Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-03-16

DailIf Municipal Court.
telephone company should do their
best to see that the arrangement Of
department names in the telephone di.
rectory 10, sufficiently clear to enable
inQuirers to call the drst time for
the number they really want.
The city ought to have . bureau Of
complaints to which appeals for the
Improvement Of faulty conditions Of
service might be made By patrons Of
local public utility corporation.
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We take the following from page
"a Of the Report on the Causes Of
Municipal Corruption In San Fran
cisco a. disclosed BY the investigar
tions Of the oliver grand jury and the
prosecution Of certain persons for
bribery and other offenses against the
state" made BY Q committee appoint.
ed by the mayor Of that city and pub.
lished by order Of the board Of %.
pervisors, city and county Of San
Francisco. January s. 1910:
1.-THE Pacin Telephone and Tele.
graph Company bribed the supsrvis.
ors to prevent the Home Telephone
Company Or any other organisation
from obtaining . telephone franchise
In San Francisco. No attack Of any
kind on the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company WAS threatened
By the Supervisors. and the sole pur.
pose Of the crime was 70 maintain q
prodt which might b cut By the
competition Of business rivals. The
Supervisors were paid IN al over
$4,000. The managing committee q
the board Of directors Of the company
swore before the Grand Jury that they
did not know how the funds were
procured for the bribery"
This report was signed By william
Kent, formerly Q well known alder.
man and rsfor,nsr Of Chicago and six
other members OF the committee ap.
pointed By the mayor Of San Francis.
co. Oct -. 1908.
Penny telephones are to be sstab.
lished In Detroit and there 10 no good
reason why they should not be estab.
l!shes IN Chicago. The following
dispatch from Detroit explains itself:
Reduction Of local telephone rates
80 per cent for the average user,
elimination Of the distinction between
'residences' and business telephones
and the establishment Of . rate Of
$3.50 per month and cent each for
outgoing messages In excess OF 200
per month on single party lines, with
no limit on incoming calls are pro
vided for In an ordinance, on which
common council committee began
heu.ings."
Telephone rates are entirely toe
high In Chicago. The Aldermen have
a chance to lower them. VIII they
do 1t?
The penny telephone will come in
time. Lower rates on all phones are
demanded.
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It ia reported that the telephone
company has hit upon new scheme
for the extraction Of the nimble nicke
from the clothes OF customers.
The new scheme is CALLED thu
short ring"
Heretofore when a call was made
the telephone bells jingled. a Ions
time or until they were answered.
Now, In some parts Of the city they
are barely tapped.
OF course II the party called doei
not hear the mild ring or takes thu
sound for CROSSED wire," or "mis
take" the caller has to try 1t ovel
again and drop another nickel.
This nickel movement Is a grea
thing.
In fact, In Chicago the telephon,
company has discovered the riches
nickel mine on earth.
A telephone company that pay
eight per cent dividends on twenty
nine millions of stock Is making to,
much money. The people are payini
too much for telephone service.
The telephone company may hav,
silenced some Of the kicks about tick
tick phones, but the people are no
satisfied and demand lower rates.
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The proposition to change thu
names of distinctively North Sidt
streets like Dayton, Fremont, Rokeby
Orchard, Cleveland avenue and Others
to Green, Peoria. Desplaines, Unior
and other West Side cognomens Is the
latest fad of the street nomenclature
fends. Some of the names proposed
to be transferred to the North Side
have not very sweet smelling histor.
les. But fads must be persisted In to
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