Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-04-04
PRINTING BY TELEGRAPH
A Marvel which Promises to Revolu-
tlonize Telegfaphy.
IEroro the Roston Herald.1


When Abner Mckinley, brother of Con-
gresham Mckinley of Ohio, appeared before
the congressional committee at Washington
last week, in favor of the government adopt
ing the new Page printing system of teleg.
raphy for the postal service, he presented to
the committee a plan Offering to do the busi-
ness at about one third the present rate, do
ing away with Morse operators, and using
only the force now employed in the postal
this administration. To the COMMITTEE the
system was a revelation. Scientific men
have spent the best part of their lives ems
deavoring to devise ways and means whereby
cheapness and entire security could be Sc
cured and the dispatches so plain that
child could read. Such men al House,
Hughes and Phelps in a measure succeeded,
but in the end failed, and this work seems
to have been left to Professor Samuel v.
Essick to successfully solve, and which he
has done to the wonder and admiration of
the world. By simple device he has pro-
duced telegraph printing system that
must revolutionize the system of thought far
SURPRISING the telephone, since 1t, in every
instance, answers for itself.
The Essick system has been In operation
by the New England Printing Telegraph
company the past three months between
their Boston Office at 113 Devonshire street
and New York city over single line 270
miles long, messages being transmitted both
ways and printed in both places in Roman
characters in page form.
1t is practically an electric typewriter;
but beside this it IL also news printer for
newspaper Offices and the like, and q news
ticker for distributing news to public places.
For telegraphic purposes It is complete and
excellent system, and will lessen the working
expenses Of line. As anybody can either
send or receive with 1t, 1t is an especially
good system for railroad service, as not only
| can train orders be sent by the regular sta !.
| sent is insured and recorded. Messages can
! be sent and received day or night without
| the presence of the person for whom they are
intended.
To-day, under the old Morse system, when
| everything is taken by sound, nearly every
| schoolboy makes his headquarters at the tele-
graph Office to learn what is going on about
| the world, many of them being good tele
graph readers, but the Essick system s'cut
| off" this source of knowledge.
If one of these instruments were placed
upon the floor of the New York stock ex.
change, the quotations could be reported
simultaneously and accurately to hundreds
| of subscribers in Boston, New York, Phila-
delphis, Baltimore and Washington; and VI
| the same time another one could be placed
on the same floor and quotations sent to
/
Harrisburg, Pittsburg, etc. Yet all this
would be done with absolute secrecy. Sc
much, in short, relative to this most remark.
able invention which Mr.. Mckinley pre-
scented to Mr.. Wanamaker's committee as the
only possible medium of carrying through
the postal telegraph scheme of the postmas.
| ter.general.
Leading business men in Boston are inter.
ested in this new wonder, and we under.
stand that men of energy and capital here
proposes to unite with thoee of New York
Chicago, Pittsburg and the large cities of the
far west, and soon furnish us with means oil
transmission from one end of the continent
to the other, and 1t IL evident that the time
is not far distant when we will print oul
own messages throughout the civilized
world. If there be boon for the printer II
will be when his telegraph manuscripts ia re-
ceived in legible form, and this the Essicl
system assures.