Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-11-25
INCREASED SERVICE.
..o. rns TYPEWRITER HAS AZ
FEcTgp rELEeRAPHf'

-. s,.,x,s. Of the Various MSS
- .,r,a,,.n. liza. Been Rs.ois-
tsonssed by tho Machine
Nv far the most important ana VsA
aha ;mproyement in the efficiency O'
The electric telegraph IN the past ny
or four wears has been brought aoou. y,
the INTRODUCTION into telegraph WORE o.
a machine that has absolutely nothing
electrical about 1.-THE typewriter, y
has become absolutely Indispensable 10
several of the more important prahcnes
az the telegraph service, a necessary "
the complement OF every first class OPP
orator. and soon its lively patter wiii oe
the unyarying accompaniment TO the
brisk clicking of the sounder In every
telegraph office in the land.
The most striking example OF the
value Of the typewriter in teiegrapny y
afforded by the press service. In TINS
branch il has entirely superseded the
pen and stylus throughout the wnoie
country. and no operator Is eligible lot
n r,osition on a United Press or Asso-
ciated Press circuit. or practically on
any press wire, unless he is Typewriter
expert. He simply could not do the
work. The typewriter was frst intro.
duced into the Office of the Associated
Press as an experiment about seven
wears ago, and for the last two years u
has been used exclusively in all offices oil
the United Press and the Associated
Press
The United Press has six circuits run
ming out Of New York, reaching all the
principal points as far west as st. Pani
and south to New Orleans. The number
of Offices on a circuit varies from eight
to twenty. The Associated Press serves
practically the same points by substan
TALLY similar circuits. over these wires
the special dispatches from the various
points are received. and the main volume
of news collected in New York. the great
collecting and distributing point, Is sent
out for service to the newspapers in the
associations. Before the introduction OF
the typewriter the might report aver
aged about 5000 words on each wire.
and the whole days work amounted to
about $4,000 words. Now the night re-
port runs TO about $4,000 words and the
whole days service averages about ~. 900
words
BENEFITS THE OPERATOR
A first class operator can send about
forty words minute. continuously and
well, but experience has shown that II il
very difficult for man to write with 4
pen or stylus more than thirty or thirty
five words a minute. steadily and con
tinuously. for a number OF hours. The
service Of the press associations in New
York requires from twenty to thirty
copies to be taken of every dispatch. In
other cities the number varies from -four
or i've copies upward They wer,
formerly made with an iron OF agat,
stylus ON tissue paper interviewed with
carbonated sheets. The labor Of pressing
through so many thicknesses of paper il
order to make legible copy on each i
enormous.
The strain. muscular and mental. o.
writing thirty-fve words a minute il
this manner for eight or nine hour
nightly, following the dictation of /
sender who could always greatly exec
the writer in speed. has been responsible
for the nervous and physical breakdown
Of hundreds Of operators. On the type
writer speed Of seventy words min
ute Is easily acquired and maintained
and with slight notifications in the ma
chine thirty copies and more can b
taken with rs much ease as one. Their
Is no cramp and little fatigue in the OF
GRAFTON Of the typewriter. for eight fin
gers do what was the work of two. o
practically eight motions take the plac
OF one
With the introduction Of the type
writer the sending operator droppe
away in the rear. Then the practice q
abbreviating came into use, and tn
, sender in his effort TO keep up to tn
: machine clipped his words and droppe
out their vowels, Walter p. Phillip.
general manager of the United Pres.
has devised and compiled a code Of al
breyiations and logograms, skillfully NJ
, ranged with u view to the best utilizs
ton Of the shortest and most convenieu
signals in the telegraphic alphabet.
Is very excellent system of telegraph
| shorthand, and is now in general use IL
, press work
EXAMPLES OF THE CODE.
. A few excerpts from the code wi
, show It's character and scope and Civ
. an idea OF what may be accomplished !
the way Of speed with its aid. Shol
. phrases that occur frequently are repr,
, sented by, single letters. ms - mean
"of the" *" means .'out OF the" ~
means "of which, and so on. The.
; are about 1900 Authorizations and avn
! bols OF two and three letters represeu
ing much used words or short phrase
, ppm stands for 'preparation;" ..sby
! subsequently," "Nbh,- .neiqhbo
: hood: ken" concentration. The,
are some especially brief contractions. n
n "olJod,' meaning '.only a limited 10
! 6ing denand." "Mwdc.- market wit
/, out decided change
This aggregation of letters. IF .
Digs can alw nv supm adg o rpsn,
trad. ty r at leas dilgnt in fhr dyou
uglines." coming over a wire would
8 written out by the typewriting operate
q IF our buildings cannot always ha,
1 the supreme advantage Of representa-
4 trade. they are at least diligept in the
a devotion to ngliness.s
G With the aid OF the Phillips code u
q sending operator can transmit sixt
i words a minute with greater ease IA,
Il he could send thirty without il. n
} receasifs operator with hts typewrit
, can keep mp to his speed a. q pleaaa
n pastime- 1t Ia impossible TO rush hi,