Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1911 — Page 4

Trans-Atlantic Cable Business Uml LONDON TIMt 177 T" — 1 1 3 1 3 I*Ts 161 71 a jLJ2.2L2IJ.iAi AM NEW YORK TIME >M 12 [IJ 2| 3 |<| 516 7[a | 9 |lopl|l2| I|2 |3 [■* |s|6 |7|B | 9 |lp|ll ««■>W■ MUM e■■■«■<■•■■«■ UNUTILIZED CAPACITY ; ■’ / ■ :■ .1 : ' v\ :■■■ ■<>..- . ■ jO&SSsIBHk'A [7\ .Jv f'-\ - / ' XT" '' '? ' l/" L — _7 - ...: 1... Traffic Chart of Western Union, Anglo-American and Direct U. S. Cable Business, Showing Capacity of the Cables and the Proportion Now Utilized. Proposed Modification of Existing Arrangements

A provisional modification of an arrangement which has existed for many years has been reached between the Western Union Telegraph Company, The Anglo-American Cable Company and the Direct U. S. Cable Company, under which the cable systems of these companies now worked exclusively in business connection with each other, but operated and maintained separately, will be operated in direct physical connection with each other and with the Western Union land system. Two objects are to be attained by -'hia arrangement: First, mon efficient and economical operation. Second, the introduction of new forme of service to the advantage of (he oublic. The Trans-Atlantic Cable Situation and Competition The trans-Atlantic cable situation is as fohows: The Mackay group of seven cables, inclining the German cables, owned by or worked in physical connection with the telegraph lines of that company form one system. The French cables comprise an independent system, using both the Western Union and the Mackay land lines for their United States connection. In competition with these is the Western Union group of cables, eight in all, owned by three separate companies, two of which are British companies owning five of the eight cables. Two only of the British owned cablee terminate in the United States and al! of them are entirely dependent on the Western Union for their connection with any telegraph eyetem, or for their reaching any centre of business, and are now worked exclusively. so far as business is concerned, with the Western Union. Efficiency Increased, Waste Prevented The proposed arrangemiakhetween the Western Union, the Anglo-Amer-ican and the Direct U. S. companies will bring the eight cables of the three companies under one operating control. The consequent increase in effectiveness and economy will place the Western Union in a position to offer certain advantages in cable service not now enjoyed by the public. The other way open to enable the Western Union to make such improvements and introduce such new services as it proposes to do, would be to lay new cables. This would seem to be the height of folly. Duplication of the existing transAtlantic cable facilities at a cost of many millions, when there are more than ample facilities for all business, would put an unnecessary financial burden upon an already fully burdened business and would probably postpone the reduction of rates or introduction of new services. Limited Business Hours and Idle Facilities As at present carried on, the transAtlantic cable business is practically all flash service, i. e. instantaneous. Owing to the difference in time, there are only a few business hours of the day common to both sides and during these hours at least 75% of the cable business is done. This is demonstrated by the accompanying chart. In the interests of international business nothing should be done to interfere in any way with the so-called or instantaneous service, and the lines dJiould be kept clear to accommodate sueii .messages during the few business hours common to both countries; but to continue to confine the cables to this class of service, as at present, will utilize only about 15% of the existing capacity of millions of property and places on that limited service all the capital, maintenance and operating charges. The limited time and the character of the business, if best results are to

