Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-09-24

| lndn was required OF tDcm IN earlV
childhood to master their printed alpha
bet, become, at their homes, good
telegraphists in the business of pre-
pairing or composing telegraph ines
sages for transmission over the wires
and in translating and copying the
same in ordinary print after transmits
sion-thus leaving to the professional
telegraph expert only the trihing work
of operating the transmitting machine.
by which one thousand to fifteen hun
dred words per minute may be accu-
rately transmitted over a single wire
in long telegraph circuits Again, the
exigencies of business often require
that kilograms, long or short, should be
transmitted in secret cipher, and this
new system of composing telegraph
messages offers the most admirable
facilities for this style of correspond
ence, causing practically no delay,
either in composing or transmitting the
message or letter The most important
secrets may readily be conveyed with
more sacred privacy by this new sys-
tenn of telegraphing than they could
be if dispatched through mail bags or
express packages.
NEW KINK FOR NEWSPAPERS.
Here is another proposed new fea-
ture concerning the press reports,
which will interest your night editor.
Instead Of having to struggle with
reams of manifold, the bulk of which
is consigned to the waste-basket. he
can do his telegraph condensing and
editing from New York, having sip
at all the flowers in the bouquet of
news. The Rapid" company say
they can and will, by the marvellous
speed in telegraphing possessed by
their system, collect daily and hourly,
from all parts of this country and
Europe, the fullest and most trust
worthy details of all news of public
interest and display the same at the
company's news bureaus connected
with its New York, Chicago and other
chief offices. The special correspond
ents of the press of the country will
have free access to these news bureaus
and will be permitted to compile for
the journals they may represent such
portions Of the general news of the
world, including verbatim reports of
the daily proceedings of both Houses
OF Congress, as they may desire, and
the same will be telegraphed direct to
the editors OF the papers concerned at
speed of at least one thousand words
per minute and at cost not exceeding
one dollar per one thousand words,
the actual cost Of telegraphing by this
system, complete 1000 words, be-
tween any two available points-say
New York and Chicago, or Washing
ton and Boston-not exceeding about
twenty cents. This will assuredly
give the opportunity for each and
every paper to publish live news of
its own, and not duplicate of its
contemporaries, and to give a synopsis
of Congressional proceedings through
it's own spectacles without having to
submit to any personal partiality or
political bias of an Associated Press
reporter.
And the cost can be made still
cheaper, as the company claim that
the system of machine telegraphing
is so simple and easily understood
that the preparation or composing of
press messages may be accomplished
by the junior assistants of editors and
correspondents accurately, after one
days teaching, and the recorded tele-
graph characters can, after practice, be
translated or read by any person who
has even q common school education
just as well and as rapidly as can be
done by the most thoroughly edu-
Gated Morse telegrapher; and those
| who choose to have this trilling
amount of work performed by their
own clerks will save time, assure ex-
ira accuracy and entitle themselves to
considerable rebates from the estab-
lished tariffs. So instead of studying
photography (the use of which has
now become obsolete in all well-regu-
lated newspapers) the ambitious youth
who sighs for journalistic honors had
better set himself at once to work at
studying the composition and transla-
ton of this new electro-mechanical
telegraphy alphabet.
RAPID" TRAINING SCHOOLS.
The American "Rapid" telegraph
company have already started and
have in fourishing condition two
training schools, one on Broadway, in
New York, and the other at Boston,
at which persons of both sexes, from
twelve to twenty years of age,
of good character, are admitted free,
in order to fit them to become effec-
tive operators in the Offices of the COM
pany. Pupils may become experts in
the business in two to four months,
and, when qualified, will be paid SIS
to $50 per month. The business is
genteel and but slightly taxes the
mental or physical energies of the pu-
pill of whom the most efficient are en-
rolled for employment in the order of
their graduation. Many thousands of
persons of both sexes will find agreea-
bic employment and reasonable remu-
neration in the cities, towns and vii
lagos of the country as rapidly as the
company's lines can be constructed.
Nor need the expert telegraph opera
tor be alarmed lest he may be crowded
out by ''cheap labor" His services
will be only the more valuable in the
direction of the machinery, which will
require telegraphers of experience.
The Rapid" company intend from
the start to identify its chief practical
employees, as far as possible, as share
holders in its business prosperity, and
to this end the operatives will be Sc
lected with the utmost care as to char
acter, intelligence and ability. The
company is so constituted as to admit
of an ultimate large holding of its
stock and an influential control of its
management by it's practical opera
tives, the promoters of the company
fully appreciating the Importance of