Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-11
ANNUAL MEETING.
Wausau Telephone Company Held Its
Stockholders Meeting on Tuesday
Evening at the Court House.

On tuesday evening the stockhold
ers of the Wausau Telephone com
pany held its annual meeting in tn,
court house. There were over 60'
shares of the stock represented. Pres
ldent Nathan Heinemann presided
The report of the directors was sub
mitted and as this tells about th'
whole story, we publish all that il
interesting to our readers.
| A motion was passed authorizing ;
sale of the telephones eastern lin,
and to appoint committee to max,
the sale.
! The old board of directors was re
elected and Immediately upon ad
journment of the stockholders meet
ing, the directors met and elected th,
| following officers:
| President-N. Heinemann.
| Vice-Prest.-E. B. Thayer.
Treas W. Albers.
Secretafy-James Montgomery.
| Counsel-G. d. Jones.
DIRECTORS REPORT.
sour new telephone building was
completed in March, 1912, including
! Jae installation of our central office
equipment. Our purchase of the Lew
lstion, Me-, automatic telephone ap
paratus enabled us to install com
pete duplicate central office equip
ment in the new quarters without dis
turbing our former office in the least
and this enabled us to make the
transfer without disturbance to
our telephone service and with.
out the slightest inconvenience
to our patrons. Our building was,
however, new. 1t is of concrete
construction and had not dried
out. The central office equipment
| for the aut omatic telephones is very
nicely adjusted, and the dampness
caused the parts to stick or to move
| so sluggishly as to fail to make the
connection in many instances, and
| for several weeks, in spite of our best
efforts, this OccaSiOned considerable
Inconvenience to our patrons. This
term was prolonged somewhat by tue
heavy rains of last season, and these
severe storms also caused much dam
age to our overhead lines, and espec-
tally TO our cables, which seriously in
terfered with our service Then, too,
our under ground work released a
large amount of cable which we used
in extending our cable system to more
remote parts of the city where our
open wires had become congested
These cables were of course attached
to our poles and with the old wires
remaining in operation, and it neces-
sarily interfered to some extent for
the time being with those patrons
who would eventually be benefited
by the change. We appreciated
at the time that this could
not but be annoying, and we were
gratitied With the patience shown by
most OF or patrons and with their
general appreciation of the situation
We were cOnhCeat all the time that
these necessary aGnOyances would be
but temporary and We are gratified to
be able to state that ouI. general ser
vice the past six months is The best
in our history, and the directors be-
lieve the physical condition of our
plant is today the best in our history
An additional cause of congratulation
is the increased assurance we have
that no fire or other calamity can SER
iously cripple us. Our new building
is practically fire proof, and it is GER
tain that any fire or any damage from
lighting or other electricity which
may occur can only cause 81: mt dam
age and inconvenience to our central
office equipment.
We regret to have to report that in
June, when, for the reasons above
stated, our service was necessarily
somewhat unsatisfactory, certain of
our patrons made complaint to the
Railroad Commission, upon which a
hearing was subsequently, held. This
matter is still before the Railroad
Commission. We believe that all of
the parties to that complaint are
agreed now that their action was
hasty and inconsiderate, but the COM
plaint has not been withdrawn.
"We now have 1886 feet of under
ground work, in which we have in ali
2e, 500 duct feet of condUits, and each
conduit has the capacity of carrying
one 400 pair cable. We have removed
our entire pole line construction in
the territory covered by conduitS
with the exception of Fourth street,
and while we own this Fourth street
pole line it is now used almost entire
ly by the Wisconsin Telephone Com
pany for It's long distance lines. We
expect that arrangements will be
made for the removal of this line this
summer.
Our company has always done every
thing in its power to encourage the
building of country lines and their
connection with this city. We have
hoped the Marathon County Telephone
Co. would make this part of its
regular business by organizing well
constructed farmers telephone SER
vice and by connecting this with their
toll lines During the summer of
lOl2 we found that the farmers east
of Wausau we're deeply interested in
this matter and we assisted in pro-
noting and organizing the Farmers
Eastern Telephone CO., under an
agreement which would enable the
subscribers of this company to obtain
direct connection with one another
and also with our Wausau exchange
$50 per month. In order to do this
We shall receive q very small COM
p9nsation, as the larger part of the
rental will have to be paid net to Farm
els Eastern Telephone Co., to Ethe
enable that company to properly build,
equip and maintain first class SER
vice. We are satisfied that our action
will meet the cordial approval of our
stockholders. We all appreciate the
great importance of giving to our
farmers and our citizens generally the
largest possible connection with towns
and villages in tEis vicinity and at
tae lowest cost. We expect this