Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-07-26
MR.. BLACK DENIES
AGREEMENT WITH
WESTERNUN|ON
STORY REFUTED BY WELL
KNOWN POSTAL OFFICIAL
Declares Fact That Two Com
panies Have the Same Rate
Is of No Significance What
ever.

That there is no truth In the wide
spread rumor of an unlawful rate
agreement between the Postal TeIe-
graph II Gable company and the
western Union Telegraph
was the statement made yesterday %
q Morning Journal reporter by Mr.. W.
Z. Slack, of Denver. district superin-
tehdent for the Postal, who was i'm the
the city on a short visit of inspection.
When asked about the suit instituted
by the attorney general of the state Ct
New York against the two telegraph
companies, making the foregoing
charge. Mr.. Black said:
am assured by the New York Of
lelalS OF the Postal company that
lhefe IS no agreement whatsoever be-
tween the two companies and that the
Postal company is at liberty at any
tlne TO reduce any or all of its rates
without violating any legal or moral
agreement or understanding with the
Western Union Telegraph COMPANY.
me New York officials state that they
are prepared to substantiate thai
statement by sworn statements when
necessity therefor arises. The mere
faet that h companies have the same
rate, does not prove that there Is any
agreement as to rates. 1t is q matter
OF course that rates are the same, 9th.
the company that charged The
nish rate would get no business at al
That is the reason why competfng
trunk line railroads charge the same
rates. A cut by one would he
iollowed by a cut by the other. then
tnefe would be a war of rates and fin
any the rates would be the same.
When the Postal entered the field In
1881 II reduced cable rates from Now
ofk to Great Britain, France and
Germany from - cents per word 4,
cents per word, and made a reduc-
tlon OF 30 cents per word from inter
towns to those countries. The Pos
reduced the existing land line rates
Tor commercial kilograms as follows:
81 rate to ~ cents; IS cent rate to
90 cents, 60 cen rate to so cents. and
these reduced rates have continued. |
Notwithstanding the fact tina the tele-
phone companies have cut I'm on tele-
business and the telegraph bus
ness has a to pay increased rents.
taxes, increased cost of la
aud increased cost of material. /
give a better service than we eyer
ild before, but it costs more mone to
give it,"
Mr.. Black was asked regarding the
Secret Pact article published in the
York World July 23d. charging
he two companies with dividing the
telegraph tolls on kilograms to certain
POINTS. Mr.. Black stated that he had
zen nothing OF any such alleged cir
'ular. but had read the newspaper ar
icle referred to. 1t is Mr.. Blacks i'm
PRESTON that IL there was such a cir
issued II overs the handling o.
to n from exclusive points
1t may not be generally known" he
aid, but III is a fact nevertheless. thaz
he Postal company has grown to such
n extent il now reaches nearly 5000
'oints in the United States, not
ached by the Western Union COM
amy. The Western Union has several
housand Offices at small places not
by the Postal lines; and in
of each company charging It's
Wn rate TO a common point of trans
requiring the patron to pay double {
oil In each instance, one rate Is
harged, the same as to a competing
oint, and the tolls divided the two
ompanies in proportion to the dis
incc each line carries the message.
Such an arrangement would be Ia {,
lvor of the public and a reduction in i
ltes. There isn't a town in the United {
tates having better telegraph service !
nan Albuquerque, and it is due to
'ostal competition"
u. Burhans Testines After -Four Years, I
@ Il. BuThans. OF Carlisle Center, n. Y,
rites: About four years ago I wrote you
ating that | had been entirely cured OF a ,
we're kidney trouble by taking less than n
so bottles OF Foley's Kidney cure. II en- n
rely stopped the brick dust sediment. and !
lin and symptoms Of kidney disease disap- l
'ared. I am glad 10 say that I have never '
I'D a return Of any OF those symptoms l
iring the four years that have elapsed ?
vi ! am evidently cured to stay cured. AND U
'artily FDley's Kidney Cure ~ \