The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-12-17

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phis Times, 80 we shall have in operation
between New York and Chicago the most
perfect telegraph line the world ever saw. >
Mr.. Bartlett has-in charge the construc-
ton Of the lines of the new postal tele-
graph. brief mention OF which has already
been made in these columns. He was in
I Philadelphia Thursday and gave the re-
porter an interesting account OF the pro-
gre=s the company j. making and the wsv
In which II purposes 10 transact business.
IL Is now building n line between New
York and Chicago and poles are up
along the whole distance with the
exception OF few gaps aggregai-
/ ing about fifty miles. which the con
tractors are rapidly filing. The wires
are being strung as rapidly a. they
can be manufactured ~ the company's
works. for one 81 the pecuI arities OF the
( Postal Telegraph Company is that IL make
it, own wire--a steel core the size of
4 large knitting-needle electro plated with
copper till il j. nearly a. thick a. q lead
pencil. When The New York Chicago line
j. finished. which will be some time next
month, q second line will be- started "a run
10 Philadelphia. Baltimore. asd Washing
tol. and third 10 20 10 Boston. In the
course ~ next wear il l. proposed
/ 70 reach I'LL the principal cities east
81 the Mississippi and the compa-
luy's contract with the new French
Gable Company oblige> il 10 have it, wires
in New Orleans in fifteen months from
september. lSS2. The Gable Company
which j. organized in France, with a capi-
tai Of 1000. 600. Is having cable across
the Atlantic, by way OF the coast ~ Por
tugal and the Azores Islands. From the
Azores two cabie- viii be laid-One 10 ia-
yana and Aspinwall. where 1t will connect
with the south American system OF lines.
and the other TO point on the shore OF
| Long Island sound. where II will connect
with the lines 81 the Postal Telegraph Com
pany. The poles for the land line 20 this
point are already in place
HOW THE SPARKS WILL Ply.
II il promised that some marvellous -
suits WIli be- shown when these line. are
| finished Not Oniy will the wires De
o. worked through from New YORK. 10
Chicago without repeating. Iedt practi-
Caliy impossible with iron wires worked
tv the Morse OF any other system but the
rapidity oi rran-missi0n viii De greatly in
creased The average time required ior
sending o message between the two cities
/ per wires n will be only q lew seconds.
" WHY" said Mr. Bartlett with enthusi-
1sn, II / could gel thal Isl ahead OF the
/ Stock Exchange, I'd bust the world
Ii is claimed that the application OF the
duplex and quadruplex patents 10 the
/ Morse system j. practicable only on short
circuits that. IN met. the latter viii work
PROPERLY but little farther than he distance
] i \ slaHI Ia. t.N
while the Gray system, which l. owned by
the Postal Telegraph Company. multiplies
an iron wire nine times over a three-hun-
dred-mie circuit. and copper wire 10
Iany extent and over any distance. Practi-
cally. however. il has only been made 70
work NJ 10 nine messages at once on
single copper wire. The base OF
/ the system l. that difference In yibra-
lions which makes musical tones. II l.
well known that II two strings Oh differ
ent vi0iins are tuned in exactly the sane
/ key a bow drawn across one Will cause
! both 10 sound. and something OF the same
/ kind il applied 10 the telegraph. \ little
! instrument toned IN a certain key j. AZ
iached 10 one end Of the wire and the me-
sage sent through It /, received by another
instrument. similarly toned, ai the other
end. These two instrument, work in har-
mony, and are not inieriered with at all
/ by the working OF another. or. the0reti-
caly. Of ans number Of other sets. over The
same wires III the same time. There l.
something IN the electrical vibrations that
keep, their notes distinct.
WRITING rs ELECTRICITY.
Beside this, howsN II, the COMPANY owns
still more wonderful process. The Leggo
! az. .Kr.IF eli
/ wire IN q minute ~ the most skiiful Morse
operator can send IN al hour, delivers Al
| The recei, ug station d TaC-5tHal.e OF the
copy furnished, ana does Il all without The
aid oi il skilled operator. Any body who
csn turn q crank can send message Ia hlS
own handwriting, with any private marks
OF other device he plea-es, simply by
/ first writing la, me-sa-r Oh 4 chemi-
caliy-prepAred slip 81 paper IuIhlsL-
ed by the company Practical trials
Of this APPARATUS have suoNh
! SPEED oi twenty-five hundred words
minute hut 1t cuu be enlarged so ~ 10 do
even better. A Morse operator Who can
send or receive from TWO thousand 10
/ TWENTY-FIVE hundred words al hour can
command The highest salary, ana even
| then there j. nothing 10 guarantee nm
against making mistake thing when
/ 10y the Lego process l. Impossible. nc
lures can be- transmitted IN this way, ana
an euterprislng reporter can send mol Only
the words bat the music Of ne"
opera by wire; bui the great advantage
ltbe COMPANY claims Tor il Is the trans
mission III correspondence. IL i eA-
pected that the energetic business
man who has an important letter 10 send
/ % Z distance will no longer drop II ID
/ tho uOSt-oifce- unless indeed an arrange
meni can be- effected by which the post
offices will be- made receiving and deliver
/ Ing station. for the postal telegraph Dut
viii bring II 10 the c0mpany's ofhce, pace
| II with his own hands IN the machine. ana
send IL hunmmg IN moment 10 IT. destl-
nation. A minor but important poinl l.
the superiority % the wire iOr telephone
purposes. II + claimed thai the eonduc-
/ fi,ifv OF this heaviy-coppered wire T. so
great that telephOning over thousand
mile circuit viii be ~ easy A. II now l. over
al ordinary city vine.
MEMBEEs or IHE COMPANY.
The line now being bulli consists Of one
compound copper wire for through MES
sages and rapid telegraphing, aud two iron
wires for short circuits" The rapidity
Of construction l. hindered by the amount
~ time required 70 make the wire, which
is 4 tedious process. The cOmpany's fac
tory. Al Ausonia, Conn, though iAsge, cal
I furnish only ten miles DAY, and il IL the
oniv iactory 10 the country tDai can
make il.
The Postal Telegraph Company Is COM
posed OF thirty or iorty wealthy gentlemen
v 20 have purchased the stock and bonds
a. an investment IL capital Is s2l,O0O,O Do
and H. first mortgage bonds el0,OOO,OOO.
most OF both being held in the East, though
there are q lew western gentlemen IL TIC
enterprise among them being Governor
I Charles Foster, OF ONO. and MI. NcCOf-
,micE ~ Chicago Among the principal