Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-14

t1at they had to keep gang Of ineme
out all the time putting on the insulator
he knocked of between here and st
Louis. That's only joke about the in
! sulators, you know" added the old.
timer In explanation.
eyes, see; any others you can men
tion?"
"Division Superintendent T. H. Tubbs
II necessary, could still command first
class salary at the key; in fact, all the
district superintendent have graduated
from the operating table,"
chow about Jay Gould-is he ar
operasoI2'
Now you're guying me. No, he's not
st least not the kind we are talking
about-but his son, Ed Gould, ia q kind
Of plug operator, and is said to be in
sympathy with the craft. I've heard, in
fact, that Ed wanted his f,ther to make
some concessions to the operators during
the big strike in 1883, but the old msn
wasn't built that way"
"Aside from the old-timsrs you have
named, will you mention some of the
crack operators of Chicaeo2"
"That is something l shouldn't like 10
undertake, because there are great many
who come under that designation, and l
shouldn't like to name some and not
others, as certainly should do, not hay
ing complete Western Union time sheet
to refer to-"
"Name the first that you think of, and
I'll print your apology to the others "
swell, then, on the Western Union day
force, Johnny Walker, Jake Thompson,
the two Kaine boys, Jim and Dick; Fred
Kent, Jr., Ben Stoddard, Eugene Cronin
and Joe Unwin are the names thst come
into my head first. The newspaper Of.
fees always require good talent. At the
Tribune, for instance, there are Jim
De Long, Gsorge P.rkins and A. s.
GWin; at the Times, john Curtis; at the
Herald, Ofson Wells; at the News,
Chsuucey Wright; in the U1ited Press,
Jack Ssyers and Con Sullivan; in the AS
ISOLATED Press, Billy Uppermsnd and Ed
Jennings. The bright lights on the
Western Union night force-.s Is quite
proper-sre go numerous that " couldn't
attempt to enumerate them, although the
Courtwright boys, Billy KANE, Ed Dor
val, FL Foote, jack McNevin, Denny
O'Brien, Bob Cuppsge, Jack Powers,
Warren Baker, ard Lutte Smith are prob
ably SIS well koown as any. Night MAN.
sger Barclay is no sloucn of telegrepner,
either, by the way, but as l said, it would
take too long to give you anything like a
complete list of the "gils edged" men of
this city.
ITO change the sui jsct 8 little, what
do you think of the typewriter as an ad-
juDct to the telegraph busines:2"
"rhe typewriter Is certainly great i'm
provemens in receiving press matter, su'
it affords no true test Of an OPERATORS
ability. l notice that there is q class of
young operators who can receive like
mouse ON fire with typewriter, but who
would be utterly lost with the old reliable
stylus or with pen. The way to tell 8
good operator is to give him steel pen
and put him down to catch some fast
sender. Almost anyone can learn to
hammers typewriter, but 1t takes time
and practice to turn out good, legible
copy st the rate of thirty i've to forty
five words minute with pen."
"Then you don't think that this alleged
invention which has been noticed in the
OF attaching type writer di-
rectly to the wire and turning out printed
copy at the other end would be likely to
succeed?"
"Young man, if you had ever been in
q telegraph Office On wet day, when the
wires were working badly, and seen every
operator in the office hanging on to the
relay spring with ore hand and trying to
drag the WORDS cut from the sounder by |
the tail with the other you wouldn't ask |
me that question. Bat 1 zee thst it is |
$50 snd l must 60 up stairs and take
few lines. So long"
And the old-timer climbed the stairs |
leading to the operating room and dissp-
peared.