The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-01

hack with the marginal reroTt that there
wss 10 sach person AZ the address named.
Tho operator at Albany was called up
and explanations followed. IN consequence
Of which the address was correctly
changed TO drawing room car agent CEN
trial depot Bnt even a more absurd mis-
take WAS once made in the same offices
hen wire Was received for James
w. Giles. pie clerk. Brookiyn nasty
ysrd, This WAS afterwards amended 10
read James w. Gillespie. clerk. brooklyn
navy yard !"
The expert telesrarher's great chance
comes at the time af nauenal conven.
ttoas and presidential elections Speesi
IKE lightning variety Is then a requisite
or his every movement. During the last
Republican convention Frank /. kim.
press operator of the BrcGklyt Eagle stan.
covered himself ard his paper With cory.
and established a speed record which vii
long reuiaia unhroken. kim had PLAN
ned Tor thss feat weeks ahead by iesrnit,sy
10 operate linotype. At the time of the
nomination kihui placed himself at a
linotype, his sounder at his elbow. As the
soandcr began 10 click the news from
Chicago kihm received" the message ard
ran II or on the linotype. The first part
OF the speech was In the newspaper forms
ready for printing before the speech Itself
was ended. and the paper with a verbatim
report or the speech was being sold upon
the streets OF Brooklyn before the audi
esce In the convention hail OF Chicago had
ceased It's applause.
Teiegraphinw During Hom hard m ent.
A good story of the teiegraphing done
under perilous conditions IS told by Mr..
4. j. fierney. of the New York eahls
ONCE. as follows: II WAS once working
line which had a hero at the other end
OF IT. / was reminded or the story the
9ther day, when IL was intimated in the
newspapers that our cables would ho cut
in case of war with Spain. Well. they
were not cut during the last revolution in
braxii they were not cut when the former
Chilean government WAS -yerthrown hy
the leaders or the Chilean navy, and they
We're not cut In several other places where
the conditions were about the same a.
now exists between here and Cuba But
10 40 en- with my story. II was during
one OF those South American revolutions.
! Will not say where. for various reasons
The city in which this telegraph operator
SAT was being bombarded. Every report
which went out OF the place had to be-
examined by censor and no news OF tho
bombardment was supposed to leave the
place. Yet l knew of the bombardment
while 1t was going on. The affair was OF
the most absorbing interest, inasmuch a.
the operator was sitting in the MOST urr
protected part OF the town, and shells
were dropping thick and fast ali around
him. In between the ordinary business
he would intersperse calculations. which,
perhaps, were AZ much the result OF has
nervousness as anything else. For I'm
stance. after regular message would
come the words. N.Y. that was = biz fel-
low Then again That shell Killed four
Again. There goes that old house Down
the street Again. Hear that one scream
Ing: wonder where 1t win strike And 30
on. until he practically sent through a
complete report OF the bomberdmcnt
suppose the receivers at our end OF tho
line were the only ones who knew Of tho
battle until long after IL had taken place,
fer OF course these scraps OF news were
not In a line OF regular messages and were
not 10 be divulged. / have always thought,
however. that that man sitting IN the
midst OF the falling shells was entitled 20
more than the ordinary praise which
every brave man merits
Mr.. Charles A. Tinker. now superin-
tendent of the eastern division Of the
Western Union. Is a veteran who tells
many a tale OF the ticker during our civil
war. Mr.. Tinker was the operator for
the war department during that war. He
knew President Lincoln well, and sent