The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-07-22
AUSPICIOUS OPENING.
FORAUTOMATICLINE
TELEPosT TELEGRAPH SYSTEM
HEADQUARTERS SERVICE TO
LOUISVILLE.
Messages Exchanged Between Govern.
ors, Mayors and Other Officials Of
Operating States and Cities
Civic Organizations Join In.

Louisville, Ky.-Marked by the ex-
change of greetings between prom
inent state and city officials and the
heads OF representative civic bodies.
the telepost system of automatic
telegraphy was formally opened this
week between Louisville and Indian
apOlis.
The cordially OF the welcome eX-
tended TO this newest marvel in the
evolution of telegraphy, with its 1000
words a minute service, recalled to
many OF the older residents of the city
the feeling o. citation which attended
the introduction OF the Morse system
o. Louisville 80 years ago. Among
those who attended the ceremonies at
the headquarters Of the automatic sys-
TEN at No. 33S West Main street were
| two old men who were present when
the first telegraph message was fash
| ed from Louisville by the hand-op-
! Grated system of Professor Morse.
! AS they saw one automatic message
! after another rolled on the receiving
machines on tapes, at lightning speed.
the dramatic spectacle yisibly Affected
them. Marvellous as was the original
telegraph, with its sending capacity
1 Of rs words a minute, the speed OF this
ingenious device for transmitting intel |
} ligence between distant points In
spired them with strange feeling.
At the same time that the Telepost
!, messages were being dispatched and
received, the Independent Telephone 4
Co. was using the same wire for con-
yersation between subscribers. The
- ability OF the automatic system to use
i a telephone wire simultaneously with
. the telephone company while persons
Il are talking over II. without one conflict
q ing with the other, gives II an important
o economic advantage over its rivals,
A and ia one Of the novel features OF this
system which in time will enable 1t
TO establish direct telegraph connec-
ton with the most remote sections OF
the country with comparatively little
cost.
Is Aside from the enormous speed OF
F. the Telepost, what most impressed
mi those present was the fact that All It's
10 messages are transmitted backwards.
- This insures the inviolability Of its
wires at all times while messages are
in transit.
ny Present in the ONCE OF the auto
e. matte company were members OF the
ch city council and other local officials
he OF Louisville and q number OF prom
inent business men. including mem
In hers Of the Louisville Commercial
as club.
The first message sent over the wire
was one from the newspapers OF Louis
gu Vile to the editors OF newspapers In
op Indianapolis, Terre HRute, Chicago
US Springfield. Ill, st. Louis and Sedalia
MS Mo. and other cities in which the sys
dy tenn has been commercially operating
an for the last year and half. The
"a neyspapers of the country will be on'
-. of the largest beneiciaries by this sys
TEN, which will give them a mucl
'o' more extended service for the SAM
II money their telegraph news now cost
ut them, or the same service for traC
CHI ton Of the money they now pay 10
er- the service Of the hand operated sy:
ore TEN. Following the greeting fror
I'M. the editors were messages from stat
officials to state officials Of Indian
and Missouri and from the mayor
Louisville TO the mayors in all OF tn
.eu' GENERATING cities. Then came message
itch between representative business me
en- and the commercial organizations
zen, Louisville to similar organizations
!. cities reached by relepost, felicitatin
IN them upon the establishment Of tn
tho new bond of fellowship between theT
The Telepost is the system nv meal
Of which Professor Roymn HitCtchc
uas former curator Of the department
alst science and industries OF the Smit
'dld sonian institute, testifying recent
the before a special committee OF the Ne
York legislature, said Peary's 500
hen word story of the discovery OF q
ouI north pole could have been sent fro
,.,n, Rattle Harbor to the New York Tim
''''' In ten minutes had il been in opel
tier tinn At that time as far north.
the took 90 skilled operators three da
Dur 10 send II by hand. Automatic m'
ont sases are prepared on a perforati
.,,d machine. These machines have n
rhar ulation typewriter keyboard. but
stead of printing the message in
TOO man letters the keys punch a series
circular perforations in a tape. WI
or these are subjected 10 electrical c.
,.,,,, tact in the Telepost sending apparat
'su they automatically create the dots q
rick dashss flashed over the wires to
dis receiving end. The pulling Of le'
N or sends a message on its way, On
receiving end the message is autoU
.. icany recorded in dots and dashes
chemically prepared tape.
Like Uncle Sans postage, Telep
,eadvf rates are the same to all sections
~ the country making a special of I
> VI forms Of telngrams. .....
his The irst is a 50-word letter sent a
81 the wire at any hour OF the day
no night for % cents, with the same
=, Ierity as an ordinary telegram
now delivered by mail instead OF by n
EN- sercer. The second is lOword \
grow sCpe, sent over the wire In the req
-. wav for 10 cents, transcribed q
wv" nostal card at the receiving end
IN delivered by mail, The Teletnpe-
latch- words for 95 cents-is intended lari
ars for large business houses. When