Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-24
PROVISIONS FOR
WESTERN UNION
Board OF Trade Has Prepsr-
ed list Of Changes Needed
for Service Here.
TO CONFER ON FEB. 2s
President of Local Body Says
Night Station Is Delus-
sion--cites Incident.
TO CONFER ON FEB. 2e

Entirely dissatisfied with hta
concessions Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. as announced
at the Newark conference before the
Public Utilities Commission on Feb
ruary o, the Board OF Trade has
drafted set of provisions which,
the officials state, must be granted
by the telegraph company before the
board will drop its long drawn ont
fight for all night service In this
city. In the demand, the board has
made no reference to all -iight SER
vice, but does not hesitate to de-
clare that, unless the corporation
comedies these points. the fight viii
ben continued before the Utilities
commission until successful.
Deliver ALI kilograms.
The first and most important de-
mand is to the effect that all tele-
grams, whether received during the
day or night, must be delivered.
The telegraph company previously
conceded to deliver Important
messages, but the board does not
wish to discriminate. The tele-
phoning of night messages to the
nearest open telegraph Office must
be done by the telephone company's
employees, the trade board declares
The responsibility, etc. Of this ae-
ton must be assumed by the agent,
according to the demand. The trade
board officials and the Western
Union representatives will meet on
Thursday. February 80, at which
time the following improvements to
the present service will be recon-
mended:
List OF Provisions
All kilograms to be delivered
soon as received. day or night.
whether important or not.
"At the main telephone once.
Fayette or Smith streets. where day
and night service Is to be had, tela-
gram blanks are to be kept for the
use OF the public. All messages
written on said blanks are to be teI-
ephoned to New Brunswick by tele-
phone operator and forwarded By
telegraph from there.
Telegraph blank to be marked
when message Is delivered at New
Brunswick telegraph office and filed
away for ture reference.
AL er1 srs and responsibility of
ateleRhontzf-s N Axe~ Hxurexsek ee 4
Ethe fransu1fTfHj - - 4
assumed by TeIegrAl b T.. ES]'@6 III !#s|| Sss
same as tn sending direet atl14aj
use OF the tefephoue
Only regular telegram rates from
Perth Amboy TO destination 10 be
charged.
Where slot machines are used !.
nickel to be refunded before leaving
booth, Nc telephone charge 10 teie-,
phone subscribers.
''The Lehigh Valley office to be
used by the public any hour In the
might and prompt attention given to
all night messages"
I. @. Moore Expresses Views.
/. C. Moore. president of the
Board of Trade granted an inter-
view today with a NEWS reporter In
which he illustrated the present SER
vice In the following manner:
II call the Telegraph Station
Open All Night in Smith street, A
snare and delusion.' Shortly after
s o'clock last night | went to the
telegraph station to Investigate the
new service, for sending night mes
sages. On the door | found a sign.
which read: Telegraph Station.
Open All Night. In the hall way
was telephone slot machine and
directions, How to Send Telegrams.
While reading this, two ladies',
dressed in black, came In to send
two kilograms. To their inquiry, I
said they were in the right place.
told them to use the telephone, and
Tread them the directions.
%, this is a telephone" they re-
piled, we want to send two tele-
grams concerning death in our
family one 10 Bridgeport, Conn /,
and the other to Gordon, Pa,
II offered to assist them No.
thank YOU they replied firmly; we
i'd not want to take any chances
with telephone We will send
them tonight in New York. where
they have all night service. We
came here today to make arranga-
ments for the burial OF our father
and were told that We could tele-
graph from this place. We will
take the 8 o'clock boat for New
York and telegraph from there.
II explained that there would be
no extra cost for tile use of the tele-
phone, as the nickel would be re-
funded by the telegraph company
They looked the slot machine over
and no device, such as they have ia
New York for the return of the
nickel, could they find. They shook
their heads and said, It's a shsne
you have no night telegraph service
here / secured names and ads
dresses and bid the ladies' Good
Night How many have similar ex
Iperiences at the Telegraph Station
Open All Night? The Board oE
Trade is at work for better service
and will insist upon the recommends
ations mentioned In the foregoing
Dancing tonight Goodwin Hall
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