Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-10-19
ITEMS Of INTEREST
Gathered from All Quarters
About Men Talked About
In tho Walks Of
Politics.

Men Who Are Candidates and
Men Who Are Not and What
People Say.
The Lawyers Taft Club of Chicago
was organized under the presidency
Of Horace X. Tenney, former presi.
dent of the State Bar Association.
frank Hamlin, the vice.president, was
formerly attorney for the board o.
| education. George A. Mason, the sec
rotary and treasurer. was formerly
special assessment attorney. The com.
mittee on organization, comprising
over 100 lawyers, was named and in
vitations will be sent out to all mem.
bers of the bar to join the club.
Canned Bunk for campaign use is
being handed out by the tireless pay
roll supporters of Deneen. II Is es-
pecially intended to be shot inside the
sweatbands of small sized Stetson
hats.
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The County Democracy appears to
be the only Democratic organization
that has not been torn asunder by
dissension.
Investigate the telephone receipts.
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Election of municipal judges should
be held by itself. It is purely q mu.
nicipal affair and 1t Is not right they
should be voted for at big county
and state election. They should be
voted for at the spring election in
April or at a seperate election In
June.
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Who rules Chicago. the aldermen OF
the phone company?
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The Telephone Trust Is still doing
business. Its dividends are increas
ing every year. The charges to the
public are not decreasing.
That the Trust is q combine in re
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from its attempt in Chicago to put
its automatic competitor out Of bust
ness.
What are the aldermen going to d,
In the matter Of telephone tariff re
duction?
Possibility of reduction Of tele
phone rates Is remote. This, It wa,
learned will be the report Of Prof
Edward w. Bemis, public utility ex
pert, who has been busy on Q tele
phone report for year. The repor
Is being made at the instance Of tn
council through the gas, oil and cleo
trio light committee. which has KEEP
In close touch with Prof. Bemis.
There will be no reduction In ser,
ice," said an ofilcial who claims /
have received enough fragments O
! information from the source Of invei
tigation to warrant the statement. q
am informed that there will DO sue
gestion Of reduction on unlimited res
dence service. This I do not conside
a real reduction. but simply the plae
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In other words, It will encourage tina
| service"
The enormous dividends paid to II
stockholders by the Telephone Trus
are wrung from the pockets OF tn
people by excessive telephone charges
Telephone rates must be reduce
! and In time they will be.
The fact that one city council vii
barter away the peoples rights Ia n
reason why succeeding councils shout
do the same.
The fight for cheaper telephon
service will 60 on until It 10 won.
Some more new blood Ii needed o
the Municipal Court bench.
ADVERTISEMENT
THE AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE.
For good many years the Chicag
public had ample opportunity to ol
serve what telephone monopoly NEAR
In the way of service.
The rates had been raised sever,
times-and threats Of another rails
were being made. There was talk {
abolishing certain forms of residenC
service. The public was treated wit
scant courtesy. There were Interim
able delays In changing old phone
and Installing new ones.
Then came the automatic telephon
bringing with 1t the much needle
spur of competition.
What happened?
Immediately the utmost efforts I
improve the manual service wei
made.
But 1t Is a cold, hard fact that thes
efforts have been to large degre
unsuccessful. 1t Ia simply a physic,
impossibility to make manual servit
come anywhere near the remarkab
efficiency OF the automatic.
The reason Is obvious. The aut
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