The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-06-03
THE COMING TELEGRAPHY,
America Soon to Enjoy Quick, Cheap
and Accurate Service.
North American Review.

North American Review.
| That America Is soon to enjoy the
quickest, cheapest and most acurate
telegraphic service in the world there
is no longer any doubt. Patrick B.
Delaney, whose past achievements in
the field of telegraphic inventions are
known here and abroad, has perfect
ed his automatic rapid system Of tel
egraphy, has subjected it to all kinds
Of the severest tests during a years
continuous operation, regardless of
weather conditions has now organic
ed a company which will soon con-
meet all the principal cities Of the
United States.
| The following statement made by
the new telegraph company gives an
idea Of the revolutionary charcter
Of the service now being established:
"The Telepost gives the most rapid
service, trans hitting 1000 words per
minute over single wire. (Western
Union average is Is words.)
"The Telepost gives the most trust
worthy service; being a machine it
never becomes tired or listless, but
transmits and records with absolute
accuracy.
"The Telepost uan send a full-page
newspaper article from New York to
Chicago in ten minutes, over a single
wire, and at a small fraction Of the
Western Unions press rates. In an
hour it can send full-page article
from Boston to San Francisco, and
leave a perfectly recorded drop copy
at every station along the route.
"The Telepost will use, in part, the
wires leased from the Independent
telephone companies, without inter-
ference with simultaneous conversa-
tions.
| "The TelepOst is now constructing
it's lines and will cover the entire
United States in a surprisingly short
period: it requires only four wires on
it's main trunk lines to handle as
much business as the old companies
can do on 6S wires quadruplex, or
on 1876 wires worked duplex-their
most efficient method
''The Telepost gives the cheapest
service: 25-word kilograms, or So
word 'teleposts,' or 10O-word 'tele-
tapes for 25 cents between any two
points in the United States, (the
Western Union charges from 25 cents
to 81 for only 10 words); yet the
Telepost with its low rates will make
an average profit, per message, four
times that Of the Western Union at
it's high rates.
| The original holder Of 100 shares
of Western Union stock was, at the
end of twelve years receiving an an
nual dividend income Of -$16,S21, and
could have sold his holdings for
| $420,525 in the open market. Yet
the Western Union had to build up
| us SuCCeSS Ill community Wnere
men had to be educated to the idea
Of telegraphic communication. The
Telepost Company starts with the
advantage Of having the whole coun-
try accustomed to using kilograms.
Hence the Telepost Company finds
its field already made. Assuredly the
| people will not be slow to take ad-
vantage Of the low rates offered. The
kilograms are merely a freight prop
Osition in words. AS the railroad
giving the lowest rate consistent with
| good service is bound to secure the
bulk OF traffic in freight, so the Tele-
post Company, as a carrier Of mes
sages, will. by reason Of its sweep
ing reduction in rates, win the lions
share Of the traffic in kilograms.
The sagacity Of Mr.. Delaney and
his business associates is shown by
the way which they have safeguarded
| their new enterprise against being
swallowed" by the present telegraph
monopoly. The board of voting trus-
tees insures the perpetual independ-
ence Of the Telepost.