New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-28
THE NEW 'FH0NE RATES
MANY REDUCTIONS MADE
Subscribers and Public Pay Stations
Get the Benefit.

The New York Telephone Company on JuI,
will reduce its pay station rate for a single roes
sage from any part OF Manhattan 10 any mart n,
ire built up district Of The Bronx covered by the
Nelrose and fremont exchanges TO FIVE cents
There IS little probability that people living IN
epartment houses and hotels will get any benefit
from the reduction. as the telephone company
under its present contract system has no con-
,-ol over the apartment houses and hotels The
company charges the apartment houses and
hotels three cents a message. and the proprietors
of these places hitherto have charged the fun
ray station rate 20 cents message. IN Manhat-
,qn Under the Dew schedule there will be no
charge g. the message rate TO the hotels and
,nart-rert houses. and the chances are that the
-etrors % telephones in such places will con-
.true - pay the l0-cent rate IN drug stores
however il viii be different There the scent
rate win be IN force.
Private telephones Will cost less after JULY
lie company making a radical cut from the old
schedule In Manhattan IT costs $50 for six hun
5red rely local (AIanhattan) messages Under
he new schedule it will cost $4S for six hundred.
and the field is extended to take in the built up
district Of The Bronx.
Between Manhattan and Brooklyn the pay
station call rate viii be 10 cents. but the lessee
Of & private phone paying S4s for six hundred
messages viii set 10 per cent of if he has
twenty-five messages a month % per cent off If
he uses fifty, 30 per cent of on one hundred
month and 20 per cent off if he uses two hundred
z month. SO that the average cost a message will
De brought down 20 a fairly low basis.
From Manhattan 70 any part of Richmond
after July It VIII cost Is cents a message in
stead Of 20 and % cents. as al present. Forty
eight dollars viii pay for eight hundred mes
ssges fl Richmond after July l. The highest
charge from any point in Manhattan 10 any
point in the greater city after July ! will be Is
cents Is against IS cents now.
The company has arranged its schedule OF
charges on the zone system for the outlying dis
tricts the scent rate covering the following dis
tricis:
Astoria-Astoria- Long Island City, Newtown;
Long Island City-Long Island City. Astoria,
NewtoWr. WtOWr-AeWtown. Long Island
City. Astoria Flushing; Flushing-F1ushing,
Nevtovn. Richmond Hill-Richmond Hill, ia
rraica. Queens. Jamaica-Jamaica, Richmond
Hi, Queens. Queens-Queens Jamaica Rich
nonG Hill. Far ROckaway-Far Rockaway,
Lawrence, Eannlels: Hammels-'Hammels Far
RockaWay. Lawrence: Lawrence-Lawrence,
Far Rockaway. Hammels; Coney lsland-Coney
Island Bath Beach; Bath Beach-Bath Beach
Coney Island. New Dorp-New Dorp. Totem
Vile: Tottenvflle-To1tenville. New DOrp; Will
iarnsbridge WILLIAMSBURG, Kingsbridge;
Kirgshridge 80 KingsbTidge. Williams bridge;
Westchester-W estchesteT City Island, City
IsanG-City Island. Westchester.
That the company is determined 10 keep out
competitors is evident from the fact that in the
last year il has been spending enormous sums
FOR extensions and bette1nents. with the idea
Of doubling or trebling the number Of its sub
sr-ihers thus keeping up It's net income, but on
& lower schedule Of charges 10 patrons An
officer Of the company said yesterday that WIN
r. the lasr four and one-half months IL had spent
on construction 81 100000 as against Sl.5OO.oO
for the corresponding period last year. ms
money has gone into cables ducts' Hhe plants
and other costly equipment
Whether threatened competition from the AT
lautie company, whose application for fran
chise Is before the Board Of Estimate and Ap-
po-uonuent has had anything TO do with TINS
ectiyity by the New York company Is disputed
The officers OF the old company say mat the re
6ucti0n in rates and the extension OF their sys-
Ten were contemplated last year, and that II Is
ana-ural evolution Of enormously increasing the
business and getting the money BACK on siha4!eF
MARGINS Of profit