The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-14
ARE SOLICITING
FOR SUBSCRIBERS
Lackawnnna Telephone Company Is Out
Looking for Business.
WHAT IT is PROPOSED TO DO
After Five Hundred Subscribers Are
Secured, the Company Intends to
Give u Service That viii BE salts.
factory-- Ultimately II is the Inten-
'tion TO Connect tho Lines with the
National Association of lndepend-
ent Telephone Companies.

Within a comparatively brief period
of time the recently organized Lacka-
wanna Telephone company will be in
operation i'm this city with probably
not less than 700 or 500 subscribers on
its wires. Contracts to become bind
ing, when 500 subscribers have been
secured, are row being made and with
every prospect of the ultimate success
of the project.
The directors of the company are
the following: President, Conrad
Schroeder. vice president, William l..
Connell, secretary and treasurer,
George S. Horn: manager, Samuel T..
Wayland, and directors, c. G. Boland,
Thomas ]. Foster and Edmund !. Rob-
inson. Manager Wayland has been as
sociated with two of the largest tele-
phone companies in the country and
is directing the active preliminary
work of the Lackawanna company in
this city. His office is temporarily To-
Gated with Vice President Connell in
the Connell building.
An ordinance granting the company
a franchise to use the city streets was
introduced i'm select council Jan. 2l,
1897, and referred to the judiciary com
mittee. No further action was taken
on the measure, which died with the
going out of the old councils on April
3 of that year. A new franchise meas
ure will. necessarily, be introduced,
but nothing has been learned of the
plans in that regard.
BEGAN TUESDAY.
The soliciting of prospective custom
IN
ial effort has been made, but during
that day and yesterday about fifty
subscribers had been secured. Follow
ing is a copy of the contract:
The, subscriber and lessee requests the
| Lackawanna Telephone company, lessor,
| to rent TO him at his residence, No.
street or avenue, Pa, one telephone
| on copper wire metallic circuit, for the
period of five years from the date of con-
Meeting same for his use and thereafter
until this agreement is terminated by
| thirty days notice in writing from either
| party to the other upon the terms ana
| conditions stated in this agreement,
which he hereby agrees to keep and per-
| form, and agrees to pay therefor to said
| company the sum of S2i per year, pay
| able quarterly in advance.
This contract shall be terminated upon
| the death. removal from the city, or
| cessation of business of lessee.
| This request becomes a binding contract
! whenever 800 subscribers have been Sc
! cured in the city of Scranton, Pa, and
| the same has been accepted by the man.
| ager of the company by his signature
| hereto. or by making the connection of
| instrument.
| This contract shall not be assigned or
transferred without the written consent
| Of said lessor. Its terms shall not be
| varied by any representation or promise
| of any Canvasser or other person. unless
the same he in writing and signed by the
| manager of the company.
| The subscriber acknowledges that he
| has received a duplicate hereof
This telephone is guaranteed to give
| good service.
TELEPHONE TO BE USED.
The kind of telephone to be used will
be of the long-distance type and it is
said will in some respects be superior
to the instrument known as the Bell.
The fact that the company will have
no connection with other cities has
| hecn no material consideration with
| subscribers, it is said as but few of
| them WOUl6 have frCulIrpt llGp for SIlpb