Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-02
PICTURES BY WIRE.
How the Lightning Will Be
Flashed by the Postal Ttle-
graph Company,
The Four Corners of the World
TO be Connected by Copper.
Covered Wire.

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"In leas than 30 days" said L.stgr
A. Bartlett to a reporter, I'VE shall
nave in operation between New YORK
and Chi,syo the most p%srtec. telegraph
hue the world ever saw"
Mr.. Bartlett has In charge the cor
strucion IF the lines Of the new
postal telegraph, Ct which some &C
count was gwen IN The Times g few
days ago. He came to this city yee.
terdsy and gave III interesting account
or the prog -ess the new company is
making anu the way In which 1t pro.
poses TO transact business.
IL ia now building a line between
NV York and Chiccgo and poles are
up along the whole distance, with he
exception OF a few gap., aggregating
about IF y miles, when the contract
ors are rapidly filling. The wires a,e
being strung as rapidly as they can BIZ
manu- C ured at he compspy's
works, for one of the pecuiiaritiss
IF the P.sta Telegraph company
;s thai IL makes 40 own wife-
a steel cord the sizs of a large
knitting needle electro plated with
copper till it Ia nearly as thick as q
l.sd pencil. When the New York
Chicago line Is finished, which will BIZ
aoms time next month, a second line
will be started to run to Philadelphis,
Baltimore ard Washington, and a
third to 60 to Boston. In the courte
OF nexi year it is proposed to reach all
the principal cities east Of the Mis-
tissippi, and the compsny's contract
with the new French Gable company
obliges it to have it's wires in New Or
leans, IN fifteen months from Sep'em
Der, 1882. The cable company, which
Is organized in France, with a capital
; Of Sill, QUO. GOO, is laying a cable across
Tho Atlantic by way Of the coast of
Portugal and the Azores Is!auds.
From the Azores two cables will be
iai6; IL to Havana and Aspinwall,
where 1t will connect with the South
American system Of lines, and the
other to o point on the shore of Long
Island sCund, where it will connect
with the lines Of the Postal Telegraph
company. The poles for the land line
t this point are already In place.
HOW THE SPARKS WILL FLY.
1t Ia promised that some marvellous
results will be shown when those lines
are finished. Not only will the wires
. be worked" through from New York
to Chicago without repeating, q feat
, .o.lE, -r,@k i-D.> rr,.,a rr1yHl
with the Morse or any other system.
: bat the rapidity of transmission great
: iy increased. The average time ro'
quired for sending a message between
3 the two cities now is fifteen minutes,
but with the copper wires it will be
= only q few seconds. "Why," said
u Mr.. Bartlett, with enthusiasm, elf ]
could got that far ahead OF the stoca
exchange I'd bust the world!'
!; 1t is claimed that the application Of
K the duplex and quadruplex patents tc
o the Morse system Is practicable only
"a on short Gil ouits; that in fact, the lat
y ter will work properly but little far
i Their than the distance between NsV
y York and Philadelphia, while th'
y Gray system, which is owned by thu
p stall telegraph company, multipliei
u an iron wire nine times over a three
N hundred mile circuit and a cope
wire to any extent and over any dis
lance. Practically, however, 1t hs
only been made to work up to min
messages at once on a single cope
a. wire. The base of the system
~ that difference In vibrations whicI
IS makes musical tones. 1t j
D, we'll known that if two strings on diff
erent violins are tuned In ex Aotly In
same key a bow drawn across, one vii
cause both to sound, and something c
the same kind is applied to the tele
graph. A little instrument toned il
the same key is attached to one end c
the wire and the message sent throug
- it is received by another instrum ent
. similarly toned, at the other enc
Y These two instruments work In hs,
OF mopy, and are not interfered with q
y all by the working of another, OIL
u theoretically, of any number of othe
- sets, over the same wire at the sam
time. There is something in the elet
trical vibrations that keeps their note
distinct.
"a WRITING BY ELECTRICITY,
Besides this, however, the compan,
owns a still more wonderful process
The Legro patent sends as man,
"a words wei a single wire in a minut
"a as the most sklllful Morse operate
q. can send in an hour, delivers at tn
receiving station a f,c smile of tn
ia copy furnished, and does 1t all with
90 out the aid of a skilled operator
Anybody who can turn a crank ca
nd send a message in his W handwti
ut ing, with any private marks or oth'
In. devices he plesses, simply by fir
writing his message on a chemical
prepared slip, Ct paper furnished b
the company. Practical trials OF thi
Apparatus have shown a speed OF twel
~ five hundred words a minute
but 1t can be e enlarged so as to do eve
cal better. A Morse operator who ca
Tor send or receive from 1000 to Got
he words an hour can command the hig'