The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-09
ADE new YORK
Independent Phone Companies
in National Organization.
Expect to Install 225,OOO
Phones in Metropolis.
ON A FIRM FOOTING.
VIII Prevent Entertainments of
the Bell Company.
An Issue of S25, 100000 in
Bonds to Be Made.
ON A FIRM FOOTING.

Rochester, N. Y, Oct. 9.-The Unit
ed States Independent Telephone COM
pany on Saturday completed its per-
manent organization at a meeting held
in this city. Thomas w. F'inucane. the
new president of the company. made
the following statement:
1.-The new directors of the company
elected today besides myself are as fol-
lows:
'Adolphus Busch, president of the
Aforementioned Brewing company;
Walter B. Duffy. president of the New
York & Kentucky Co.: George East
man, president of the Eastman Kodak
company; August Gehner, president of
the German-American bank of St.
Louis; Robert c. Hall of Pittsburg
head of the syndicate which owns the
Independent Telephone company of
that city; Joseph J. Helm, president of
the Kansas City Independent Tele-
phone company; James B. Hoges pres
ident of the National Interstate Tele-
phone association; Hendrick S. Hol-
den Of Syracuse, president of the Com
merciaI National bank of that city;
Breckenridge Jones, vice president of
the Mississippi Valley Trust company
or st. Louis; William F. NOlker, presi-
dent of the Kinlock Telephone COM
pany; William II. Page, Jr., lawyer, Of
New York city; Eugene Satterlee,
president of the German-Anerican
bank of Rochester, and president Of
the StOrmberg Telephone company;
Hiram W. Sibley. capitalist. Mr.. ,Sib-
ley is g son of the late Hiram SibIey
who was one of the founders of the
western Union Telegraph company
and its president during the first
eighteen years of its existence; o. C.
Sniders manager of the Kansas City
Independent Telephone company;
Henry A. Strong of Rochester, vice
president of the Eastman Kodak COM
panies; James S Watson, vice presi-
dent of the Security Trust company of
Rochester; John c. Woodbury., director
of the Alliance bank of Rochester.
THE formation of the United States
Independent Telephone company is the
first step in the movement to furnish
telephone companies with standard
apparatus and with a guarantee that
their supply cannot be cut off through
the absorption of the manufacturing
companies by the Bell interests; to knit
together in connectings systems the in
dependent telephone lines of the coun-
try, which, unappreciated as the fact
may be in the east, today considera bly,
outnumber the lines owned or con-
trolled by the Bell Telephone COM
pany; and to aid independent telephone
com panfes in the installation Of their
plans and improvement of their SER
vice.
There are today over 5000 telephone
companies in this country independent of
the Bell systems. In response to the de-
msnd of these companies for product and
appliances and for a centralized unity of
action the United States Independent Tele-
phone company mas been lncorpOFat ted.
The independent telephone lines repre-
scented directly or indirectly by or through
one or another of our directors comprise
systems which extend substantially from
Kansas City, Missouri to New York
Our plans have been the subject of