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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The meeting oí the telephone users of the city to listen to the report of the committee appointed to interview the two companies, was held in the couneil chamber Wednesday evening. II. J. Brown was chairman, and A. A. Pearson, secretary of the meeting. H. Gr. Prettyman presented the report of the committee. It recited that manager Forbes of the Bell Company, had appeared before the committee, and presented facts and tigures claiming to show that the service con Id not be gi ven at a materially lower ligure. and making no suggestion of' any lowering of rates except possibly a slight deciease in the toll to Detroit. Mr. Forbes also claimed that in cities where they had encountered what he called ' piratical " competition, the result had been unsatisfactory to both company and patrons. On the other hand the new State Telephone Co. maintained their ability and intention to give a íirst-class service at the Jower rates. Inasmuch as many of the present telephone subsoribers are tied up with provisional contracts it was deemed unadyisable to attempt any concerted action. The report was accepted and adopted, and on motion of J. ). Kyan, the meeting requested the common couneil to grant a franchise to the new company, This leaves the matter where it should be, a mutter of business com petition between the two companies. Mr. Rockwell of the new company stated to the meeting that his company was going right alon? with their plans, and that they would in ilne time ask for the franchise, and would do in good part all they promised to do.

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Ann Arbor Democrat