The New York herald., 1870-03-29
grapAy from .Ae execul.re rooms Of tne great aO.

nopoy.
Tie editor OF the Journal strives earnestly to
serve his masters BY inly endeayorng " magnify
the laoors Incident 10 the automatic system OF tee-
Morse system by the mosi absurd perverson OF truth
and common sense as for instance, 1.-The Morse sys-
s RESPONDS a. any distance 20 any rate o. manpu-
ia.ions VI which the nngcr Is capable" The young
esl messenger ooy IN the once could tell tho editor
sna, sueh statement was utterly destitute OF truth.
s, a,a aiJ man who ever buited his head against
.eiegraph post knows that . Morse operator cannot
% 1no sue morse KEY as rapidly ~ he IL capable of
cut much greater than this the above statement OF
.De culIor would NOT be true by more than seventy
The managers and friends Of the great monopoly
aWeil mucu upon Tue ireey al nIttcd TACT that the
MoIse operator eau sead message to us destina-
ton IN the same or less time tnan IA required to pre-
pare II LOT transmission by our system. Now, II
there waS . line between TWO points and there was
only SO much possible business to % oone between
the two points ~ two Morse operators could tranS-
mt with all necessary promptness, should hardly
expect the owners OF the line TO dscaru the Morse
and adopt the Little system But what win tney o
when their business increases? WIN they not nave
70 double their operators, wires and machinery.
trader or course they WILL aud they must
commune TO do It as fast as their business
increases 10 any considerable extent For instance,
Tor years after tho telegraph WAS introduced single
wire was ample TO 90 the through business on routes
waers thirty are now necessary y serve ans Du1c
land why not IN teiegraphing as wen AZ IN railroad
and travelling expenses = nlty or even hundred
promptly mat would be onereJ.
Now. the business that Ii done on thirty Morse
wires could be mucn more promptly done on three
Little automatic wires. Is IL not clear. therefore.
that the Morse people must put up twenty
seven wires, two extra sets OF poles, IN
suIators, batteries &c., that are not at ali
needed by the Little automatic systems And
OF course every Morse wire must be manned with =
nigh saared operator at every point or station
where tue wire Is 10 Le used. Even In the rs cost
OF the thirty wires, for 20)o or the o. 900 or
10000 miles OF line wnicn the Western Union Com
a.
tween S6,0oo,oo6 and s1,ooo,ooo Invested against
tle Morse aud IN favor Of the Little system " say
nothing OF the enormous cost OF Morse AS compared
with Little machinery aud the millions OF oOiiars
yearly IN the expense oil working ana repairing the
many Morse over the few Little wires.
In the matter OF comparative advantages or tho
one system over tue other the most obiuse BLOCK
head connected with interested In the Western
Union Company must admit that where one system
requires ten or fifteen wires ana the same number OF
high saiaried operators To do the Work OF TRANSMITS
sion at one ONCE that can be better done by another
system wncn requires for the TRANSMISSION but
singe wire and single low salaried OPERATOR there
eau be question a3 to which should have tno
preference or winch VIII win IN race OF compe-
tltlon.
It's quite true that II the republic should not
choose 10 save half or more OF the expense OF tee-
graphing, by composing tntir messages with our
slInple and easily understood composing tablets. We
SHAH be compelled 10 eaiplOy several giris besides
the one VINO operates the transmitting machine.
Dut ia THIS respect We may be kenet 10 the HERALD
COMPOSING and press departments. You pat up more
or less cases oil type and put a greater or less
number OF compositofs, according 70 the matter
you wish 10 put into type; ana When you get
ready you send tue day rs WORK oi nfty or seventy
nve c0mposItors to the gntniug press aud quickly
runs or the hundred thousand copies you require
Tor your patrons. In the same way We put up aS
many composing tablets as we neet 70 supply copy
to our trantnittlng motor, aud thus with sing %
wire we utilize the labor OF ten or twenty young
ladies' al tneir composing tablets.
NEW YORK. March 20, 1870.