Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-16
Postal Photography.

A Glance at this Important New Enter
 prise-Preparations for Line to Bos-
 ton-The Ansonta Manufactory of the
 Company.
 MT. H. E. Fanshawe arrived in this city Monday night. MT. Fanshawe is secretary of the Postal Telegraph company and is in the city for the purpose of making arrange l ments for the passage of the line from here | to Boston and on other business of the con- ! pany. Lines are now in operation from Now l York to Philadelphia and the line is being extended to Washington, and from there to l New Orleans. Also they are building one from New York to Chicago, trunk line (without connection whatever, and from New York to Boston. These lines are to be built with compound copper wire, which is man. ufactured at Ansonia, Ct. at the works of the company. On these lines are to be used the Leggo automatic and the Gray harmonic, the invention of Professor Gray, who in- vented the telephone. MT. Fanshawe says: With this compound wire, which has only resistance of 2 ohmes to the mile instead of 20 (the resistance of the ordinary iron wire) | and the Leggo automatic, which is capable of ! dispatching 1,40O words per minute instead of 20, and the Gray harmonic, which enables | 15 messages to be sent each way on one wire, l the Postal Telegraph proposes to open its l lines by offering twice the number of words 1 for half the price of any line now in opera l tion. It is called postal telegraph because one feature is that one may send at certain hours of the day messages at half the usual
 postal rates which on reaching their destina- l tion will be delivered through the mail and Fo.& &I,oD ko1V VIo ! ny will issue postal stamps. The other fe G.
 ture is this, that, when desired, by aid of the Leggo automatic, a fac-simile letter written in 1 one city may be produced at any other point, the only difference being that where the one
 is written the other comes out fac-simile printing. This feature has for six months
 been practically demonstrated for any who | chose to see it, between the New York and ! Boston offices. As to the virtue of the wire ! it is, MT. F. continued, matter beyond dis
 pute, being certified to by the chief electri-
 elan of the United States. This Gray harmonic
 is now in operation on the Pennsylvania R. R.
 between Columbus and Pittsburg, embracing
 some twenty way stations. The wire factory
 in Ansonia covers some two acres of ground
 and when completed will have a capacity for
 electro plating with copper about forty miles of steel wire per day. using some ten tons of
 copper in it's operation. About 8 quarter of
 the production is now attained. It might be
 we'll to mention here that party of New Ha-
 ven capitalists purpose visiting this factory
 on Thursday. Afew of the principal promoters
 of the project are George D. Roberts, Henry
 Cummins, of New York John B. Alley, A.
 W. Baird, of Boston MT. A. Bartlett, of Washington Governor Foster, of Ohio, and ! others, including Hon. Charles IT, Mitchell
 and others of this city. The capital of the
 company is $1o, ,ooo in postal telegraph bonds and $21 ,00O, 900 of stock which has
 only been sold as the money was actually
 needed for the erection of lines under con tract and the purchase of ''plant." the
 bonds and stock having so far been taken by the promoters. MT. Fanshaws remains ir this city until Friday or Saturday, when he | returns to New York