The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-01
TELEGRAPH TRIUMPH.
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In Keeping With the Spirit Of the Age
Knocks Down the Tolls with a LOnspoie.
Telegraphing Almost as Cheap as
Letter writlng-"Red nIossages.s ..-
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: NEW YORK, DEC. 3l.-Ine form IN WnlC
the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Compan
extends the compliments Of the season t
the public, is after the order most oalcu
lated to create an impression. Certain
is that the new schedule Of rates whicl
goes into effect to-day will enable the, ex
change of New York greetings witt
: friends at distance on basis rendering
electrical communication but a trihe NOR
expensive than to resort TO United State
mail bags. Indeed it would appear t,
have become question as to whether tn,
postal service may not suffer decrease il
revenue blythe wholesale reduction OF tel
egraph tolls, and the average Congressman
be compelled to turn his attention 10 th,
branch OF the governmental service al
ready established, before inaugurating {
new one. .-..-
However, the Baltimore & Ohio Com.
pany continues the even tenor OF its way
in knocking out all old tariffs Of tele,
graphic rates and celebrates the New Year
with sumner,
A SUMNER.
year ago the Chicago rate Of fifty cents
to this city for ten words was considered
a big Improvement upon former figures,
now at one fell swoop the Baltimore 4
Ohio fixes it at fifteen cents, the rate ap.
plying both ways. From Chicago to Phil
adelphia itused to be fifty cents; same to
Baltimore and Washington; forty cents to
Pittsburgh and Columbus, and thirty-fve
to Cleveland and Indianapolis. Now it is
but twenty cents TO all the cities named
and only a nickel additional to Boston,
Providence and Hartford, where it was
uniformly sixty cents, and to New Bed
lord and other new England points, where
1t was seventy-tive cents. Surely not the
most rampant OF reformers in things ter
restrial, and particularly electrical, could
ask more. |
From New York to Boston and the land
OF baked beans and wooden nutmegs gen
orally, as well as to Philadelphia, Balti-
more and the National capital, the new
rate is but dime for the usual ten word
message.
THE TELEdRAPIIIC MILLENNIUM.
II cent a word is not the telegraph
ic millennium it would. be difficult to i'm.
agine what is. A similar happy condition
as to rates pervades all New England TO
the points Of the compass. Boston and
intervening cities to New York ten cents,
where twelve months ago it was from
twenty-five TO thirty,S while at
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
twenty cents instead OF thirty-fve and TO
Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, Chicago, st. Louis and other leading
western cities q quarter as compared to
half dollar as a rule. From this city the
reduction is equally marked to all western
centres, fifteen cents as hitherto stated
TO Chicago and twenty cents to Buffalo,
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Column
bus, indianapolis, st. Louis, d., fall from
fifty cents on the old, rate from4the two
latter named cities, and from forty cents
on the others. From Philadelphia, Baltii
more and Washington the ten cent rate
prevails East and the twenty cent rate
West, and the chances are that tho mails
from the seat OF Government will not be
so overburdened with fra1ked matters as
when the western rate averaged forty to
fifty cents and the item oi telegraphic
communication with constituents was q
subject OF serious consideration.
'.REo MESSAGES"
Asfor that, man under the new order
of things, can indulge comparatively large
y in filling up what are known as "red
messages" at but a little more expense
than pen, paper and stamps. The new
schedule Of the Baltimore & Ohio fixing a
uniform rate throughout its entire system
on night messages OF fifteen cents for
fifteen words without the exaction that
no message shall be less than twenty-five
cents.
During the year Just closed great deal
has been said of the Baltimore & Ohio
telegraph in the newspapers OF the coun-
try, and the incessant litigations il was
forced to stand created remarks, as in each
and every instance the courts, from the
highest down, prevented the successful
establishing Of barriers tostay its progress; (;
in other words the Baltimore & Ohio won
every suit brought against it, and as re-
suit, its record for 1884 is unparalleled in
the annals OF telegraph construction.
Never before have 2S,O00 miles. of wire
been strung in twelve months, and the
mileage OF the Baltimore & Ohio system is
to-day nearly as great as was the whole
Western Union system at the close Of the
war.
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