Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-21

the Work. 1nGY CoN4C 90 ordinary CO1Q'
meroial business, bus press dispatches we're a
Little too tough for plugs"
Two ladies arrived from San Frsnciaco last
evening, who will so to work to-day. One Of
them, Miss Coates, is good operator. The
other, Miss Bacon. ia student.
Adyices received by the operators from the
East state th.s ell is serene, the operators
being firm and confident at al! points.
An operator from the Bay arrived yester-
day, en- route TO Yreka, but cannot arrive at
that point until tonight. Meanwhile Ore
gon and Washington Territory will have no
| telsgraphic communication With the outside
world.
A movement was iuaUFurated in this city
yesterday by prominent citizens end business
men to build an opposition line from Sacra-
memo to San Francisco, via Stockton, Ala
media, oakland, San jose, Santa Clara and
Redwood City. Another liHe will also be
built TO the north as far as Portland, taking,
en- route, bfarysville, Grass Valley, Nevada
! City snd all prominent points. The line will
| be operated by the Sacramento strikers, with
the assurance Of all the business men that
! they Will patronizs no other line. The ar
| ticies Of incorporation, it is understood. have
been drawn, and will be filed either to-day or
| Monday. Such line can be cheaply built,
and would be the nucleus of s. powerful oppo-
sitioa to the monopoly.
SAN FRANCISCO STRIKERS.
There was an open session of the striking
| telsgrapheTs in Huddy's Hall, on Market
street, In San Francisco, Thursday evening.
attended by tbirty-one operators. g. w.
| Camphel, a former Sseramentan, an officer
! Of the Brotherhood, asked John Leach to pre-
side Mr. Leach said: ut has passed into
provsrb that I'll corporations are soullsss, but
! tha Western Union Telegraph Company is
! the worst in this respect. The sSraet railroad
| companies, when old aud faithful nsgs have
namely shoot them. The Western Union
| viii not sven confer that kindness upon its
| exhausted servants, preferring to turn them
| ont to die by slow degrees When Colonel
| Varney, division manager was here, he said
| that this was the cleBnest Gus and best man.
aged district in his circuit. The salaries,
though, he said, were perfectly enormous,
! four of the best frst-class operators actually
receiving no less than 500 per month. The
cutting down was at once begun, until now,
az is well known. the ms ximum salary paid
hrst-class operators is 500 per month, aud 20
ecru that.a man must do an awful lot Of good
work"
The meeting was next addressed by Du
| Susuchet, an operator, who referred to the
bogus dispatch saying that sll was settled,
and that the company had conceded satisfac-
tory terms. The dispatch was received
Wednesday, afternoon and published in yea
terdays papers. Regarding Mr.. Jaynes, the
local manager of the company, the speaker
said the operators had only feelings of kind
ness snd respect But whatever his resi-
sympsthies were he was powe1less to assist
the operators. The speaker urged the opera
tors not to be discouraged by any reports the
company might send over the wires in the
next few days. 1--WE were not prepared, !"
ne said, g. out here for strike. but We have
! obeyad the orders of the Brotherhood, and
propose TO stick and il our Eastern brothers
hold cut with as much nerve and confidence
as we will, the victory will be gained. The
brothers in this city and aI over the country
owe honest thanks TO the operators in Yrska
and Sacramento offices. Those operators are
not union men, and have struck without shy
promise Of support from the Brotherhood on
their own responsibility. Tho report that
the wires at Yreka had been disconnected
was incorrect. The Office was left in proper
order, which may be said OF the offices all
along the line, no unlawful act having been
done at any point, though the bay cables
might have been easily destroyed and the
overland wires 80 damaged that three or five
days would have been required TO repair
them"
AT the conclusion of the speakers remarks
the meeting went into executive session for
the purpose of initiating members. The dis
patch upon which the strike was begun came
in cipher. and was as follows:
PrTsBuRGH (Pa.), July 18th.
Received San Francisco l0p MI
G.. ". Campbell; Unless otherwise notified, al
members working for the Western Union Telegraph
Company, including Mutual Union and American
Rapid Telegraph Company of United States, and
Great Northwest Company in Canada, viii strike al
IL, noon, Washington, d. e, time, Thursday, July
10Th. CompaRi,e will not treat with u.s. Dor un
lawful act. JOHN CAMPBELL,
District Master
The sentiment Of the operators interviewed
last night was very hopeful. They smiled
grizzly at the idea of the students from the
business college trying to handle the bust
ness of the wires after few hours expert
ence. They will Wsn5 q little more muscle
and nerve after they have tried it night Oh
two until in the morning" veteran TO
marked.
Sir Charles Wheatstone's automatic trans
mitter, OF which so much has been said In tbs
disp atches recently, enables as many ss 50t
words minute to be easily and correctly
transmitted, whereas by the slower MORSE
method 40 words a minute ia the highest
speed. Long strips OF paper are perfor lteC
by machine constructed for that purpose
with spertures grouped to represent the let
ters of the telegraph alphabet. The STRIP
thus prepared is placed in an instrument as
ISOLATED with 3 rheometer. or source of electric
power, which, on being set in motion, moves
it along and causes it to act on two pins il
such q manner that, whsn one of them is ell
evated, the current is transmitted to the tel
egraphic circuit in one direction, and wher
the other is elevated it is transmitted in 6
reverse direction. The elevations and de
pressions Of these pins are given BY the
spertures in the pare at intervals. These
currents act upon the writing instrument al
distant station il such manner % to pro
duce corresponding marks on a slip of paper
moved by appropriate mechanism. Thus tn,
message is FIRST punched out as described, snC
the holes determine the proper succession o
currents on much the same principle as th'
cards on jacquard loom determine the pat
tern woven. As the instrument work
automatically, the speed is very grest com
pared to the contacts of the ordinary tele
graph key when made by hand. Besides, th'
messages can be sent over and over again t.
different places, just the same as tbs punchSC
paper enables one to plsy the same tune re
peatedly on an orguinetie,
B. W. RRaAS DSAD.-Burnet W. RegsI
died yesterday. between and