Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-05-20
THE COMING TELEGRApHY.
America Soon to Enjoy Quick, Cheap
and Accurate Service.
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That America is soon to enjoy the
quickest, cheapest and most accurate
telegraphic service in the world there
is no longer any doubt. Patrick B.
Delaney, whose past achievements in
the field of telegraphic inventions are
}nown here and abroad, has perfected
his automatic rapid system of teleg-
raphy, has subjected it to all kinds
of the severest tests during years
continuous operation, regardless
OF weather conditions, AMI has
now organized a company which
will soon connect all the principal
cities of the United States.
The following statement made by
the new telegraph company gives an
idea Of the revolutionary character
of the service now being established:
'The Telepost gives the most rapid
service, transmitting 1000 words per
minute over single wire. (Western
Union average is 15 words.)
"The Telepost gives the most trust
worthy service; being a machine it
never becomes tired or lstless, but
transmits and records with absolute
accuracy.
"The Telepost can send a full-page
newspaper article from New York to
Chicago in ten minutes over a single
wire, and at small fraction of the
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hour it can send full-page article
from Bston 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
its 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 100-word 'tele-
tapes for 25 cents between any two
points in the United States, (the
Western Union charges from % cents
to $1.00 for only 10 words); yet the
Telepost with it's low rates will make
an average profit, per message. four
times that of the Western Union at
its high rates"
| The original holder of 100 shares
of Western uion stock was at the
end Of twelve years receiving an an
nual dividend income of SIG, 1921, and
could have sold his holdings for
$420,525 in the open market. Yet
the Western Union had to build up
it's success in community where
men had to be educated to the idea
of telegraphic communication. The
Telepost Company starts with the
advantage Of having the whole coun-
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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 pro-
position 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 sagac!ty 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