The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-10
U. RELAY IN
WRONG PLACE NOW
OFFICIAL SAYS TT WILL COME
HERE SOME DAY.
But Not So Long as Minneapolis Is
Indifferent and st. Paul Men Fight
for It as in the Past-story Of the
Failure of Original Plan to Move It.

A New York official of the Western
Union Telegraph company, in Mime
apolis- recently, said that the northwest
ern relay office of the company, now in
st. Paul, would be moved to Mime
apolis some day. He didn't know just
when The change would be made, he
sail, but the present arrangement is
eventually will have to be remedied.
This statement recalls one instance
VIXEN Minneapolis fell down hard. 1t
was several years ago when the West
crn Onion had under contemplation the
very change which it's official now says
will have to come some day. There was
no one to see that the company did it,
III opposition, at first intimation OF such
a move, and so the office remained in
the other twin against the advice OF
operating experts, who had figured out
greater economy of operation by the
move. About one hundred operators are
employed in the big st. Paul relay Of
fee. all Of whom would have come over
to live, and the move would AVE bene'
ftcd the city in many other ways. The
plan was I'LL but ripe, when one OF the
big men OF st. Paul went to New York
and by a word to the head men OF the
Western Union company, killed it.
AS it now works, the great telegraph
ic business drawn in from the West'
and, in short, from all the immense
territory lying tributary to the twin
cities, is relayed at st. Paul, but the
bulk of business going out on relay
originates at Minneapolis, and a much
larger business comes in. Aside from
this, Minneapolis gives the he western '. ter4
more business than St. Paul, and the
operation Of that company's business,
to be in line with the modern economic
practices of the day, would naturally
lead to the establishment OF a general
central headquarters, the location OF
which would be here: +.
the present-day service is found IN the
Gold & Stock Telegraph company, an
auxiliary of the Western Union. This
company sends out the stock quotations
from New York. There are in st. Paul,
in all, about th~irty-fve tickers In OPP
Grafton. In Minneapolis there are
seventy-two. A number of the Mime
lions originating on the floor of the
Minneapolis Chamber Of Commerce;
but, leaving these out, there are at
least fifteen more stock tlckers IN MN
neapolis than in St: Paul; yet, If
Minneapolis ticker "runs off, at any
U1n1o anu CuC SGOCA pAONSh oo
subscriber to the service wants a quo
tation repeated, he notifies the Min
%neapolis office Of the Western Union
which office notifies st. Paul, and st
. Paul sends it out over the wire. Thl
: is an absurdly roundabout arrangement
: It exists only because Chicago and St
Paul are hooked up straight; This :!
contrary to economical work., but i
: has been so, and so it remains. MID
%neanOlis is a side station off in tn
-, woods.
A dozen other illustrations of tn
working Of a proposition utterly agalns
'Igood management might be given. :,
The Western Union official, Will
declaring that the change of the cen
ltralizing station would be made eyentu
ally, said that "certainly. it would no
be SO long as MINNEAPOLIS is I'M indl mel
from St. Paul to walk in upon tn
Western Union officials in New Yor1
with a protest.