Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-07
Edison. Experience a> TeIeeraps.r.

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 "N} Lat were the real facts of that F.... ton experience you had in fast rece.vira.
 good many years ago. Mr. Edison V..
 asked yeste day.
 "I4et me see: tLat vas in IsGS. Lsf
 been working iu Louisville. Nv. a ....
 De .s years, and went from tner. ".
 Michigan. i friend named Adams g,t
 me-a place here ln Boston, anu | c.'7r,
 over. arriving here about 4s,J 1'cloc-
 and had o -1 ,1 work at 5:su o'cI....I
 Although ll was ;Le middle Ot vlut.-I
 came Iuso t-e ,thcc with a linen au.-.-
 Ou. for | was very poor then. 4 f,IIa..
 named Jack Wright, who knew ule gr+
 West. thought Go have some fu.. >l is
 posted tEc office and had New York ,--
 on an operator named Bagiey at tI.--
 end o5 tae hue. with special of -al
 words to the Journal. He Ead Ia. m.
 end switched Co table about the uliIs..
 Or the room, near the manager, t.s.
 Not suspecung anything l sat down
 and commenced taking It. Soon Bar- ley commenced tO 'vhoop 'em up. and.
 although l was accustomed t0 keen ,D
 or eight words behind in copyiu-
 th0uELc best Co close up, especIait .s he commenced tos5ud some awful st .r
 ing stuff. making is Cf all his ms ... contracting his words. sending @,.r.- for instance, for immediately ! L......
 to write i5 aut iu iulL HappeuIu .. look up. [ noticed fifteen or twenty .r cutor~ C1nuIuE behind me. Inc. ! sdW 1t was a 'pUt-up job and m b. .. got uu and 1 determined l would not 1 break. Operators m New York asked over other wires if l was getting it aal would hardly believe the replies When | thought he had reached the top ur Hi. ! speed ! opened my kty and said. Don. | gJ .o sleep; sLsk" youfseE and is-.. | through thls"
 "Ire way { managed it was tu.-. l had pract.cgi all kinds of Laui-wrtIf. and found that hy a kind of p-i1t-Ia-G I ccuid write tiity-6ve words Der minute and 1 knew that there was DO man who cou.d keeT up that speed with -tIs- graph key. SO felt safe t l could ou.y read the ticking. [ bad no fears fs to that, either. as ! lad read all l.r,- .. | clipped sending Iu the West Aru.. .. ! thin that was ln uy faver Is, ;El- Ia.. ! little deaf. so ,lat the hum of au office does not disturb me, and ! gave ny ,a- | t.-5 attention J' tue clicking Of -lr ir ] strUueut.
 "There k @ little experience had ar- ! Iu Indianapolis tbat may interest yuu. ! | was vey ambitious to receive pres ra- port listening beside tlc rt,.l,.r- | operator. until after while ! clu.I r.- ! Ceiy Ir very .icely, and then ] wanted | to receive press uEsell- Naturally. ui.r | ] had the real responsibility sf tak.r I- ! ] 'luliaa' lt bad at first, as they sent .t | at the rate of forty words Der minute. | | thought the matter over. and worked | out a little plan Co have tag register .u- | dent some tiu-foi as it came ir. ana ! then had the boy turn it through another | instrument, which ti"kcd lt of at tha | rate of about twenty five words Der min | which l read aud wrote off very e7s1. | The only truUh,c was that We '.f .-u.i | night from the East about 2.iU a. i,., | while sometimes It was an hour OF more | later when We gave the last sheet Co ,Ie ! newspapers. They commenced Go Eruvl ! after a while, and our manager dropped 1 in on US one morning and discovered our little game in full blast.
 | "By the way, there were several vl'r.- | ble inventions wrapped up iu that o.Ii.. | trick 1alkiug of the tiu-f0Il remind. | me of another incident. There was | fast-sendIuE tournament gotten mp once. | m which the judges were Co hr at S- | L0ui-. and the fast seuders throughout | the State were t0 send from Jhei- -.- | spectlve offices Co the central office m St | Louis. Now, although have 60 repU,a-
 ( on as a receiver, ' have just the oppo- ! site reputation as a sender. and when ] | entered my name in the list to compete, ! there was great ha-haIug over the wires. | We were given a chapter in the Bible t' | send and. while the other men were | r.-,l s--zssu sfta-Is-..- is Jrl-L.a Ul- | chapter un the tin-foil, and fixed ty-r.- | thing all ready tO turn the crank at -l. | rate of about fifty OF iitty-tve wori- Der | minute getting our boys Co keep lu4. ! about it. For some reason the cHb.a-' | never came off, and ! dil not Eavrt. ! pleasure of CarryIug cE tLr prize Be- | ion Herald. be H.