The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-31
PROMINENT WICHITA MEN
SATISFIED WITH PHONE MERGER

officials and promptness from the OPP
Grating room All feel a relief that
with one ding-dong instead of pair.
Among those interviewed yesterday by
Mr.. Montfort and the Eagle CORE
spondent, were the following:
What the People Say.
o. A. Boyle, president Chamber of
Commerce; president Boyle Commission
company; president Interurban Con-
tending all the time to take out the
Independent phones, they are getting
SO unsatisfactory. 1 am favorable to
one-phone system for any city. The
city will expect of you only first class
service from now on, and II you give
it on one-system plan there will be
no complaint on slight advance in
rates.
Ayers, secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce: IT am certainly in favor
of but one system, and like everyone
else realize painfully that two com
panies is like taking two bites of a
cherry"
Charles H Smyth, Smyth Storage
company, president Commercial club:
81 feel this is one of the greatest bless
ings that has recently comesto Wichita.
I thoroughly approve of the consolida-
ton. The city and the old Bell com
pany got at loggerheads. Neither
would conce1e anything Both got
bull headed. The city suffered. A new
company came in and we both lost
money. There never should have been
but the one company. The two sys-
TENS have never been kept UP as they
should have been. while now the one
will be. One phone is convenient, two
are decidedly announcement. Even at
a slight increase in rates it will be far
more economical and far more con-
venient The Bell company has done
remarkably we'll the past year, and /
~ i hot I1 fo11 =,
confusion has been settled. 1t meets
my entire approval"
John McGlrnis, secretary the Com
merciaI club: 81 will not waste words
in glowing adulation, but let me lend
nv faint influence by saying never a
better deed was done. Never mind
little advance in rates if it only gives
us the service and the one-system deal;
it is for the best of Wichita. and every
citizen concerned
p ]. Conklin, president the P J.
Conklin Loan company: 81 am well
pleased with the service we are now
getting from the Bell, and 1 am GER
tainIy in favor of the one-system plan.
1 say, Good fer you"
Sam Stewart, city commissioner:
Anything but dual system of tele-
phones. Never was dual confusion
worse confused. I hope the new com
bination VIII keep up an efficient SER
vice, and that done, no one but would
prefer to have but one company"
L. F. Means. city commissioner: at
is the greatest thing for the city that
could be done If you treat us right,
and 1 am now completely convinced
that you will I repeat 1t is the best
thing for the city that has happened.
Both services over one instrument is
good. Two telephone companies are
like what two water companies would
be. or it is like advertising in two
newspapers of a thousand circulation
each. when one with two thousand
would be better. It certainly looks good
to me all the way through. You are
taking the right stand, and am very
glad of It."
H. J. Roetzel, city commissioner: 81
am certainly in favor of one system
rather than two, other things being
equal BY that mean, do not advance
rates Just because you can, especially
to the residents, to an unreasonable
degree. 1 am assured you will not.
Then 1 am heartily in favor of this
amalgamatiou-"
Rufus Cone. city commissioner: II
am for anything that is for the welfare
of wichita IF this does not cause an
arrogance on the part of the new COM
bination, and I do not believe such
suicidal spirit would be allowed to pre-
vail, then I am for the one system
rather than two
Mayor Charles L. Davidson could not
be seen, but II is we'll known that. with
proper regulation, a precision of per-
fectly working operation in the ser