Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-01-18
vwo COMPANIES NoADvANTAcE
Southern Bell Co., IS comp'imented
In Greensboro RI c.


Southern Bell Co., IS complimented
In Greensboro ~ c.
In the territory where this paper
circulatee, in fact, in al the southern
states almost there is a hue eed cry
about monopoly-snd anything end
everything that looks like monopoly
receives a jolt from the thunder bolts
OF the newspaper Jove who is attempt
ing to incite his readers to dire and
/ dreadful things. Railroads aud tele-
graph companies and telephone Gem
panies are the special diet on which
these professed reformers feed. And
while we are admitting and are aiwsys
resdy to admit that monopoly in most
any torn Is bad thing, we shall ever
| insist that monopoly in the tele-
phone business is not as bad as compe-
tition.
Ii asked why, our answer would be
that two telephone companies in q
town do not cheaper service; do not
expedite business; do no good st all
aud only canse confueion.
The business man these days must
have the telephone and if there are
two companies operating in his town
or city he must have both phones
and both of them cost more than one.
N0&H ,ulu Tho oost hint tho oon fuss;or,
and annoyance must be taken into
consideration. Generally you hear the
bell ring and you pick up your instru-
ment and find that it was the other
line calling you. Bot that is not all,
while 1t is enough.
In Greensboro, the other day, and
Greensboro is in North Carolina and
the place of babitation of this pubIIca-
tior, there came a terrible sleet al d
wind storm. The telephone wires
were laden with eleet and the cables
were so heavy that wires snapped and
poles were pulled from the ground and
broken.
The whole telephone system was
isturbed-disordered The Southern
Bell O. mpany, being efficient ard big
did not wait for days and weeks as an
individual company would have batn
obliged to do. but it made Lur-
ry up call aud the next morning over
hundred men, experts as Iinemen
and repair men landed in Greensboro
from ell directions and the service
was soon put to rights. Aud it cost
the company something like ten thou
sand dollars to 60 this-but Il did it
and no one had kick coming.
And this ten thousand dollar sex-
pendilure was an item that might have
put an independent system out of bust
ness. At any rate it would taken an
independent system weeks TO do what
The Bell people did in a day
And yet there are men who Fit down
and figure out the profits of tele-
phone compay or railroad company,
never taking into account the side
swipes of ten thousand dollars at
time in cases such as the one recorded.
The Bell Telephone company is
equipped to do things and 1t does
things, and The town that makes a
sacred contract with it and breaks il,
as the council of Greensboro did, is
not to be commended.
The city of Greensboro violated a
m raj obligation, and il can whip saw
and explain and do sll it wants to but
the facts stands out in bold relief
But the city of Greensboro does many
funny things. Take the streets, for
instance, and the wanton and reck less
expenditure of thousands of dollars
and not decent street IN the city 20
show for the extravaganza, is a fair
sample of the collective business
ability displsye Gree n oro N. O..
Everything.