The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-23
IS NOW ALMOST PERFECT
Widest Dreams Horse Ever Had
Fully Realized.
New Offices of the Postal Telegraph
Gable Company at Pittsburg,
Where There Is Room for One
Hundred Knights of the key-Sev-
enteen Thousand Connections Are
PossibIe-A Great Enterprise.

PITTSBURG, Pa, March eff
sturdy old Samuel F. B. Morse could
step into the lower floor of the Carne-
gle building today he would need all
nerve and probably good dose of old
Monongahela rye into the bargain to
keep him from fainting. Even in his
most visionary moments the inventor
of the telegraph never dreamed that
the genii to which his mighty brain
gave birth more than fifty years ago
would ever soar to the heights of per-
lection in the control of lightning
shown in the new offices of the Postal
Telegraph Gable company, occupied for
the first time today. Only for a few
short moments was the business of the
public retarded, and now in
ONE OF THE HANDSOMEST
telegraph offices in the world the bust
ness of the Postal company is being
carried on just as though nothing had
happened.
The new office is located in the upper
half of the first floor of the magnifi-
cent Carnegie building, on Fifth ave-
nue.. 1t is new throughout-not an old
instrument or bit of furniture in it.
Everything - instruments, switch
boards, dynamos, generators, desks
and tables-are of the latest and most
improved pattern, giving the company
a tremendous advantage in the trans
action of its business. The offices are
az feet wide by 10 feet long. taking in
all nearly 5000 feet of floor space. The
floor is of marble and the wainscotting
of green granite. Pneumatic tubes ex-
%ar JAl; Il
the rear of the building to the receiv-
ing department in the front and do
away with the necessity for all rum
ming back and forth between the two
departments. The operating room has
accommodations for over
ONE HUNDRED OPERATORS,
and is one of the most modern in the
world The instruments are located
on twenty-five cherry quartette tables.
each capable of accommodating four
operators. These tables are pro-
vided with cabinets for stor-
ing -typewritecs and sliding shelves to
receive the machines while in use and
bring them to the proper level for the
operator manipulating the keys. The
use of typewriters in the operating
room is a hobby with the Postal COM
pany No provision whatever is made
for the pen or pencil, every operator
being compelled to receive all ma tier
on the typewriter
In the rear of the room are
quadruplex. duplex sets and the
repeating tables. which are among
the most wonderful and inter
esting features of the whole of
fee. Near the repeating tables is the
switchboard. delicate and intricate in
it's functions, a wonderful piece of
mechanism. All tine wires center in
this switchboard, upon which it is pos
sible to make something over 1900
connections by means of plugs and
wedges that connect the wires to their
respective instruments on the operat-
ing tables.
THE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
of the office was fitted up under the
immediate supervision of the COM
pany's local electrician and chief oper-
ator, Thomas Fl. Hughes.
Invitations have been sent to the
business public in general by Superin-
tendent John Campbell to visit and
inspect the new Office.