The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-03
PEOPLES TELEPHONE co.
A Circular Letter to Be Issued to Public
In a Few Days.

III d ESW lays
The Peoples Telephone Company
VIII issue the following letter to the
citizens of Worcester within the next
few days;
We are about to commence the con-
struction OF a new telephone exchange
in this city Our system will be up to
date in all respects. The distributing
wires win be of hard drawn copper,
and the full metallic circuit system will
be employed Inductive disturbances
VIII be absent, and cross talk" Will
be unknown. Many of those now US
ing telephones in this city will be able
to appreciate the advantages of an i'm
provement in this line. Every sub
scriber will be furnished g long dis
lance telephone instrument without
cost. The central office equipments
viii be of the latest and most approved
character In brief, it, is proposed to
supply the most efficient service pos
sible, and as soon as our exchange is
installed the public will readily rec
ognize the improvements which we
shall have made over the old style
methods employed by the monopoly
now doing business in this state.
We want and solicit your patronage
and support. We ask 1t on the follow
ing grounds:
We agree to furnish better service
than has heretofore been given for less
money. Our prices are $1.50 to 81 per
month, the difference in the rates be-
ing for residences. offices and business
houses. The rates for the same un-
limited service we now have to pay
are $40 to sos per year.
Because this is a home enterprise, to
be erected with home capital; to be
built and managed, by home men; it
Is entitled to the loyal support of home
people.
Because competition is deserving of
encouragement and monopoly Is dan
gerous. Those who reduce prices to
the public should be rewarded
Because the low cost Of the improved
service will insure much larger and
more complete list Of subscribers than
that which Is now afforded.
We claim recognition on the grounds
of the liberal policy we propose to pur-
sue. We intend to cater to the public
in the same manner that any other
business is conducted instead of adopt
| ing the arbitrary methods with which
the old monopoly have made their pa
irons more or less familiar.
| Because the erection Of our exchange
will furnish work to large number of
the laboring men in our city who have
nothing to do and give employment to
|
and operation of the system.
| Already great number of our citi-
zens who have heretofore not taken a
| telephone have subscribed for ours be-
| cause the reduction of more than 90
per cent in the cost Of service Is a great
| inducement. We make this low price
because we can at those figures obtain
fair returns for the investment and at
the same time place the convenience
and luxury of the telephone within the
reach Of all.
| Our solicitors will call on you and
we trust that you will subscribe and
thereby lend your ard to the upbuildine
Of an enterprise which will save thou
sands of dollars per annum to the peo-
pie of this city and bring about tele-
phone service which will be as efficient
as that furnished in any city in the
| United States.
| (Signed) Peoples Telephone and Tele.
| graph Company, 7O7 State Mutual
| building.