Special Reprint-Printed for the Chicago Telephone Company
Report on the Cost of Telephone Service
by the Chicago Telephone Company for
the Year Ending March 31, 1910, Under
Ordinance of November 6, 1907, by
D. C. and William B. Jackson, Engineers,
and Arthur Young & Company, Certified
Public Accountants.
Reprinted from the Journal of the Proceedings
of the City Council of May 9, 1910, pages 102
to 139, inclusive.
FRANCIS D. CONNERY
City Clerk
Transportation
Library
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CITY COMPTROLLER.
t n. Clerk presented the following communication submitted by the City Comp-
TOIIer:
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE,
* CHICAGo, May 9, 1910.
To the Honorable, the Mayor and Aldermen, in City Council Assembled:
GENTIEMEN-In accordance with Section 7 of the ordinance granting privileges
to the Chicago Telephone Company passed by the City Council November 6, 1907, we
beg to submit a report by D. C. and W. B. Jackson, engineers, and Arthur Young
& Company, certified public accountants, submitting figures of the cost of telephone
service for the year ending March 31, 1910.
Yours respectfully,
(Signed) WALTER H. WILSON,
Comptroller.
W
Ald. Pringle moved that the said report submitted with the foregoing communi-
cation be printed in the Journal and referred to the Committee on Gas, Oil and
Electric Light, and that the City Clerk be authorized and directed to have five thou-
sand copies of the said report printed in pamphlet form.
The motion prevailed.
The said report reads as follows:
REPORT
To the Honorable City Comptroller of the City of Chicago submitting figures on the
cost of telephone service for the year ending March 31, 1910, under ordinance
of November 6, 1907, by D. C. & Wm. B. Jackson, engineers and Arthur Young
& Company, certified public accountants.
To the Honorable Walter H. Wilson, Comptroller of the City of Chicago:
DEAR SIR-Under the powers to regulate rates granted to the city as contained
in the telephone ordinance of November 6, 1907, you requested us to outline a plan
of accounting whereby the cost of furnishing each class of telephone service provided
by the Chicago Telephone Company would be determined. This we did in our report
to you of December 30, 1908. In due course, thereafter, you directed us to proceed
to put into effect the recommended accounting system and to make report to you
of the results attained.
We now beg to submit the following statements appended hereto, showing
the result of the operations of the company in Chicago by classes of service for
the year ending March 31, 1910:
A. Comparative statement by classes of service showing for each the gross
revenue, gross expenses, net revenue or loss, and the totals covering the
operations as a whole. This statement also shows the result by classes and
as a whole after deducting 5 per cent interest on the bonds outstanding
and 8 per cent. dividend on the capital stock, which dividend has been regu-
larly declared and paid by the company. The statement also shows for
each class of service the average investment in property and working capi-
tal, the average number of stations or trunks and the total messages
handled for the year.
B. A statement showing the details of the investment in property apportioned
to each class of service.
C. A statement for each class of service showing the details of the expense
figures submitted in the foregoing statement “A”.
Before proceeding to the consideration of the results attained, it seems advisable
to state at least briefly the method of apportioning the investment in property
and the expenses of operation among the various classes of service, all of which
is laid down in detail in our report to you of December 30, 1908.
There are two principal elements which go to determine the cost of furnishing
telephone service:
1. The investment in property.
2. The expenses of operating the property.
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In making the apportionment of these elements among the various classes of
service, the principle was borne in mind that a part of the investment is required
...to get ready to serve a subscriber irrespective of the use he makes of the service,
and that a part is created in proportion to the use or traffic made by the sub-
scriber. So that, if the average investment required to get ready to serve a sub-.
scriber is not the same for all classes of service (which it is not), it is obvious
that the proportions of interest, taxes, depreciation, etc., etc., which concern the
cost of preparing to give service will differ for different classes. Also, if the traffic
(that is, the use of the telephones) per subscriber in certain classes differs largely,
from the use in other classes, the proportions of the investment, operating expense
and maintenance made necessary on account of traffic will differ for the different
classes of service, as will also the interest, taxes, depreciation, etc., which are
incident to that part of the investment. º
As the traffic, therefore, is a factor in apportioning part of the investment
among the classes of service we shall explain how the traffic figures were arrived at.
For the measured rate classes of service and the nickel prepayment classes,
the actual messages billed or paid for were taken from the records of the company.
For the classes who pay a fixed annual rental regardless of their traffic, such as
the business and residence flat rate classes, and the commuted rate class of service
paying $365 a year for an unlimited service circuit associated with a private branch
exchange switchboard, observations were taken by a corps of men, furnished by the
telephone company under our direction, of the traffic over groups of these lines at
different exchanges. These observations were taken over a sufficient length of time
and of a sufficient number of groups of subscribers in the different exchanges to
assure us that the average calling rates arrived at were representative and would
fairly indicate the amount of traffic originated in these different classes of service.
In apportioning the investment as before indicated it was necessary to schedule
the plant in sufficient detail to set against each class its appropriate investment;
first, the part necessary to be ready to give service, such as the subscriber's station
equipment, his circuit to the exchange, etc., and, second, the part necessary in order
to render the service, i. e., to make connections with the other subscribers, for ex-
ample, the central office switchboard multiples and the connecting trunks between
exchanges, the extent of which is measured by the traffic. Part one was based
on the unit cost of a standard substation equipment taking into account the
special apparatus that existed in certain classes and the unit cost of the average
subscriber’s circuit, and so on. Part two was apportioned to the various classes
broadly on the basis of the traffic of each class.
A short outline of our method of verifying the existing plant is as follows:
The telephone company made up schedules of their different kinds of plant from
the plant records which were used by them in the regular operation of their plant,
and placed both the schedules and the original, plant records at our service. To
determine whether the schedules of plant as prepared by the telephone company
from their plant records fairly showed the actual plant in existence, we first checked
the plant records with the plant as it was found in the field, arranging so that
the parts checked were well distributed over the entire territory served by the
company, except that all of the central office switchboards were checked, as they
alone represent over a quarter of the total investment of the company, and we
then checked the plant records with the schedules. These checks showed that the
plant as shown in the schedules fairly represents the plant actually in use by the
telephone company.
To determine the value of the plant as represented by the schedules, careful
estimates of the costs of the plant were made, based upon the telephone company’s
construction costs as shown by their books, and these costs were checked, so far
as practicable, by cost figures obtained from our own experience.
In the case of land and buildings we have taken the figures found on the
books of the telephone company to represent their value. The value of the land has
presumably not decreased during the past few years and the cost of building con-
struction has materially increased, so that the book values probably represent no
more than the reasonable present investment in land and buildings if the original
purchases were made judiciously. This can be fully determined only by an actual
appraisal of the property. *
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The company’s figures used were of June 30, 1909, and the total investment by
the telephone company for the plant in the City of Chicago is estimated in this
manner to amount to a little over $22,330,000. The estimates of the value of
the different parts of the property, when finally brought together into a total,
were close to the total obtained from the auditor's books and in general the division
of the plant between the different kinds of plant was fairly represented by the
auditor’s figures.
The estimates may be accepted as being reasonably close to the actual invest-
ment which has been required to build up this property. Consequently, as no de-
tailed inventory and appraisal of the company’s property was made, it was decided
by your representatives in conference with the officials of the telephone company to
retain the divisions of investment between the different parts of the plant in
accordance with the auditor's statement.
The value of the plant as represented by the auditor’s books on June 30, 1909,
having been verified, and the auditor's accounts of the company having been audited
by us for the year, we have accepted the auditor's figures for the investment as
of March 31, 1909, September 30, 1909, and December 31, 1909, and from the
investment figures for the four quarters, arrived at the average investment for the
year ending March 31, 1910, namely, $23,250,166.15.
With the investment in property for each class and the traffic for each class,
the expenses of operating the property and providing service were apportioned to
the various classes as follows:
The expenses appropriate to the investment required to get ready to serve, such
as maintenance of subscribers’ circuits and depreciation thereon, were apportioned
to the classes of service on the basis of the corresponding readiness-to-serve
investment for each class. The expenses appropriate to traffic, such as maintenance
of connecting trunks and depreciation thereon, operators' wages and other expenses
in the exchanges, etc., were apportioned to the classes of service on the basis of
the respective traffic for each class. Peculiar expenses appropriate to particular
classes were treated as close to the facts as possible. For example, the collecting
and auditing of prepaid nickel revenue went directly against those classes, and
removing subscribers’ stations was set against the classes in which the stations
moved belonged.
