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| paper month. 40 cetiU; per year, J4.SO, in advance
carrier in city, by mall in country.
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ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Whit-leather; Whit-leather.
34d6
Knox mends shoes cheap. Ill
Wr Walnut street.
I Miss Ruth Lynch of Cotton
U,.^' Plant is the guest of Mrs. Bertie |
W Bpirgon at Searcy, says the Cit-j
Bk^ai^izen of that place.
W‘ Storage room for rent.—Bow
j! en’s Cash Store. 34dlm
1 Have you tried them? Vir
1 tue’s Little Liver Granules at
J City Drug Store. 39dlm.
K W. F. Bogard will leave to
BB night for Newport, where he will
B "spend the winter working for
gl the Lesser-Goldman Cotton Go.
B —Searcy Citizen.
B They touch the spot—Virtue’s
B Little Liver Granules at City
B Drugstore. 39dlm
B Candled eggs, chickens and
new sweet potatoes at Bowen’s
Cash Store. 34dG
Studio, 207 Walnut
B Street, has a new outfit, the like
.of which has never before been
B seen in Newport. Call and see
for yourself. 42tl2
jBk';-*;?- The public in general is invil
■ ed to call at Hendrix Studio anti
B see the new outfit whether they
B want pictures or not. 42d2
B|. Sheriff John Manny of Yell
ville also W. R. Jones of the
M^ame c-ity, were guests at the
^^^■BzeT'iVAtd.JasT.UigW -eii route
■BBfjiome from Little Rock, where
B Sheriff Manny had been to
SBI place inmates in the insane asy
m ium.
everyone, and it does us. How- j
ever, we never scant quality
in any of the ingredients that
we use in tlr making of our
BREAD, CAKE AND PASTRY,
no matter what the cost.
If you will discontinue bak
ing and buy all of your baked
things of us, we guarantee
you’ll never die of dyspepsia.
You can also rid yourself of
labor and save money as well.
Better try it.
CITY BAKERY.
With a life’s experience, the
best'outfit made and good mate
rial, you can obtain the finesl
photos made at Hendrix Studio,
207 Walnut street. 42d2
I Callousness, Not Nerve.
The newspaper correspondent;
continue to refer to Beattie as •<
man with nerves of s|eel, and ol
heroic courage. People who re
fleet will not view him in that
light. Nerves of steel are all
very well in their way, but they
are not always evidence of cour
age, either physical or moral.
Most brutes are brave, so are
savages. The malefactor on his
way to the scaffold or the elec
tric chair rarely weakens. He
braces himself up and makes a
display of courage that he does
not possess. No man can pos
sess true courage who has lived
such a life as Beattie, according'
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TONIGHT
At OPERA HOUSE f
Two Shows, first promptly at 7:45; Second
9 o’clock.
Vaudeville will be out tonight but you will be
given Special Music and one Musical
t by the LAVETTES
Two Reels Motion picture that are the best
The following Subjects tonight
“Cupid in Chaps”
“The Stolen Legacy”
Ask for your money if not satisfied
Don’t fail to get your votes on Pianu and
— Shetland Pony Contest.
ADMISSION:
All children not in arms, occupying seats,
Under 12 years of Age
Adults . 10c
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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 Com
pany, The Anglo-American Cable
Company and the Direct U. S. Cable
Company, under which the cable sys
tems of these companies now worked
exclusively in business Connection
with each other, but operated and
maintained separately, will be oper
ated in direct physical connection
with each other and with the Western
Union land system.
Two objects are to be attained by
this arrangement:
First, more efficient and economi
cal operation.
Second, the introduction of new
forms of service to the advantage of
the public.
The Trans-Atlantic Cable
Situation and Competition
The trans-Atlantic cable situation
is as follows:
The Mackay group of seven ca
bles, including the German cables,
owned by or worked in physical con
* nection with the telegraph lines of
that company form one system.
The French cables comprise an in
dependent system, using both the
Western Union and the Mackay land
lines for their United States connec
tion.
In competition with these is the
Western Union group of cables, eight
in all, owned by three separate com
panies, two of which are British
companies owning five of the eight
cables.
Two only of (he British owned
cables terminate in the United States
and all of them are entirely depen
dent on the Western Union for their
connection with any telegraph system,
or for their reaching any centre of
business, and are now worked exclu
sively, so far as business is concerned,
with the Wes fern Union.
Efficiency Increased,
Waste Prevented
The proposed arrangement between
tne Western union, tne Anglo-Amer
ican and the Direct U. S. companies
will bring the eight cables of the three
companies under one operating con
trol. 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 im
provements 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 trans
Atlantic 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 trans
Atlantic 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 demon
strated by the accompanying chart.
Iu the interests of international
business nothing should be done to
interfere in any way with the so-called
flash or instantaneous service, and
the lines should be kept clear to ac
commodate such 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
of the existing capacity of millions of
property and places on that limited
service all the capital, maintenance
and operating charges.
The limited tints and the character
of the business, if best results are t>>
THE WESTERN UNION
New York, Sept. 1st, 1911.
be obtained, demand direct cable cir
cuits between principal centres of the
two sides of the Atlantic, as well as
special circuits devoted to special
business.
Efficient Service Requires
Sufficient Facilities
To meet these requirements it is
essential not only that there be at all
times sufficient cable facilities, under
one control, Lot that they should be
operated interchangeably with each
other and in close physical connec
tion with land lines as one system.
Ample spare facilities are necessary
to provide against the very frequent
cable interruptions.
Neither the Western Union nor any
one of the companies of the Western
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, because 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, al
though the combined facilities of
these companies are ample if they
could be used supplementary to each
other and interch. ngeably.
As it is, each company operates its
own cables through separate and dis
tinct 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.
Daily and Week-end
Cable Letters
So soon as the proposed arrange
ment 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
DA1L Y CABLE LETTER
end the
WEEK-END CABLE LETTER
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 pos
sible. The three systems—the
Western Union, the French and the
Mackay—will continue to exist.
The Mackay Companies is a hold
ing organization with no physical
property, but exercising through stock
ownership, lease or contract, operat
ing 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 what 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:
x—BETTER SERVICE. Thiswillbe
insured by more efficient and econom
ical working resulting from 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
.nder existing conditions and tradi
tions. 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 in- 1
■ends to nationalize its land lines by
■ ■ ’ them to all trans-Atlantic
cable companies.
TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Theo. N. Vail, President
Wake truth telling
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town of the state to solicit for subscribers. The
will be so good the work will be very easy. Leave
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application with the Inde pendent or wire the
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LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
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j should remain. Nor should the
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Babbitt Metal 10c lb. at In
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vertisement in The Independ
ent to give to the person WHO
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