Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-17
Tlk FIELD OF ELECTRICITY
Strong Company Organized to Compete for
Business with the Bell People,
MUCH WEALTH Blind THE PROJECT
Great Field for American Electrical
Machinery i'm the Far EAST
Recent Developments in
Various Lines.

W. j. Latta OF New York has been chosen
president of the Telephone, Telegraph and
Gable company Of America, recently incor-
porated under the laws of New Jersey. The
company is capitalized at s30,O00,OOO, OF
which 10 per cent Is paid in. At a meet
ing OF the lncorporators the following board
OF direct.rs was selected: John Jacob Astor,
New York; p. A. Wldener. Philadelphia; (;
Charles r. Flint, New York; Martin Ma
loney, New York; Francis NJ Jencks, New
York; w. L. Elkns, Philadelphia; Frank
Tilford, New York; w. II. Gelshener New
York; President OF the Garfield National
Bank Thomas Dolan of Philadelphia, Charles
E. Adams OF Boston, Oakes Ames OF Boston,
Ex-Governor Francis of Missouri, william n.
Crocker OF San Francisco, Emerson McMil-
Ian OF Michigan and w. ]. Latta.
The main object of this company" said
Mr. Latta to a Sun reporter, "wll be the
extension and perfection of the long dis
tnnce telephone service throughout the coun-
try and in a secondary way the essening of
the rates. In carrying out our plans we
shall undoubtedly absorb a number OF
smaller companies and create new ones,
but can authortatively state that we shall
neither absorb nor have any connection
with the Western Union Telegraph com
pany, nor will Mr.. George Gould he inter-
ested in the concern. No stock will be put
on the market for public subscription. II is
all fully subscribed for, about fifty men,
CT whom the board Of directors are a rep
rosentative number, holding it all. Our
plans are all completed and we shall begin
operations at once"
Baltimore parties interested in the new
company say their first move will he to alb
sorb the Maryland Telephone and Telc-
graph company of Baltimore and the Pitts
burg and Allegheny company of Pittsburg
This is to be followed by securing control
OF n number Of other independent exchanges
In various cities and connecting the different
cities by long-distance service
Both the Baltimore and Pittsburg proper
ties are under the control OF Baltimore in
terests, who are now spending s., 500 900 in
cash on their development The MARYLAND
Telephone Manufacturing company which
is also controlled by these interests, owns
patents for switchboards and telephones
and 1t Is the purpose to use these patents
In developing the business of the new
$1,000 600 company.
These patents mark, 1t is stated a decided
departure in the apparatus used for tele-
phone service and in no way infringe upon
any of the Bell devices.
Improved Telephone System.
II recent invention fulfils all that is ex-
pected of 1t, says the London Daily Times,
we are approaching an era of cheaper tele-
phones, greater clearness in voice transmits
sion, and the surmounting of the many diff
culties that beset long distance telephony.
The invention is a transmitting apparatus.
1t is claimed for it that it is adapted to all
purposes of telephony. particularly upon long
circuits. that reDrodured words rop do
sired be heard all over a large room: that
speech can be loudly and clearly tranen nlitted
ever distances hitherto impossible; that ex-
ponsive metallic circuits, now absolutely
necessary, can be dispensed with; that much
cheaper wire can be used, and that a mes
sage can be sent along wire that is at the
same time being used for telegraph pur-
poses. Such are the advantages of the ap-
Iaratus as given by the secretary of the
company to a Daily Mail representative yes
terday. "Only three cells of battery" he ex-
planned, "can be used behind the best tele-
phone instrument now in use. Consequently,
in order to successfully telephone from say,
London to Dublin, very costly conduct in
the form of metallic circuit has to be used.
The copper wire for these main trunk lines
costs as much as $500 a mile With the new
instrument We shall be able to telephone
from London to Dublin with an earth return
and this will mean an enormous saving In
the cost of trunk lines. At the present time
the earth return is not used for telephone
purposes. Another great feature of the new
instruments is that its resistance to induc-
tion is much greater, by reason of the EN-
ployment of twelve cells of battery instead Of
three, and these can be SO regulated that the
reproduced voice can be heard all over the
room, or through the receiver only, and no
matter how great the distance the speech Is
quite clear and distinct, Trial instruments
are in use in the signal cabins on the Great
Northern railway at Leeds, and important
official tests are now being conducted with
view to the general adoption of the inven-
tion throughout England. With the intro
duction OF this instrument, overhead wires
will be abolished, an underground circuit
established and the cost of laying and main
tanning trunk lines will be infinitely smaller
than it is now. Thus the public will save
large sum of money in the charges for
telephone service"
High Speed TeIegraphy.
The Electrical Review, commenting on
the system OF hgh-speed telegraphy re-
Gently exploited in Austria, and which. it
was stated showed the very remarkable
record OF 100000 words per minute over
a single wire, says while this figure
is astonishing. II by no means follows that
least practical utility Indeed, the useful
ness OF any very high speed telegraphic sys-
TEN is open to grave question, because all
Of them that have been invented SO far in
volve no less than three distinct operations
In the sending OF the message they require
the preparation of the message to be sent,
its actual transmission and the translation
of the result, when received into form
proper TO be sent to the recipient. Let us
assume, for the purposes OF argument, that
a system capable of sending 100000 words
an hour should be installed between New
York and Chicago II Is exceedingly un-
likely that any expert operator would be
able to prepare over fifteen hundred words
an hour for transmission by tape punching
mechanism. Hence, to feed such line
would require not less than sixty-six oper-
ri ns