The expenses of the company in operating the property and in furnishing ser-
vice, which have been applied to the various classes of service in the foregoing
manner, are the expenses actually incurred by the company as recorded on their
accounts and records. These have been verified by us with the paid vouchers and
other relative papers and were incurred as stated.
The charge for depreciation of property included in the expenses is based
on the depreciation rate table laid down by the Special Telephone Commission
which reported to the city upon telephone matters in April, 1907. The matter is
considered on pages 71, 72 and 73 of the report of the Special Telephone Commission
as it was published by the city for the use of those who were interested in the
matter of telephone rate revision in 1907. We find that the percentages therein
given are conservative and well considered and believe them to be as satisfactory
figures as can be obtained. In their report the Special Telephone Commission make
the following concise statement regarding the matter of depreciation:
“It is well understood that operating plant is limited in life, and (however
well ordinary repairs have been kept up) after a period of years the generally
worn out condition of the equipment or the advance of the art makes a substitution
of new equipment desirable and economical. The expense of this substitution which
does not increase the gross earning capacity cannot be fairly charged to capital
account, but should be defrayed out of a suitably supported depreciation fund
which has been gradually accumulated out of the earnings during the life of the
equipment, and which, at the end of the life period, has become equal to the first
cost of the original equipment diminished by the amount of any “scrap” value or
salvage which may be obtained from the discarded equipment. Interest accretions
will add to the amount as the fund grows, and the annual sum set aside out of the
earnings should be adjusted with this in view. Three per cent is a conservative
rate of interest to set as the minimum which ought to be accepted on the moneys
of a trust fund, within which category this depreciation fund belongs, and our table
is computed on the basis of that percentage. A higher rate of interest would
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 105
obviously decrease the size of the annual contributions to the fund which must be
made from earnings, but it is not safe to count upon a higher rate of interest
being procurable for a trust fund.
“The rate at which the telephone art is advancing, and the delicacy of the
apparatus used, make it a matter of particular importance for a telephone company
to establish a proper depreciation fund. Depreciation is distinct from maintenance,
which latter includes current repairs that are required to keep the plant in first-
rate working order as long as it is economically workable at all.
“When dealing with reconstruction we have tried to arrive at the best judg-
ment of the effect of future street and park improvements on the existing plant
of the Chicago Telephone Company; and we have given due consideration to the
fact that the telephone conduit and cable equipment in the heart of the city is
likely to be soon disturbed by the construction of street railway subways.”
The actual amount expended by the company on reconstruction and replace-
ments for the year was $622,296. In place of this amount we have added to the
expense of operating the property and spread against the various classes of service
(including toll and miscellaneous), in the statements herewith, the amount of
$1,578,922.20, being the depreciation for the year computed on the basis of the
depreciation rate table compiled by the Special Telephone Commission, as already
referred to.
These figures show that the initial investment is still largely fulfilling the work
required of it. This is clearly indicated by the tremendous growth in the business
of the company in recent years, a comparison of the company’s total telephone
stations in the City of Chicago exclusive of neighborhood rate telephones for the last
ten years being as follows:
August, 1899. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,013
August, 1900. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,187
August, 1901. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,728
August, 1902. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,118
August, 1903. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,508
August, 1904. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,217
August, 1905. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,260
August, 1906. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,427
August, 1907. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138,328
August, 1908. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161,886
August, 1909. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183,345
It is thus seen that the number of telephones served by the company has more
than doubled during the last four years and has increased over tenfold in the last
ten years.
Therefore, a large part of the plant has been recently installed and compara-
tively little of the plant has yet begun to cost the company anything on account of
depreciation, and up to the present time there has been no cost on account of
reconstruction occasioned by the construction of street railway subways; but these
costs are just as real as the costs for operators or maintenance of plant, and it is
just as important for the life of the company and the continued quality of its
service that these are cared for, although the effect is not so immediately apparent.
These costs should be taken care of by a depreciation and reconstruction fund, as
they are not appropriate charges to capital account, and the funds for such costs
should be built up by an annual appropriation for such purposes, notwithstanding
that the expenditures must usually be made in large units, so that the depreciation
and reconstruction funds are likely to grow at times to considerable proportions
before the expenditures are needed.
There are a number of telephones in Chicago for which no charge is made or
upon which there are concessions from the standard rates. These comprise stations
or trunks used by the Chicago Telephone Company which numbered 1,148 on De-
cember 31, 1909; stations or trunks used by the City of Chicago and the Chicago
Board of Education which numbered 1,163 on December 31, 1909; and stations or
trunks used by Cook County which numbered 398 on December 31, 1909. These
telephones are all of standard type and are normally associated with some one
of the regular classes of service. The expense for providing the free service should
be carried proportionately by all of the classes of service and we have therefore
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eliminated the free telephones from our tables and distributed the expense incident
to them amongst the different classes of service in accordance with the total expenses
of the different classes. Where concessions have been made from the standard
rates for telephone service, a proportional part of the telephones are eliminated
from our tables and the corresponding expenses distributed to the different classes
of service on the basis of the total expenses of the classes.
There are a small number of mileage extension lines used to give private
connections between private branch exchange switchboards. These lines are somewhat
different from the ordinary mileage extension lines, and, are designated as “tie
lines” by the company, although they are charged for under the ordinance at the
same rate as the mileage extension lines. These lines have what may be thought
of as the equivalent of a subscriber’s station equipment at each end of the line
in the form of equipment at the private branch exchange switchboards. It is
therefore seen that they should be charged with a greater amount of expense than
the ordinary mileage extension lines which merely extend from one point in the city
to another point in the city, and require no additional cost such as a telephone
instrument or space on a switchboard. As there are so few “tie lines” we have not
made them a special class in our accounting, but it is probable that in readjusting
the rates of telephone service, the charge for these lines should be adjusted to take
into account the relatively greater expense incident to them as compared with the
ordinary mileage extension lines.
Following we give a summary of the results shown in Table A after adding
to the cost of service the 5 per cent interest on the bonds outstanding and 8 per
cent dividend on the capital stock (which dividend has been regularly declared
and paid by the company)—
Revenue un-
der Ordinance
Rates per Cost per
Station Station Net Revenue.
Class or Trunk. or Trunk. Over. Short.
O 1 F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $124.361 $149.52 . . . . . . . . . . $ 247,928.47
2 M12, M72, M60. . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.915 64.35 $ 90,667.56 . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 M12, M72, M60, P. B. X. . . . 149.458 151.04 . . . . . . . . . 3,558.89
4 M C, P. B. X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361.496 517.800 . . . . . . . . . 196,786.39
5 M60, P. B. X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,515 208.970 . . . . . . . . . 2,781.15
6 e e s e e º e º e º a e s is tº e º e º se e 24.169 35.994 . . . . . . . . . 43,812.60
ML Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * * & is e º e s is tº e º 'º g g º º º 1,948.50
Hotels and Department stores 193.020 201.875 . . . . . . . . . 6,003.74
7 RF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.803 90.515 . . . . . . . . . 59,504.88
8 2RF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.459 71.988 . . . . . . . . . 81,981.84
9 DN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.938 137.425 65,273.38 . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 PN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.461 115.646 18,374.17 . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.583 76.142 138,348.57 . . . . . . . . . . . .
12 2N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.966 46.978 166,539.19 . . . . . . . . . . . .
13 2RN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.297 42.294 . . . . . . . . . 9,233.03
14 4.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.772 28.641 . . . . . . . . . 428,063.95
15 Terminals and Extensions. . . 5.989 8.059 . . . . . . . . . 118,825.98
N 1 B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.628 96.947 . . . . . . . . . 31,169.38
2 2B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.532 66.126 . . . . . . . . . 5,918.78
3 4B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.607 42.740 . . . . . . . . . 24,661.84
4 R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.833 86.445 . . . . . . . . . 13,832.07
5 2R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.233 60.095 . . . . . . . . . 17,106.23
6 4R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.775 40.222 . . . . . . . . . 150,528.37
7 5c Trunked Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tº tº e º e º ºs 21,052.06 . . . . . . . . . . . .
S 1 Mileage Extension Lines. . . . 34,816.78 . . . . . . . . . ...
2 Private Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.86 . . . . . . . . . . . .
$535,112.57 $1,443,646.09
Deficit . .
535,112.57
$908,533.52
g e is a tº tº a tº * * s a tº tº s & e s e g tº e g º º $ tº e º e s s tº e º tº º ºr e g
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This amount is subject to a deduction representing the interest earned on the
unexpended portion of the funds received from the sale of bonds, which we estimate
amounts to not more than $75,000.
Following we give a summary of the results shown in Table A before adding
to the cost of service in each class any return to the company on the capital invested:
Revenue un-
der Ordinance ſ
Rates per Cost per
Station Station Net Revenue.
