Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-02-17


'r Congress In the Fourth District.
$4,000. The managing committee q
the board Of directors Of the company
swors before the Grand Jury that they
did not know how the funds were
procured for ths bribery"
This report wss signed by william
Kent, formerly . well known alder.
man and feforner Of Chicago and six
other members Of the committee ~.
pointed By the mayor Of Dan Francis.
60. Oct II. 1903.
Chicago Daily News editorial. De-
cemper A0s AS1A'
II has been the aim Of the telephone
company to do away with unlimited
service - far % possible and to re-.
Quire all users Of It's instruments to
60 on the measured service basis. Op-
position to the measured service plan
ID aroused whenever . patron Of the
telephone company 10 made TO pay
two tolls whore one should be sum.
Client.
The ordinary person In attsmpting
to telephone to q railroad passenger
station, for example. 10 likely TO ask
for the wrong number for the purpose
Of his call. for 20 confusing 10 the
array Of titles and numbers In the
telephone directory that Il 10 often
dimcult to decide upon the department
that 10 wanted. Frequently the infor.
nation bureau at . railroad station,
when appealed to. refers the inquirer
TO another telephone number In the
same building. This necsssitates the
payment Of 0 second toll. Telephone
operators are careful to prevent the
second call from being made without
the payment Of . second nickel.
Both the railroad companies and the
telephone company should do their
best to see that the arrangement Of
department names IN the telephone di.
rectory 10 sufficiently clear 70 enable
inquirers to call the Arst time for
the number they really want.
The city ought to have Q bureau Of
complaints to which appeals for the
improvement OF faulty conditions Of
service might be made BY patrons Of
local public utility corporation.
Penny telephones are to bs estab-
lished In Detroit and there 10 no good
reason why they should not be estab.
lished In Chicago. The following
dispatch from Dstroit explains itself:
Reduction Of local telephone rates
30 per cent for the average user.
elimination Of the distinction between
'residsnces' and business telephones
and tho estsblishment Of . rate Of
$3.50 per month and I cent each fos
outgoing messages In excess Of 900
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
hearings."
Telephone rates are entirely toe
high In Chicago. The Aldermen have
q chance to lower them. VIII they
do It?
The penny telephone will come In
time. Lower rates on all phones are
demanded.
Il Is reported that the telephone
company has hit upon new scheme
for the extraction of the nimble nickel
from the clothes of customers.
The new scheme is called the
"short ring"
Heretofore when q call was made
the telephone bells jingled a long
time or until they were, answered.
Now, In some parts OF the city they
are barely tapped.
OF course II the party called does
not hear the mild ring or takes the
sound for CROSSED wire." Or a mis-
take" the caller has to try 1t ovel
again and drop another nickel.
This nickel movement Is a great
thing.
In fact, in Chicago the telephone
company has discovered the richest
nickel mine on earth.
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The tick tick phones must 60.
How many aldermen are owned By
the phone company?
%8
The phone company talks as II the
city was its private property.
Does the telephone company or the
aldermen run Chicago?
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! Reduce all telephone rates.