Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-12-07
GRAPHIC PRINTED
 THE FIRST STORY All Night Telegraph Ser vice Established in City
 Some Weeks Ago.
OTHER CITIES ADOPT
Telephone Company Has Joint Ar- rangement for Transmission
 From Country.

About two weeks ago the Graphic published an exclusive story relative to the establishment Of an all-n gbt service here by tho Western Union Telegraph Company and also told of the arrangement made by that com pany with the Southwestern Tele- graph and Telephone Company whereby all messages might he trans mitted over the telephone wires from any hamlet or town in the country districts, and be sent out of Pine Bluff to points all over the world Since that time the all-night office Of the Western Union has been main tained here. special from St. Louis of recent date tells of the adoption of the new system in various states, as follows:
 Joint operation of the telegraph and telephone facilities of the Am erican Telegraph and Telephone Com pany and the Western Union Tele- graph Company. which will be ex- tended into all parts of the United States, was inaugurated tonight tn Missouri Arkansas and Kansas The new service not only effects co1ope- ration between the telephone and tel egraph, but affords the crossroads storekeeper and the isolated farmer the identical convenience enjoyed by the resident of the city.
 Arkansas has the honor of being the first state in which the nnova- ton Is launched, while Missouri and Kansas are next in starting the sys- tenn. Arrangements are being made to adopt the plan immediately in Ohio. Indiana and Illinois Within a month plans will be complete for initiating the service in Texas. Louisiana, Ala bama, Kentucky. Tennessee, Town. Minnesota and Nebraska, and as rapidly as the preparations may be determined, the policy will expand into all the states and territories.
 The opening of twenty-two night and holiday telegraph stat ons in Missouri Arkansas and Kansas was necessary to begin the new service. and the new and old operators em- ployed by the telegraph and telephone companies were instructed fully in their duties, although there were told to strain the regulations rathet than d'sappoint patron,
 ''Will Mean Night Offices.
 The number of night and holi- fay stations in Missouri are: St. Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City. Sedala. Moberly, Springfield, Joplin, Cape Girardeau and Council Bluffs The new night station at Quincy. III, has part of Northern Missouri in it's district.
 The stations n Arkansas are; Lit tie Rock. Pine Bluff. Fort Smith, Jonesboro and Texarkana The new stations in Kansas are Wichita, In- dependence, lola, Emporia, Beatrice Topeka and Salina
 Thousands of towns, even of con siderable size. have lacked telegraph facilities at n ght, on Sundays and on holidays, and thousands have had no telegraph eonveniences at any time and the resident or rural district has never been able to transmit or to receive telegraphs. except at large ex~ pense and with difficulty. Country localities really have been inaeessi-
 telegraph.
 'eeh~ew system of the Ameri- "esseth onioha Telegraph and the graph reaches into to,A inc tele- and out-of-the-way settlemenn,,,loss the assistance of the telephone. An, house Or store which has telephon, instrument. though it may be twent, or forty miles from telegraph sta on, may receive or issue telegraphs.
 "Nill Use Telephone.
 The Western Union has establish ed Tn Missouri Arkansas and Kansas certain zones in which the telepbone becomes an ally. Bach of these states Is divided into zones. and each zone has center. where a telegraph sta ton is open night and day. Anv- body who lives remote from q tele- graph station may transmit tele- gram ny merely saying to the tele- phone operator; Telegram" The oeiephone operator connects the line "hh the telegraph station at the zone center. and the message is ac- cepted by the tele"-aph operator.
 If telegram is directed to per son who has telephone. the mes- sage is delivered from the last tele- graph station by telephone"