Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-10-17
|TELEPOsT IN OPERATION
New Wire Service Inaugurated
at City of Boston.
BOTH SPEED AND ECONOMY
kilograms Delivered by Special Mes
sengers and "Teleposts" Carried by
Letter Carriers Are Features Of the
Work Of This Company.

Letter Carriers Are Features Of the
Work Of This Company.
Boston, Oct. 16-The Telepost com
pany inaugurated here its 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 Hubbard 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; Hav-
erhill Mass; Exeter N H.; Ports.
mouth, N. H.: Dover, ~ H.; Bidde
ford, Me-; Saco, Me-. and Old Orchard
Me. In each of these cities there is
now TelelVst office prepared to re-
ceive and transmit messages.
The Telepost transmits and receives
messages at the rate of a thousand
words minute, from twenty TO forty
times as many as any other telegraph
system now in operation. The Tele
post utilizes tie full carrying capacity
of the wire, while others get only 10
per cent.
The Telepost company gathers mes
sages and sends them on its own
wires. 1t delivers the messages itself
by its own special delivery service the
messages then being called by the
familiar name telegram" or II relies
for delivery upon the well organized
postoffce department run by Uncle
Sam. In the latter case the message
is known as a "Telepost." The com.
pany also receives its messages
through the postoffice department, for
transmission to near or distant points
that is, a man living in one of the
cities named or within mailing dis
lance of II 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
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 "tee.
card, which is to the telegram and
the Telepost what the postal card is
to the letter. In other words, it Is q
shorter telegram transmitted at a
lower rate.
The rates charged by the Telepost
company are uniform whether the dis
lance traversed by the message is ten
miles or thousand-twenty-fv
words for 25 cents delivered by the
Telepost messengers or fifty words
for 20 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 ii easier for
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 inaugurated today
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 al
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 interest
ing item of news, but as one that Is
expected to affect vitality their owl
bushes of news gathering and pub
fishing. The Telepost company in
tends to establish at its offices in th'
various cities bulletin service givins
the most important news items of thu
day in skeleton form. referring thu
readers to the newspapers for details
The first message transmitted owe
the Telepost lines was that of Mayo
Hibbard to the mayor of Portland Me
congratulating the latter upon the in
auguration of the new system. Tn
first Telepost message will be pre-
served as an interesting memento @
the occasion Among those presen
| were Patrick Delany, the invenio
; of the system; H. Lee Sellers, tn
t president of the company; R. +
Sellers, its secretary and treasurer
I and ]. w. Larish, its electrical engiT
eer. The various" operations of tn
, Telepost, such as the perfecting type
the transmission of messages, hanC
ling the receiving tape, etc, were full
explained and aroused the highest II
terest.
The Telepest system has won tn
highest concentrations from expel
a authorities n electricity. Thomas
e Edison, with whom Mr.. Delan
s worked years ago, said of it: "Tf
: system In its entirety is SO slmp
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