. Electrical world. ,installing new telephones at the rate of twenty a day. The Kansas City Home Telephone Company was incorporatedin November with a capital of $50,000. which was increased inJanuary, 1903, to $3,000,000. of which $1,700,000 have been balance of the stock and bonds, there being a bonded indebted-ness of $1,700,000. is in the treasury for future extensions andbetterments. The company operates under a thirty-year franchise plant. The officers of this company are Ed. L. Barber, president;O. C. Snider, secretary and treasurer, and James S. Brailey, Jr.,manager. Through
. Electrical world. ,installing new telephones at the rate of twenty a day. The Kansas City Home Telephone Company was incorporatedin November with a capital of $50,000. which was increased inJanuary, 1903, to $3,000,000. of which $1,700,000 have been balance of the stock and bonds, there being a bonded indebted-ness of $1,700,000. is in the treasury for future extensions andbetterments. The company operates under a thirty-year franchise plant. The officers of this company are Ed. L. Barber, president;O. C. Snider, secretary and treasurer, and James S. Brailey, Jr.,manager. Through the eflforts of this company the enterprise wasfinanced by the organization of an underwriting syndicate, managedby the Germania Trust Company, of St. Louis, now a part of theCommonwealth Trust Company. The construction company alsohad entire charge of the canvass for subscribers and secured 9,000three-year contracts with comparatively little effort. .-Xctual work was started in the fall of i(;oj. Mnltiplc-duct con-. J - rnw KK CLANT, MAIN ;. (luits were laid throughout the entire business section and the com-pany owns at present 750,000 duct-feet of conduit and 260 \ll-copper overhead construction has been adopted throughout theresidence districts and local distributing poles are located in thealleys throughout the city. So as to distribute efficiently the loadon the system it was decided to biiild one main and three branchexchanges, each serving the section within which it is main exchange building, shown in Fig. I, is a handsome three-story and basement brick building, with terra cotta trimmings, andis located on Baltimore Avenue, in the very heart of the business dis-trict of Kansas City. It is 120 ft. in length and has a frontage of60 ft., while its width in the rear is but 44 ft., about 8 ft. havingbeen cut off on each side so as to insure ample air and light shafts.
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