The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-11-13
TELEPOST
CO. |NvADES
HAMMOND
New Independent Telegraph
Co. Extending Lines Over
the Country Will Intro
duce It's System in Lake
County.

Indianapolis. Ind. Nov. 12.-Develop-
ments in the telephone circles Of IN
diana during the last twenty-four hours
indicate that there is now gong on the
greatest deal in that lire that has ever
been known in the state, and which
threatens the very life Ct the indie
pendents in both the telephone and tele-
graph field. 1t is said now that the
American Telegraph and Telephone
company now owns the Western Union
Telegraph company and the Postal
Telegraph company and that is seek
ing to get control of the Independent
long distance telephone lines in the
middle states so as to break the back
OF the Independent telegraph move
ment and create for itself a giant mo-
nopoIy OF the telegraph and telephone
business Of the counCry This Develop
ment came to light yesterday when H
Lee Sellers of New York, president of
the Telepost company, came to this
city to investigate the conditions of
the deal by which James S Bradley Of
Toledo obtained control OF the New
Long Distance Telephone company in
this state.
The Telepost company is the indie
pendent new telegraph company which
is extending its lines all over the coun-
try. It recently established an office
In this city and 1t has lines in opera
ton between this city and St. Louis and
several other cities west of here. 1t Is
arranging TO extend its lines to Chi
cago, Louisville and to cities in the
east. and it says it will have this done
within the next few months. IL 1t is not
hampered BY the combination Of the
other companies into a gigantic wire
trust
The Telepost company has system
of sending messages at the rate Of from
one thousand to three thousand words
a minute over telephone wire while
the wire is being used for a long dis
tance conversation. It has been plan
ming to use the lines of the independ-
ent telephone companies until it can get
its own lines constructed. 1t is using
independent lines now in many places,
and President Sellers intended while
here yesterday to make a contract for
the use of wires to extend it's lines to
South Bend, Fort Wayne and other
places in the state of Indiana. but
Bradley. the man with whom he would
have to deal. slipped out of town before
he had an opportunity TO talk with
him on the subject Sellers said, how
ever that Charles S. Norton. the gen
eral manager OF the New Long Dis
lance Telephone company. informed him
that the relations of the New Long Dis
lance Telephone company and the Tele-
post company would remain the same
as they We're before the sale Of the New
Long Distance company was made to
Bradley
The Telepost company sends mes
sages for much lower rate than either
the Western Union or the Posta, and
the rate is the same no matter what
distance the message is carried. A
twenty-fve word message from Indian
apolis to New York costs twenty five
cents, just the same as II It were sent
to the nearest town in Indiana. A
fifty word ''telepost.' as it is called
costs twenty five cents. When this i:
received at the receiving office it is
put in the postoffce for delivery to tbs
stock ticker on which the message Il
person addressed. For twenty nv,
cents 1OO-w "teletape" is sent
This is q tape similar to the tape of {
represented by series of marks made
by the receiving machine. This "tele.
tape" is delivered by messenger to the