Instead of legitimately extending telephone lines into communities that had none, these promoters proceeded to inflict the messy snarl of an overlapping system upon whatever cities would give them permission to do so.
In this way, masked as competition, the nuisance and waste of duplication began in most American cities. The telephone business was still so young, it was so little appreciated even by the telephone officials and engineers, that the public regarded a second or a third telephone system in one city as quite a possible and desirable innovation.
A study of twelve single-system cities and twenty-seven double-system cities shows that there are about eleven per cent more telephones under the double-system, and that where the second system is put in, every fifth user is obliged to pay for two telephones.
In the main, perhaps, it has been a reactionary and troublesome movement in the cities, and a progressive movement among the farmers.
It is strung out over fifty thousand cities and communities.
After the conclusion of the war with Xerxes, it appears that the Lacedaemonians required that a number of the cities should be turned out of the confederacy for the unfaithful part they had acted.
The Thebans, with others of the cities, undertook to maintain the authority of the Amphictyons, and to avenge the violated god.
The cities composing this league retained their municipal jurisdiction, appointed their own officers, and enjoyed a perfect equality.
It appears that the cities had all the same laws and customs, the same weights and measures, and the same money.
It is, that as well after the renovation of the league by Aratus, as before its dissolution by the arts of Macedon, there was infinitely more of moderation and justice in the administration of its government, and less of violence and sedition in the people, than were to be found in any of the cities exercising SINGLY all the prerogatives of sovereignty.
We are not to conclude too hastily, however, that faction did not, in a certain degree, agitate the particular cities; much less that a due subordination and harmony reigned in the general system.
Whilst the Amphictyonic confederacy remained, that of the Achaeans, which comprehended the less important cities only, made little figure on the theatre of Greece.
According to the DOF, the following 19
cities did not submit their eSREs: Angeles City, Cavite City, Guihulngan City, Ilagan City, Imus City, Mabalacat City, Malolos City, Marawi City, Masbate City, Naga City (Cebu), Puerto Princesa City, Roxas City, Santa Rosa City, Sorsogon City, Surigao City Tabuk City, Tagbilaran City, Talisay City (Cebu) and Toledo City.
These spatial continuities illustrate the high degree of integration that has developed between
cities and their respective regions.
But the mayor's office received enthusiastic letters from all points of the compass requesting copies of the most recent version of the Ordinance--including the mayors of numerous southern
cities, New York City's Title and Mortgage Company, Chicago's City Hall, the powerful Chicago Real Estate Board, and even the imperial authorities at Cebu in the U.S.-occupied Philippines.
