The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1898-07-02
NO 81.
COMMUNICATED
"NIGGEH IN THE WOODPILE,
CORINTH, Miss .. March -. 1>g-

CORINTII, Miss .. March - l-g-
To THE Public:
In order to supply the demand fr t,lc-
phones at Hornth. ! built an rNchai-" and
! established rates of IA per year for hl>irc~>
houses and :lSfur residences. which thought
would pay a good return on the nvc-t tmrl,.
put have found that was mistaken, The
maintenance and incidental expense were
much greater than caIculatcd and there
1ore have abandoned the enterprise
The Cumberland Telephone and T"."-rapl
Company, havng extended their splendid
system of long distance lines into the tuwr
are better prepared to meet the pubic de-
sire than any one else, and have ARRANGED
Win them t. operate the exchange until my
friends and customers can have time to
| ma kc such arrangements for tclephunrS as
may best suit their PURPOSES And IN THIS
connection can >ay that i, will be for tl...
best interests Of the town to arrange for the
Cumberland Company to give them pcrn;l-
| nent service. rs they are better equipped for
! the business than any one else, and r>tGr%
| are reliable and extremely pleasant 10 g.
| business with.
eEi - GEORGE W. SCHEliNG.
The above circular letter has been
quite extensively circulated in Gre
NADIA. The question that naturally
arises is, what object has Mr.. George
| W. Sche uing in sending these letters
out. and wherein does he suppose the
acts Of the people Of the village Of Cor
inth interest the citizens OF the city Of
Grenada? We were not aware that
Coric,h even tried to support A tc.e.
phone exchange and are not surprised
that the enterprise was a failure re,
2arGess Of prices charged.
H states that although his CHARGES
were &24 for business houses and SIS
for residences he made failure. Now
this i>Hn admission on Mr.. Scheuing :
part that he is a very poor manager.
We will. 10" the sake of an illustration,
suppose he had fifty subscribers, -
business houses at s24 and 25 RES
dences at SIS: this gives 81 .O5O.OU gross
lrr annum. The expenses Of a vil!ag"
exchange should be about as follows
Exchange girl, slSouu: lineman.
$500. 00: ciIirc rcnt, $4,000: inciIcnta's
, $1,000: to'ul. $500 0O-leaviug bs...-
, aCce on the profit side of the balance
! sheet Of ;40U.VO. An exchange that i
t put in in Il place the size of Corinth,
with only fifty subscribers. should rot
cost over 81, SEQ 90 at the outside. Thi.
gives a net profit on capital invested OF
, a fraction over - per cent. II Mr..
Scheuing has any other business in
Corinth that pays a loss like his eX-
change we would like to take it o. OF
his hands,
The Grenada Telephone and Te,e-
graph Company also sold their ex-
change to the Cumberland TeIephorr
and Telegraph Company, but they did
not sell at a sacrifice: neither were
tley doing business at a loss to thtm-
selves, although the charges were so
for business houses and Sl2 for resi-
denccs. They sold because they did
not care to make " fight when good
profit was in sight to sell out. Mr.
Scheuing is very kind in publishing 10
the world his private business, and We
suppose he did it at his own eN,'ensn,
and never WAS asked by any one 10 DO
50, but we can see the 'nigger IN the
woOdpile. The Cumberland Tcl"-
phone and Telegraph Company. We
have reasons to believe. intend t. Ha.S,
the prices frrc. and this little InHtsll.
affair is a feLl"r. We unders'an. n,
situation. yentlcmen. Step f., r.
like men ard raise your figure g. .,
quit speeding money on circu;;..
lcr>. TELEPHONE StHSCN!u.4.
June IS. 1898.