The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-11-16
From the Washington Sunday Chronicle.
or this Progressive Age.

From the Washington Sunday Chronicle.
wonders OF this Progressive Age.
Happening to meet that courteous
and agreeable gentleman, Mr.. Henry
D. Cooke, Jr., we were informed OF
one of the wonders of this surprising
age of progress. The gentleman, with
many other financial men, among
them such names widely known to the
money and business world as Hon.
John B. Alley, Of Washington and
Boston, r. NJ. Pulsifer, John S. Alley,
A. w. Beard, and others, of Boston,
Henry Cummins and others, of New
York, Governor Charles Foster, of
Ohio, Prof. Elisha Gray, of Chicago,
ETC., have organized company with
$21 900, 900 capital stock, to push into
use new and astonishing inventions i'll
telegraphy. 1t is known as the Postal
Telegraph Company.
What the new system they propose
using is capable of, is best set forth i'll
their prospectus, which is copied en-
tire, viz:
THE LEGGO AUTOMATIC SYSTEM.
/. twill transmit automatically, on
single. wire, any number of words up
to thousand or more per minute.
2. 1t can transmit messages auto
maticalIy Oh a single wire and receive
them automatically at the end of the
circuit, and re-transmit them automat-
ically at the same speed over any num-
ber of circuits, all from q single set
ting OH single instrument, which is
impossible by any other system, Sc
curing immediate delivery over any
number of circuits and saving more
than one-half the operating expenses,
where messages are re- transmitted.
3. 1t enables any number of local
offices in city Or its vicinity to trans
NIT messages by ordinary hand meth
ods to central office by wire, where
they will be received on an automatic
instrument ready for instant and rapid
transmission this being also impossi-
BILE by any other system.
4. 1t will enable commercial and
| financial houses to prepare their mes
sages in their own offices and send
them instantly to their corresponding
house at any distant point without the
intervention or knowledge Of the COM
pany's agents oremployes-equivalent
to the exclusive use of wire.
5. 1t can transmit the exact hand
writing of a written message, deliver
ing perfect fac simile at the opposite
end of the line. This dispenses with
the services Of operators, the trans
mitting being mechanical and auto
matte, and without error, and prevent
ing fraud by forgery.
+ g. 1t entirely dispenses with the
expensive and complicated perforating
machinery which has heretofore beeI
the objection to all other automatic o.
rapid systems.
7. In the preparation of message:
an alphabetical keyboard may be uset
whereby a single depression Of a lettel
or key will produce corresponding
letter of the Morse alphabet, thus do
ing away with skilled Morse operator!
and enabling the operator to perform ;
greater amount of work in givel
time.
This system, coupled with the Har
monte System, with other patents
gives the new company practical fu
ture leadership in the worlds tele
graphy. The great wealth and prac
tical business capacity of the mel
behind this new enterprise insure it
success. They are not spectators OF
Adventures, but solid men with mil
lions of their own capital. When We
consider that from capital of bu
$3.50, 600 in 1868, telegraphy has grown
in this country to the enormous pro
portions of a capital Of
TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS,
with net income Of Sc, 900, eco, some
idea may be formed of its unparalleled
progress. A reporter interviewed Mr.
Bartlette at his home at 1921 Massa-
chusetts avenue, who is the executive
chief in the construction of the new
lines. In one part of his interview
Mr.. Bartlette said:
ave are getting along very nicely.
We are now completing about seven
ty-five miles of line each week, and
expect by the 1st of January next to
be working between New York and
Buffalo, Clevt and, Toledo, Sandusky,
indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Chi
cago. The line will be so perfect that
by putting on a telephone
A WHISPER CAN BE HEARD
from New York to Chicago. / may
add that although Gray i'll selling his
patents to Us only agreed to make five
wires out of one, he is actually making
now an iron wire about three hundred
miles in extent, nine wires out of one,
or, in other words. he can send nine
messages on one wire in either direc-
ton at the same time"
These statements would appear fab
ulous were not the results of the past
few years, in electrical development,
almost of a thrilling nature.