Class. or Trunk. or Trunk. Over. Short.
C 1 F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $124.361 $123.07.0 $ 12,718.48 . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 M12, M72, M60 . . . . . . . . . . 75.915 49.508 207,110.06 . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 M12, M72, M60, P. B. X.. 149.458 121.416 63,066.35 . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 M C, P. B. X. . . . . . . . . . . . 361.496 423.796 . . . . . . . . . $ 78,438.59
5 M60, P. B. X. . . . . . . . . . . . 165.515 169.887 . . . . . . . . . 279.80
6 ML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.169 24.168 4.27 . . . . . . . . . . . .
ML Messages . . . . . . . . . . . a sº a tº sº e º * * * * * * * 9,228.03 . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hotels & Department Stores 193.020 164.181 19,552.83 . . . . . . . . . . . .
7 RF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.803 72.285 . . . . . . . . . 1,533.75
8 2RF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.459 58.343 . . . . . . . . . 14,307.15
9 DN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.938 112.476 108,684.03 . . . . . . . . . . . .
10 PN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.46].' 94.483 24,194.11 . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.583 58.856 197,485.07 . . . . . . . . . . . .
12 2N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,966 36.583 383,254.32 . . . . . . . . . . . .
13 2B.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.297 32.914 19,664.91 . . . . . . . . . . . .
14 4.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.772 22.750 1,545.05 . . . . . . . . . . . .
15 Terminals and Extensions. 5.989 6.645 . . . . . . . . . 37,612.64
N 1 B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.628 71.451 . . . . . . . . . 15,055.97
2 2B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.532 49.460 . . . . . . . . . 2,585.59
3 4B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.607 32.906 . . . . . . . . . 11,986.65
4. R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.833 61.854 . . . . . . . . . 7,241.45
5 2R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.233 43.724 . . . . . . . . . 9,297.01
6 4.R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.775 30.465 . . . . . . . . . 85,100.93
7 5c Trunked Calls . . . . . . . . tº e º 'º e * tº º 29,828.25 . . . . . . . . . . . .
S 1 Mileage Extension Lines. . 74,198.48 . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 Private Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,890.28 . . . . . . . . . . . .
$1,154,424.52 $263,439.53
263,439.53
Surplus, available to pay interest on bonds
and dividends on capital stock being. $ 890,984.99
3.83% per cent on the investment.
The total expense to the telephone company for supplying the service throughout
the city during the year ending March 31, 1910, excluding any return to the com-
pany on the investment, was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6,973,785.58
The total revenue from this service under the rates prescribed by the
city ordinance, was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,864,770.57
Showing a surplus of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 890,984.99
as representing the return to the company on the capital invested. This amounts
to 3.83 per cent upon the investment in property used in the city telephone service
including working capital.
Assuming as the return on the investment the 5 per cent interest on the city
proportion of bonds outstanding and the 8 per cent dividend on the city proportion
of capital stock (which return figures at 7.74 per cent on the total investment
in property used in the city telephone service including working capital) we find
the following result:
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Surplus of revenue over expense before adding to expense any return on
the investment, as above . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 890,984.99
Deduct: 5 per cent interest on city proportion of
bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 186,672.05
8 per cent dividend on city proportion of
capital stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,612,846.46
— 1,799,518.51
Making a deficit of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 908,533.52
This amount is subject to a deduction representing the interest earned on the
unexpended portion of the funds received from the sale of bonds, which we estimate
amounts to not more than $75,000.
The above figures of interest on bonds and dividend on capital stock, which are
applicable to the business within the city (excluding toll business), were computed
on the basis of the bonds and capital stock apportioned to each division as follows:
Capital stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27,000,000.00
Apportioned between the property within the city and the property
outside the city on basis of the respective book values for
each, namely:
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,057,786.00
Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,149,359.00
Toll, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908,427.00
Suburban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,942,214.00
$27,000,000.00
Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,000,000.00
*-*mºnº
Apportioned between the property within the city and the prop-
erty outside the city on basis of the respective book values
for each, namely:
Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,899,590.00
Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,731,363.00 º
Toll, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168,227.00
Suburban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,100,410.00
$ 5,000,000.00
The proportions applicable to toll business within the city have been eliminated
in spreading to the various classes of service within the city.
The apportionment of the capital stock and the bonds outstanding to the
exchange property within the city compares as follows:
Capital stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20,149,359.00
Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,731,363.00
$23,880,722.00
Investment in exchange property within the city as per Table B. . . . . . 23,250,166.00
Difference between securities now outstanding and average
investment for year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $630,556.00
It is pointed out that the investment in property within the city at the
close of the year under report, viz., 31 March, 1910, exceeded the above average
amount, and also that there was a large sum of cash, on hand over and above work-
ing capital, being part of the proceeds of the sale 'of bonds. These amounts are
more than the above difference. -
The figures, including Tables A, B and C, show that although the company
has many millions of dollars invested in property in the City of Chicago, which
is gradually depreciating, but has not yet reached the condition when it must be
s
May 9, 1910.
*
COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.
109A
STATEMENT SHOWING THE REVENUE AND EXPENSEs, ETC., FOR EACH CLASS OF SERVICE FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1910
TABLE A.
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02 - . ## tº . o, & sää 5 * § 3;# Net Revenue After
& "3 #; § g # # © +2 O2 gº 3: Ég 㺠$ | Deducting Interest
Class|| Chicago Telephone Company Symbol. ### #### – # ză 23. #: #: =# gää _ 33 #53 and Dividends.
###| ###5 | # ÉÉ # #####| # #####| | ######|.
<! E H Ö § flº- E É É O Short. Over. Class.
, , : *ěš
C 1 || F ..... • * is tº º e - e. * e º e º 'º e º 'º - 9 e s tº e º e e e º e e tº e º e º º dº e º e ** | * 8,888,547.74 || 71,805,853 || $ 1,225,452.53 ¢1,212,784.05 || $12,718.48 || $27,038.07 || $ 288,608.88 || $ 260,646.95 || $247,923.47 |............ C 1
2 I M12, M72, M60 .............................. 7,843 | 1,497,978.89 || 12,227,188 595,402.55 | 888,292.49 207,110.06 12,079.10 104,363.40 116,442.50 |............. $90,667.56 2
8 || M12, M72, M60, P. B. X................. 2,249 862,292.80 | 12,528,229 836,131.85 273,065.50 63,066.85 6,911.33 59,718.91 66,625.24 || 3,559.s.l...... 8
4 MC ................. P. B. X....... tº e º 'º e º ſº ºn tº 1,259 || 1,536,815.27 | 29,961,498 455,120.14 533,558.78 78,438.59 12,276.74 106,071.06 118,347.80 | 196,786.89 |......... © - 4
5 | M60 ........ . . . . . . . . .P. B. X................ 64 32,424.37 547,952 10,592.97 || 10,872.77 279. 80 259.48 2,241.87 2,501.85 2,7s...is [............ 5
6 || M.L. ........... © tº º º 'º º º tº e º 'º º dº º e º 'º e º ſº e º e º te e º 'º e e º º 3,705 557,787.79 |............. 89,546.33 89,542.06 4.27 4,545.32 39,271.55 43,816.87 || 43,812.60 º: 6
ML Messages ............... © e º e º tº e º G - e º e º º e i º e º e º e e s a 146,109.71 || 3,436,094 68,889.44 59,161.41 9,228.03 1,159.39 10,017.14 11,176.53 1,948.50 |............ ML Mess
Hotels and Department stores ........... 678 831,458.19 5,356,152 180,867.24 111,814.41 19,552.63 2,651.10 22,905.47 25,556.57 6,008.74 |............] Hotels etc.
