Evening star., 1933-01-29

There were no great utility holding
companies fifty years ago. but non-
resident ownership Of
AeiepnoAe local corporations new
Stock Sold ertheless prevailed as
the following in The
star of January %. 1885, shows:
An important change was effected
yesterday cnd today in the management
OF the Washington telephone company,
The controlling interest has bcen pur-
caa-e by s.'n-ica-e o. Eastern nracti-
cal telephone men. bu. large propor-
tin is I'll held b. washington people.
Mr.. j. w. Thompson. who owned one
quarter of the stock has disposed of his
entire interest, and Mr.. H D. Cooke,
who owned the same amount. has sold
out portion Of his stock MesSrs. j.
B. Edmonds and H. A. Willard disposed
CT all their stock to the same parties,
giving them a controlling interest.
Messrs. Edmon,;s, Thompson and
willard today resigned as members of
the board Of directors, and H. B. Lytle
of Boston. A. P. Sawyer of Newburyport,
H. w. Frost of New Haven and w. o.
Fisk Of Lowell, Mass, the new stock.
holders. were elected in their places.
Massr~. H D. Cooke, c. c. Glover and H.
8. Cumming of the old hoard are MEM
hers OF the ncw. The new management
cav that 1t is their intention to give a
b-tter service now than ever before and
ct the same time extend their connec-
tions and facilities. They will first
build a line to Baltimore. and the
erection of trunk lines to other points
throughout the country are possibilities
In the near future. The syndicate has
secured the controlling interest in tele-
phone companies in various places and
their object is to form one general COM
pany. which shall control telephones IN
much the same WY as the Western
Union does the telegraph wires. The
new management deny that they have
any connection with the Western Union
company and further say that this
r,oremelt is not i'll conjunction with
the Rcll Te!ephone Company. nor is
controlled by 1t. They say that they
are practical telephone men, who see
the possibilities Of the future for its
use greater, perhaps, then is now the
case with the telegraph. The price paid
for the stock was very liberal, being
1870. The stock has been selling at 100
and no."
"The representative of the Pullman
car interests in Philadelphia, says The
Fire Hazard in ssaf g. 1888. 81 'apdaas apoints
Steering Cars. oansre oaI TO Of It tot OF cite .hS
that no person has ever been burned
to death in a sleeping car of that pat
terc,-that all the fatal casualties from
fire have occurred to cars built under
other patents or no patent at all. II
the statement be true, the immunity
claimed must be due rather to good
fortune than to anv popularity OF con-
struction. With the heating furnace
and oil lamps used in them, the Pull
man sleepers are, under the same cir
cumstances, just as liable to be set on
fire and burned up with all their con-
tents as those of any other style or
name. No car in which an Gil lamp or
heating stove o. furnace is used can be
cop~idered eafe rem fire in case Of
collision OF derailnent."
Public feeling againct wire-carrying
poles within this city half a century
Citizens Remove fested by the
Unsightly Poles. To- 11ai star wng ~ IN m
THE action Of the Ledroit Park
people in cutting down the huge, un-
slightly telegraph poles that were erected
there surreptitiously and without any
authority from any quarter, shows that
the people are getting aroused to the
necessity Of protecting their own rights.
1t seems in this case that the telephone
company, acting under permit
obtained from the District Commits
sioners to replace fire alarm and police
telegraph poles from Massachusetts,
avenue to Boundary street, proceeded
hurriedly to erect great uncouth poles,
evidently intended to support extensive
webs OF wires all the way out Ninth
street to Boundary and then. with the
same haste to avoid interference. they
without color of authority continued
the erection of these huge masts along
Boundary street from Ninth to Sixth
and thence through the streets Of
the park"