Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-21
OPPOSITION TELEGRAPH.@
The Rapidly with which the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company il Elk.
tending Hts Lines.
A Movement that IL Not Checked by the
Western Union Will Secure
Healthy Opposition.

BALTIMORE, December 20.-The officials
connected with the Baltimore and Ohio
telegraph service in this city have tax en- pos
session of their headquarters, in the central
Office, corner of Baltimorre and Calvert
streets, and are doing an active business. The
company, which was actively engaged for
some time in the extension of its lines
OF telegraph 10 New York, last week
succeeded in getting up seven wires, which
were tested Yesterday and found to be in fne
working order. The line, commencing at
the main Office of the company in Baltimore,
extends eastwardly within the city TO Bay
view, from which point, by a most direct
line, it runs through Havre de Grace, Elk
ton, Newark, Wilmington, and Chester, until
it reaches Philadelphia. Crossing the Della
ware by cables, it proceeds almost by an air
line from Camden to New York, through
Pemberton, Highstown, Amboy and Staten
Island, following directly along the line of
the Pennsylvania railroad and that of The
Staten leland railroad in such manner az
to be always easily and quickly accessible
for repairs, etc. II reaches BROOKLYN at the
Narrows, by cable landing at Forts Hamil-
ton and Richmond. From Brooklyn it
passes over the suspension bridge into New
York. The whole length of the line is less
than 200 miles, or the shortest practicable
distance between Baltimore and New York.
The line consists of sixteen wires
through the city of Baltimore, with
provision for double that num-
Der. From Baltimors to Brooklyn seven
wires are already up, space being provided
for fifteen or eighteen more wires. From
Fort Hamilton through the city of Brooklyn
to New York the line consists of twenty-five
wires. By the completion of this line to
New York, the Baltimore and Ohio system
now reaches seven of the most important
cities of this country-namely: New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chi |
csgo, Cincinnati, and st. Louis, and inter-
mediate points, from which emanates not |
less than sixty TO seventy i've per cent. of the
whole telegraph business of the country. |
Most ample and prominent provision has |
been made for the Baltimore and Ohio tele-
graph lines in all the produce, stock, and |
cotton exchanges in all these centers The /
unprecedented promptness and dispatch |
rendered by this company in its service be-
tween Baltimore and the various Western
exchanges, it is now expected, will be ex-
tended also to New York and Philadelphia.
The system, forming As it does the great
trunk telegraph line OF the country, has al
ready N ade most valuable connections for
new lines, one extending south from Wash
ington as far as New Orleans, with Offices
already open in Frederick sburg, Richmond,
Petersburg, and Norfolk; another norihwsrd
from the city of New York, covering the
|
me State of New York, and Western Penn
ylvauia. In addition TO this, several of
he largest railroad systems of the
country West and Southwest are
eeking connection with the great
runk-line system, with a view of Sc
uring the large profits on the commercial
'usinese passing over their wires, which is
low going to the great telegraph monopolies
f the country. Coincident and cooperative
nth all these movements will be the con- ;
truction and laying of the new Atlantic {
able, which is to be TIE first and only At
antic cable built upon a cash basis, which | {
lay be also said of about the whole system
land lines with which it will connect. '
With this new system of cooperation of the :
arious large railroad companies owning c
heir telegraph lines and operating the same g
unity, there can be no risk of that CONSOLE I
alton which has heretofore always been r
lade of the various telegraph interests OF a
lie country as soon as developed. This new
apsrture must thus secure heakhy COM il
etition in the telegraph business of the C
,untry heretofore unknown, which will at 81
ice extend TO the Atlantic cable service, b
nd ultimately to Canada and Mexico, I"
hich are now under the ban of the great c
legraph monopoly of the country. There II
every indication that the company will s,
lmediateiy open up very heavy general c
isiness, and will prove most formidable n
val to Gould's Western Union Company. | SC
r. Robert Stewart, the superintendent of the c.
legraph department, of which Mr.. George d
Erich is mansger, has organized a large IA
ID competent force, and, occupying SIS it tt
IL the hsndsomest Office of any telegraph | c
mpsny in this city, the Baltimore and Y
,io will certainly start out under the most h
vora HE auspices. fr