7 | RF ......... • 6 & © tº e º 'º e º e - © e ∈ E → - e. e. e. e. e. e. e. e. e. e. e. e º ºs e e 3,180 749,500.26 || 11,314,581 228,882.85 229,866.60 1,533.75 6,013.60 51,957.58 57,971.18 59,504.88 |............ p 7
8 2RF ................. & e º 'º e º tº e º O & e tº & tº e º 'º e e tº º tº e º tº 4,960 877,187.19 || 14,688,343 275,074.80 289,881.95 1,307.15 7,020.20 60,654.49 67,674.69 || 81,981.84 |............ 8
9 DN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,740 563,701.84 || 10,119,203 804,892.14 195,708.11 || 108,684.03 4,503.18 38,907.47 48,410.65 |............ 65,278.88 9
10 | PN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 75,545.09 | 1,097,627 50,176.83 || 25,982.72 | 24,194.11 603.73 5,216.21 5,819.94 |............. .gsi.i. 10
11 | N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,421 761,206.54 7,212,847 898,831.11 | 201,846.04 197,485.07 6,184.49 53,002.01 59,186.50 |.............] 138,848.57 11
12 | 2N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . © º ſº tº C & © tº tº e º e º 'º e º e 20,848 2,792,111.17 19,249,786 1,145,986.92 762,682.60 383,254.82 22,480.82 194,234.81 216,715.13 |............ . 166,589.19 12
18 2RN ........................................... 8,081 372,291.29 2,082,792 121,072.71 | 101,407.80 19,664.91 2,997.71 25,900.23 28,897.94 9,238.03 |............ 18
14 4N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,982 5,550,008.92 || 29,586,829 1,660,748.29 |1,659,203.24 1,545.05 44,565.24 385,043.76 429,609.00 || 428,063.95 |.......... 14
15 | Terminals and extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,402 1,056,077.20 |............. 848,793.45 881,406.09 37,612.64 8,424.62 72,788.72 81,218.84 || 118,825.98 |............ 15
N l l B . . . . . . . . . . . . * @ e º ºs e º e º 'º e º º tº e º e tº e e º 'º e º 'º tº e º e º 'º a Q 632 206,418.94 | 1,923,001 80,100.82 || 45,156.79 15,055.97 1,671.52 14,441.89 16,113.41 || 31,169.38 |........... N 1
2 2B ................. tº G tº e º 'º e º e º º e e e º a tº e e is tº e º e º & tº s 200 42,754.84 384,977 7,806.43 9,892.02 2,585.59 845.77 2,987.42 8,833.19 5.oisºs [............ 2
8 I 4B ............................................ 1,289 163,087.76 1,867,994 80,429.46 42,416.11 11,986.65 1,314.85 11,860.84 12,675.19 24,661.84 º 3
4 || R. . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................. 268 84,238.02 422,146 9,835.83 | 16,576.78 7,241.45 683.67 5,906.95 6,590.62 | 18,832.07 |............ 4
5 2R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e - © c e º 'º e s s a 477 99,931.60 576,484 11,559.14 20,856.15 9,297.01 810.09 6,999.13 7,809.22 || 17,106.23 ... 5
6 4R ........................... tº s e e º e º 'º e tº e º 'º 6,706 840,302.59 || 7,109,648 119,200.84 || 204,301.27 85,100.98 6,787.08 58,840.86 65,427.44 || 150,528.87 |........... o 6
7 | 5c trunked calls ............................] ......... 114,224.05 || 1,427,859 71,898.40 || 42,070.15 29,828.25 910.39 7,865.80 8,776.19 |............. gi.o.º.o. 7
S 1 || Extension lines .............................] ......... 499,163.05 |............ • 182,889.68 58,641.20 | 74,198.48 4,085.24 35,296.46 89,881.70 |.............| 34,816.78 S 1
2 | Private lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,061.54 |............. 12,238.82 8,848.54 8,890.28 399.32 3,450.10 8,849.42 |............. 40.86 2
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203,063 $23,250,166.15 244,375,983 || $ 7,864,770.57 º,918,785.58 $890,984.99 || $186,672.05 || $1,612,846.46 $1,799,518.51 $908,533.52 |............
Toll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .l............................. *$ 543,816.83
Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........l...... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * e e e s e e 94,751.93
*Note.—This toll revenue is included in computing the 8 per cent. compensation paid to † NotE-Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits.
the city, but in its relation to the investment within the city for toll business this revenue
... is partly earned by the use of property outside of the city.
AVERAGE INVESTMENT FOR YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1910. TABLE B.
Buildings and Real Furniture and
Line Plant. Estate. FixtureS.
res
* = ºn H - -3.
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# 55 £: +: † : * (i) C, : '. R. 'º 5 §º: §§ Total Class
$4 e- ºr £4 E # 3 33 £35 Q3 $º cº $–1 #E4': º, .. jº's
§ 3. p. © Cº -Q) Þ *> rº. 6.9 , C. Q) 3 * : B & º
# #5 #5 5: ### § 5 § à | #H###| || 85
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C 1 | F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 171,469.58 || $ 1,001,264.18 |............. $ 579,649.47 |# 989,537.45 $ 820,867.08 |* 99,702.02 || $15,214.86 $ 9,705.30 $ 76,844.79 || $124,792.66 $ 3,888,547.74 C 1
2 || M12, M72, M60 .............................. | 180,791.01 808,151.82 |............. 101,381.20 251,635.85 81,797.84 46,786.55 8,869.22 4,561.17 84,090.84 || 89,915.89 1,497,978.89 2
8 || M12, M72, M60........ P.B.Y................ 187,848.77 227,013.86 || $ 21,310.12 108,902.63 | 188,418.92 59,684.52 | 26,289.18 2,820.63 2,568.00 | 19,412.78 28,028.40 862,292.80 8.
4 MC .................... P.B.Y................ 405,647.85 187,425.02 || 46,141.61 | 201,514.95 | 407,598.65 | 182,128.46 || 45,762.78 6,266.90 4,455.55 | 84,079,45 54,894.06 | 1,589,815.27 4.
5 | M60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .P.B.Y................ 7,680.61 6,458.20 859.81 4,491.75 7,532.07 2,416.47 978.28 112.83 96.84 714.33 | 1,108.20 32,424,87 5
6 ML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,401.90 885,166.41 6,752.81 |............... 48,169.87 15,650.23 | 18,158.82 740.47 1,770.14 | 12,853.55 9,124.09 557,787.79 t 6
6 || ML Messages ........... e c e º e º 'º - e º ºs e e º 'º e º 'º tº e 41,843.65 |. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,748.96 28,464.88 42,438.04 13,855.88 4,270.19 654,23 416.59 8,257.94 6,159.86 146,109.71 8
Hotels and department stores ........... 82,640.90 67,160.98 8,462.44 43,600.50 74,690.41 22,817.87 9,956.89 || 1,148.73 987.86 7,546.77 || 11,445.83 881,458.19 || Hotels and Dept.s.
7 | RF . . . . . . . . . . . tº e º 'º º º º e º e º tº e º 'º - e º ºs e º 'º e º sº e º e º s is e e 54,935.71 828,828.47 |............. 81,850.49 | 168,154.61 58,116.78 22,940.08 2,508.88 2,228.82 | 16,936.02 || 23,600.45 749,500,26 7
8 || 2BF ........... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,619.66 852,844.26 |............. 105,191.69 194,494.29 63,266.92 || 26,620.48 2,989.52 2,598.51 19,792.02 || 29,781.02 877,137.19 8.
9 DN ...................... e e e º 'º e s tº $ tº e º 0 tº 0 tº e a tº 8 tº 95,670.26 175,667.12 |............. 70,528.32 127,140.21 41,164.98 17,055.07 1,953.80 1,659.21 12,738.21 20,124.67 583,701.84 9
10 | PN ............................................ 9,614.98 27,780.21 |. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,872.86 16,710.64 5,426.14 2,288.28 257.12 223.26 1,702.74 2,669,35 75,545.09 10.
11 | N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,984.00 369,160.78 |.......... ... 62,119,79 188,797.98 44,996.55 23,639.60 2,134.10 | 2,299.48 || 17,860.12 || 20,714.19 761,206,54 ll
12 | 2N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.17,559.51 | 1,442,632.17 |............. 169,179.20 | 895,694.5% 128,360.25 | 87,966.83 6,087.67 8,560.69 | 68,611.14 || 78,459.19 2,792,111.17 12
18 2RN ................. a s e º e s e e º e º e º a 0 e º º º a, º 0 tº a 9 º' 61,700.23 202,933.15 |. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,694.90 44,832.66 14,538.41 || 11,824.77 688,55 1,150.44 8,489.58 || 10,438.59 372,291.29 18
14 4N ---------------------....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,502,576.25 2,486,637.48 |.............| 218,053.5s | 688,280.02 206,816.92 || 176,092.14 || 9,785.87 || 17,155.18 125,858.58 || 170,548.48 5,550,008.92 14
15 | Terminals and extensions .................. 964,985.85 l................l....... • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 84,784.11 |............ 8,878.83 28,839.43 89,144.48 1,056,077.20 15
N i ! B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,901.52 157,457.25 |.............l............... 14,987.41 7,225.51 || 6,680.01 229,68 644.65 || 4,741.97 || 4,650.94 206,418.94 N 1
2 2B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,108.05 81,997.86 I.............l............... 2,764.22 1,335.99 1,876.82 42.51 184.18 978.15 1,017.06 42,754.84 2
8 I 4B ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,292.65 109,070.67 |.............l............... 12,608.01 6,104.20 5,201.97 193.92 504.81 3,739.39 4,872.13 168,087.76 8.
