The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-07-01
HOW NEWS IS SENT OVER
WIRE BY .ABBREv|AT|0N
Phillips Code Makes Sentences Look Like
Chinese Puzzles.

I the murder OF Stanford White on
Madison Square roof garden. now in
] progress etc
The names of men much in the
public eye are treated with scant rev
erence by the code operators. The
organizer of trusts, j. Pierpont Nor
gan, becomes JPN" The ex-presi-
dent was PR president Roose-
welt. or "Rvt."D. Mckinley. OF
| course, easily became Mex" while
| &C sufficed for President Grover
Cleveland. John d. Rockefeller of
the Standard Oil Company is short
ened into "JDR of Soc or "Rkfr."
The prince of Wales might not recog-
nize his name in IT POW" but that
is the way it is sent over the press
wires. "KEVII o Egg" is translated
by the receiver into king Edward
VII of England"
They met at the Waldorf-Astoria
in New York on Saturday afternoon
is coded thus:
"Ty met at VIVA in NY on
Suyp."
In fire story the code is used to
| advantage. John smiths factory
and warehouse was destroyed by fire
this morning. The loss is covered by
insurance, is translated from "Jno
| Smifs fky & warehu was dbf tsm
7 los is obi"
"Ung Alfonso de Jones & Mis- Glad
US de Brown is met in Oh & iw a cs
! o lafs' is all that the code receiver
needs to hear for him to write out
this sentence:
Young Alfonso de Jones and Miss
Gladys de Brown first met in Chicago
and II was case of love at first
{ sight"
HIS grf & disapm caud ung man
: to ekx by tkg ca translates into
His grief and disappointment caused
the young man to commit suicide by
{ taking carbolic acid
He died firm a sop is the code for
He died from stroke of paralysis"
Cop in Phillips doesn't mean
: copper" but "chief of police"
Some of the code designations for
cities are Id for London. LIP" for
Liverpool, "Ch" for Chicago. "vok''
, for Vladivostok and "Cp" for Abdul
Hands old home. Porto Rico is
"PXA." "PA" for Port Arthur was
common in the Russo-Japanese war
Washington political and senate
and house matter is adapted to more
cutting by the sender than any
other class of news For instance:
| "Cgsman Turnipseed ton his second
| appearance 1t would he 'TseedD lab
! d HUI tsm to amend the xn US to
PVT fl Gin o sars by pop vo." Writ
ten out 1t reads: Congressman Tur-
nipseed introduced bill in the house
this morning to amend the constitu-
= tion of the United States to provide
for the election of senators by popu-
lar vote"
] 1T hu ~" ~'ears "The house adj
1 iourned until tomorrow: or It hu
kaw.' "the house adjourned sine die. -
A telegraph editor once came
across this combination in the Wash
! ingtcn copy: ct scotus tidy dcd an
int ca. The receiver had failed to
properly translate ii into THE SUI
, preme court of the United States to-
day decided an important case
In story referring to familiar
songs. like "Nearer My God to Thee. ="
Lead Kindly Light etc. the code
sender usually transmits only the
first letter of each word. assuming
that the receiver is familiar enough
| with the song to do the rest. One
: sender on n leased wire tried to run
over the Lords prayer by sending the
first letter of each word
| Like the Morse alphabet. the Phil
lips code is easily susceptible of
many wrong TRANSACTIONS. and the re-
ceiver must have his wits everlast-
ingly at work. He must carry the
story in his mind and have a know
ledge of about everything. besides
| having the speed of the most expert
stenographer on the typewriter.
|