New Telephones For The City

Announcement of the Independent Line

From Pennsylvania Come the People Who Have Contracted to Build the New Telephone Plant

There have been some telephone developments in the past day or so and it begins to look as if Ann Arbor were to have two telephone plants. An effort was made to get a council meeting Monday to get some changes in the franchise granted to Messrs. Mack and Wagner, but the council was not in a mood to meet on short notice. The following announcement of the new line is made: People from Pennsylvania have contracted to build an "up to date" telephone plant in Ann Arbor. Their engineer has been here for one week making a detailed plan for the work. The system will be built with full metalic circuits, central energy flashlight switchboard, over three miles of underground work. Aerial work will be mostly cable. The company have purchased property and will erect their own building arranged especially for telephone purposes. Arrangements have been perfected to give Ann Arbor subscribers connection with the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and all towns with independent telephone plants in Michigan.