4 || R. ................................. e e e º e º e º & 6 & 8 & 4,207,88 66,894.86 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,320.14 2,089.01 2,742.79 66.42 266.83 1,938,65 1,706.95 84,288.02 4
5 2R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,479.19 77,206.88 |. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,825.54 2,882.59 3,254.69 74.26 816.97 2,294.92 2,146,56 99,981,60 5.
6 || 4R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . º e º e e º e e º e 110,570.72 583,320.76 |............ tº e tº e º 'º e º ºs tº e º E tº ſº 50,960.82 24,649.81 || 27,089.17 783.57 2,684.59 || 19,257.42 21,036.71 840,802.59 6
7 || 5c trunked calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,611.03 28,445.24 11,150.91 8,847.89 487.81 325,66 2,575.70 4,830.81 114,224.05 7
S 1 | Extension lines ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468,078.85 |.............|............... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . © tº e º 'º e º 'º 9 tº º tº . 16,837.02 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,640.02 || 11,576.78 6,035.88 499,168.05 S 1
2 | Private lines ............. tº e - © tº tº e e º e º e º e º e º e º e 7,380.05 87,884.82 |... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,645.69 |............ 160.36 1,181.07 860.06 49,061.54 2
Total ..................................] $4,507,890.76 || $ 9,540,729.06 || $ 88,275.75 || $1,912,396.17 |$8,840,981.02 || $1,262,792.22 || $728,091.97 || $59,060.05 || $ 70,436.44 $527,461.84 || $717,050.88 || $28,250,166.15
Toll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e i e º e º e º e º e º e º s e 478,812.90 |.............l............... 89,221.67 849,936.82 20,687.60 |............ 2,008.95 22,650.79 82,158.69 994,926.98
Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,582.59 |............ © e º ºs e º ºs e º e o ºs e º ºs e e º ºs e º & tº e º 'º º tº º te & © tº e º 'º º © e º gº e º e . 1,866.49 |... . . . . . . . . . 133.10 939.66 790.43 40,812.27
Grand Total .....................|34,507,890.76 || $10,056,624.55 $ 88,275.75 $1,912,896.17 |$8,930,202.69 || $1,612,728.54 $745,096.06 || $59,060.05 || $ 72,578.49 || $551,052.29 || $750,000.00 $24,285,905.85




May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 109
replaced by new apparatus, yet they are unable, from the income received from the
service which they render by means of that property, to pay returns on their invest-
ment of a little less than 8 per cent, namely, 7.74 per cent, and set aside a reason-
able sum toward the renewal of this apparatus when it becomes worn out or obsolete
and for meeting the reconstruction expenses which will be imposed when the street
railway subways are built. In other words, with the rates that are now in force,
the company will reach a time when it will be impossible for it to provide the city
adequate service on account of lack of funds to replace worn out or obsolete ap-
paratus. It is also to be observed that the classes of service paid for at a fixed
rate per year, without count of messages (including the commuted trunk circuits of
the private branch exchanges), are uniformly unremunerative and in most instances
do not pay for the current annual expenses and depreciation without any provision
for return on the investment.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) ARTHUR YOUNG & Co.,
D. C. & WM. B. JACKSON.
Chicago, Illinois, May 9, 1910.
110 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
TABLE C.
statements Showing Cost for Each Class of Service for Year Ending 31 March, 1910.
*-*-
CLASS CI—F.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 9,854.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $408,287.08
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,510,56
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,338.34
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * 383.44
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,172.27 .
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,495.15
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,904.14
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,337.95
|Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,326.66
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,134.02
$ 554,889.6]
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 24,429.87
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,364.91
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,368.70
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,804.72
191,968.20
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,345.66
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228,416.72
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 60,874.63
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294.24
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,294.92
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,531.47
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,740.17
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . 1,992.96
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,385.47
* 221,113.86
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,212,734.05
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . e e º e º e o e º e s $ 123.07
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . $ 27,038.07
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 233,608.88
260,646.95
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,473,381.00
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 149.52
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ^e- 1,225,452.53
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e º 'º - - - - - - $ 124.36 z
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 247,928.47
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 25.16 * ------
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,305,853
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 111
*
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .0170075
IExpense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 020663
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0171859
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,388,547.74
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343.875
CLASS C2—M12, M72, M60.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 7,843.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 69,527.23
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,112.53
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,625.42
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.59
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,650.10
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * 16,016.14
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,544.42
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,669.92
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,762.29
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.08
$ 115,108.72
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 18,336.84
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,213.80
Central, office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,611.90
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,060.83
84,223.37
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,761.74
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,414.58
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19,651.01
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164.55
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,596.95
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,900.56
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,819.42
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . .*2,767.87
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,419.46
79,784.08
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 388,292.49
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 49.508
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding... tº ſº tº & tº 8 $ 12,079.10
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 104,363.40
116,442.50
Total . . . . . . . . & e º e º e º e s e º e e s e e e s e º s e e s e s is e e $ 504,734.99
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 64.355
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595,402.55
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 75.915
Revenue—Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 90,667.56
* NoTE.—Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits.
112 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Per station or trunk
& © e º º e º is s a g º e º e º ºs e º 'º e s a e º º e s & ‘. . $ 11.56
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,227,138
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ . 031756
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .04.1280
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .048695
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,497,978.89
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190.996
CLASS C3—M12, M72, M60, P. B. X.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—2,249.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * - - - - - - - - - - - $ 71,282.50
Other exchange employes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,176.63
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,883.41
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.37
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,780.77
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,249.25
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431.15
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207.45
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,345.66
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.36
$ 94,538.55
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 24,499.61
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,111.96
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,363.40
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,365.89
- 58,340.86
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376.68
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,692. 52
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 13,647.23
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.87
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,805.44
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,375.61
Three per cent. compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,622.33
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 1,809.35
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,794.06
\ 54,116.89
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 273,065.50
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 121.416
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,911.33
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 59,713.91
66,625.24
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 339,690.74
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 151.04
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 336,131.85
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 113
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 149.458
Revenue—Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,558.89
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1.582
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,528,229
ºw-ºº-º-º-º:
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 021796
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . .
s e e s e e º e º s e º c e s e º e º e º 'º º a e º e º e s e .027114
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.26830
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 862,292.80
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ' 383. 412
CLASS C4—MC P. B. X.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—1,259.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' Wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $184,356.61
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,806.87
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,419.03
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.33
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,548.69
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776.90
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260.50
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.79
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.73
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,061.51
$ 238,802.96
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 52,292.56
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,757.97
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,925.20
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,890.50
111,866.23
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...” 233.00
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,613.52
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 28,755.97
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.11
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,880.11
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,220.51
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,387.24
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . *16,223.59
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,940.67
60,043.02
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 533,558.73
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 423.796
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . $ 12,276.74 ==
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 106,071.06
118,347.80
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e e º e º e s e e º e e s tº e º e º O & $ 651,906.53
* NoTE.—Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits.
114 CoMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 517.800
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 455,120. 14
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 361.496
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 196,786. 39
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 156.304
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,961,498
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .01.7808
Expense per message after adding interest and divi-
dends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 021758
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 015190
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,536,815.27
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,220.719
CLASS C5—M60 P. B. X.
cost OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 64.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,112.25
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193.60
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442.81
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.04
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.52
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.67
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.38
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.97
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.62
$ 3,990.86
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,054.54
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421.14
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800.29
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.92
2,323.89
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * - - - - - • • * * * * * * * * 21.41
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,514.08
Miscellaneous— & *
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . .'•' < * - - - - - - - - - - $ 546.48
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.94
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.15
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425.92
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334.75
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc......... 73.60
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '• • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 567.69
* 2,022.53
- - Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,872.77
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 169.887
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 115
{
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . $ 259.48
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock.... 2,241.87
2,501.35
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 13,374. 12
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 208.970
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,592.97
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 165.515 —
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,781. 15
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 43.455
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547,952 º
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 019842
Expense per message after adding interest and divi-
dends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .024.407
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .019332
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 32,424.37
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506. 631
CLASS C6—ML P. B. X.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 3,705.
Operating—
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 821.09
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730.61
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351.98
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.01
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.37
$ 1,974.06
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 7,787.40
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,071.77
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,087.49
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * g º e º ºs º e º e º ſº e º 'º e º 'º ſº e º e 545.13
30,491.79
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636.02
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,980.77
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,560.65 ' '
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.63
Insurance . . . . . . . . . • - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 598.26
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * * * * * * g º ºs e g g g tº e º e º ºs e º e º is s º & 7,494.05
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,830.35
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . *457.52
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,422.00
* 18,519.42
Total . . … $ 89,542.06
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 24.168
* NoTE.—Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits.
