Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1912-02-29
FIGHT WITH BELL
PHONE SYSTEMIC IS
CAUSE OF MERGER
Independent Concerns in Kan
sas City Territory Unite to
Resist inroads of the
Big Trust.
BATTLE FOR PROTECTION
Bell Interests, It Is Declared,
Have Nothing to Do With
This Last Combine
of Capital.
BATTLE FOR PROTECTION

Kansas City, Mo. Feb. 29.-A deal
has been consummated by winch the
owners of independent telephone ex-
changes in the Kansas City territory
became the owners OF the Kansas Slty
Home Telephone company.
1t was to protect them from tn" pos
sible merger of the Home Telephone
company with the Missouri and Kansas
Telephone company. the Bell system.
owned by the American Telephone and
Telegraph company. The Amerlcan
company Is the trust organized by j. p.
Morgan and his associates. 1t controls
the Western Union Telegraph company
and the Bell companies throughout the
United States.
Had the telephone and telegraph trust
obtained possession of the Home com
pany il would have been impossible for
Independent companies in Kansas city
territory to have obtained long distance
service into Kansas City except by per
mission of the BELL company. This
would have given the trust sufficient
power to have crushed Independent ex-
changes by competition in several
towns. An independent COMPANY that
could not have talked over long dis
tance with Kansas City would nave
been at decided disadvantage
Gary at Head
The control Is vested in the Tele- =
phone Securities company. Il West
Virginia corporation. Incorporated by
Theodore Gary and III. l.. Gary and A..
II. Adams, who viii constitute the
poard OF directors. iie oAi.ssIS
Ihecao.e 'narS, pIesAueil' -. - ~. ~
ans, vice presia'Il. q. L. vary
re1ary I, and e treasure lreasurel .;.,e. ,,,,,,,,n,
eventually is to be the holding. or
merging company, for all the independ-
en1 telepnohe collptii,'s W .lis n5;
Slty lsfrltors. lticltilis haliss, Na,'
souri lowa st.,i IL e. Ii
lhe,il are eacilmises .. ,ina Dup,,,, No.
sep.., NY na, anLsna' .s II,,tah;,,
hat1an, ttuepet.ae.1cs. Maii., MI,
son wae la % aiia .Ia'. Lldle"tn, III 49, M,
az sa's..su. " -. opsi t'''e ''i''1'i wy
Aeeii'ea.;
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ne 1lhls IS coill!lR M.'ea .', lne ''in.i' 'ii
VIII denlahd d uiiiS'is..i .eiel,ii'ii :.
TEN, SAID Mr. Gary we, the owileis ;
.! llldepeiiuSht .oI,ii'aiii.s m ~: ~. e''is ~
riory ou,slae on iNa'asas Sils, suus q.
t 20 p'o,ea' i,,st, oulsuises ,,a ,U, th,t time
comes KANSAS G,itv refused to per
rnit the RelI and the Home to merg.,
hero h,,t thnt v.as NOT saving that
Kansas CITY would always refuse a
merger of the Home ana the Rell in
Kansas civ wo,,.i leave our exchanges
y, Inpiin 81 rosanh Topeka and Other
vsoald have no friendly long distance
.onnec1ion When Ar independent cx-
~ ,.,a,sre S;asi,ed to talk To- Kansas city
a wo,,,d have 10 do, SO over the lines
of an nnfriend1v eomnetitor Tina,
wo,,ld MT Tho indeoendent exchange in
q iisaiv,str reo,1s nosition.
.Nov, Tint the i,,aependents .v-,
their own exchanges In Kansas G,itv
thn,. ara IL, a ,,nsition to saw that ail
the eyehanpes he 1nkan care or in the
evsnt of a merger With tho Fell te
carry our 1he inevitable and final de-
,nard ~ thn n,,blic tha1 there be only
one e,e-,hona system. II win be ,mpos.
sible ia merge. the Kansas CITY com
,,.ny am, have The othe, indepen,lcnt
ca,.,,anies on, in rho cold. If there
ts ~ ha ,nereer the ,rt]enendents ont
s.;5. of Ilan.as citv Inusi have some
.bina 10 cav. al, M .he Terms and .h,