New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-23
PLANS TALKING PAPER"
Company Will Try Budapest
Phone Service in New Jersey.
GETS A LEASED WIRE HERE
Operas, Bulletins, Concerts and
Sermons Included in the
Daily Schedule.

b. order n the Public Utilities COM
mission Of New Jersey. which will become
operative September :. the New York Tel
ephone Company was directed 70 furnish
leased wires 10 the New Jersey Telephone
Herald Company.
The latter company announced yester-
dav through its counsel Albert a. Wray,
that nv October II expected 20 ne able
TO furnish Newark. and later other towns
and cities throughout New Jersey, with a
telephone news service modelled after the
Helefon Mirmonde. Of Budapest hungary.
For nearly a year the New Jersey Tele-
phone Herald Company has been negotiat-
ing with the New York Telephone COM
pany for leased wires. but the telephone
company officials feared that by leasing
its wires 10 such corporation II might
he invaIidatng its franchise rights. The
Telephone Herald Company. through Al
/ bert A. Wrav Edward Kenney, tho Speak
or Of the New Jersey Assembly, ana
/ George ". ". Porter Of Newark. took
| the matter before the Public Iuliues
/ Commission. with the claim that their
company was not a public utility corpora
/ ton. but that as a business corporation
fl would be unjustly Disseminated against
by the New York Telephone Company II
that company refused to lease wires 70 H.
when II had previously elected 10 lease
wires to stock ticker. burglar-alarm. fire
alarm and kindred private business corpo-
| rations
Charles r. Russell general counsel, and
r r. Sylvan and G. Walter Artz. as assoc
ciate counsel. represented the New York
Telephone Company before the Public
Utility Board, whose order was based
chiefly upon the petitioners contention that
| without such order IL would be unJusuy
Disseminated against
The New Jersey Teephone-TIerald Com
rany proposes 10 furnish 10 it's subscrib-
ers II daily service which will run from $
o'clock I'm the morning until one hour after
midnight. and according TO its announce
ment YESTERDAY. it's working organization
has been built up pending tho outcome of
the question AZ issue with the telephone
company II expects TO give its subscrib-
ers a bulletin review Of tho news be-
tween s and o o'clock IN the morning
/ The advertising page of This talking
newspaper" viii be read to subscribers
from Q to $50. and from that hour up 70
10 o'clock the schedule calls for local per-
/ sonals and small items.
Stock quotations, Incidental news which
develops during the day, foreign dis
matches and an afternoon programme OF
orchestral music mn M the days sched-
ule until the scores of the baseball games
come along in the evening
Operas and other musical offerings are
planned FOR tho evening hours. with an
after concert Of orchestral music running
from n p. m. 20 ! a. m, and during any Of
these hours while the service is on impor-
tant news dispatches have the call for
/ nomeutarv Interruptions.
The Telefon- IIirmonde. Of Budapest. has
been I'm use in that city for a number OF
ve.trs. and according ~ the American pro-
motors has been a practical success. The
United States Tolephone-He Herald Com
panv holds the American rights 70 this
| Hungarian invention, and the New Jersey
company. which announced the start Of
| actual service yesterday. holds substdi-
arv right for that state.
News bulletins. advertising. stock quo
tations and such matters will he handled
by the companv's employees from the Es-
sex Building. in Newark. while the music
and Sunday sermons If noted preachers
and public affairs Of that nature will he
conveyed 70 the subscribers through mi
cronhones placed IN the halls theatres or
rooms where the performance is going on.
! Subscribers viii not hear any SOUND
| from the instrument unless they put the
receivers 10 the ear. except in the case of
/ bulletins Of news Of world wide interest
| when a buzzer viii call their attention 70
| the fact that SUCH news IS about 10 he
! told The instrument rs so designed thar
/ no one can talk into IL and be heard. eX-
| cent from the central Office or from the
| Dlaces where the microphones are placed
/ 50 far as the subscribers are concerned, u
| is listening service only.
/ Captain William +. Gum. Of Newark. is
the president Of the New jersey corpora
| ton.