Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1901 — Glasgow's Municipal Gele phones. [ARTICLE]

Glasgow's Municipal Gele phones.

The ceremony at which the new municipal telephone system of Glasgow was formally opened about two weeks ago was a notable event even for the city which has become famous through successful kindred adventures. It was notable scarcely more because it celebrated the second instance of a municipal telephone system in the United Kingdom and the first in a large city of that kingdom than because it marked the successful issue of an'effort which, with characteristic Scotch persistence, has been pursued in face of obstructions and delays for more than eight years. It was in April, 1893, that the Town Council appointed a special committee to inquire into the advisability of establishing a municipal telephone system, and in the following August that body decided to apply to the Postmaster General for the requisite license. The reasons for this decision were principally the commercial need for a better telephone rarvlce than that which then existed and at less cost and the desirability of retaining .la the city’s hands the constructional work in the streets which would be necev •ary for installing a proper system.