The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-02
1874 NORTH MAIN STREElrT

Your correspond dents come in with their
telegrams-five hundred. Thousand. tNo
| thousand words OF more II they ara not
written in copy book fashion. or by type
writer. they will be refused as nieGiole.
Each letter and word must be as clear
and distinct as II would be written fof
Kindergarten pupil, because to the ia
rnaicans." who are the operators. the
context is no help. the Intelligence which
knows what a certain word is from Its
position n a sentence 10 entirely waning
/ Horace Greeley would have Dean recalled
by his Office as Of no use whatever II
sent to describe the Santiago campaign
When one has rewritten his dispatch In
large round, baby charactsrs the young
Jamaican woman at the window attempts
/ to read and unders tand IT, At first one IS
snort and sharp with her, such stupidity
seeming out of place in a telegraph sta
ton; then 1t Is suddenly remembered that
a woman Is a woman. though stupid and
touched with the tar-brush. and cheer
fuller tones and more defereDtial man
ner assist in getting at last TO the end OF
the dispatches.
An hour has been used UP; but now the
words in the dispatches must be counted
than a form has to filed out with each
( one. and revenue stamps bought and AZ
fixed. 1t IS often two hours before the
process OF filing a dispatch Of 800 words
/ can be completed. and the sender Is able
10 leave the Office with any assurance
that 1t IS now in a fair way to be tele-
sraphed It is desirable. however %
drive back to the government telegraph
station IN the morning and find out II
/ the dispatch has been sent or has yet
started IN case It has. Kingston, the
point wherre it Is to be put on the cable
for America, becomes the place 10 worry
about. There. at tho West India direct. a
subsidized line. nearly the same delays
are experienced; more rates have 20 oe
paid. and in the course of a few days the
message gets through by way Of BeT-
muda and Halifax % New York
! No sympathy could induce any sim
pllhcation OF the jamaican method.
/ though money had some power IN that d.
re,,ion. and II was always an Engiishman
who came 70 our aid cordially and with
out price 70 expedite dispatches. and help
! Us IN getting ice Tor hospital ships and
dellcacies FOR officers long oooped up in
var ships on the Cuban blockade As
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( Majesty's ship unconquerable. and be-
cause 81 also illustrates the new feeling
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that ! Ike about her Mstesty's observer
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