The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-10-16
'TELEP0ST NOW
. IN OPERATION.
New Wire Service Begins
Business in Boston.
SPEED AND ECONOMY
Thousand Words Minute Transmit
ted by DeIany System at Lowered
cost-TeIesrams Delivered by Spe-
ciaI Messengers and "TeIeposts"
Carried by Letter Carriers Features
Of TeIepost Company's Work.


of TeIepost company's Work.
Boston, Oct. 1.-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 op-
orator here by Mayor Hubbard of this
city, the Telepost was put into opera
ton 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
words minute, from twenty to forty
times as many as any other telegraph
system now in operation. The Telepost
utiliZes the full carrying capacity Of
the wire, while others get only 10 per
cent.
The Telepost company gathers mes
sages and sends them on it's own
lines. It delivers the message itself
by its own special delivery service,
the messages then being called by the
familiar name Telegram" or it relies
for delivery upon the we'll organized
postoffice department run by Uncle
Sam. In the latter case the message
is known as "Telepost." The CON-
pany also receives messages through
the postof1ce department, for trans
mission to near or distant points
that Is, a man living in one of the
cities named or within mailing dis
lance of it may write out his telegram
or his "Telepost," drop it, addressed
care Of the Telepost company. The
latter will attend to its prompt and
speedy transmission. The telephone
may also be utilized by the Telepost
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, it is a
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
! words for rs cents delivered by the
Telepost messengers, or fifty words
for rs 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
lines.
A special envelope of odd size and
attractive design makes it easier for
the mail distributors to recognize and
handle Teleposts. The telecard p is
also of special design in order to ia
cilitate postomce handling.
While the service just inaugurated
| includes only the cities named above
the Telepost company has already
| closed contracts to make rapid extern
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 Hubbard, 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 vitality 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-.
consratulating the latter upon the in.
auguration of the new system. The
first Telepost message will be pre-
served as an interesting memento of
the occasion. Among. those present
were Patrick B. Delany, the inventor
Of the system; H. Lee Sellers, the
president of the company; r. H. Sell