116 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . $ 4,545.32
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock ... 39,271.55
43,816.87
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 133,358.93
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 35.994
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 89,546.33
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 24.169
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 43,812.60
, Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 11.825
Investment (including working capital) ................ $ 557,787.79
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 150.550
CLASS C6—ML MESSAGES.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' Wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19,554.05
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,438.53
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,704.55
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . 17.78
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,027.79
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351.90
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.62
$ 25,126.22
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ , 5,399.48
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . – 836.51
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,485.23
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.39
11,011.61
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,883.22
Miscellaneous— &
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,995.29
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.84
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398.34
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,906.66
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,161.54
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . 416.83
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,255.86
11,140.36
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 59,161.41
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,159.39
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock ... 10,017.14
11,176.53
& Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 70,337.94
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,389.44
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,948.50
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 117
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,436,094
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .017217
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .020470
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 019903
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,109.71
HOTELS AND DEPARTMENT STORES, ETC.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—678.
Operating—
Exchange Operating— º
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 30,458.89 i
Other exchange employes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,276.06 a
Exchange supplies and expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,204.09
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.66
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,580.19
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,771.80 *
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129.64 *
Advertising and canvassing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.57 *
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.43 *
$ 40,558.33
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,623.99
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,250.86
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,912.27
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549.39
23,336.51
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.44
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,664.70
Miscellaneous— -
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,552.13
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.92
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726.24
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * e º e º e º 'º - e. e. e. e. e. e. e. e. e. 4,364.66
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,137.37
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 777.70
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,062.41
21,642.43
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1.11,314.41
Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 164.181
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,651.10
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock.... 22,905.47
25,556.57
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. $ 136,870.98
Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 201.875
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,867.24
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 193.020
118 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Revenue—Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * e = e s e e º e º e s e s a s e º a $ 6,003.74
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8.855 F
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,356,152
Expense per message before adding interest and ===
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 s e s p s is a e e e s a e e º is e e $ . 020782
Expense per message after adding interest and ,
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .025.554
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .024.433
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331,458. 19
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488. 876
CLASS C7—RF.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—3,180.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 65,719.54
Other exchange employes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,746.15
Exchange Supplies and Expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,140.52
Injuries and damages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.80
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,490.17
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,131.62
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,266.40
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,094.15
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378.43
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,611.01
$ 94,636.79
Maintenance-–Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... $ 7,571.15
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,101.84
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,334.39
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,194.44
42,201.82
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * - - - - - - - - - - - 4,255.75
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,108.08
Miscellaneous— e
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 11,731.90
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.66
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,601.19
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,906. 39
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,217.45
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 1,645.76
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,485.81
39,664. 16
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 229,866.60
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 72.285
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . $ 6,013.60
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock. ... 51,957.53
57,971. 13
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 287,837.73
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 90.515
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. | 19
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228,332.85
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & e s e e s e e s e e $ 71.803
Revenue—short e s a e s ∈ e º e o e s a e s is e s is s e s sº º s º e s a s a e s a e e º e 59,504.88
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 18.712 ====
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,314,581
Expense per message before adding interest and ===
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .020316
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .025440
Revenue per message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .020180
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749,500.26
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235. 692
CLASS C8—2RF.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 4,960. *
Operating— §
Exchange Operating—
Operators' Wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 84,391.79
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,159.29
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,714.12
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.91
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,447.38
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,094.25
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,494.24
Advertising and canvassing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,689.33 |
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 978.15
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,120.50
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . .
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Per station or trunk
dº e º is º e º e º ºs
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . $ 7,020.20
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 60,654.49
.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * e e s • * * * * * * * * *
$ 11,001.12
17,678.05
20,657.66
1,421.41
$ 14,601.02
85.31
1,902.87
11,566.54
8,695.74
2,050.96
12,541.67
$ 123,165.96
50,758.24
6,689.17
57,324.47
51,444. 11
$ 289,381.95
. . $ 58.343
67,674.69
$ 357,056.64
120 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 71.988
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275,074.80
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 55.459
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 81,981.84
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 16.529
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,688,343
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .019701
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .024.309
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .018727
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877,137. 19
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176.842
CLASS C9—DN.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 1,740.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 57,570.85
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,279.95
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,950.50
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.51
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . © e s e e a c e s e e º s e 2,997.92
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,456.10
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,211.32
Advertising and canvassing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584.81
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I81.36
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,872.87
$ 82,159.19
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment ..................... $ 12,641.38
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,198.56
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,397.01
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945.69
36,182.64
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . © e º e º e º e º tº º c 446.05
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,798. 11
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . tº e º ſº e º 'º a tº e º gº tº gº º ſº e $ 9,765.99
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . tº e º e º e º ſº e > gº º º 46.00
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tº º ºs e º ſº tº e º 'º 1,241.41
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tº e º e º e º ºs º º ge e º e º ºs e e 7,421.75
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,623.09
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . 1,369.27
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tº dº e º & ſº º º º º tº is º º º ºs e º ºs º º is 10,654.61
40,122. 12
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 195,708. 11
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 112.476
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 12]
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . $ 4,503.18
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 38,907.47
wºmmºmºmºmºmºmº 43,410.65
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 239,118.76
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 137.425
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304,392. 14
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 174.938 —
Revenue—over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,273.38
Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 37.513
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,119,203
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .019340
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 023630
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & . 030080
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563,701.84
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323.967
CLASS C10—PN.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—275.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * - - - - - - - - - - - - $ 6,261.31
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454.48
Exchange supplies and expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865.86
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.44
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333.73
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,145.23
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.55
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.43
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.59
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293.24
* $ 10,699.86
Maintenance—Current Repair— *
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,286.90
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,408.31
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,748.83
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.01
4,570.05
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.46
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,930.19
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e e º 'º º e $ 1,298.67
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.32
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.40
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993.85
Three per cent compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,586.09
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 180.05
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,412.78
5,641.16
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 25,982.72
122 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 94.483
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . . $ 603.73
Eight per cent dividends on capital stock.... 5,216.21
* 5,819.94
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 31,802.66
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 115.646
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 50,176.83.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 182.461
Revenue—Over . . . . . . . . . . * c e s e e s e e s e s e s e e s e e s • * e. e. e. e. e. e. e. $ 18,374.17
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 66.815
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,097,627
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .023671.
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .028974.
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .045714.
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,545.09
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274. 709
CLASS C11—N.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—3,421.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 41,023.98
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,043.47
Exchange supplies and expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,670.13
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.12
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,138.25
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,267.78
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,544.99
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,231.25
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,158.71
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909.75
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 11,235.62
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,446.10
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,651.88
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,109.81
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,725.77
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.04
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,410.11
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,115.15
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,607.09
$ 69,026.43:
44,443.41
4,132.36:
49,257.99.
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 123
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . *12,177.07
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,723.76
34,485.85
Total . . . . . . . e, e s = e s e e e s = • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * $ 201,346.04
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 58.856 *
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,134.49
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock.... 53,002.01
59,136.50
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 260,482.54
Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 76.142
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398,831. 11
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 116.583 —
Revenue—Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 138,348. 57
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 40.441 *
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,212,847
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .027915
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0361.14
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 055294
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 761,206. 54
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222. 510
CLASS C12—2N.
CosT OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 20,848.
Operating— —
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 109,475.94
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,161.88
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,116.90
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I02.60
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tº e º 'º e º e is 5,684.96
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,449.60
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,515.93
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,010.69
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,708.40
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,325.71
e $ 220,552.61
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 57,765.90
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,427.06
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,797.79
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,493.56
| * 169,484.31
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,267.42
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176,579.44
* NoTE.—Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits.
f
|24 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Miscellaneous— – º
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 38,047.43
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298.65
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,245.21
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,069.62
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,224.79
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . 5,344.66
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,568.46
162,798.82.
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 762,682.60.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 36.583
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22,480.82
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 194,234.31 ^.
216,715.13.
Total . . . . . . . . . tº gº e º ºs e º is º ºs º e º e º 'º º e º ºs e º 'º e º e $ 979,397.73.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 46.978
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,145,936.92.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 54.966 —
Revenue—over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 166,539. 19.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 7.988
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,249,736
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .0396.20,
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . º gº e º º e º ºs e e º 'º e .050879.
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .059530,
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,792,111.17
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *º e º 'º e 133.927
CLASS C13–2RN.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 3,081.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 11,561.66
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859.24
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,597.78
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.79
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601.49
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,853.24
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,146.44
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,039.91
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,038.87
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . tº e º e º 'º º º ſº º º ſº tº e º e º e º 'º e º e º e º e ºs 609.00
$ 28,318.42.
