The Republican journal., 1908-01-02
PROMOTION FOR HIM.
Edward B. Pillsbury Going to New YORK
ToBe General Superintendent OF Big
Division of the Postal.

Old time telegraphers everywhere, wheth-
IN haing .rus hed' by some ambitious
vonngster con the other end, or dolhs theii
utmost with the modern medlutn oi a.s"i ~
ing speed, known as the Phllips code; 70
mske The fellows at the ''receiving end" SIT
mn and heat the long roll ON their typewrit-
ersI will bark back, when they near tne
name of Edward b. Pillsbury, TO the days IN
the business when press dispatches anu
commercial messages we Sent ~ iuli
that is, without abblevlatloi'-an recall
to memory that there was IN Boston Ger,
teleerapher who could ''take with ease
the fastest transmission possible for the
most agile fingers to turn loose.
For eight years MIR. Pillsbury has been the
Superintendent of the Postal telegraph caDle
company in this city, position won by IN
t,i,,sin Worth. and a place filled with such
sonud Judgment, rare tact and competing
hnsiness wisdom, that the high-up 0fhclals
of the company when recently cast:ng ABOUT
for man to take charge OF one o1 the great
divisions of that institution we're uha
in their choice of MIR. Pillsbury for the
place. =; chic o;+,, ~
will 90. the first of the new year, to New
York to assume charge as general Supefln-
tendent of a division Of the company, COM
prjsipg all of the minor districts horth OF
Virginia and east of Ohio to the Canada
line His headquarters will be in New
York. but for an entire twelve-month he
will travel over the territory splder-we bDed
nv the lines of his division, to get in touch
wita all the offices, the operators ana the
character of the business usually zone.
Seven districts are comprised in this vide
acred division over which Mr.. Pilsbury
viii have charge, and those who have
known him from his first coming from
Maine to hold down chair at 10y state ~.
this city, will take wagers at long oaa ls
that he win make eoea. :. ne kn6 binst ine
which makes the best letter OF the Morse
code to the most recent perplexes which So
bewilder old.timerS now out OF Inc business
who NV to follow the information telegraph
| ed by the man transmitting me qulcK-get-
| there invented by Waiter Ihllllpssf po,t.s,
down on the Penobscot i'll Maine that's
| where he learned that dot and daSh
placed in close companlonshlp, make the
| first letter of the alphabet, ana that three
! dots chasing dash is accepted LOT ine sec
was 10 Years old, and worked Tor the west
ern Tnion five Years During that perloo
he was employed on the fastest clrcults III
| the Office and before he lett that employ u
be come the Boston manager OF the Amefi'
can Rapid company, he looked alteI tne au
| fem OF repeating instructmeDts, through
| Which went, back and forth, the overland
cable messages between Cape Breton ano
| New York. Asa side issue en- that job be
Kept an eye on the mistakes made by receiy
Ing operators, stamping with blue brand al
"bulled" messages, and speaking words OF
gentle reproof and caution to be more care
| full to the delinQuents.
In succession, Mir. Pillsbury was manager
of the American Rapid company. the Bank
| ers and Merchants, the United Lines anc
the Postal. In 1898 he was advanced from
manager Of the Postal to the position OF as
sistant superintendent, and six years l "a
was made district superintendent Tor New
England. AS there meyer was wire mors
ed too hot for him to hold down, and as h'
has been decided success in the various
positions of authority assigned to him
there is rot the least shadow OF doubt In IN
minds of those who know him regarding
his future as a division master-Bostol
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