The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-07
PETITION
Of the Peoples Tele.
phone Company
GOESTOCOMMITTE TEE
Slips BY the Aldermen in a
Hurry.


l. The Peoples Telephone Company is
out for business 1t has petitoned the
board of aldermen for locations fol-
poles in all the principal streets of Wor-
cester, showing that it means to give
the people the cheap service in tele-
phone talk that it promised when The
Spy printed the first news about it.
The petition is before the committee
on streets, but as Alderman Charles A
Vaughan is away in Milwaukee. ac-
ton on the petition has been deferred
1t got through the board of aldermen
without being recognized, and few
members of the board know even now
that the new organization is seeking a
chance to do business through its per-
mission.
When the petition was read, every
body thought it was an ordinary petit
ton for the New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company and no atten-
ton was given the petition. All MEM
bers were absorbed in the grade cross
ing question In the hurry and hustle
which attended that question at city
council meetings, the petition of the
Peoples Telephone Company escaped
notice. Alderman Philip j. O'Connell
recognized it as a new thing and asked
President Henry Brannon what it was.
He replied that 1t was simply a petition
for locations of poles with a list of
streets attached He said the list was
TOO long to read and the petition was
then referred without comment. The
action which would naturally be ex-
pected would be the passage of an or
der for a hearing on the petition
or course the committee on streets
VIII recognize the petition as that Of a
rival institution to the company which
now uses the streets for the same pur-
pose and will recommend a hearing be-
fore taking any action on the petition
itself
The new company expects opposition
from the New England Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and the chances
are 1t will not be disappointed in its ex-
pectations. The latter has the monopoly
and Will endeavor to hold on. The new
company is prepared to fight, however,
and believes it will have the people with
1t as it proposes to give them telephone
service at far lower rates than the
New England does.
The streets in which the company
asks Tor locations are the following:
Lincoln, Belmont, Summer, Union Mar
ket School, Thomas, Central. Exchange,
Foster, Mechanic, Front, Park, Myr-
tie, Madison, Sycamore, Charlton, Her
mon, jackson, Lagrange, Dread. Ripley,
Kilby Gardner, Hancock, Wyman,
Grand, Gates, Crystal. Richards, Free
land. Lowell. Tirrell, Cambridge, Web
ster, Curtis, Fountain, Orchard Han
over, Edward streets, Eastern avenue
Central, Mulberry, East Worcester,
Trumbull, Orange, Salem Portland,
Belknap, Southbridge, Beacon, Tainter,
Illinois, Canterbury, Southgate streets,
Sutton road, sutton lane. Grafton,
Plantation, Houghton. Coral, Water,
Vernon, Ward, Millbury, Washington,
Gold, Green streets, Wabash avenue,
Kansas street, Union avenue, Wall,
Winthrop, Catherine streets, Washing
brook, Paine, Charming, Crescent, Ben
eft, Highland, State, George, Sudbury,
Walnut, Maple Elm, Pearl, Pleasant,
Chatham, Austin Chandler, Yelling
ton, Piedmont, Castle, Norwood, Mer-
rifeld, Downing, haywood, Beaver, Ag-
avian, Mill, Lake, Wayne, Montague,
Grove, North. Edgeworth, Salisbury,
William, Fruit, King, Loudon. Provi-
dence, Boynton, Wachusett, Irving, Ok
ford, High. Chestnut, Bowdoin, New
bury, Woodbine, Birch, Charlotte, Pres
colt, Cedar, Sever, May, Hawthorn and
Kendall streets, Jaques avenue, Belle
vue, Mason, Dewey, Abbott, Clifton,
Hollywood, Woodland, Florence, Low
ell streets, Institute road, Harvard,
West, Agricultural, Claremont streets,
Park avenue and Bloonlingdale road.
The heading Of the petition reads that
the company is a corporation legally Or
ganized under the laws of the state of
Massachusetts.
!. l.. Currier, who has been the steer
ing committee of the new corporation,
said yesterday to The Spy man, that
the corporation has complied with the
requirements of the laws of the state,
and has already subscribed over the
necessary one-fourth of the capital
stock. 1t is capitalized for $150.000
Mr.. Currier said he does not expect
the New England company will oppose
the new company if a hearing is grant
ed. because there is nothing in the laws
of this state which gives any company
a monopoly. He thinks the OPPOSE
ton Of the New England company will
come in cut rates, and this opposition
the new company is prepared to meet
The new company will give better
service than is now given, he claims.
There Will be no ground wires and no
cheap instruments Every telephone
vii. have the metallic button and re-
turn wire. which VIII completely elm
mate the buzzing sound which now
renders the ordinary instrument fire.
quently valuelesa.
The intention Of the company in ask
ing locations is to have the board Of
aldermen provide in what manner it
SHALL run it's wires. The intention is
to run nothing but cables single wires
beng used only from the main line to
the houses. The company will build
conduits If the city requires and gives
it locations in the streets. Mr.. Cur
lier says many Of Worcester's promi-
nent citizens are giving the new com
0any their moral and financial support,
and he predicts great success for the
company and great benefits for the PEG
ole from cheaper telephone instru-
ments
THINKS IT'S SPITE