The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-04-08
RAPID TELEGRtPHlNG.

RAPlD TELEGkAPHlA6.
Eighteen Hundred Words Minute Anolhe'
Competitor For the Western Union ~ Hul Up
OF the new telegraph company OPP
Grating between Buffalo and New York
CITY, the Rochester Herah SAYS:
While The inventions owned by the
company make use of no new principle
OF electricity, the machines are so in
Renious and the results so ASTONISHING
Tint the system seems entitoly distinct
from that Of the Morse telegraph On
account OF the rapidity with which the
messages are sent and the consequent
cneap rates, the company expects soon
to do most Of he telegra phing Tor the
business centers of t e United States
In the fall Of 1880 the first line ol
the Rapid Telegraph company was
opened between Boston and New York
About IA year ago another line wat
opened south from New York to Wash
iugtuD. Since that time the company
ihis been constantly at work extending
their lines aud opening new offices
] The line on which Rochester Is located
has four wires and connects New York
and Buffalo At present there are
offices only ut Troy, Hudson, Syfacuse
and Rochester, but next week there
will be one IN operation Mt Buffalo, and
others Will he speedily opened. The
line between Boston aud Washington
already has an immense business, many
large firms doing all their correspond
ence IN tins way. Even the Office here,
although scarcely IN readiness, and hay
ing solicited no work, Is daily sending
large number OF messages One
reason for this, no doubt, Is the cheap
rates offered, charges being made ON
twenty, instead OF ten word bases.
1t seems Incredible at hrst that l.oOJ
words II minute can be sent IRON kOch
ester to New YORK. Snch Is the TACT
however. An examination OF the meth
DDS used makes the matter less mary
elous. Upon being received Mt the Of
/ flee Of transmission, the message IL
| given to an operator of machine
called the perforator This contrlyanct
10 too complicated to be fully explain, d
1t Is worked by means OF IL key board
in the same manner us II type writer
The operator strikes "A lettered key
and the symbol corresponding to the
letter is perforated III slip OF papel
which pnsseS mt uniform rate belor'
the pcriorating instrument. BY tn,
use OF Authorizations Tor words sigma
lures aud combinations Of letters, it il
rendered unnecessary to make aperlor
alton for ach letter. BY one IN prac
tice message eau be perforated in thi
manner with great correctness
The neXt machine Is appropriated
called the fast machine. 1t Is reall,
the transmitter, The end of the per
Iorlted slip OF paper Is placed between
some pens ana roller charged Wit
the full force OF the electric current
The operator has now simply to turn
crank and the strip al paper i pas.;;,;
between the pens and the roller. With
rapidlty that wlll transmit nearly TIVE
thousand words minute. The crcui
IS completed each time the pen passe
over peiloratioh and is broken whit
the pea Is passing over the other part
OF the strip oil paper
Inc method employed III the Morse
telegraph mas now become compare
uVely ow ana tedious lhe operate
is not opilged TO complete ana breal
the circuit oy mana TWO or three lime
tor each letter. All this WORK Is don'
Tor hlm'