Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1904-05-10

petition and that he did not think il
fair to consider the Bell company
as competing company. Or. G.
A. Ritter, president ofthe Academy
of Medicine stated substantially
the same thing, as also did Or.
Stewart and Dr. Sawyer, each
representing a different school Of
medicine.
carl Skaer stated that the gro
GERS association was with the
doctors and druggists. 1t was
stated at the meeting that thus far
l57 members Of the drugg ists asso-
citation had pledged themselves to
subscribe only for the Home phone
and that there were FIVE at Indepen-
dence who had done the same.
ut was stated by one of the
speakers that where the Bell COM
pany had been ordered to take out
its phones when those numbers
were called central was instructed
to tell the caller that they were
talking. out of the city, or out of
order, or anything except that the
instruments had been taken out.
Wee President Snyder of the
Kansas City Home Telephone Com
pany had the following TO say;
I'VE have gained great victory.
We started our campaign several
months ago among the business
mems associations and last night
meeting is very gratifying culmi-
nation of our systematic attack
upon the enemy. The Home Tele-
phone Company is on top and will
continue to hold that position. We
have DOW over six thousand sub
scribeTs, each one having metal
lie cirSuit main line connection,
and with the new apparatus and
our new facilities since we moved
into our present home IN January
last, we will give our subscribers
the very best service obtsinab9e.
We opened our first toll line one
month ago. to- Independence Mo-
and the business has been immense
from the very first. Since then we
have opened a three. circuit line to
Topeka with results that are both
fIstiering and highly satisfactory.
We are also building out of Sedalia
and will soon have connection
through that point with st. Louis,
pdianapolis. Columbus, Cleveland
and Toledo, as we'll as oPittsburg"
Kansas and all parts Of Oklahoma.
At the same time (about thirty days)'
we will have connection with ST.
Joseph, Atchison and Leavenworth..
Resides the retailers assocla-
tons, which have voted 10 adopt our
service, the manufacturers associ-
alton has appointed a committee TO
consider the advlsabillty OF follow
ing this example of the FORMER, and |
we have every reaso0 to believe
that the report ofthe: committee will /
be favorable to our company. We
are receiving hundreds of new con-
tracts and are installing as rapidly
as possible with a greatly increas-
ed force We do not know just how
many telephones the revival COM
pany has in use. but we understand.
from reliable source that they
lost three thousand on the first OF
April"
The growth OF the Kansas City
Home Telephone Company has been
one of the miracles OF the indepeud-
ent movement, and the great prop
eyty is lasting monument to the
sagaclty, business ability and get
there" qualities OF Messrs. Barber,
Snider and Bradley, the orlglnators
and promoters of the plant. 1t IS
the acme OF telephone Development
and should be held vp as a model
and pointed to with pride by every
man, woman or child who is inter,
ested in independent telephony. =
Exchange.
Ifyou are not famil-
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