The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-19
ANOTHER BIG COMPANY
COMING To OCALA
of the Florida and
Georgia Division of the Postal Tel
egraph Company in Our City.

4 Star reporter interviewed this !
morning Mr.. G. w Rfbble. superin-
tendent for Florida and Georgia Of
the Postal Telegraph and Cable Co, /
whose eaiQuarters are in Atlanta.
and secured the gratifying informa-
ton that his company will definite
y be in Oca1a between the 18th and
goth of March.
Mr.. Ribble has leased from Mrs.
Holder the lobby Of the Holder
and best arranged locations on the
ground floor in the city for the COM
pany's office. Workmen will soon
begin fitting the Office up which, on
account Of the limited space. will be
arranged with the Pullman palace
car system of conserving space.
The line construction crew is now
engaged in putting up poles and
stringing the wires, branching off
from the company's trunk lines at
Palatka. This crew will build 20
Gainesville and from there to Ocala.
Only these two points will be added
to the company's offices at present,
and there will he no local business to
take up the time Of the wires and
operators. The main line Of the
! Postal Company extends at present
, from Jacksonville to Tampa along
the a. c. l.. Railway right OF way,
and from Tampa TO Boca Grande.
The company now enters fifteen of
the larger cities OF the state.
Coming TO Ocala was decided or
by the executive board and is in the
nature Of an experiment AMI will be
watched with a great deal Of inter
est, as on the results will depend
largely more extended entrance
into other parts of the state, and the
ultimate extension of the line south
from here.
No part of the United States is
more dependent on its telegraph ser
vice than is Florida. Most OF the
products-the money producing re
sources of the state, are perishable
vegetables, fruits, fish and oysters,
commodities that have TO be mar
keted in a hurry and the telegraph
wires enter largely into the mar
| keting of these commodities. 1t is
therefore very evident that the best
| service, the keenest competition
! along that line. means great deal
| for the state.
One of the good features Of the
| Postal Telegraph Co. is that it does
not handle any railroad business,
| day letters, market reports or sport
ing news, hence is able to rush the
commercial kilograms and get the
very best service; it does, however,
handle night letters
| AS the Postal Telegraph & Cable
Co. is new to these parts. it might
rot be amiss to tell what it is and
what it does:
The company enters $1,000 points
in the United States and reaches ter
ritory comprising all excepting two
to five per cent of the telegraph bus
the MacKay Wire System compris-
ing the Postal and Commercial
cables over the Postal lines and their
connections, and reach practically all
of the principal points in America.
1t has seven transatlantic cables
one direct cable to Cuba from New
York, and 10000 miles of subma-
rine cables in the Pacific ocean, af-
our Oriental possessions and China
1t reaches, over its own lines, two
thirds of the way around the globe
from Paris on one side to Shanghai
see the company is not small fry. b.
any means.
Mr.. Ribble came to Florida in in
! fancy and lived at Monticello unit
: he was IL years of age. He then re
sided in the East for 81 years ant
!. when he came back to the stat
could only marvel at the grea
growth and improvement all owe
Florida He has been with the Pos
tai people for 81 years, havin.
climbed up to his present position
by his own efforts. Naturally. Mr.
Ribble is very anxious for the Ocal:
venture to be success. As he put
it, Rooney of the Board OF Trade
would not give him Or his compan.
any peace, and it looked like tn,