Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-23
DESCRIBES THE NEW WIRE
 MACHINE
Device to Take Place of TeIe- graph Operators Is Practical and Will Be Used by Postal Company,
(Phoenix RennhIicanN

The Republican on Saturday morn. ing printed an Associated Press dis. patch sent out from Reno. Nevada the night before saying that "W. H. Valentine the inventor of a machine to send telegraphic messages without the use of a skilled operator" had left that city that evening and that he had just concluded a conference with a representative of one of the big tele. gTaSb companies for a transfer of the rights of the machine to that com. pany..
 This dispatch though of great inter- est to all at this particular time was of especial interest to two gentlemen from the coast who happened to be in the city on business and that night they told reporter for The Republi- can some facts about the machine.
 They did not care to be known in the interview but one of them said that the machine is what is known as the "Telautoprint" not the invention of MT. Valentine but of 4. H. Schaar telegraph operator of Los Angeles. Mr. Valentine is heavily interested in the company which was formed some time ago.
 The Reno dispatch was behind the times in the statement that a deal was about to be made with "one of the big telegraph companies" for the deal was long ago ordered by CIar- ence Mackay of the Postal as soon as it could be demonstrated that 1t would accomplish what was claimed for it. That was proved to the satisfaction of the Postal people months ago, for the gentleman who gives out this in- formation had talked with w. H. Bak- CT of New York one of the vice presi- dents of the company. E. J. Nally of Chicago another vice president and General Manager Storror of San Fran cisco who had all told him that the "Telautoprint" would shortly revolu- tionize the telegraph business of the world.
 It is safely past the experimental period. There is nothing now to do but to make the machines and install them. It will be necessary to have several hundred of them completed before the work of installation can be begun but he thinks that 1t will be begun within five or six months.
 The gentleman who has been inter- ested for years in the telegraph gave an interesting history of the ~Telau- ioprint.7 Said he: Almost from the time of the invention of the Morse system. inventors have been trying to discover some method of superseding 1t by transmitting messages in. fac simile. All such efforts except this one have ended in failure, but one. That is the Hughes system which is now extensively used in Great Britian. one line extending from London to a point in Italy.
 That system, however, could not come into use in this country for the reason that the machines are very ex- pensive and moreover 1t does not meet the demand of the telegraph com panies for a device which will take the place of the skilled operator. While it transmits fac simile mes sages correctly. and rapidly its con struction is uch that the operation of it requires delicacy of touch which amounts to a high degree of skill. Other machines such as are used on stock tickers transmit the mes sages. but they work only on an alter hating current and are not operative for a distance of more than twenty miles. The Schaar machine though has been submitted to all tests, 1t be- ing condition of the Postal people