Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
PHONE COMPANY
AND CROWN CITY
AGREE ON TRUCE
WARNING FACTIONS HOLD CON-
FERENCE OF PEACE
POSSIBILITIES WILL CEASE FOR
TWENTY DAYS
Corporation VIII Be Permitted to Re-
sumo Business and Attempt to
Reach Final Settlement
viii Be Made

As the result of a conference held
yesterday in the chamber of Judge
Bordwell OF the superior court, attor-
heys respectively representing the Sun
set Telephone company and the city Of
Pasadena succeeded in reaching an
agreement whereby the hostilities. be-
gun Thursday a few hours after Judge
Bordwell's decision, which is adverse to
the telephone company, will cease tenn
porarily.
The conference began at 10 o'clock
and lasted until o'clock in the after
noon, and during that time an effort
was made to obtain from the court a
restraining order to prevent the city
from interfering with the company's
lines In Pasadena, which effort failing,
five different stipulations were pre-
pared, four of which were discarded.
BY the terms of the truce agreed on,
personalities of the warning factions
will endeavor in the next twenty days
to reach an agreement whereby the
city may receive compensation for the
use of it's streets by the company's
poles and wires, and the company be
permitted to continue business without
, interference.
To reach this agreement representa-
tives of the city and the telephone COM
pany will confer with each other on
the main point at issue, the amount of
compensation which shall be paid by
the corporation into the city's treas
ury pending the outcome of an appeal
to the higher courts from the decision
of Judge Bordwell, which upheld the
constitutionality of the ordinance pro-
viding for the imposition of a tax of rs
cents for each of the company's poles.
Attorneys Confer
Those present at the conference yes
terday, besides Judge Bordwell, who
acted as mediator, were Perry Wood,
city attorney of Pasadena; Paul Hon
berger, his assistant; Alfred Sutro of
San Francisco, of the firm of Pillsbury,
Madison & Sutro, chief attorneys for
the telephone company; H. S. Van
Dyke of Lawler, Allen, Jutton & Van
Dyke, who represent the telephone
company locally, and G. M. Seeley, dis
trict manager for the company.
Should an agreement between the
parties not be reached within the en-
suing twenty days, it is stipulated the
telephone company shall apply for an
| injunction to remain in force until the
case finally is determined; and, on the
other hand, should a satisfactory ar
rangement regarding compensation for
the use of the city's streets be con-
cluded, the Injunction heretofore issued
restraining the city from interfering
with the company's business will con-
tinue in force.
Inc SClpuldIlOn dSIeeu On ySob0Auely
is as follows
cit is hereby stipulated between the
respective parties to the action that the
/ plaintiffs may reconnect their systems
/ in the city of Pasadena and resume
operation thereof for period of twenty
days from the date hereof; that WITHIN
/ said twenty days the parties hereto will
endeaVor to come to an agreement re-
specting compensation to be paid to the
city of Pasadena, pending the final de-
termination of the action for the occu-
patton of the city streets since the eX-
piration of ordinance No. IS, in the
event of final decision in favor of the
defendants; and that If the parties
shall agree as stated, then an inJunc-
ton, as heretofore issued, shall issue
and continue In force pending the final
determination of said action.
May Ask for injunction
I'm the event the parties do not agree
as stated, then the plaintiffs shall make
an application, on two days notice, to
the court that an Injunction issue
pending the final determination OF this
action"
The stipulation was signed by Perry
Wood in behalf of Pasadena and AIRED
Sutro for the telephone company.
Yesterdays conference, at which none
except those directly concerned was
present, was stated by City Attorney
Wood to have been amicable through
out.
"The agreement means a temporary.
and perhaps permanent, cessation or
hostilities between the city and the tel
ephone company" said Mr.. WOOD. II
we can decide on a reasonable price to
be charged the telephone company for
the use of our streets since its fran
chise expired, last year. and also for
the time the appeal is pending, every,
thing will run smoothly and there Will
be no further friction"
Papers in the appeal case, 1t is salo'
are already in the course of prepara-