intention of putting
funds in the Newark Telephone Com
pany. Evidently there is no unseen
ly haste about investing good money
in property handicapped as an oppose
tioS telephone exchange necessarily is.
According to legal notice in the
Evening Journal. Of Jersey City, the
Standard Underground Cable Company
has placed a mechanics lien of
$3,521.64 on the four-story brick build
ing occupied by the New York Tele-
phone and Telegraph Construction
Company and the Hudson Telephone
Company of Jersey City, and certain
cables and wires extending out from
said building.
An assignment has been made by
the Northern Wisconsin Telephone
Company, of Gillett, Wisconsin, TO the
secretary of the company, A. r. MIME
ly, Of Gillett. Legal publication of
such notice has been made creditors
OF the company having been given
three months from June % in which
to file with the assignee or with the
clerk of the Circuit Court, Charles ID.
Powers, of Oconto, certified statements
as to their claims against the COM
pany.-Green Bay Gazette, July 30.
1897.
If the various Independent" tele-
phone companies represented this week.
in Detroit furnish no better service
than the Home Company OF Cle1slaz
they might as well save the incorpo
ton fees. The local concern appear
TO vegetate in an inane sort of wayI
waking up now and then with the an
nouncement of big trust company as
fiscal agents for the sale of half a
million dollars worth OF bonds that
nobody seems to want, or advertising
the tearing up Of a rod of street,
which II contemplate5. But IL gives no
service that is commercially orth
hill O. beans.-Cleveland Town Topics,
June s, 1897.
One >bruary 4. the Jersey City Eve
ming journal devoted its first column
to booming the stock OF the Hudson
Telephone Company, in which $50. 900
had been subscribed and is being paid
in monthly installments of ten per
cent" In the July 2S issue of the
Evening Journal the following adver-
tisement appears: For sale, Is shares
Of Hudson Telephone Company's
stock; SIS. Delatush, ass Newark ave-
nue."