Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-26

plainly read as in any other telegraph sys-
TEN, and 5000 signs which in other systems
working with the Morse alphabet require a
strip Of paper 220 yards long, in the new
method may all be located on a sheesspf
paper two feet long by four inches wide.
The modus operandi Of the system is ex
plained by the correspondent OF the paper
already referred to az follows "The tele-
grams are transmitted by perforated strips
OF paper; the teegrapher does not transmit
the message to the line direct by beating
the key Of a sounder, but previously pre-
pares the message on strips of paper by a
perforating machine built on the system OF
the typewriter. The advantage of this sys-
tenn Is that a great number Of telegraphers
can all work at one time before occupying
the line. very long message can be pre-
| pared by several hands at once in shorter
| time than II one telegrapher sent 1t off by
| himself. The actual sending takes such a
short time, when once the perforated strips
| are ready, that the message is as good as
sent when 1t Is put on the strips"
The receiver made use Of in this system
| apparently somewhat resembles Lord Kel-
wins well known mirror galvanometer for
submarine cable messages in that the vi
| brations Of telephone diaphragm are rem
| dered visible and readable by the aid OF a
small mirror and ray OF light thrown upon
sensitzed paper. Commenting on the value
OF such a rapid system of telegraphy, the
| correspondent says: 'If this is OF mpor-
tance in saving the laying Of new lines 1t Is
all the more important when events happen
| In places where there are few lines-at the
seat OF war, for instance, where govern
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lines to the exclusion OF every other serv-
ice, or in small villages visited by sudden
caamities requiring long news dispatches"
Although the several systems Of telegraphy
just described would seem to have many ad-
vantages to recommend them, it will prob
| ably be some years before any of them is
adopted on anything like an extensive scale,
| for experience goes to show that no matter
| how valuable and worthy an invention may
be, 1t only comes into general use through
slow process Of evolution.
street Cars Haul Freight.
The Milwaukee Street Railway company
has been using cars for the purpose Of de-
| livering freight. Stone has been delivered
to several companies in that city which, 1t
is claimed, is in direct violation cf the char
ter of the company. Manager Beggs, when
1t was not violation of the charter, as the
stone belonged to the company until it was
| delivered to the purchaser. II this holds
good the company can at once enter into
freight traffic the same as a steam railway.
The company is now equipped with large
| number of freight cars, and 1t is reported
that arrangements have been made whereby
| in the future the company will do an eX-
tensive freight business during the night
hours.
The idea of carrying freight on street rail-
| ways Is in practical operation farther west
than Milwaukee. One of the novel sights to
a visitor to Cedar Rapids Ia, is the NOV
ing Of express cars over the street railway
lines The cars are patterned after the ex
press cars Of steam roads, though much
smaller, and operate between Cedar Rapids
and nearby towns They are we'll patron
lied.
American Trolley Cars for England.
Albert l.. johnson, the former head of the
Nassau railroad, in talking Of his plans to
introduce the American system OF trolley
cars in the English metropolis, the other
day said
"Those who have studied the city of Lon
don say that its marvellous population can
be ascribed to one thing, and that is the
ease with which one may go 10 any other
city ca the face of the globe. Within twenty
minutes walk from st. Pauls are the lines
one may use to go anywhere. Yet, with ia
ciltie9 for reaching other places, London Is
the most inconvenient city in the world to
get around in. 1t Is just this latter trouble
whi,h we intend to remedy. No one has ever
asked for a similar franchise and we expect
to win because Of it's novelty. We have been
| x,ipoy ha frnp In
Brighton and expect to have that work done
OF surveyors have been at work since my
visit in the spring. 1t is not possible to gel
a franchise there as easily as here. You
, cannot go and say that you want to run q
road over such and such streets, and gel
permission. They require you not only tC
survey all the territory you intend to cover
but also to furnish to the city Autographed
maps showing exactly what you are golnf
to do and how you are going to do 1t: Ou1
maps for the Brighton route have been pre-
I. pared and should be Autographed by Octo
= ber We have not met with any oppos tloI
, to speak of, because the people want wha
! ! we are going to give them. There were SOM
| property holders who were afraid to hav
us cross their grounds, but there were man.
more who begged us to come their way. w
= Will reach the city, however, by the mos
h direct route. The distance between Londol
n and Brighton is forty five miles. The eptir
= distance will be travelled over a privat
[ | right OF way, going under or over all in
e tersecting roadways. The rails will be o
;, the 10 pound variety heavy as any use
o in steam roads, and the grades will not b
a over one and one-half feet to the mile a
g any point This will enable the cars to main
r, tain an even speed, and we calculate tha
d the entire distance will be covered in a
Is average speed of mile a minute, includln
stops. The cars will be the latest models
excelling most of those in this country, an
far surpassiag those now in use in Englant
With no smoke or cinders and a speed OF
mile a minute, London viii see that we ca
thinH The Lrnseut farn I