The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-03-22
ADVANCED TELEeRAPHY.

Washington n baltimore proved an
unqualified success, the improvements
engrafted upon the system nave been
most wondrous and beneficial. 1t were
idle to trace the most important of
them. Every intelligent person knows
of the successive inventions and their
uses. New inventions, however, re-
quire explanation. Our attention is
called to a recent Improvement which
discounts Edison's best effort, and,
like his quadruplex system, is designed
to facilitate and cheaper the transmits
sion of messages. Between the old and
new worlds q most gratifying decrease
of rates is not only promised, but con-
tracted for by the American cable COM
pany Of New York. The general agent
of that company has entered into a
contract in London, which stipulation
guarantees TO send ten messages of
twenty words each per minute through
the conducting wire between Paris or
London and New York. Photographers
may well whistle in surprise at this
statement; but its truth is vouched for
by respectable authority both in Lon
don and New York. 1t is further
stated that the company bound itself
to its minimum capacity in the con-
tract. The maximum speed is such,
that what could be sent in thirty min
utes, would be equal to the number Of
words contained in the largest news
paper. Indeed, the company claims to
be able to despatch an entire copy of a
large paper over the ocean and repro
duce it in fac-simile, on a stereotyped
block or plate, complete and ready to
be printed from, in thirty minutes, and
that, too, at a trifing cost.
We could not undertake, for the
value Of a carbonate camp, to describe
perfectly the apparatus for accomplish
ing the wonderful achievement above
mentioned. MOI are we prepared to
make affidavit that all the claims will
be realized fully. But as other things,
equally as incredible, have been ac-
complished, although ridiculed at first
as chimerical, we should not dispute
the merits Of this last invention, until
we have had proof to sustain us. 1t is
always easier to believe than to dis
prove; and this argument is none the
less forcible, because it is borrowed
from the fold of religio-atheistic discus
sion and applied to science. Therefore
let the truth of the invention be
granted.
Revolution is a very mild word to APP
ply to the changed condition of ways
Biographical, when the new mode
comes into vogue. The public will ex-
perience the unprecedented delights of
cheap rates and rapid transmission.
The business of telegraph companies
must therefore increase beyond all pre-
conceived limits. But it is in the news
paper world that the greatest revolu-
tion is promised. The ability to trans
init a fac-simile of an entire paper
thousands of miles, and have the same
ready to be printed from in the short
space of thirty minutes, means that it
will be done. Not the least important
point is the fact that it can be done at
a trifling expense. This almost insures
the adoption of the invention. At first
it will be likely taken up by such repre-
sentative papers of large areas a the
New York Herald, the Chicago Times,
the Louisville Courier Journal, and the
San Francisco Chronicle, for the pur-
pose of circulating copies of the origi-
nails in cities where there are many SUBJ
scribers. Thus, the New York Herald,
could have a press in each of the cities
of Washington, Philadelphia, Hartford,
Boston, Portland and San Francisco,
and possibly several interior cities. 1t
might go further, and have one at Lon
don and at Paris. The operation of
the plan would be that as soon
as the forms of the paper in New
York are ''proyed," they could be
instantaneously transmitted to each
of the cities mentioned, and in a few
minutes a half a dozen cities in various
states would be rolling off copies of the
original, which would also be going
through the press at New York. Such
a system would permit of the news
reader in Washington or Chicago perus-
ing the Herald at breakfast time, along
with the local paper. OF course, the
circulation of the paper would be large
ly increased in the cities mentioned.
At present the number of subscribers
is naturally limited, while the cost of
expressing the papers amounts to a
goodly sum, which leaves only a nomi-
nal profit. The new system encourages
a belief in largely increased circnla-
tions and profits. The experience of
the other papers would be similar. 1t
is easy to be seen what a stir such a
system would make in the world. The
possibilities Of journalism could not be
bounded. To the intelligent citizen
the daily newspaper is as necessary
almost as the morning meal. He would
certainly feel as miserable for the lack
of a newspaper as for the absence of
the matutinal hot coffee and cakes. 1t
is a pleasure for such a person to know
that in addition to the local paper
which cannot lose its place or influence
he can have his favorite metropolitan
paper as fresh as the man can who
lives in the vicinity Of the home office.
We await with much interest the en-