The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-30
KEENE's COMPANY.
Something About the New Telegraph
Company.
Marvellous DupIieatioa Of Transmitting
Power l5N3
A Machine That Does Almost HUI
man Work.


New York, July 29.-Keene's nev
telegraphic company was organized to
day. 1t is becoming quite fashionable
nowadays for milllonaires and promi
nent Wall street operators to contro
organizations Of this character and
following Vanderbilt and Gould, Keens
now comes in for his share of the great
telegraphic competition which - sure
to arise against the monopoly of the
Western Union. The new company ID
well provided with moneyed backing.
as evidenced by the names of some Of
the incorporators: John W. .Mackey,
of bonanza fame; George ID. Roberts,
mine manipulation; II. Victor New
comb and Jas. O'Brien, also of BONANZA
memory; and others.
The stock is chiefly in the hands Of
California, New York and Boston cap
italists, although considerable portion
is said to have been taken in Europe.
The purpose is TO construct system Of
telegraph lines In the United States,
Canadas and Mexico, and to do gen.
eral telegraph business. The prospec-
tus promises lines equivalent in work.
ing capacity to the present system of
the Western Union, which shall be In
operation by January '83. The Lew
company have recently obtained facili-
ties which they claim will enable them
to do this without interfering with tho
rights and patents held by the Western
Union. The first point obtained by tho
Keene combination was patents on the
new system Of automatic and facsimile
telegraph. the patentee being W. A.
Leggo. These patents have been as
signed to the Electro-G Graphic manu-
featuring company, incorporated last
October; snd the price paid the latter
for the exclusive right to use the Leggo
automatic and facsimile machine is
said to be sl,000,000. The Electro
Graphic did not propose to go into Q
general business, but will now continue
to perfect and manufacture machines.
BY the automatic system messages can
be sent at an average rate of from 1000
o,a msthos or -o-as : .,;..,t. 49,,
canacitv Of tho ,nst,rmsn.s w,.h
nroner wira and ;nstrumen,. - n.r,s.. -
ordar ~. m.naasrs oslths ~. 49,,
narv s.v ,hav h.,s .,.-. -s.-sr -" - -. !.
,;.v. ~. - a.
nrao,,ooh,. "~'
Tne American Ran;d. talaoranh oor,-
uany is similar to this IN manv rssnsct,
Int practically their snaad /. I;n,tsd -
less than I 600 xords mar minute A.
the rate of . OOO words mar m;nuta ths
new companv can transm;t mora word.
in ouarter Of an bour than the ord,-
nary method can In tvsntv-fonr hours
Rv this machine sorna 1so ooo ,.ord.
can he transmitted a. on ho,,r on nn.
wire and in q dav near,v for, ~ n.;,,,on
word. Thav o.r Al uas ,..-...SA.
with ona v,re hetwaan 49,. 80 ' -a,.'..
than ths vvsstsrr Ir,,o, -, A. ..,.s % e,
theirs The instrumsnt consist. - a.
iron wbaal atort two 81, M. h.,, -
dismater with q carss,,Iv trrrn.d e.t
.nrfaca Ono foot hro.S 49, th,.
ia an instrument l;ra tbe NSor.. .o,,a.r
movino from laft - r,oht ,,r.o,, ! ..rs.r
while tha ,aross whss, t.rs. 49, ) .ra,,,,s .m
slov,r at r,.ht .n.,.. ,,,.t -. -.
ment of the sonpdsr IN A. lsc-.v
Above the screv Is q can IN, ..nec;a,lv
prepared analjna ink Tho oner,tor
uorks the aoundar, AZ N, ,vvo,,,a : Mor,.
,rstrnment In sending q rnessaoe and
20 the Iaroa wheel revolves the neca'
t,n. !, Tho ,,a 800 no ha as.,res to,,. ssrt
snnsors in alonoatad Aror.a Nbsrsctars
,neno,;ro ;nt Il ra,aIIo, l,n.. around
tho rsr,nhsrv of IN. ,orgo ,vhso, ! ~
surface os the vbasI vh;ch can racs,vs
an ;mnress of 5oo vords msssa 40
of this length can he nnt on ~. vhss,
n half the time Il wonld take the omar.
ator to send it off: a. IN the latter Gaze
the operator cannot send a message
mora RAPIDLY than the receiver can re-
caive Il and write IL ont. II the re.
.ca,var lo.es a word the time of 10Th
sender and receiver Il lost.in repeating e
A message can be put upon this wheel
at the rate of from go to 100 words ne,
minute, and while the message Is being
written tba v;ra ,co,, -, ,,.s.1 a., s.a,S.
,an . ".nsr sms sssa..0 w.v oan - y usoa u emo.
has baan comp,stsd A., tic .has,' t,s
Mor.a ,its ;r.tru,,sn i. -" II i
to the starting noint ,I an, = tns % ,rt na;D, Sr,