The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-03-29

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Memrhis Knoxville. Nashville, Biz
mingha IN. in fact nearly everywhere
BY placing an embargo on the free
use * trunk lines By the great mass
OF nOn-subscribers and little children,
these lines viii be left clear fer other
than kill-time talk
A great advantage Of this plan Is
its aexibility. II IL collects too mucn,
we can, al a short notice, cut down the
| income IL a storm shakes US up we
can raise the toll rate cent for lit
tie while.
Bv guaranteeing our stock to bear
Sc, we should nave no trouble In rails
Il ing necessary funds. This would
place as on a strictly business basis.
Our stock would have an intrinsic
value, which is absolutely necessary
for the permanenee Of any enterprise
operated as . Stock CO. Precautions
would be taken that this stock could
in no possible manner be manipulated
against the Company's welfare. There
are perfect means of doing this not
necessary here to detail. ] advocate
that at least 500 proposed subscribers
10 the new system take out each ten
shares of stock at $1,000 per share
and $50 FIVE shares at $1,000 per share.
This would raise $4,000. ! advise
that the new Citizens Company pur-
I, chase the property Of the old Qhat is
the presently Citizens Company at an
appraised valuation and that the pro-
ceeds be redistributed TO the stockhold-
ers of the old Company in proportion
10 the amount they have heretofore
nut in. This ought TO be an easily
ACCOMPLISHED deal as the buyers and
sellers would be practically the same
, persons.
Bv starting this with at least 100
subscribers a new company would De
, inaugurated which, stepping forth full
nanoplied from the shell of the old,
would be as great an advance over the
old system as is the feet winged eagle
E over the egg that produced 1t.
a am not proposing to give you
metallic service no better than the
. Bell, II so could not expect You TO
work up much enthusiasm. The causes
: Of their poor service could be elimin-
2 ated Our troubles are inherent In
A tho ground circuit system and can not
he eliminated. Our standard IN the
u mast has not been the Bell service, but
o to give the best service possible. IL,
l. as MANY allege, we give as good or
better service than the Bell, 1t Is be-
Icause the Citizens Company work an
antiouated plant for all there is IN II,
e and the Bell do not realize the posi-
o | hilities of their metallic circuit sys-
Il TEN.
The ideal service requires an an
sver within three seconds from making
n the signal. an absolutely quite line
Is free from noises and cross talk, an
accurate and reliable supervisory sig
nal which will enable the operator 10
D. take down the connection the instant
II both uarties to a conversation hang
I. nm their receivers, and not before. All
these things can be accomplished Dy
the use of up-to-date apparatus Ihere
20 is as much difference between our
ii crude apparatus for giving service and
&c the finish and perfection OF a modern
up-todate telephone system as exists
between the bunglesome, lmpeTlec'
&c reaners the farmers first used and the
II, modern self-binder. :,
\. II this plan should be adopted, y
!. would easily lend itself to such mod
10 ifications as would do away with IN
IN dividual hardships that might possibly
as arise For instance, 1t could De ar
III ranged that subscribers desiring
large use of trunk lines could pay the
regular toll rate of say one or tWe
OF cents per message up to a certain sun
ner month. and thereafter be allowed
an a graded discount, increasing IN pro
n norton as the bulk OF their palronasS
cn In regard to the monthly charge 10
he unlimited service over the several eA
he changes, it is proposed to make Nd
n. uniform rate for the entire county:
i believe the present rate OF $l.Oo ~
10 residence and $1.25 for business 70
in pether with the income from toliS
on will amply meet all the charges mere
av tofore enumerated. -.
Let us devote few words 10 u
its consideration of one point, tnat WI
ay. inevitably arise, viz; that though
On subscriber on a small exchange WI
~ lpay as much as one on larger, ~
unlimited service will not be as e.
On tensive For instance, Mr., a. mas
rv- telephone on the Willlamsport =.
he change for which he pays monthi
- rate of $100. He, and Wnomsoeve
he permits, have unlimited serVlG
rV- over his exchange OF say Az suDscrl
The ers. When he talks to any other POM
he where his message passes over
trunk line he pays a toll OF one
two cents, as VIII dlSO nhJoouJ -
'ct using his phone. =
ain. Mr.. B. is connected say with the =
inc lumbia Exchange. He has nniimlte
:, service with all the subscribers co
Vi nected with the Columbia exchang
to which say number ESQ. The questie
my arises, is this fair. answer that
az is, for the reason that 1t will cost
least three times as much per 'phoI
ing to install the forty phones on the w
art Transport exchange as on the Colui
ng. bia on account of the much great
~ average length of lines. 1t VIII co
- relatively three times as much all
cas- to keep them in repair. Then 1t W
Co cost as much to employ two operate
irst to run this exchange, as II there we
md $50 instruments in service. In ia.
without the larger exchanges to hel
DC the smaller exchanges could not pc
es- sibly be self-supporting on the sar
ese rate as the larger.
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