The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-29
AROUND THE CoRR1DoBs.

H. M. Milvane, who was for many years con-
nected with the general construction depart
ment of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, and who is, BESIDES an old-time operator,
now engaged in the manufacturing business in
Chattanooga, Tenn, was talking over the
radical changes which had been introduced in
late years in all branches of biography, his
remarks being inspired by a recent invention
of great Importance. eff some of the old-time
paper-min operators could have stepped into
telegraph Office in Washington few days ago
they would have beheld sight which was well
calculated to impress them with the pro-
gressiveness of the present age" said he. can
Eastern electrician has invented q machine
which has capacity of receiving from wire
and copying upon paper letters at the marvel
Gus rate of 1000 per minute. This wonderful
achievement will be better understood when l
explain that the best operators send by the
Morse alphabet and by hand transmission from
twenty to thirty words per minute, the highest
ever sent by the most skillful operators being
only fifty or sixty words. The method OF trans
mission is by means of a strip OF paper per-
forated with small holes, which is moved under
ten small styluses, the small holes allowing
the points to make the proper connections that
send the impulse which prints the letter at the
other end. The receiving instrument is mod
eled after typewriter, but 1t does not print
the letters of the alphabet substituting there
strokes of the Roman characters, the combine
ton being easily decipherable."
"Once in a while the bad man from California
turns up in the East, and when he does his vii
lainy is generally OF unique variety" said c.
A. Mack, a Baltimore oyster-dealer, at the Bald
win yesterday. "Just before left home hap
pened to be in court when a fellow giving the
name of James Clark, but who had several
aliases, was sentenced to five years in the PEN
itentiary for the larceny of lot of property
which he had secured from lady whom he
had engaged to come to Los Angeles as gov
erness. Clark is railroad man and has but
one arm, having, as he claims, lost the other
by being caught between the bumpers of two
cars. The officials a home said he was wanted
in Sacramento, in this State, and in several
other places for crimes committed"
Captain C. P. Poole of Victoria, who is in the
city, gives the information that Rockefeller, the
Standard Oil magnate, and President Hill of the
Great Northern road, have formed a combina-
ton, and that as a result the Pacific Steel
Barge Company will construct four large
whaleback steamers for the transportation
business of the Great Northern road on this
coast. ''The Great Northern is certainly look
ing toward San Francisco with q view of secur-
ing portion of the business from this point"
said the captain, "and should not be sur
prised If that road should place in service q
splendid passenger steamer between this city
and the north. l know such a rumor was
afioat last fall, and have lately heard reports
which tend to substantiate it."
/ T. E. Stillman of the legal firm of Stillman &
Hubbard, New York, who is at the Palace, is
here partly for pleasure, and also for the pur-
pose of attending the annual meeting of the
Southern Pacific Company, which occurs on
the Sd of April. The firm of which he is the
senior member represents the Hopkins estate.
Further than the fact mentioned his visit has
no significance.
t. A. Waterhouse of Portland, who was at the
Grand yesterday, says movement is on foot
by land company in Washington TO COLOMBO
500 or 1000 Icelanders in that State. "They |
are said to be thrifty class OF citizens said
Mr. Waterhouse, ''and are in many respects
more desirable than some OF the elements with |
which we have to contend, and which come |
from abroad"