The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24
Independent Company Prepar- ing to Fight for Connect
 icut Incorpora- tion.
ENTIRELY NEW SYSTEM
Home Telephone Company Must Con. vince Superior Court of Pub. lie Convenience and
 Necessity.
Special tc the Journal-courl.r., ,


 Hartford. Feb. 2S.-The Connecticut Telephone company has been organized In the state of Connecticut with the intention of bringing about an inde- pendent telephone development with the best service from modern auto matic apparatus. They propose. they say, to give to the people of Connecti- cut the benefit of the Independent Tel ephone movement, which in ten years has installed over 100000 independent telephones in the United States. with an expenditure of over s3O00o0 900 of capital. These companies are to-day in a prosperous condition 1t is said. and, on a dividend paying basis and their securities. are little affected by. the financial condition of the country.
 The men back of the Connecticut Home Telephone company claim to have received such strong assurances of local support from every section of this state that they feel assured that the new telephone company will have no difficulty in obtaining a large num- Der of subscribers through it's agents who are. to start convassing the state at once The laws of Connecticut have practically shut out competition from this state until the last legislature passed law permitting the formation of telephone companies under the joint stock law, but providing that such company must secure a finding of pub lie convenience and necessity from the Superior court before beginning the construction or operation of its sys- tenn.
 The plans of the Connecticut Home Telephone company propose the sys- tematic simultaneous development of the whole state. except in those towns in Litchfield county where an Indeped- dent Telephone company already ex- ists. Tn those towns connection win be had with these companies so as to cover every town in the state. Tho new company. if authorized to con- struct. will have but seventeen divis- ions where the Southern New England company has over 50. There will be no toll line charges whatsoever within the i lillil1S Oi d1. anu SuNfi tOuil- try town will be connected with and included in the division of the city or market town with which most of it's business is done. and with which it is naturally connected.
 Tn the Ne Haven division there is included the following towns: Ansonia. Bethany. B Banford, Derby East Ha- ven Guilford. Hamden. Huntington least parD, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Seymour, and. Wopdbridge, with no toll line charge to New Haven. pr any eother town within the division. To points outside the New Haven division the toll line rate will be based upon the charge of ohe-half a cent per mile for all points outside of the division, with minimum toll line charge of 10 cents, but no toll line charge in cx- cess of p cents within the state.
 The new company is. ready. it is said. to install a modern automatic telephone system, which can be oper- ated at least, one e-third cheaper than the manual system now in use in this state. With modern, methods of in stallation of telephone apparatus and appliances. and with an automatic system. not only it. is claimed willsthe l operating expenses be third less i than the operating cost of the same number of telephones under the man. ual system wherein the girl operators make the connections. which. under the automatic system is done entirely