The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-10-15
'TELEP0ST NOW
IN OPERATION
New Wire Service Begins
Business in Boston.
SPEED AND ECONOMY

Thousand Words Minute Transmit
ted by Delany System at Lowered
cost-Telegrams Delivered by Spe-
caI Messengers and "Teleposts"
Carried by Letter Carriers Features
of TeIepost Company's Work.
Boston, Oct 15.-The Telepost COM
pany has inaugurated here it's system
of receiving and sending messages.
The Delany method, controlled by the
company, the newest and most rapid
method of transmitting intelligence
electrically, in connection with the
postoffice delivery system, is now an
actual fact in American life.
With the transmission of the first
Telepost message from Boston to Port
land Me-, handed to the Telepost OPP
orator here by Mayor Hibbard of this
city, the Telepost was put into opera
tion between the two cities, the line
including the following way stations:
Lowell, Mass; Lawrence, Mass;
Haverhill, Mass; Exeter, N. H.;
Portsmouth, N. H.; Dover, N H;
Biddeford, Me-. Saco, Me-, and Old
Orchard, Me In each of these cities
there Is now a Telepost Office pre-
pared to receive and transmit mes
sages.
The Telepost transmits and receives
messages at the rate of thousand
rIo To Co ~,
times as many as any other telegraph
system now In operation. The Telepost
utilizes the full carrying capacity o..
the wire, while others get only 10 per
cent.
The Telepost company gathers mes
sages and sends them on its OWE
lines. 1t delivers the message itself
by its own special delivery service,
the messages then being called by tho
familiar name telegram" or it relies
for delivery upon the well organized
postoffice department run by Uncle
Sam. In the latter case the message
Is known as a "Telepost." The COM
pany also receives messages through
the postoffice department, for trans
that Is, man living in one of the
cities named or within mailing dis
tance of it may write out his telegram
or his "Telepost," drop it, addressed
to his correspondent near or far, in
care of the TelepoSt company. The
latter will attend to Its prompt and
speedy transmission. The telephone
~ at hu hn Tnln
patrons.
In addition to kilograms of the new
style and Teleposts the innovation in
the wire world includes the "tele-
card" which is to the telegram and
the Telepost what the postal card is
to the letter. In other words, 1t Is q
shorter telegram transmitted at a
lower rate.
Uniform Rate of Transmission.
The rates charged by the Telepost
company are uniform whether the dis
tance traversed by the message is ten
miles or thousand-twenty-fiv
words for 25 cents delivered by the
Telepost messengers, or fifty words
for 25 cents brought to your door by
one of Uncle Sans gray coated men.
The charge for the telecard is 10 cents
for ten words sent to any place
reached by the Telepost company's s
lines.
A special envelope of odd size and
attractive design makes it easier tor
the mail distributors to recognize and
handle Teleposts. The telecard is
also of special design in order to ia
cilitate postoffice handling.
While the service just inaugurated
includes only the cities named above
the Telepost company has already
closed contracts to make rapid exten-
sions from Boston in other directions.
The scene in the Telepost Offices at
the opening of the new service was a
most interesting one. The audience
included, besides Mayor Hibbard, a
large number of men prominent in the
business and professional life OF this
city. The newspaper men who were
present not only looked upon the put
ting to practical use of the invention
of Patrick B. Delany as an interesting
item of news, but as one that is ex
pected to affect vitally their own bust
ness of news gathering and publish
ing The Telepost company intends
to establish at it's Offices in the vari
GUS cities a bulletin service giving the
most important news items of the day
in skeleton form, referring the readers
to the newspapers for details. The
first message transmitted over the
Telepost lines was that of Mayor Hib
bard to the mayor of Portland, Me.
congratulating the latter upon the In
auguration of the new system. The
first Telepost message will be pre-
served as an interesting memento o.
the occasion. Among those present
we're Patrick B. Delany, the inventor
Of the system H. Lee Sellers, thu
president of the company, r. II. Sci
lers, its secretary and treasurer, ane
J. w. Larish, it's electrical engineer
The various operations Of the Tele