The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-02

SEIE I!
Corporation Commission NJ Calls! Calls.
Attention osActs 81 Assen11.bllyssifls
and Orders Compliance |
AGENTS MUsTH;sA fSsHH ELL .0r
And They Must Learn ,to Il BE 4 Az
cor1ln1oda N ct Later III
ThanES eptetn y.

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# ,rhe state Cotpor ntion Cor11tni ssion yes
terday issued an itnpor tant = ORDER whict
reads ms follows 81 IA IA sa M
Whereas by an act Of the General AS;
setnbly, Of VirginIa entitled !. An act y
require railroad companies Under certain
condi tons % to " ma lntal In phones NJ i
their PUBLIC offices, proved Y arch z I
1905, Il Il was enacted by the General AS.
senlblyS 81 Virginia "a ~ folloWs: n s.is
u q. That IT shalt be the. !: duty Of
IS every railroad company having 4 a 4
X ticket Office or freight Office In any
& city or town Of this Commonwe cath
N who're there are, at the time, oneaorj
more public telephone exchanges. or Il
h at any place where telep hone connec-jS
tion may be had, on reasot IDLY mod s
crate terms with one or more tele-f
phone exchanges not more tia n twen. ";
n ty.fve miles distant from each place,
III to constantly maintain In al each 4 Of
Il such offices, direct telepho lone connec-t
IL tion with ii each OF such q Exchanges M
"a but ncN hing herein con tained shall be n
CONSTRUED III to require n such railroad
& company to- build 3a telephone lines
\ 1T being intended tosrequi re- such COM
Il pany3 to put telephones in IA is offices
where 1t can v obtain them as they
may be obtained for 8o Their business \
offices in the same Vicinity 4 such rail Z. 4
road @ company shall cause to H be Il
N promptly answered all calls mad 10 over
" such VA telephone es connect ton s%S during:
business hours. T through such tele-A4s
phone connection such railroad conf
4 pany shall cause prompt and correct u
replies to be. mad to. all reasonable
and proper inquiries received over
n such connection during business hours,
concerning the passenger q Or. freight
"a service Of such road I y
h Business II ours.
v The term business hours, as Y
used In this act, \ shall be construed to
3..llneah such times as the office or depot
II be open, with an officer or agent Of III
Ette "a ilroad company 4 n charge, for y
Il the transa ton OF bust Il ess. VI Al
~ The n Stat Corp Dora lon Commits
y sion shall by prop CT b ord ersl & and re-
n duirenients land a BY the iitilction 81
a suta BILE "a penal ties, # force the per-
5sfornance Of the foregoing duties BY
4 each railroad company doing bust
nesBS I'm this state :Aprovide ed 81 that the b
II State Corporal ion Commission 3t MAJ
RI on58 the I plicatlon Of /: any RAILROAD #
~ CONF any, q after such notice az the 1T
Il said commission = 4 ma direct, excuse
Z such company from placing a. tele-a5
$8 phone IN any 81 9 ftloe,, depot I or plce IL
where. II the opinion OF thegcommis- n
sion, the public Sconyen ience does not
A require "a S
sj$.Is The 1 Ord Ell. .st8s Q. &. \
ss Now,% therefore, In purs, ian e5 Of the pro
visions the said act, Is II W. ane
hereby flete ordered by the Virginia State
Corporation Commission that each 8 and
every owe: ilroad company IN this Com mon.
wealth shall forthwith and by not $late,
than the first day Of septern Der, n 1oOs
comply fully with the requirenir,t Is 81 TIC
said statute und er penalty Of being flied
by the con1missi such sums, cor each
of zen as Is horized or. provided sby
law. l{s NJ ;n
IA -nder the above. n %unac accommodate ing
agents 'eIt at stations where the com 1pini
alrIeaady. have phones y be lacked up
and al1 It Will be- obserVed that they have
net ~, IL been summoned ito show any cause
WHITLEY should not be lacked sup.