Postal Telegraph Company changed its name

Postal Telegraph Company to Lose Its Identity.

The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company is about to lose its old corporate name at least, if not its entire identity, by the filing of a petition in the New York Supreme Court on January 14. The petition was filed by Charles C. Adams, vice-president of the Postal Company, and sought to have the name of the company changed to the Transcontinental Telegraph Company. Incidentally the petition disclosed the fact that the Postal Company has not the overland telegraph business for several years. Mr. Adams stated that the company had disposed of its telegraph business to the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which has continued the business under the name of the Postal. The petition was granted.

In many circles it is believed that this move verifies the assertions made two months ago, when the American Telephone and Telegraph Company secured practically a controlling interest in the Western Union Telegraph Company. It was stated that the American Co. controlled the trunk telephone and telegraph systems of the country.