The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-12
A PIE DREAM OF TELEeRAPHY.
Tho Herald" Fooled by "Now" System
That TeleRrnphers Know All About.

That Photographers Know All About.
A ne "" Hungarian system by which II will
be possible to send and receive 100 900 words
each hour by telegraph" was celebrated on
Sunday by the Herald.
ITO transmit every word In a big metropoli-
tan news paper from one city to another In an
hour-that is the promise made by the in
vsntors OF an improved method Of telegrnphv."
said the Herald Then 1t told about the Won
derful system. and continued:
ITO illustrate the capacity OF this system
we may cite the folio wing example: 1t re-
qures only twenty. five minutes to transmit
the contents Of a newspaper containing 49,
600 words. while an expert Hughes tsleg-
rapher requires ut least thirty hours for the
transmission OF this message, and a Morse
operator could not do the work In less than
FIVE days and nights. Thus II will be seen that
by the introduction OF this system the cost Of
telegraphing will be considerably reduced by
the greater use which can be made OF exist
ing telegraph lines: In fact. 1t would in all
probability reform or even revo!utionize the
entire telegraph industry. The demand for a
simple and rapid system 10 felt more particu-
larly in large cities, where the multiplication
OF telegraph wires becomes a more serious
problem every day. The new system would
decrease the number OF wires required to
transact the necessary business OF good
sized community and enable messages from a
ansmittei without interruption BY EN-
chimes every possible demand on line can be
met. For these and any, other reasons It is
certain that the eRtire civilized world will hail
the new discovery With delight"
The whole thing was dished up by the Herald
with big headlines and pictures. and in the
pie were fooled by the Herald. but since the
publication everybody :, who knows anything
been laughing at the IGNORANCE that permitted
the publication Of such stuff. According to
the system deliberately explained and illus
to represent the dots aud dashes Of the Morse
system. This PAPER Is, run through the trans
hitting machine, which is euuipped with two
electrical brushes. one a positive and the other
n negative. Every time either brush encoun-
tiers q hole the. electric spark passes. At tho
receiving end OF tho machine the transmitted
current marks irregu ar lines on a strip. OF sen;
eitlzed papsr. an up stroke meaning a dot and
at the receiving end and the up and down
strokes are translated into letters and words
and messages.
Sun reporter talked Yesterday with some
experts in teleRraphy, They said that the ma
chimes described by the Herald as new were in
prefer sions nut forth by:the H7'am story were
ridiculous In the extreme; Assuming that a
Of Words ae hour q
one city to another. making a clear record OF
II at the receiving end. that would noe mean
piece. First. the hundred thousand words
have to be prerared for transmission,tha is.
have. to be punched The very best puncher
could punch out.perhaps thirty words min:
ute So il o1 re-, man did the punching lunch It would
1t would take tiity-slX men to punch out tho
100000 words in one hour Then the roll
take one hour for it to be transmitted. and it
would have to be written out at the end OF the
q
ing strip himself could not make any faster
time.thnn could the man who dil the, punch
sage 1888 minutes or 55tg hours. 1t would
take nfty-siX men to transcribs it In an hour.
other man reserves. as in the Morse system in
use in this country. It would take two days and
seven and one half hours to prepare the mes.
days seven and one hall hours to transcribe It,
a total Of DAYS and sixteen hours, the men
working twenty fours a day to deliver this
lOO.0OO-word MESSAGE from the sending Gus
toner T. the receiving customer.
ThE S has its Ge 4" 70 rSrhs
in and year out At the other end Of the lne
Assuming that these mon wor kei steadily for
ular rate. they would deliver thslr 100000
words to the receiving customer 10 ona day
bs ana h99hr thse any;
system celebrated BY. the Herald. Bear in
mind 10y the system in use now the sending
and The receiving of the message ar ecoincident.
while by the H7nds new system the essnge
must be prepared before It is sent and tho
transcrihng Is all done after 1t has arrived;
The uuickest possible time In which 100 900
words could boslelivsred from the sending Gus
toner to the receiving customer under the
Hrdld'S exploited system'woud be three hours,
That Ia, one hour to prepare 1t. ono hour to
send 1t and one hour. TO transcribe.it. and to
men would be employed. 1t would require
only tventy-six Sun operators. thirteen send
ing and thirteen receiving, to de liver 100000
fewer mon to do the work by what the He,'dld
calls the present antiquatsd system" 1t is
work. the wires being 'Iuadded. ltut il these
auto matte systems with perforated and sensi.
tied paper saved cost and time as renresented.
long ago. To sum 1t all IN. the Herald in
fcted tho worst sort OF a pipe dream" on the