New-York tribune., 1909-05-23
TELEPHONE WARBEGINS
,.rT CONCERN IN FIELD.
.ssgc. Sercice Company to Use the
Long Acre Franchise.

-,,,1,c Service Telephone Company, recently
ln a do an independent telephone business
Z,orl, CITY. fled yesterday with the Empire
. s,-rsv Company. which has the monopoly for
C facilities Tor low tension wires in this city,
fns 1,,arIor for space in the latter. company's
q The officers and directors Of the Public
81 Tslephone Company John NJ Shaw
oass,+. Clarence 2. Simpson, vice-president
- rJsuck treasurer; John A. L. Campbell
f.,-v and Roland P Conklin, A. 9. Wheeler,
: r5 Alfred J. APPEL directors The Public Ser
p y. 7.lsphone Company. It is announced, will
-.ste Under tne franchise Of the Longacre Light
Porer Company, and has taken over the tele-
go tights of that compsny's franchise.
P-,-ssf5ent Shaw said yesterday that. the new
,.s-v had arranged 20 expend 20.oo0.000 10 give
-. work comprehensive. service OF automatic
s,houes such as are used in ninety other cities,
...ay5tne Chicago. Grand Rapids. Mich Los
,-gelss and Dayton. Ohio. The plans call for the
..starstion q eighteen exchanges. which in Man
s.,+zu alone viii provide for 10000 telephones
7Fs Application fled yesterday Is FOR the first
-ss-ee AZ Nc 50 Wall street, where are the bust
,sss Offices cf Afessrs. Shaw & Wheeler.
F-,ancis1 arrangements have been made with
,r,e If, the largest independent telephone compa-
,,.s elsewhere. including. II is said, the Keystone
-eephone Company. Of Philadelphia, which will be
largely interested in the enterprise. The conf
,sny-e engineers are Duncan & Llndon- Martin "
Tstfle-on md George : Graham the counsel
Az Increase OF the capital stock from $4,000 ooo to
,.s 900 Is 10 be expected shortly
IRE Long Acre Light and Power Company IS
eourroIlsd by the Manhattan Transit Company,
which John . Sheehan and his associates bought
= 1ss from Joseph H Hoadey and his friends.
sop1 a-;er Efr. Sheehan announced that the Man
bsran Transit Company would compete with the
consolidated Gas Company and make New York
n electrically lighted city This TO be effected
trough The Long Acre compauy's franchise and
re control Of the American Electrical Manufact-
uaag Company
When the Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical
subvay Company refused the Long Acre corpora
tim permission TO use the latter's conduits for
laying wires under 42d street and Seventh avenue.
NJ sheehan applied 10 Justice Dowling. in the
Supreme Court. for a writ OF peremptory man
dsnus which was granted. The Appellate Divi-
sion in January, 1907 and the Court OF Appeals on
ap-l 80 1877, affirmed Justice Dowling's decision
The Court Of Appeals decision, It was said by rep
resentatives OF the Long Acre company. gave that
company complete telephone right all over the
city.
In SEPTEMBER. le07, the Long Acre company OBJ
tsined from the Commissioner Of Water Supply,
Gas and Electricity permits 10 lay its electric
cables throughout Manhattan and The Bronx n
the conduits OF the Consolidated Telegraph and
Electrical subway Company. Several months later
permission 10 issue SI0o0o9o preferred stock and
SO g.a a bonds vas refused by the Public Service
Commission. The engineer of the commission tes-
,ihsd that the value Of the company's power plant
was s-saeo and another witness testified that the
oonpanys assets were only $4,000 above the fran
chise lich had been sold At public auction pre-
v1ously for 800,
II the commissions decision denying the appli
eaton for the issue Of the s6oOO0oo of securite:
Commissioner Maltbie said: 1t is doubtful whether
the title Of the Long Acre company TO The fran
chise which II claims is perfect