The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-11-07
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lis Workings and what II Proposes
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JAMEsrowS, N, y, November G.-The
traveller along the line ol Tue n. y, Z. so.
railroad will see at the stations flat cars by
the score loaded with telegraph poles, and
at other points several hundred OF these
poles may he seen that have been thrown
OF, and, are readyto be distributed along
ehighway!ior the erection Of ,the postal
telegraph. West OF this city but little Is
know regarding the company and It's in.
tentions, and by many the line-by lis
name-is supposed TO have some connec.
ton with the Postoiliec Department OF the
Goyernment; but such Is not the case, rs
will 'be explained: :'H l''hI" 20 Ia ~
Here at jamestown, tho project is us.
suming tangible forul, and the officers OF
The company have no hesitancy In making
the thing clear. The only matter in which
their vision is obscured is 10 the date OF the
transfer OF the company 10 the great Amer.
lean nbsorber-Jhy Could. \ r
The name Of the company is, In fact, mn
explanation OF It's workings, for the present
letter delivery system of the cities Is to be
utilized, and, to n very large extent, is to
occupy the present messenger service OF
the telegraph companies. The Cleveland
nerchantwho, wishes to address his distant
correspondent,writes his message, s:ly of
hundred words, puts II into IN unscaled
envelope, puts II one cent stamp upon il,
and addresses it to the Office Of the Postal
Telegraph, Company; and deposits it
in :tlle nearest letterbox. z The letter
is, OF course, delivered, tho contents
at once dispatched and delivered the same
way by the postollice Department. There
is larger consumption OF time than by
the. Western Union, but ns it is designed
to occupyan intermediate place between
the post aud telegraph, II is observed that
the time of the railway OF the letter is
saved, which, in fact, makes the Cleveland
sender as near his Chicago correspondent
US though he werr 10 send letter tU him at
East Cleveland. For this message, OF about
l23 words, without messenger service, tho
rates will not vary much from fifteen cents,
which, in most cases, will be IL reduction
FROM existing rates that will amply com.
pens'ltc ior the, few hours txtru lime re-.
qnircd in sending and delivering. D
The workings Of this system us detailed
byOllicer Campbell, who has his head.
quarters here, is verynovcl, and it is in not
, only the extreme mpidity Of the apparatus
used, but the unlimited utilization OF a
minimum "plaIt," that enables cheapncss
TO be all obsolute realization.
BY the old system Of telegraphy the use
OF wire is limited, four messages at once
oyer, one wire now being the Imaximu,n
capacity, but by the Gray system thirty.
two messages may be sent at one time over
one wire, without any chance OF mixing.
The musical telephone OF Professor Gray
gave the key to the discovery, and musical
tones are employed to transmit sounds, so
That employing combination OF tuning
forks with register corresponding in har.
mony each machine sends and receives its
own individual tone, independent Of the
other, although tllirty.two sounds may be
undergoing transm ission ut the SAME time.
BY this arrangement twill be seen that a
iour.wirc line between New York and
Chicago must be capable OF doing an i'm
me,sc business, perhaps quite equal to Il
hundred wires Of the combined companies
In the way Of plant, the Postal will
have much superior working line, from
the fact that its poles will be very heavy,
being Il "0.foot pole with Il top diameter Of
I inches, while the wire, instead Of bein. n
No. S galvanized iron wire, will be steel
wire weighing 200 pounds 10 the mile,
sheathod with copper, nddiug 500 pounds
more, so that the four wires will weigh
$500 pounds 10 lhemilc, 4 fact that explains
the extras size Of the poles. With this steel
wire sheathed with copper the "rcsislanc ce"
is reduced nearly eight times, or in other
words battery OF one-eishth Of the power
Of those now III use will; be ample 10 work
the 'lostal." W. -
The work is being rapidly pushed and it
IS now expected that the new line will be
working by january 1st 1883. 10 faci!i.
tate the work the line is mapped out into
sections about 200 miles each, and con.
struclion is thus going OH in Il half dozen
places ut once. Like the American Union,
| erected some two years since, it follows
the highway, most probably the same road
as the above line, to Cleveland. The men
work i'll ganss Of about twenty aud are no.
eompanicd by "boarding house nDon
wheels ,S
1He oiisihai pun VI lIic projectors, IL Is
said, was 10 have. but one Office between
New York and Chicago, but it is now
stated, and thcannouncement OF an ollice
to be established here gives color TO tho
report, that offices arc TO be located In all
important villages and cities between the
two named points. The erection Iof the
Zine, with its cheapened rates and unlimit.
ed facilities, makes lis construction and
working not only an important epoch 10
Cleveland but 10 the whole country.