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1 be obtained, demand direct cable dr- ' cuits between principal centres of the 1 two sides of the Atlantic, as well as special circuits devoted to special : business. Efficient Service Requires Sufficient Facilities 1 To meet these requirements it is essential not only that there be at all 1 times sufficient cable facilities, under 1 one control, but that they should be operated interchangeably with each other and in close physical connection with land lines as one system. Ample spare facilities are necessary to provide against the very frequent J cable interruptions. Neither the Western Union nor any one of the companies of the Western 1 Union group has, independently of the others, facilities enough to handle ; the business which at times any one company might be called upon to take care of. betause of some particular rush of business, or because of some cable interruption. Nor could any one company furnish all the direct circuits ' necessary for efficient service, although the combined facilities of these companies are ample if they could be used supplementary to each . other and interchangeably. As it is, each company operates its own cables through separate and distinct offices and under separate and distinct management. All interchange of business is by actual transfer of the business from one company to the other, with the consequent delay and interruption of a service in which ■ seconds are valuable. I Daily and Week-end Cable Letters So soon as the proposed arrangement goes into effect, the Western Union purposes, with the consent of the British Post Office Department, to introduce at least two new features , or services in addition to the proposed deferred rate—the DAILY CABLE LETTER and the WEEK-END CABLE L£TTER at a very low rate for cable service only. This will enable the public to save the six to eight days consumed in the trans-Atlantic passage of mails Monopoly of Cable Business Impossible There is no cable monopoly possible. The three systems—the Western Union, the French and the Mackay—will continue to exist. The Mackay Companies is a holding organization with no physical property, but exercising through stock ownership, lease or contract, operating control of various companies owning land lines and cables which make upthe Mackay System. Through this control all the various properties are operated as one system to great advantage in service over whpt could be given by these same companies if operated separately. The French cables form another system. • The Western Union System, under the proposed arrangement for one operating control over the present segregated units, will be enabled to make two distinct advances in the trans-Atlantic cable business: 1— BETTER SERVICE. Thiswilibe insured by more efficient and economical working resulting, fem single direction over the operations of both cables and land lines. 2— PUBLIC ADVANTAGES. The greater part of the cable capacity has been and is now unutilized. It will continue to lie dormant and unutilized under existing conditions and traditions. The Western Union purposes to make these wasted facilities useful to the public by means of new kinds of cable service. In addition, the Western Union intends to nationalize its land lines by opening them to all trans-Atlantic > cable companies.

EAST BUFFALO. East Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 15—(Spec lai to Daily Democrat! —Receipts, C,800; shipments, 1,900; official to New York yesterday, 1,140; hogs closing ' seady. Heavy, $7,50® $7.60; mixed and Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs. $7.00; | roughs, $6.30® $6.35; stags, $5.00® $5.76; sheep, 4,000; strong; top lambs, $6.75® $6.90; cattle. 200; slow. G. T. BURK. Timothy seed, prims $0.50 ! No. 2 Red wheat 88c 1 No. 2 White wheat 86c New corn * 91c White corn 89c I Rye 78c Barley No. 2 75c Alsike seed $9.00©59.50 Oats, new 42c No. 1 clover hay [email protected] Timothy hay $16.00 No. 1 mixed hay [email protected] Mixed dacer hay $15.00 No. 1 oats straw $4 30 No. 1 wheat straw $4.00 Rye straw $4.50 Clover seed sll 00©$12.0V NIBLICK A CU Eggs -17 c 1 Butter 17c®22c M. rubtBNKAMT*. Lard 7c Eggs r We Butter 18c@22c LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET. Spring thickest 10c Ducks 8c Fowls 8t Geese e 6 Eggs 12c Butter 12c Turkeys ...8c Old roosters 5c Chicks .'..10c X FOR SALE —Eighty-feur acres on elec trie line, between Elyria (15,000) ■ and Lorain (20,000). Five miles from Lorain, % mile from Elyria. Good buildings, orchard, city water, gaswell, fine soil. Land near soils for sl,000 per acre. Price $2,100. For full description address Mary J. Riley, owner, Elyria, Ohio, R. F. D. FOR SALE—A set of dining room furniture; good as new; secretary, new gas stove, new refrigerator—Emma L. Daniel, North 6th St. 216t6 LOST—A coat containing bank book and checks; also other valuable papers. Return to this office and receive liberal reward. 216t6

