Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-07-17

EASSSA AAAS 49, 800
tor has several sections near Menoken
in Burleigh county and is devoting
himself to raising blooded stock. He
told me he had sold a young bull to
Tommy Poole for $3.50 and that all
TOMS friends are green with envy,
the blood that flows in the critters
veins being bluer than the skies above.
Senator and Mrs. John T. Devlin
are here enjoying life. and the. Jolly
politician from Sargent county has
taken in everything ii Midway from
the camel ride to the Hula dance. He
took me aside and asked me IL there
was anything real bad on the grounds.
Being avery careful man, ! presume he
wanted to keep away from any such
neighborhood. It.
Sandy" Mather of the Forks dropped
in to say goodbye as he is on his way
to Scotland. He will stop on his re-
turn and "do" the Pan in better shape.
Now that Fargo has a real live
creamery it might be a good idea for
it to send along some butter for exhibit
and competition. Six North Dakota
creameries were represented at the
contest July 10 but we have not yet
received the scorings. All our butter
has been sold for account of the ex-
hibitor at an average Of 2 cents above
the market price, which speaks well
for it.
The mammoth rhubarb sem down
by Prof. Waldron has been much
talked of and many refused to believe
it was the genuine thing. 1t has all
been stolen, sozsome more articles in
the vegetable line are in order. We
have promised to astonish the natives
when u new crop of grains and vege-
tables comes in,. so if some good
samples are not sent down it will go
hard for our reputation for ~veracity.
The father and mother of DR..
Branch of Wheatland called and left
their cards and, I regretted being alb
sent at the time, as they left a note
inquiring if he knew the doctor, as OF
course we-and everybody else-do.
To my mind the greatest achieve
ment of modern inventive genius is
shown in the Delany rapid telegraph
system. To the electrician the fou1
, machines necessary to the work are as
plain as the nose on a mans face, but
f as the layman is not so gifted as to see
!, through all the mechanical terms !
, will try in as few words as possible
to explain how the thing works. II
the first place to send q message ar
t ordinary telegraph key is used, care
o being taken to make the dots and
dashes as distinct as possible in ordel
to insure the best results. Each down
ward and upward stroke Of the Ike,
causes a small round hole to b.
e punched In a papertape which passe
through a specially designed machine
n Fifty operators could thus be furnish
n ing copy" for the sending machin
n at the sam time and yet the sende
would be capable of keeping even
O with the whole crew on a line, say s
d miles long, which would be equivalen
to about 5000 words per minute. @,
a a line from New York to San Francisc
\. about 100 words per minute could b
: sent. After the paper tape is perfor
ated it is drawn rapidly through. a ma
chine %underFtwo metallic fingers whic
establish a current with the metal be
low as the holes permit. At the re
ceiving station these signals are RI
corded on a chemically prepared pape
tape in the dots and dashes of til
Morse code. Hundreds of message
are thus quickly recorded and with th
aid OF a typewriter are rapidly trans
!, lated into English Tor any other laI
guage) on the ordinary message blanl
Any small boy or young woman ca
quickly learn to send the message
and operate the machines, and it1ool
as though the old time telegraphe1
were doomed to the same shaking d
the printers have experienced by tt
linotype and other mechanical typ,
setting machines.
Using this fast system it is o
to- establish lines for carrying ii
: mails at rates.ayeraging about Is cen
{ and for 90 words for distances of LOT
= miles. With this scheme q letter fill.
Z here would be received at Fargo
= Grand Forks and dropped in the pos
: Office or delivered by carrier In is
!. 20 minutes.
y am sending the boys in the Westel
z Union office q sample of the perforat,
. tape and q piece Of the tape upt
4 which the message was received.
i took trife over Two seconds for Il
message to be sent, so the boys ID: