The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-13


DR.. A. J. Endsley's son-in-law, Mr.. Abner
Mckinley, a popular summer resident ofSonl-
erset. Is secretary and Treasurer Of the Ma
tional Printing and Telegraph Company,
whose general offices are iG9 and III Broad
way. New York The object and system of
the Company is learned from neatly print
ed pamphle, that has recently come under
our observation and that viii no doubt prove
interesting TO many readers ofihe HERALD
This Company proposes to do away with all
electrical ielegraphy inventions now in use
and supplant them with their apparatus by
means Of which messages can be transmitted
and recorded in plain Roman characters
One would naturally think it impossible TO
transmit printed characters five hundred or
a thousand miles over single wire, yet
when the system Of this company is under
stood. it becomes simplicity itself In 1.-THE
impulses move the instruments, whereas in
Others. the instruments move the impulses,
or in other words, the transmit,er is caused
10 run by separate power, each letter OF the
alphabet being represented by a certain num-
Der Of impulses winch revolve the type
wheel to the required position when the let
ter Is struck by the local maliet. Fourteen
impulses represent the entire alphabet. thus
securing rapid printing. The recipient has
nothing 10 10 with the operation of trans
mitting message. The shifting from letter
to letter and line to line il wholly automatic
no attention whatever being required at the
receiving station. The receiving instrument
can be instantly converted into transmit;er
by simply turning a small switch enabling
an immediate reply TO message that has
been recorded on the receiver-printing the
reply directly under the query, thus provid-
ing complete record. II there be one hun
dred or more instruments in a line, the type
wheels of ali can be instantly brought to a
unison point Actual work has been done
by this system between Pittsburgh and New
York and Philadelphia and New York which
demonstrates It's Success beyond question.
The advantages OF the Printing Telegraph
system my be briefly stated as follows
isi.-Ii i an electrical typewriter by means
OF which the message Is printed IN the pres
ence of the transmitting operator in page
form. and duplicate Of the same is printed
at all receiving stations on the line, whether
it be a long or short circuit
snd-i; is news printer, by the use OF
which the csIrren; news may be distributed
for the benefit Of the press in the various
newspaper Offices A single transmission
prints the sane simultaneously, in page
form, ready for the compositors case. in all
the newspaper Offices in the city.
No previous training is Necessary to oPer-
ate il. and no attention whatever Is reqnir-
ed at the receiving stations farther than the
collection Of message by check clerk TO he
copied and sent to delivery department
Messages can be sent and received dsy or
night without the presence Of the person for
whom the messages are intended.
1t is the purpose of this Company TO or
ganizi in the various tows and cities sub
companies which shall eve n,uslly combine
By building lines from point TO point. thus
establishing general telegraph exchange
system.
All Of the stock Is owned by syndicate Of
New York capitalists. who daily refuse fab-
! ulous Offers for seemingly small shares