Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-01-14

British metropolis, employing nm az.
gregate OF over 3. 800 operators and
clerks in one building. OF this num-
Der two-thirds are men, The females
occupy large ami we'll lighted hall.
in which the Morse instruments. with
registers aad paper reels, are used ex-
clusively. Nobody is permitted to re-
ceive by sound; ami this is also the
strict regulation on all telegraph lines
| where Morse instruments are USED In
| France. Austria and Germany. Inc
| main operating room in LONDON Is IKE
| great machine shop. although not
half as noisy i've the main office OF the
Western Union in this city. All the
most improved telegraph appliances
are utilized. The English Wheatstone.
with modern improvements. appears
to have the preference. The Hughes
printing instruments. perfected in En-
gland. are receiving greater apprecia-
ton in Europe than they DO in this
country.
In Berlin the Hughes printing in
strument has the preference, and 100
of these are used in the central tele-
graph station. Delany's sextuple. an
American invention, has been in active
use in London for several years. and
the inventor and patentee receives t2,
600 (S10, 900 royalty per year from the
British government. This fact affords
sufficient proof that the government
teiegraphs in Europe utilize all the in.
ventions as rapidly us DO the American
y,ri vote cOmpnpias
CHEAP RATES FOR THE PRESS.
This rambling survey OF the great
telegraph stations OF the European
capitals may be somewhat disappoint-
ing, but it is impossible with the limit
of time at my command to enter into
greater details.
The impression has prevailed in this
country that the postal telegraph SER
vice of Europe does not afford as good
facilities and cheap rates to the press
as do the telegraph lines in this coun-
try. This l have found to be erro-
neous. While the British postal tele Z.
graph does not permit preference in
the transmission OF dispatches to any
patron, the press dispatches are trans
mitted over special wires. The cffi-
cheney Of handling press dispatches in
London surpasses anything l have ever
seen. Reporters and correspondents
file their dispatches, enclosed in spec
ial envelopes. directed to the intelli-
gence department. They IRE imme-
diately shot into the central postal tel
egraph building and transferred
through the pneumatic tube into the
press bureau. There the envelope is
opened, the dispatch checked and at
once sent by special wire. or by teie-
phone, as the sender may direct: Press
dispatches may be duplicated to any
number of papers, and parliamentary
proceedings AMI other general ncws is
often wired simultaneously to from 200
to 800 papers. The intelligence bu-
reau supplies leased service to leading
dailies and one may lease a wire for
all night or for short periods at very
reasonable rates.
The press service receives special
care at the Paris central Office and the
leased wire service is even moro lib
orally arranged in France than in
England. You can lease wire for an
hour and even for five minutes. The
rate for one hour over wire extend
ing any distance within the republic of
France is 80 francs (*6.O0) including
operators service at both ends, or 81
francs go cents) for five minutes.
The average transmission is 1000
words an hour, ana often with expert
operators 500 words in five minutes.
International wire service lis necessa-
rily dearer. There are. however, sew
eral international wires leased to news
papers and press bureaus. The New
York Herald has a leased wire for GER
tain hours between London and Paris.
and the Reuter- and Havas correspond
emit bureaus have several wires leased.
which are operated by them for the
transmission of International press
news analogue to the Associated Press
reports.
The French postal telegraph grants
a rebate to the press for the time during
which leased press wire is in use
for commercial purposes. When the
press has leased wires and the gov
eminent uses them in the interval
when they are not in use for press dis
patches the expenses are shared in
proportion to the service.
AT Vienna the press bureau occupies
rooms in the central telegraph build
ing and its messages are given prece-
dence over other business. A reduc.
ton Is made for all papers that con-
tract for 500 words or more daily. At
the central telegraph station at Vienna
boxes are placed for each daily that
transmits special dispatches by tele-
graph or telephone. Correspondents
simply drop their letters or clippings.
into these boxes. mark them ..tele-
graph" or telephone " and the postal
officials forward them to their destina-
ton. Desks are also conveniently
placed at the central telegraph station
for the press correspondents.
SALARIES OF EMPLOYEES.
The salaries Of postal telegraph en-
ployes in Great Britain will compare
favorably with those paid for the same
class OF operators in this country, bar.