The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-07
T%ELEGRAPHIC ERRORS.
They Have Caused Fun, Sorrow
and Loss of Money.

not Always Due to Inespert Ope .stors-
Careless Writing OfteI Causes Them
The Old Notice on Tel
egraph Blanks.
Thousands Of error rs have been made
in telcgraphic messages, says the New
York Times. In fact, a day rarely
passes without q good many OF them
occurring. Some of them have caused
much amusement, some have caused
tears and some have caused serious
financial loss. They are not always
due to inexpert operators. 1t is a re-
markablc fact that during the prcva-
lcnce of bad weather, or what are
known as electrical storms which
are thorns in the side of every chief OPP
erator-for while they continue wires
become as unreliable as a tickle woman
dots and dashes have been so shifted
as to cause a receiver to put down a
word totally different from the one
transmitted by the sender. That, how
ever. dOcS not occur often.
The faulty ~penmanship of hurried
..Iorranh sat.nrosno,.;hI trman.
at.Laa-m
to rigidly follow copy and if a word
is indistinct they send whatever it seems
to them to look like. no matter how
blind their reading may make the con-
text. BESIDES. some messages pass
through a number of hands.
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'i'' eAoiteu "iiN casual '""'uF
ing I'Petliioh' an OPERATOR sPeahlhS
Vi 'n' ~ h''iec Irc'h'lF' Saii tiat III
an eNPei"n'e VI "i'e'h years IL ha'
never see" pu. "ie message oe"riliS II
oroer 10 repeat ana II was regarded d.
HEIed' cufio'!' i"i9 message REM
victim 10 excessive caulloh- IL was
""uni from We" 10TH 10 "a" rrdhcis-
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ue WIZ rs Twas 'iiS'"Si
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pet"eeh lne A.idh'ic anu iacihc' put
ny solhe MISFORTUNE que 10 sec"n" oi
h"s'r"cti'h On inc par u "h optla''I
OF 10 tiihelE u uhior'uid'e mp VI
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ioF nl'eeh oarrc's :" a sugar ihe
ny ii"ln'E !. Ei'! m r,eu
d 'niPPih6 I.i "nr" IN N
'hdU my n'iie'' Vi y
sugar nau peen + u 'heih jasper
oraer'
III 0"E"' va" y '"' h' III ,
"dHnihR.on '"c hrIh' hd'ine mNeSu-
sd"u anu uisco'eicu .na' inc niiS'dhe
was not 'heirS' no'ihrd .he manager Oh
inc ueIeSraPn ohice 'na' 'he company
niu>, Lag inc 'Nrra 'hir's-h'e onIlTis
Oh 'heir hanuS' me mdndSer 'oi'i 'he
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80
,hn ia..au ia ~. - sn,,Iad ,bo
49,, onorator uha uas 90
.noomiat;rn 5;enos;t;on reoreS,ed tba
MANAGER to dcIay his answer Tbcn he
r.n arornd 70 Gnd , fr;ond ,,bo u.s in
the suoar business. and manfred as to
tb. tnture of sugar nrices lie learned