' OB 0808 08080808 BOaOBOBOiOBOIO O CJEVERAL Reasons why vo« can save from sl. ■■ 0 to $2. per gallon on whiskey that you buy ■ from me. ■ Reason No. 1 I buy direct from the dis- ■ ■' tiller and rectifier. 2 ■ Reason No. 2I do the high license C IO to pay. Reason No. 311 dojnot have to payjthe high ■ ■ rent for my place of business, nor keep three; or g 1 g four clerks. 2 J Reason No. 4 The whiskey business is a side ■ 2 line for me and lam satisfiedfwith a smalljpro- 2 O fit on same. i 2 : ® Absolutely the best whiskies at thejleast'cost. ■ You will find my prices on same in another ad. ,5 I, A.||KALVFR | ■ Monroe Street, \One HalffSquare'wSoi"" ■ 2 Old Adams County Bank. 2 o \ o OBOBOBOBOBOROB 08080808080808 ABSOLUTE-SAFETY qWith capital*of SIOO,-000,00, surplus of $20,000,00 total resources of $800,000,00, ample cash reserves, conservative loaning policy, this Bank offers its customers greatest possible safety. qin addition, examinations of its assets are made by aJNational Bank examiner and five rei ports of its condition are rendered annually to compi trailer of currency. qty ith these safeguards, we believe we are justified | in solicting your business. | <J4per cent interest paid on money less certainjtimes’ I QGoverment Depository for local postal funds. I First National I * Bank of Decatur, Indiana ™ I I—"" A.'

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> PUBLIC SALE. I I, the undersigned, will offer at public Auction, at my residence o&e mite west of Magley, 2 miles east of Toesin, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1911, the following property, to-wlt: 6 head vs horses: One bay mare, 12 years old: 1 brown mare, 3 years olid, in foal, bred to full blood Belgian horse, weight of mare about 1350 lbs; 1 black horse colt, one year old; 1 bay mare colt, 1 year old; 1 spring colt. Cattle: One cow, 8 years old, will be fresh in November, giving: 1 gallon of milk each milking; 1 cow, 6 years old, will be fresh in November, giving 1 gallon of milk at each milking; 1 spring calf. Hogs: Two sows will have pigs oy nay or sale; 9 shoats. will average about 100 Tbs. each. Ha;, and grain: About 5 tons of timothy hay, some corn in field. Farm Implements: Turnbull wagon, 3V4 in., with double bed, almost as good as new: Oliver riding breaking plow, McCormick mower, Rock Island hay loader, Spike tooth lever harrow, 60 tooth; 2-horse corn planter, 2-horse riding cultivator, pair hay ladders, set dump boards, mud boat, set log bunks, swamp hook about 24 ft. chain, about 8 cords of 20-lnch stove wood, and other articles too numerous to mention. TOo’elck a. m. Terms —55.00 and under, cash; all sums over |5.00 a credit of ten months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved freehold security. No property to be removed until settled for. Pythian Sisters will serve lunch on that day. JOHN HELM. Noah Frauhlger, Auct. Ed Reppert, Clerk. 13-14 15-18 DAN ERWIN Says, if you do not read the ads, how can you get the $1 or the barbains Here is something worth Investigating. Nearly four acres of ground on Grant street, easily platted, good sewer, terms easy, price low. 120 acres in Hoot township; 60 and 40 acres in Union township. Tracts just outside corporation from one acre to ten, on installment plan. Nice location. 80 acres good black land to trade for city property. 1 ■ r" * WANTED—Good girl for kitchen work. Good wages. Apply at once.—Holty’s case

Mr. Man If you smoke you HI find its just as natural to like the “White Stag” Cigar as it is for a dog to have fleas, Try them once-thecigar-notthe fleas-youll find them a “dog gone” good smoke. 5 cts. at all Smoke Shops. Made In Decatur, That Makes Them Right —— l s'' - T - — □crzzxTinz —: — if ~n —ir —: sop J Why Pay The Retail Price B S or Beer and Liquor when you can buy just as eheap as the | RETAIL DEALER | My Beer Prices * | 0 Seipp’s Export $1.50 per case of 3 doa. Export Large $1.60 “ « 2 " x I “ Extra Pale $1 75 “ “ “3 “ Extra Pale large $1.75 “ “ “ 2 “ My Liquor Prices k Cabinet •• .... * oO B ' Old Canterbury Rye •< •« S2E() $4.00 I ollr (A Kentucky whiskey 6 I $3.00 yeaLfdl \ Kht KCTtUcky years old) per gal. J ~ „ $6.00 ■ Ber line> Kmunel per gaJlon $3.(» I White Swan Gin « .. ’ $3.00 B Hamilton Blackberry “ « ’ $2.50 I SaL C R lf °? ia P ° rt Wine Per * al 52552 to $2.50 B Grape Brandy per . ■ in theTity °° dS are absolutel y the best and purest I I- A. KALVER I uid Adams County Bank I