Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-02-29
| 900 WORDS A MINUTE
NOW SENT BY WIRE.

Telegraph Company Soon to Enter
Field.
la the last few weeks scores Of ex-
pcrts have investigated the Delany rap
Il automatic system nf tclcgraphy con
hOllcd rs the Tclepnst company. which
Is soon 10 have Ia operation n telegraph
tystcm III competition with the West
rrn Union and the Postal over artl
iicial circuits equal Ia commercial
wires from New York TO Buffalo the
Delany system can bc seen any time Ia
the New York and Washington offices
of the Telepost company sending ana
receiving kilograms at the rate Of
thousand words Il minute
The apparatus on which n new ma
tiOnal telegraph ;! stem Is 10 be found
ed that will carry wire messages be-
tween AL points for Hat rate Of Il
cent word Is so simple that anybody
can understand II. There IS a pcrforat-
Ing machine with punches magnetical-
~ operating on u tape These punches
make the records. which are then
itNnA " w lfh AAAAVukAl Atlt AAWlTiilAA-
ter to the wire The double row Of
holes In the tape passing through the
transmitter'S contact fingers result In
positive and negative Impulses. which
ON the receiving tape are recorded Ia
the form of dos and dasheS The
current passing through the chemically
prepared tape from an iron elcctrode
TO platinum elcctrodc forms clear
blue marks that any one who knows
the Morse alphabet can read and tran
scribe
In the fcwest possible words. this Is
the system that 1t has taken Patrick Is.
Deany twenty years to evolve When
Thomas A. Edison dropped telegraphy
Mr.. Delany. who was an associate Of
Edison. took It up. Some 100 odd pat
cnts have since then been issued 10
him
His lire invention Ia attract world
wide attention was the Synchrouous-
multiplex system OF telegraphy. bought
10y the British government In 1885 and
largely used on the English postal
lines ever since All six Of the first
class circuits Of this system can be
worked opposite or the same direction.
The next time Mr. Dclany came into
popular fame. though the telegraph
world has always followed his work
closely was when he succeeded in the
supposedly impossible feat of sending
cable message from Newfoundland
10 England with an ordinary Morse
KEY.
But all the while he was keeping the
patent office busy on his minor inven-
tlons Delany was hard NJ work on the
automatic system Of telcgraphy adapt
ed Ia commercial purposes. which has
now been perfe, to such point
that II forms the essential basis OF an
entirely new telegraph system FOR the
whole United STATES
Why the Dclany system was not
bought 10y the old line companies is no
more tand no less Of mystery than
their failure 10 adopt other improve
ments In tclegraphy which have re
duced rates In foreign countries to
fraction Of those prevailing here and
resulted In SO increasing business that
Americans send considerably less than
half AS many kilograms rs the Eng
lishmen send
Asked why one of the old companies
had not bought his apparatus MIR De
lauy said recently that II might be-
because the patents were never offered
To- them. Inventors have known for
IL Itnf
no use In trying To deal with com
pany that had made Il policy Of refus
ing 10 consider all inventions and I'M
prOvcments except when they could he
obtained for little or nothing This
was the experience of the men who de-
vised the Page patent, The duplex and
the quadrupleX systems.
What the Dclany system Will do 10
ward reducing telegraph rates is shown
In the announcement Of the Telepost
company that II will carry twenty-five
words for - cents. without regard Ia
distance. ON "telepoSts' sent by WIRE
but delivered nj destination by mail.
the rate is - cents for fifty words
II is expected that ''tcleposts" or
telegraphed letters will Ice largely used
for the purpose Of catching foreign
mails. Received AT New York by wire
the message Will be forwarded 10y
mail Via any desired ship. On mes
sages over long distances n big saving
VIII also be possible when delivery
within eight ar ten hours Is all that the
emergency requires. ON a ninety word
telepost from Boston 10 san Francisco
the cost will be ~ cents as against the
charge 10y the present telegraph com
panles of $500.