Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-09
INCREASED SERVICE.
HOW THE TYPEWRITER HAS A.
FEcTEo TELeoRAPHY.

Hacked by an Extensive Code. the TeIe.
graphite service Of the various nis
Press Associations Has been R.,oiu.
tionl,ed by the Machine.
BY far the most important and valu.
able Improvement In the efficiency OF
the electric telegraph In the past three
or four years has been brought about by
the introduction into telegraph work Of
machine that has absolutely nothing
electrical about 1.-THE typewriter. II
has become absolutely indispensable In
several Of the more important branches
OF the telegraph service. necessity 10
the complement Of every first class Oh.
cra'or. and soon H. lively pitter will Lc
the unyarying accompaniment TO the
brisk clicking Of the soundcr In every
telegraph office In the land.
Tho most striking example Of the
value OF the typewriter In tclegraphy l.
afforded by the press service. In ths
branch 1t has entirely superseded the
pen and stylus throughout the whole
country, aud no operator is eligible foi
a position on u United Press or Asso
eiatcd Press circuit, or practically on
any press wire. unless no Is typewriter
expert. He simply could not do the
work. The typewriter was first intro
duccd into the Office Of tho Associated
Press as an experiment about seven
years ago. and Tor the last two yoars II
has bCcunscd exclusively In all offices OF
the United Press aud tho Associated
Press.
Tho United Press has six circuits run.
ming out OF Now York, reaching all the
principal points ~ far west rs St Paul
aud south 70 New Orleans The uuinbaf
Of Offices ON n circuit varies from eight
to twenty The Associated Press serves
practically the same points by snlstan.
tally similar circuits. Over these wifos
the special dispatches from the various
points are received, and the main volnm,
OF news collected In New York. the ,,rra,
collecting and distributing point. is son,
out for service to tho newspapers In the
associations. Before the introduction Of
the typewriter tho might report" aver
aged about 5000 words on each wire
aud the whole days work amounted to
about 1900 words. Now tho night TO
port runs to about 1900 words and the
whole daysscryicc averages about ", 900 |
words.
BENEFITS TnT OPERATOR
4 iirt class operntor can ,epd ab,u, !
forty words minute. continuously and |
we'll, but experience has shown thnt A a
very difficult TOT man TO write with a |
pen or stylus more than thirty or thirty. \
live words "A minute steadily aud com.
tinuously, for number of hours. The
service of tho ures. association. n, ~,
York requires from twenty 10 thirty |
copies 10 bo taken OF every di.pnteb In |
other citios the number varies from four
or five COPIES upward. They wcro /
formerly made with an iron or nynto
stylus on tissue paper interleayed with
carbonaicd sheets. The labor of pr,.sine
through 40 many thicl,no-soa of naner In
order to make legillo copy ON eacb q
enormous.
Tho strain. muscular and mental oi
writing thiriy.dye words a minute in
this manner for eight or uino hour, |
nightly, following tho dictation of N |
sender who could always greatly excel
the writer In speed. has been Responsible /
for the nervous aud physical breakdown
VI hhuhftua OF operators. On the tNup.
writer a syced of seventy words A min.
ute Is easily acquired and maintained
and with slight notifications in the ma.
chino thirty copies and more can bs
taken with as much oaso rs one. There
Is no cramp and little fatigue in the on.
Grafton of tho typewriter, for eight fin.
gers do what was tho work OF two. or
practically eight motions take the place
Of one.
With the Introduction Of the TYNE.
writer the sending operator dropped
away In the rear. Then the prnctice az
abhrcvinting came into use. nnd ths
sender In his effort 10 koep nm IN ths
machine clippod his word, anl drowned
ont their yn,y,Is wnitcr 70 pLii',.N
general manager of tho limited prnss
has devised and eompilel n colo of mn.
breviations and logorfans. alillfully ar.
ranged with A view 10 tbe best ptiliT,.
ton OF the shortest and most conycnicnt
signals in the tel,pranbis nlnbnbc, 4,
Is a very excellent syFton, of i.lcgr,,bic
shorthand. and 4, now In General ma Tnr
press work
EXAMPLES or 1u ronp
A few excerpts from tbo cod. ,,ul
show It's character and srono n,,J ,,i,',
an iden of what may hc ,rcomni;stoJ 4,
the way of spoed with n. MI SLo,t
phrase, that oceur frenncn,,, aro rnnrs'
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