Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-02-01

after the dictates OF their own con-
science. The naming of the new
colony after the old one naturally sug-
gested itself. 1t is expected that be.
ore the year ends at least 200 families
will have arrived at the colony, and
be allotted their lands.
WRITING BY WIRE.
A Merchant Here Can Sign a Check
In New York.
EUCat electricians and teIegraphic
companies are exhibiting great deal
of interest in the new telautograph
company now being organized in
Philadelphia, with capital stock of
100000. The early organization of
such company is looked for on this
Coast, as the invention is now in COM
mercial use. The Western Union
Telegraph Company in New York
has been operating the telautograph
for some time between the main Of
flee and the supply department with
marked success, and there are also
several lines in operation throughout
the United States.
The apparatus consists OF a trans.
mitter and receiver associated for the
use OF each subscriber or office. The
mechanism of these instruments is
extremely simple and so arranged
that electric impulses sent over the
connecting wire put the receiving pen
in synchronous movement with the
transmitting pen. The impulses are
transmitted by direct and positive
methods, which are therefore in.
dependent of and uninfluenced by at
mospheric conditions.
An ordinary lead pencil is used, near
the point of which two silk cords are
fastened at right angles to each other.
These cords connect with the in.
strument, and. allowing the motions
OF the pencils, regulate the current i'm.
pulses which control the receiving pen
at the distant station. The writing is
done on ordinary paper, five inches
wide, conveniently arranged on roll
attached to machine. A lever at the
left is so moved by the hand as to
shift the paper forward mechanically
at the transmitter, and electrically at
the receiver.
Tha receiving pen is a capillary
glass tube placed at the junction OF
two aluminium arms. This glass pen
is supplied with ink which flows from
a reservoir through q smaller rubber
tube placed in one of these arms. The
electrical impulses, coming over the
wire, move the pen Of the receiver
simultaneously with the movement oil
the pencil in the hands of the sender
As the pen passes over the paper an
ink tracing is left, which is always .
facsimile Of the sender's motions
whether in the formation of letters
words, figures. signs or sketches, and
works almost noiselessly and insures
secret service which neither the tele.
phone or telegraph can do.
With the telautograph . business
man can produce his ordinary cor.
respondence and tranact important
matters without the medium of an ex.
perienced operator; it can be sue.
cessfully operated as readily by a child
ss by the most experienced and erudite
electrician of the land. From his of.
fee he can send instructions to his
factory, close by. or many miles dis.
tants having the same delivered in his
own handwriting. In likemanner he
can receive, at his Office, daily or hour
ly reports from his factory.
Important business deals by means
of the telautograph may be transacted
between this Coast and Eastern cities,
without the usual delay OF four or five
days consumed in the transmission OF
mail. When it will be necessary to
sign important papers without delay,
all that will be necessary will be to
place the papers on the receiver of the
telautograph and they will be signed
at once.
1t will only be short time when q
special artist abroad will be able to
send an accurate picture or portrait,
which will appear in q morning paper
thousands of miles away. For stock
dealing. train dispatching, etc., the
telautograph will be invaluable. The
inventor is Professor Elisha Crap, and
the successful use OF the contrivance
marks one more triumph in the science
of telegraphy.
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