and that all such stations directly connected to the Canton exchange be furnished switching service at the above authorized monthly rate. Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this seventh day of February, 1924. [Minn In re APPLICATION OF THE G. O. MILLER TELEPHONE COM- M-1325. Decided February 8, 1924. Service Connection and Charges for Moves and Changes Established. ORDER. The G. O. Miller Telephone Company, a corporation, is operating a local telephone exchange in the village of Goodhue, Minnesota. The petitioner has filed an application for authority to establish and place in effect at its Goodhue exchange, the following schedule of charges: The contract term for main station service not to exceed one month. No additional contract required for supplemental service and equipment, such as extension station service, joint user service, extra listings and extension bells. The subscriber to furnish any necessary conduit and moulding and also bear the expense in case of drilling of solid masonry or concrete wall. All outside moves to bear the regular service connection charge for the class of service affected. Inside Moves: Main station or extension station, within same room, or Any individual, firm, or corporation, to supersede another without the payment of service connection charges, provided there is no interruption of service, and no change in name or in location, or type of equipment. For change in name only in the directory listing, but no change in the telephone number, a charge of $1.00. In all other cases, the regular service connection charges to apply. Upon review of all the facts, bearing upon the application, the Commission finds the charges applied for to be fair and reasonable. It is, therefore, ordered, That the G. O. Miller Telephone Company be, and the same is hereby, permitted to place in effect, at its Goodhue, Minnesota, exchange, as of March 1, 1924, the charges for service connection, charges for change of name, charges for moving equipment from one location to another, and other miscellaneous charges above referred to. Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this eighth day of February, 1924. MISSOURI. Public Service Commission, In re APPLICATION OF THE CAPE GIRARDEAU BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY FOR INCREASED PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE RATES. Case No. 3661. Decided November 1, 1923. Claim That Return of 10 Per Cent. or 12 Per Cent. on Hotel Telephone The Cape Girardeau Bell Telephone Company presented a schedule for higher rates to be applied to the service furnished by it to two hotels at the city of Cape Girardeau, the St. Charles Hotel operated by E. G. Granling and the Idan-Ha Hotel of which Walter Black is the proprietor. The effective date of the schedule was postponed by order of the Commission for the purpose of investigating the reasonableness of the said rates as proposed by the Cape Girardeau Bell Telephone Company which will be hereinafter referred to as the company. A hearing was held at the city of Cape Girardeau on the third day of October, 1923, before two members of the Commission and the case was submitted on the evidence and a memorandum filed thereafter by the company. R. B. Oliver, Jr., appeared for the company; A. F. Spradling represented the hotel proprietors in opposition to the higher rates. The company presented two reasons for approving the new and higher rates as proposed: first, because the pres L. 148] ent rates are unreasonably low; second, because the rates now charged are discriminatory in that the same rates are not charged the hotels for similar service, and in that the hotel rates are less than the rates charged for other similar private branch exchange service by the company at its exchange in the city of Cape Girardeau. The company furnishes service for six private branch exchanges. Reference is made to the company's Exhibit No. 1 for a comparison of the proposed rates and those charged for other private branch exchanges. The company now charges for private branch exchanges other than hotels: For switchboard complete and one strip of not more than 10 jacks, with 50 cents per month for each additional strip of 10 jacks.... For first trunk line.... For extension telephones... Per Month $4.00 4 87 100 The company charges $1.00 per month to business subscribers and 50 cents per month to subscribers for residence telephones for extension sets. The company began to furnish telephone service to the St. Charles Hotel in 1911 under a contract for five years. The Idan-Ha Hotel subscribed for the company's service in 1913 for five years. The rates charged the hotels by the company continue as specified in the said contracts. The service furnished the hotels and their patrons is the same, but there is a difference in rates charged the hotels by the company which will appear hereinafter. The company installed and maintains its equipment at both hotels. The equipment of the company includes a switchboard, trunks, wires, and instruments in the rooms and also telephone instruments in the hotel lobbies for local and long distance calls. Tolls are paid for using the public telephones in the lobby of the hotels by depositing coins in a slot machine attached thereto. Under the present rates, the St. Charles Hotel pays 25 cents per month for each extension telephone in each of the 46 rooms of the hotel, and also pays 5 cents for each local call sent from the hotel outward through the hotel switchboard. The company pays the St. Charles Hotel 10 per cent. on outbound toll messages from the hotel, whether through the telephone in the lobby or through the switchboard at the hotel. This allowance for toll charges is the same as made to the Idan-Ha Hotel and is more liberal than provided for in the contract of the St. Charles Hotel. The company charges the Idan-Ha Hotel 25 cents per month for each telephone in each of its 56 rooms; $2.75 per month for use of trunk line from the branch exchange to the central exchange, and 5 cents per message on each outward local call, of which the hotel receives one-half. The Idan-Ha Hotel receives the same per cent. on toll messages as the St. Charles. Under the new rates, the company proposes to charge $4.00 per month on a switchboard furnished by it to a hotel, including one drop of 10 jacks, and 50 cents per month for each additional drop of 10 jacks; $4.87 for the first trunk from the hotel to exchange central, and 50 cents per month for each extension in a room. The company proposes to allow the hotels 10 per cent. on toll messages with a maximum of 10 cents on any message, and to remove the slot machines from the hotel lobby. The hotels are to retain the 5 cents per message charge on outgoing local calls through the hotel switchboard. The company also purposes in making installations hereafter for hotel service, to require the hotels to furnish and maintain interior wiring between the stations and the switchboard. The evidence indicates that under the new rates the charges of the St. Charles Hotel would be increased from $13.48 per month to $33.87 per month, and that the increase of the Idan-Ha Hotel per month would be from $19.63 to $39.37. During the year ended the first day of September, 1923, there were 39.3 outbound local calls per month from the St. Charles Hotel and 115.3 local calls outbound from the Idan-Ha Hotel. The commissions on long distance tolls [M |