Report by the Bureau of Franchises Upon the Application of the Automatic Scoreboard Company, Inc

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Excerpt from Report by the Bureau of Franchises Upon the Application of the Automatic Scoreboard Company, Inc: For the Right to Construct, Maintain and Operate Electric Wires in the Borough of Manhattan for the Purpose of Operating a System of Automatic Baseball Scoreboards, February 24, 1917The Company now proposes to extend its operations, having secured one hundredadditional boards. It desires the right to cover the entire Borough of Manhattan. The Company contemplates continuing the use of the New York Telephone Company's wires. The rates charged by the latter company for its wires are $50 per year per mile of circuit: Where the use of the circuit is for less than one year, as in the present case, the baseball season being for approximately six months, a proportionate rate is charged, to which is added a concession or short charge, which is one-quarter of the charge for the unexpired portion of the year.While the results of the temporary operation were not perhaps conclusive as to the commercial possibilities of the service, nevertheless sufficient information has been obtained to permit the drafting of a proposed form of contract, the principal features of which are as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.