The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-12
IEGGOIS METHOD.
1la Way 1t 5xpedites- the Light.
n.d:-- i Talk With the Postal
Telegraph Men.

Chicago. June Ill believe" said Man
seer Parker Of the Postal Telegraph COM
Pany that there IS clause in the contracts
Of Chicago dailieS with telegraph companies
tllgi the PRESS shonid have the benefit of any
.rol1zt,aa of rates with competing lines We
propose to give certain papers here a holiday
by furnishing Geographic matter free that
comes ever the Postal company's hne.n
Elisha Gray entered the Office st that mo-
uient.
What about these detrimental statements
in The New York TRUTH
Truth is making weekly publication Of
lIbelons articles said DIR Gray All its
statements I have seen were barefaced false-
hoods
''There is a statement that the Company
has failed in placing its stock. Is it trucT
The results Of Tuesdays meeting viii
show exactly the contrary The company
viii be shown in splendid financial condi-
ton"
When viii the osIi;e Of the Postal Tele
graph be opened for bdsinessF'
In very few days now. The conduit
company is already under cur window
Wouldyou like to see the Leggo system at
| work. No paper has described it yet.
The scribe acquiesced, and was conducted
I u the ffpor below, tn third in he Mutual
Union Telegraph eompany's bailding A
large room was occupied b. ths Leggo sys-
tenn which is to transmit the great bulk Of
business. where, even with its present capa-
city, 400 messages per ho,IT can bedispafched,
while it IS claimed the capacity can be ia
| creased to 1909 OF 100000 messages per
\ hour if necessary. Already $500 words in
me minutes time have been transferred to
New YoRk, and in one hour and fifteen min
utes; with the imperfect and limited state Of
the operators, about L. go words were sent.
Dr. Gray presented his operating manager,
Mr. e. T. Hoyt, who described the Leggo
system as follows:
lSFhe automatic system in use by the Postal
| Telegraph company is the invention OF Mr..
! William a. Lego OF New York 1t has the
merit of being one of THE simplest, as well as
the most reliable, automatic systems yet
brought forth. The apparatus used may be
described as follows. taking any one of the
several cylinders for an example: The oper-
ator in sending the messages handed him PRO
duees them upon the surface of the cylinder,
before which he works, in the Morse code OF
| character.
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on the cylinder it is switched into the main
line circuit, and sent at a high speed to the
distant station
1.-THE messages are received on long, mar
row strip Of paper, which is made sensitive
to the passage of an eldctrfc current by being
treated with peculiar chemical solution.
After being received the messages are trans
lated By an operator on a typewriter. ami
printed on the message forums provided, and
ara then ready for delivery.
k'fhe entire process described causes les
laverage delay than by other automatic syS
TENS. The operation just described is re
peated for each cylinder, of which there may
be any number from ten to fifty, as required
blythe volume OF business handled. With
the present nu1nberaof cyolinders, each 81
which will hold about $50 words, about 40(
messages per hour can be handled in each di
rection.
1.-THE Leggo system is worked direct from
Chicago to New York, avoiding reporters OF
translators which are always a fruitful
source of trouble. This circuit is therefor,
the longest single circuit that has been at
tempted in actual service, being q fraction
under 1000 miles long
The examiner watched the operations o.
the operators A cylinder was filed witi
$50 words in about twenty minutes Tn
words were transferred to the cylinder b
| the ordinary code signals, and hollow PEI
J through which ink flowed traced them il
: spiral lines on the copper surface The cyl
Under was then put in connection with tn
: main circuit and set in rapid revolution b.