The Marshall republican., 1910-04-08
The Wonderful Telepost

States Government, insugurafed
service over the first CONNER cially
operated telegraph line in this
country, between Warrington au3
Baltimore.
On that date Professor Morse
and his associates offered to SELL
his telegraph invention,n used
in every civilized country, to the
Government, for 500, 900.
Congress, following one OF the
most acrimonious debates in les
history, appropriated $4,000 foe
the construction OF the Washing
to1-Baltimore line, in order that
the merits of the invention night
be tested and it's value as a gov
eminent perquisite determined,
should il ever be regarded "a a
desirable federal purchase.
Diminishing the proposition as of
too ~conjectural a value, the Post
master General to whose Judgment
President Polk deferred, said of
the Morse system: al hough he
invention is an agent vastly super
Tor to any other devised by the
genius of man yet the operation
between Washington and Balti-
more has not satisfied me that IT
der any rate of postage that can
be adopted, it's revenues cal I've
made to cover it's expenditures
Today, in this country alone, the
Morse system is capitalized for
1920, OOO, O0OI
Professor Alexander Graham Ben
offered to sell his telephone pa
tents to the Western Union Tete-
graph Co. for $4,000 bus the Of
ficers of the company said it vas
only a toy and had no commercial
value.
This same toy, according to the
annual report of the American TeE
phone and Telegraph Co.. just is
sued earned $:5O,OOO. 900 last year
ard has now more than 5000 OD
! telephones in use throughout THIS
country.
In striking contrast to the att
tude of the Congress IN MorAe's
time, which decried his ilventionIs
read what the Committee OIL the
District of Columbia, sad il it's
report to the House OF Representa-
tiyes under date OF March nth
last, in recommending the admis-
sion of the Telepost system OF III
tomato te~legraphy to the national
capitol:
GAS al illustration of the ad-
vantages that the T%elepost Offers
take the following: By its system
a message, at a charge OF % cents
to the sender,can be deposited in
the Boston office and within one
hour thereafter be in the posses
sion of the United States post Of
flee officials at Seattle, duly stamp
ed for local delivery. Thus all the
carrying charges are saved to the
postoffice department and five
DAYS time in delivery to the send
er. From the foregoing showing
of the Telepost lines in actual oper
alton and under construction it is
apparent that the system has long
since passed the stage OF expert
mentation."
The Telepost is to the telegraph
art what the modern electric oper-
ated, high speed cylinder printing
press is tot he crude hand press OF
Ben Franklin's time and what 9th
err great mechanical improvements
are to the primitive implements OF
fifty years ago, long since consign
ed to the scrap heap or the depart
ment of antiquities of the museum
Its ability in every day commercials
use to send from 1000 to 5000 word
a minute under all climatic condi-
tons over any one wire, marks an
achievement in interstate com
, munication of unparalleled mago-
tude and presages for me country
!, an era of permanent, efficient,
, cheap telegraphy for the every
minute uses of every citizen, big
/ and little.
The Telepost is a working tefe-
graph system in every day com
mercial use as you may know, be-
tween Boston and Portland in New
England and between Chicago aud
= st. Louis, Indianapolis, Springfield
Terre Haute, and other cities in
: Illinois, Indiana and Missouri Ii
I is now working on extensions
= north, east, west and south. Its
: rates of one cent, half a cent and
: quarter of a cent a word cover all
distances like the United States
Mail, from the longest to the short
est and are the cheapest in The