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8,295.69
Line plant . . . . . . . . . tº e º e º 'º tº e º 'º e º e º e º ºs e e e s e e º e e s e e s 9,183.83
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,734.05
Buildings . . . . . . . . . tº e e º e º ºs e º 'º e º e º e & ſº e º e o e e º e º e s tº º 425.79
22,639.36.
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 125
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . gº tº e º e º 'º - e º 'º - e e º º 6,634.63
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * c e s e 23,302.51
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,062.95
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . tº º e º O ſo º º e º 'º e º º º 41.23
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . © e - e º e º 'º e º 'º e º º º e º a tº es e º 'º 501.47
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tº ſº & e º 'º e º 'º e g º º e 4,945.48
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,827.42
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 713.40
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,420.93
ar 20,512.88
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 101,407.80.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 32.914
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,997.71
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock ... 25,900.23
28,897.94
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 130,305.74
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 42.294
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,072.71
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 39.2 *mºmºmºmºmº
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .* e e $ 9,233.03
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.997
*Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,032,792
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .049886
Expense per message after adding interest and divi- *
dends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 064102
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .º .059560
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372,291.29
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.835
CLASS C14–4N.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 Masch, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 72,932.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $168,270.88
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,268.14
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,325.77
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.24
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,891.68
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179,716.23
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,858.86
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,520.95
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,263.54
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,073.99
$ 479,341.28
126 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $207,164.88
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,112.20
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,252.60
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,127.63
393,657.31
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,286.47
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344,841.50
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 82,878.99
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493.34
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,199.82
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,447.98
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,495.94
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . 11,614.43
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,946.18
317,076.68
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,659,203.24
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22.750 }
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . $ 44,565.24
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock... 385,043.76
429,609.00
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2,088,812.24
Per station or, trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 28.641
Trevenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,660,748.29
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22.722
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 428,063.95
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5.869
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,586,329
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .056080
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 070600
Revenue per message . . . . . . * s e º e s e e o e º is is e is e s e s e e .056132
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,550,003.92
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76. 100
CLASS C15–TERMINALS AND EXTENSIONS.
CoST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—57,402.
Operating—
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 12,599.82
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,842.48
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,662.06
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.85
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.57
$ 73,239.78
May 9, 1910. comMUNICATIONS, ETC. 127
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $131,964.38
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563.78
132,528. 11
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,169. 16
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,079.29
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19,443.74
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380.91
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,895.40
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,865.64
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . *700.60
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,504.66
60,389.75
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 381,406.09
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6.645
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . $ 8,424.62
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock.... 72,788.72
81,213.34
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 462,619.43
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8.059
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 343,793.45.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • - - - - - - $ 5.989
Revenue—Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 118,825.98.
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2.07.0
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,056,077.20
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.398
CLASS N1–B.
CoST of SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—632.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operator's wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,178.50
Other exchange employes , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465.54
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850.28
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.85
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.18.80
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563.90
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442.27
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.38
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377.32
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.16
$ 9,426.00
* NoTE.—Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits. *
128 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Maintenance—Current Repair——
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,399.73
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,861.20
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,576.74
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.58
10,064.25
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522.96
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,373.53
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,264.15
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.60
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2II.72
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,757.88
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 951.68
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 71.61
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,483.41,
- 8,770.05
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 45,156.79
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ , 71.451
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,671.52
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock. ... 14,441.89
16,113.41
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 61,270.20
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 96.947
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * e º e s e e s e e s e e s • e s e e s e s e a e $ 30,100.82
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 47.628 —
Revenue—Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 31,169.38
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 49.319
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,923,001
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .023482
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .031862
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .015653
investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206,418.94
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326. 612
CLASS N2–2B.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—200.
Operating— -
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,216.04
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.02
Exchange supplies and expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167.92
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.11
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6L
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238.18
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.94
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.00
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 129
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128.78
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.39 f
$ 2,113.99
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 444.97
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,393.90
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292.22
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.83
* 2,174.92
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.94.48
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,359.68
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 493.65
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.90
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.75
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 570.03
Three per cent compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231.02
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 69.13
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538.47
1,948.95
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 9,892.02
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 49.46
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 345.77 ====
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock. . . . . . 2,987.42
3,333. 19
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 13,225.21
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 66.126
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,306.43
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 36.532 —
Revenue—Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,918.78
Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 29.594
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384,977
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .025695
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * .034353
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .018979
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,754.34
Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.772
CLASS N3–4E.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—1,289.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 5,919.78
Other exchange employes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449.93
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813.75
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .'. 5.71
, Superintendence . .
130 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.
May 9, 1910.
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,383.07
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * * * * * e º e e s e º e º e o e º e s e e º e e s 900.94
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436.94
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430.40
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.26
,” $ 10,654.81
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers” station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,971.60
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,754.33
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,330.52
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.82
9,242.27
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,080. 74
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,550.92
• Miscellaneous— º
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,124.47
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.18
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.64
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,171.23
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962.40
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 97.61
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,335.84
7,886.37
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 42,416.11
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 32.906
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . $ 1,314.85
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock.... 11,360.34
12,675. 19
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 55,091.30
,” Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 42.740
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,429.46
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.607
Revenue—Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19.133
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,867,994
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .022707
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0294.92
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .016290
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163,087.76
Per station or trunk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126. 523
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. ,- 13]
CLASS N4—R.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 268.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,345.27
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.61
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185.40
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.82
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303.26
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 º’ e < * * * * * * * 188.60
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.00
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.89
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.62
$ 2,355.72
Maintenance—Current Repair— f
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 583.72
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,914.71
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456.06
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.77
4,033.26
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264. 76
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,688.39
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 833.48
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.52
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.28
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,128.08
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294.82
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . 117.38
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778.09
3,234.65
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 16,576.78
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 61.854
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . $ 683.67 = -
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock. .. 5,906.95
6,590.62
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 23,167.40
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 86.445
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,335.33
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • * * * * * * $ 34.833
'Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * º $ 13,832.07
-msmseems--
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 51.612
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422,146
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .039268
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .054880
132 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 022114
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,233.02
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3I4. 302
CLASS N5–2R.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks, 477.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,830.83
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.36
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.49
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.69
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.34
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504.60
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334.51
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . G G e e s e e s e s e 161.28
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.61
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . e e e s e s = e s a e e < e e s e e s = e s 3.90
3,402.61
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,030.59
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,363.90
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509.59
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.79
4,994.87
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599.0]
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,862.59
Miscellaneous—
& Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,047.52
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.32
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.54
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,336.24
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 (){}
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . 147.23
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,006.16
.* 3,997.07
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 20,856.15
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 43.724
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . $ 810.09 ===
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock. . . 6,999.13
7,809.22
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 28,665.37
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 60.095
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * e s e º e s - e. e. e. 11,559.14
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 24,233
Revenue—short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,106.23
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 35.862
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576,484
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 133
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ .0361.78
Expense per message after adding interest and Ig
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .049724
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .020051
Hnvestment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,931.60
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209. 500
CLASS N6–4R.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Average Stations or Trunks—6,706.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22,518.11
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,690.39
Exchange supplies and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,101.78
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.18
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,164.81
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,822.15
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,686.41
Advertising and canvassing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,265.49
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £ e a e e e s e s 1,209.51
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.43
$ 44,530.26
Maintenance—Current Repair— Af
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 15,309.77
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,421.28
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,380.35
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844.44
46,955.84
Station removals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000.06
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,726.00
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,218.52
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.38
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771.48
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,200.67
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,767.92
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 1,544.16
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * - - - - - - - - - - - 10,475.98
38,089. 11
l, Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & º 'º e de & ſº e º ºs e e º & $ 204,301.27
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... $ 30.465
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,787.08
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock.... 58,640.36
65,427.44
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 269,728.71
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 40.222
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 119,200.34
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 17.775
134 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Revenue—Short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … • * * * * * * $ 150,528.37
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22.447
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,109,648
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ . . 028736
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 037.938
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .016766
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840,302.59
Per station or trunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.306.
