The roundup record. [volume] (Roundup, Mont.) 1908-1929, 1910-05-20
Ttltp0JT FOR ROUNDUP
New Automatic Telegraph to Extend
Lines TO Montana Roundup In
cIuded In List Of Cities.

In pursuance of its plan to inter-
lace the whole country at an early
date with it's web Of automatic tel
egraph wires, announcement was
made in New York last week that
the Telepost Company has under
advertisement the early expansion
Of it's system to all parts of Mon
tana.
Connection is to be established
by way of St. Louis and Kansas
City to which points the system
now extends. William H. McCol-
lum, former Superintendent OF Con-
struction of the Postal Company,
who is now in charge Of the extern
sions of the new automatic system,
has been looking over the ground
for some tire and reports condi-
tions unusually favorable for the
Inauguration Of work on the line.
This system is regarded by scien-
tific men as the most brilliant
achievement in the evolution Of
telegraphy since Morse's time, rep
resenting the conquest OF a new
basic principle in telegraphy that
presages for that industry world
wild revolution with it's 1000 words
a minute service and rates Of one
cent, half-cent and quarter OF
cent a word, regardless Of time or
distance.
By the Telepost system mes
sage is transmitted with equal fac
ility over either telegraph or a
telephone wire. It's rates are the
lowest and it's service the most
rapid in the world.
Civic organizations and boards Of
trade throughout the state, have
been in touch with the officials of
the Telepost for several months and
have assured the Company OF their
readiness to cooperate with it in
any way it can suggest as most
likely to facilitate the extension Of
itS lines to Montana
Among the cities and towns in the
state under consideration for early
Telepost connections are: Helena,
Walkerville, Anaconda, Butte, Dill
lon, Gunderson. Bozeman, Living
ston, Big Timber, Red Lodge,
Virginia City, Miles City, Glendive,
Deer Lodge, Billings, Sheridan,
Missoula, Hamilton, Kalispel, Great
Falls, Ft. Benton, Belt, Lewistown,
Havre, Roundup.
Patrick B. Delany, the inventor
of the system which is now used
between Boston and Portland, and
between Chicago, St. Louis, Indi-
annapolis, Terre Haute, and other
cities in Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire, Maine, Indiana, Illionis and
Missouri, is an old associate of
Thomas A. Edison. The discovery
of the new scientific principle which
made its invention possible is the
realization of an ambition Delany
and Edison had as far back as 1871,
when he and the wizard expert
mented on improvements to the
Morse method of hand transmission
over a special wire constructed be-
tween Washington and New York
with the idea of evolving system
of rapid telegraphy to displace the
mails for long distance commune
cation.
In addition to being a boon of
inestimable value to the public, the
Delany automatic system, will save
the newspapers Of the country
hundreds of thousands of dollars
year in tele graph tolls, through its
cheap rates, great speed and accur-
ate service.
OF the 81, 500, 900 expended every
year for telegraph service by the
Associated Prees it is figured out
that approximately 500, 900 will be
saved by the use of the automatic
service, when it completes its con-
tinent wide expansion.