Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-10-21

A. FOEll.
ted by the Republicans for Judge Of
or Court.
phones. They give an unlimited serv.
ice for $S6 . year--about one-haf the
charge Of the Bell monopoly. They
give unlimited telephone service 70
private families for less than thirty
dollars q year. With . full extension
OF their system even the poorest fam.
lilies will use the telephones, and be
better OF at the end Of the year
through tho saving Of carfare.
The charge for pay stations with
this new system. which 10 backed By
Armour and the others. 10 three cents
per call, and the intention 10 to lower
this rate eventually from three cents
to one cent. At one cent the profit
would be enormous, with the econo.
mics Of the automatic telephone and
q suficient number Of subscriber.
The right plan would be, Of course.
for the business men Of New York
who pay enormous tolls to the tele-
phone monopoly to get together. to
bind themselves to take Q new service
An automatic cheap service With
certain guarantees - and through
pressure Of public opinion compel the
granting Of Q franchise 70 an auto.
matte company charging the lowest
possible rate.
But It 10 dinicult to get business
men to unite: difhcult to make them
resent effectively even the most pal.
pable extortion.
The chief hope lies In the courage.
energy and business knowledge Of
such Q man ~ Armour. who has the
money. who II not frightened By the
power OF monopoly. and who might.
II he chose. be remembered - one Of
the real benefactors Of the country
by breaking down the telephone mon.
opoly and making Of the great tele.
phone convenience Q blessing within
the reach Of all and az cheap. In pro.
portion. % the national postonice.
Action by the city council upon the
question of doing away with the tels.
phones In which q nickel Is required
before the attention Of central 10 OBJ
tained 10 likely to be taken at the hrst
meeting after the council vacation,
Announcement was made by Aid.
Britten OF the ESD ward that he In.
tended to present at the meeting an
ordinance compelling the telephone
company to remove whot are known
az tick tick" phone boxes. His en-
nouncement followed the delivering
Of an opinion by Corporation Counsel
Sexton that such an ordinance could
be passed under the police powers Of
the city. An effort will be made Ia
have the council take action upon the
ordinance without referring 1t to q
committee. several aldermen having
promised to support a motion for the
suspension of the rules for this pur
pose.
| It 10 asserted by Aid. Britten thai
the stick tick" telephones constitute
a serious menace.
"The installing Of these devices
has deprived the persons In whose
homes they are OF protection Il
which they are entitled against fire
and robbers" he said. with thes,
devices at work It is impossible Il
obtain the attention of the telephone
operator until a nickel has been de
posted In the box. Every one witt
is familiar with the nickel in the slo
telephones knows how often one find
ones self without nickel.
"A mans home might be burne'
down or he might be robbed and muI
dered simply because he did not hav
J coin OF the right size at the righ
time. Another dihiculty is that form
erly a person had to take chance
|. only because his telephone might b
{ out of order. Now the telephone itsel
might be working, but the slot mt
+. chine box device be out of order"
; Corporation Counsel Sexton CAV
Q his opinion on the authority given tn
: telephone company to install the d.
vices on nickel telephones where tn
0 money is deposited before patron
y able to get the operator at the r
Q quest of Aid. Charles NJ. Thomson
o Mr.. Sexton holds that the city ca
. regulate by it's police power in cas-
! the services rendered Is unreasonab
or unfair.
d Drop a penny in the slot and tel
phone"
+. Aid. Herman J. Bauler, who orie
q mated the Seventy Cent Gas league
d the mayoral campaign, proposes
h settle telephone rates now that Il
y leagne has completed its end OF Il
Q gas price rates and left 1t for Il
d courts to say whether the 75 to
y cent sliding scale ordinance is fair.
Aid. Bauler insists that the penn
b. telephone idea is all right and sa,
a ho hao Wnrkod 0ut tho idoa With0