Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-05
WIRES WILL HUM.
Plans for Receiving Election
Returns, tuesday Night.
Most Remote Country Towns to Have
Metropolitan Service.
Telephone and Telegraph Will Unite in Giving
News Of victory.

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made by the New England Telephone
60. TO give their subscribers in this
city the best possible service on cleo
ton returns. Tuesday night. and
Charles II. O'Rrien. the hustling local
manager. has nearly perfected arrange
ments by which not only the people Of
this city but even those at the. paw
stations in all the remote country
towns between Brunswick and Bangor
may have advantage of the service.
which will probably be ahead of any
other, free of cost.
The company is to have at three Of
the principal central Offices. Portland
| Augusta and Bangor telegraph instru-
mentS by which the returns will be re-
ceivedat each Of these offices. and from
! these places the returns will be dis
tributed 10 various parts of the State
! This telegraph service viii be over the
company's own lines and Instruments
and the returns will be taken by their
own telegraph operators.
In the office in this city, for instance.
a set Of telegraph instruments will be
installed 1T A desk III the middle Of the
! operating room. The office viii be wiz
| ed 50 that n large number of long dis
| tauce telephones will be placed at diff
/ ferent points around the room AT
! these Will be seated number of telr-
/ phone operators The telegraph in
| strumcnts will be connected with one
! of the principal newspaper offices in
| New York. and from that office the
\ news will he sent 10 this city, where il
/ will be taken by telegraph ny the on
orator in the central telephone office
! Manifold copies Will be made of the
| dispatches received. and from these
| copies the different telephone operators
| at the long distance Instruments will
! telephone the results to the small
| towns in all parts of this telephone dis
| trict. At the same time the operators
at the switch board will telephone the
results to various parts Of the city or
to those places where arrangements
have been made for the service
| In order 70 give this service 1t will
| be- necessary to put in a large number
of extra Instruments. so many that the
central office will be almost filled with
machines and operators. In order b
give a satisfactory, service il will be
necessary t.. have between - and 20
operators at the office. This will of
course. cause quite an expense to the
company. but in spite of this addition
/ al cost the service will be given free
OF charge.
Manager O'Brien has been asked
many times if he will receive his re-
turns. that are TO be sent to the com
pany. from some Telegraph office. In
answer TO this he makes the explana-
tion that the company's own lines are
| used. As is We'll known. the company
has the finest wire service to be obtain
I'd. There is 4 direct copper wire con-
nection with New York and other
places. These wires are used for tn
telephone work ordinarily. but in this
particular instance telegraph instru-
ments wifi be attached TO the wires. \
remarkable thing is that even with the
telegraph instruments attached to the
! telephone wires. there will be no inter
ruption OF the telcphonic service and
on the other hand the telephone SER
| vice will not in any way interfere with
! the service of the telegraph instru
! mentS. In other words. the wires are to be
| used for both telephone and Geographic
| work at the same time. and while one
! person may be receiving messages
/ from New York by telephone. the same
/ wire AT the same time may b. trans
hitting telegraph news and each per
! son will know nothing Of the work OF
l the other. Neither will there be any
interruption.
This feat is accomplished by means
OF a discovery of Edison. In brief. the
current used in working the telegraph
! Instruments is much stronger than that
use in operating the telephones. When
the current working the telephones
passes through the wires if such
Ian expression may be used. il is 50
\ slight that it does not affect the tele-
graph Instruments. while. on the other
/ hand. the current used in working the
/ telegraph saunders does not affect the
f, telephones
The election news will be given in
several places in this city by the tele-
phone company The most important
place Will be opposite Bonds photo
graphic studio. AT the studio the re
turns will be received by telephone
from the central office. The result will
| be written on smoked glass slides and
then by means Of a stereopticon the re-
suits will be thrown upon screen on
the opposite side of the street.
At City hall. which has been engag-
ing. the returns will be received by two
| services. The Telephone Co will put
in a telephone instrument and the news
1 will be sent out by that and then read
to the people in the hall. At. the same
place the Postal Telegraph Co. will
have an operator at work, so that the
people gathered at that place will have
q double service.
Several other places will have a SER
vice which will be semi-public. Among
these places will be the Opera house.
court house. State House, Abnaki Club
land rooms of the board of aldermen.
This body will be in session. that even
ing, to make up the local election re-
turns, and at the same time will re-
ceive the service.
| In addition, the returns will be re-
ceived at large number of private
residences.