CLASS N7–5c TRUNKED CALLS.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Operating—
Exchange Operating—
Operators' wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 16,230.42
Other exchange employes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,216.04
Exchange supplies and expenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,236.58
Injuries and damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.23
Superintendence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840.91
Expense of collecting and auditing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,579.45
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.97
$ 22,143.60
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,398.37
Central office equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,996.66
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236.92
4,631.95
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 6,656. 07
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,105.81
Rental of wires, contacts, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.78
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284.73
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,499.18
Three per cent compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,272.70 ©
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . . 157.00
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2,307.33
8,638.53
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 42,070.15
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 910.39
Eight per cent dividend on capital stock. . . . . . 7,865.80
8,776. 19
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 50,846.34
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 71,898.40
Revenue—Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ "21,052.06
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427,359
Expense per message before adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . W. e. e. e. e. e. • * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * $ .029474
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. I35
Expense per message after adding interest and
dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .035623
Revenue per message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .050371
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,224.05
CLASS S1—EXTENSION LINES.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Operating—
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 40.76
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .01
$ 40. 77
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 20,174.74
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.52
20,448.26
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 20,916.00
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,950.37
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.91%
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., - - - - - - - 6,741.60
Three per cent. compensation to city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,198.39
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . * 66.88
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,227.78
17,236.17
¥ Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 58,641.20
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding. . . . . . . . . . . . $ 4,085.24
Eight per cent on capital stock . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,296.46
39,381.70
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 98,022.90
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,839.68
Revenue—Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 34,816.78
Investment (including working capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 499,163.05
CLASS S2—PRIVATE LINES.
COST OF SERVICE FOR YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH, 1910.
Operating— *
Expense of collecting and auditing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 552.28
Uncollectible accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.33
Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
tº- $ 629.46
Maintenance—Current Repair—
Subscribers’ station equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,009.30
Line plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,594.52
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.72
3,630. 54
* NoTE.—Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits.
136 CoMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
Depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,179.00
Miscellaneous—
Rental of instruments; etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .# 421.16
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.06
Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658.84
Three per cent. compensation to city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387.03
Cost of free telephone service to the city, etc. . . . . . . . . * 22.68
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447.13
1,909.54
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 8,348.54
Add: Interest on bonds outstanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 399. 32
Eight per cent. dividend on capital stock. . . . . . . . . . . . 3,450.10
3,849.42
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 12,197.96
Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 12,238.82
Revenue—over . . . . . . . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * $ 40.86
Investment (including working capital) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 49,061.54
* NoTE.—Figures in italics represent deductions or deficits.
GUIDE TO SYMBOLS USED FOR EACH CLASS OF SERVICE.
GUIDE FOR CLASS NUMBERS AND CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY SYM-
BOLS, GIVING DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICE RENDERED
UNDER EACH CLASS.
Class Chicago Telephone
Number Company Symbol. Description of Service Rendered
CHICAGO RATE CLASSES.
C 1 F Unlimited single party line business ser-
vice without extra line or private
branch exchange privileges.
(For which a flat rate of $125 per year
is now charged.)
C 2 M12, M72, M60 Measured single party line business ser-
vice, with privilege of an extra free line
for each 6,000 outgoing messages guar-
anteed above 1,200 and with privilege
of as many auxiliary lines rented at
$24 per line without message guaran-
tee as desired; without connection to
a private branch exchange switchboard.
(For which a minimum charge of $60
per year for the first line is now made,
including 1,200 outgoing messages; 3c
per message for the next 2,400 out-
going messages, and 2¢ per message
for all additional outgoing messages.)
C 3 P. B. X., M12, M72, M60 Measured single party line business ser-
vice, same as C2, but with connection
to a private branch exchange switch-
board which is furnished by the Tele-
phone Company free. s
(For which the same charge is made as
for C2, except that the subscriber
must have more than one measured
rate line.)
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. 137
CHICAGO RATE CLASSES-Continued.
Number Company Symbol. Description of Service Rendered
C 4 P. B. X., M. C. Commuted rate (deemed measured)
.* single party line business service; with
connection to a private branch ex-
change switchboard and privilege of
as many auxiliary lines rented at $24
per line without message guarantee as
desired, and with privilege of extra
line service with 6,000 message guar-
antee.
(For which a flat charge of $365 per
year is now made for the commuted
rate line with privilege of unlimited
outgoing messages thereover, with a
charge of 2C per message for all out-
going messages over the $24 lines.)
C 5 P. B. X., M. 60. Extra line service with 6,000 message
guarantee, for use only in connection
with commuted rate single party line
business service.
(For which a minimum charge of $120
per year is made, including 6,000 mes-
sages and a charge of 2C per mes-
sage is made for all messages above
6,000.)
•C 6 P. B. X., M. L. Auxiliary line service intended particu-
larly for incoming messages, for use
in connection with classes of service
C2, C3, C4 and C5. These lines are
of such a character that substantially
all of them are associated with private
branch exchange switchboards and we
therefore designate them as a P. B.
X. class.
(For which a rental charge of $24 per
year is made and the outgoing messages
are considered as a part of the total
messages when the lines supplement
Class C2, Class C3 or Class C5 ser-
vices, and a charge of 2C per message
is made when they supplement Class
C4 service. The latter messages we
keep in a class by themselves which
we call C6 messages.)
•C 7 R. F. Unlimited single party line residence ser-
VICe.
(For which a flat rate of $72 per year
is now charged.)
‘C 8 2R. F. Unlimited two-party line residence ser-
W1C0.
(For which a flat rate of $56 per year
is now charged.)
(Neither of the above residence ser-
vices have extra line or private branch
§ exchange privileges.) º
‘C 9 D. N. Prepaid nickel single party public tele-
phone service, installed only in drug
stores at approved locations.
138 COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. May 9, 1910.
CHICAGO RATE CLASSEs—Continued.
Number Company Symbol.
J10 P. N.
C11 N
C12 2N.
C13 2R. N.
C14 4N.
C15 Ext. Ter.
Description of Service Rendered
(For which a rate of 5c per message
for three messages per day is charged
and 2%c per message for all further
messages. The Company reserves the
right to cancel contract if average
number of three messages is not
reached.)
Prepaid nickel single party public tele-
phone service installed only at ap-
proved locations.
(For which a rate of 5c per message
for four messages per day is charged
and 4c per message for all further
messages. The company reserves the
right to cancel contract if minimum
number of four messages per day is.
not reached.)
Prepaid nickel single party line business
service. -
(For which a rate of 5c per message
is now charged, with a guarantee of
20c per day.)
Prepaid nickel two-party line business.
service.
(For which a rate of 5c per message
is now charged with a guarantee of
12% c per day.)
Prepaid nickel two-party line residence
service.
(For which a rate of 5c per message
is now charged, with a guarantee of
10c per day.)
Prepaid nickel four-party line residence
service.
(For which a rate of 5c per message
is now charged, with a guarantee of
5c per day.)
(In the prepaid nickel classes of ser-
vice there are no extra line or private
branch exchange privileges.)
Extension telephone and private branch
exchange terminal telephone service.
(For which a rate of $6 per year per
telephone is now charged.)
(These are divided between those with
and those without coin boxes.)
NEIGHBORHOOD RATE CLASSES. . .
N1 B.
N2 2B.
Unlimited single party line business
service.
(For which a flat rate of $48 per year
is now charged.)
Unlimited two-party line business ser-
W1Ge. t
(For which a flat rate of $36 per
year is now charged.)
May 9, 1910. COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. I39
NEIGHBORHood BATE CLASSES-Continued.
Number Company Symbol. Description of Service Rendered
N3 4B. Unlimited four-party line business ser-
* vice.
(For which a flat rate of $24 per year
is now charged.)
N 4 R. Unlimited single party line residence ser-
WICe.
(For which a flat rate of $36 per year
is now charged.)
N 5 2R Unlimited two-party line residence ser-
VICe. *
(For which a flat rate of $24 per year
is now charged.)
N 6 4R. Unlimited four-party line residence ser-
WIGe.
(For which a flat rate of $18 per year
is now charged.)
N 7 Trunked service from the Neighborhood
Exchange lines to the Chicago Ex-
change lines, or to lines in other Neigh-
borhood Exchanges.
(For which a rate of 5c per outgoing
message is charged.)
(Under the Neighborhood Exchange
rates, which are much lower than the
Chicago Exchange rates, the subscrib-
ers have the privilege of free connec-
tion with the subscribers in their own
exchanges, but are charged a fee when
jº connected with Chicago Exchange sub-
scribers outside of their own Neigh-
borhood limits.)
SPE(JIAI, RATE CLASSES.
S 1 Extension lines extending from the sub-
scriber’s telephone line to premises
beyond his own; which we hereinafter
call Mileage Extension lines.
(For this service a charge of $20 a
year is now made for the first half
mile or less of line, and $10 per year
for each additional quarter mile.)
§ 2 * Private lines not connected to the Tele-
phone Company’s circuits.
(For this a charge of $40 per year is
now made for the first mile or less of
line, and $10 per year for each addi-
tional quarter mile.)