Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09
"MIILIONS IN IT."
a Scheme That is Far Ahead o. any
Ever planned by Colonel Sellers

. - Ear Ahead OF Any
a Evsr planned by Colonel Sellers
A scheme is being pushed by syn
dicate of Eastern capitalists that IS cal
culated to force the telegraph colnpa-
neies into bankruptcy. Morse is to DO
laid ON the shelf, the relay, key ana
founder are to be obsolete, ana thp
great army of telegraph operators - "
he cast adrift and compelled to seek
new occupations. Telegraph pores anu
the millions of miles of wire strung
nnon them will soon disappear forever.
| What is going to cause this revolutiOn'
Rarbed wire fencing. It's fact Inc
syndicate referred to contemplates en-
tirely superseding the present telegraph
system with an electrical barbed wire
fence that is to form a network all
over the United States. When every
section of land in this country mas
been fenced in then the company Will
extend its new system to other coun-
tries. and keep on extending until the
entire world is one great web of cleo
trical barbed-wire fence.
The scheme will require some ex-
PLANTATION, and, as the syndicate IN
tends introducing it by fencing In the
tracks of the Baltimore Il Ohio rail-
road. an outline of what it proposes to
accomplish on that line will give an IN
sight into the general plan. Beginning
at South Chicago, barbed-wire fencing
will be erected the entire length OF the
line. 1894 miles. In general appear
ance it will be similar to the ordinary
wire fence, the most noticeable differ
ence being the substitution of steel
posts for cedar. Five wires will be
strung. The top wire is insulated and
charged with electricity, and as it
passes through an underground con-
duit at crossings and through cities a
continuous circuit is formed from
Chicago to Baltimore. At each station
along the line the electrical wire iS
tapped and connected with telephones
designed and constructed especially
for long distance teIephOning. In this
way telephone communications may be-
lad between any and all stations, and
the company guarantees that COM
munication between Baltimore and
Chicago will be as easy as if the two
cities were only mile apart. Com
munication can also be had at any de-
sired point. Every locomotive en-
gineer will be furnished with hand
phone that can be operated without
either battery or bells. In the event
of an accident or the engineer desiring
instruction, he simply hangs his in
strument on the top wire of the fence,
grounds it by running u wire into the
earth, and thus forms a circuit. He
can then talk with the operator at the
next station.
But this is only q small part OF the
scheme. for. branching away from the
railroads, the company intends run
ming its electrical fence across every
quarter-section of land that is under
cultivation 1t will construct the
fence for about the same cost as an or
binary wire fence, and as the life of
steel is eight times greater than cedar
the patent post is more desirable
Then it will furnish telephones at such
a nominal rental that no inhabitant of
the civilized globe can afford to be
without one. Every farm can be di-
vided by well built and durable cleo
trical fence and farm life will be made
more endurable by having telephone
communication with not only the en-
tire ncighbOrhOod, but with all of the
towns and yillag y from New York to
San Francisco. 1t Will be seen that it
is big scheme. Jlst fancy an old
mossback out in KaLsas calling up his
neighbors and asking if they have seen
any thing OF his stray brindle COW, and
a few minutes later tapping Washing
ton to find out whether or not Congress
is likely to take up the Tariff bill dur
ing the afternoon session. But that is
the sort of thing the Electrical Barbed-
Wire Fence Company contemplates.-
Chicago Tribune.