The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-03-04
LETTERS SHOULD
BE POPULAR.

Letters by telegraph are expected
to become popular means of COM
mUnication after a while. That Is
the idea the Directors of the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and the Western Union, which
now belongs to the first-named COM
pany. had in mind when they decid-
ed upon the ffty-word night letter
as a new feature of the telegraph !
service The additional facilities !
that the telephone company was able |
to supply were counted upon to |
make it easy for the sender to get |
the letter from his house to the |
wires
The night letter system is sched-
uled to start some time within a
month.
It is to be handled in combina- !
tion by the telegraph and telephone |
when that is the quickest and most
convenient way. When it reaches
its destination in the early morning
hours it is put i'm the mails there
and delivered in the first morning
distribution.
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the company stipulates that only
plain English letters will be receiv-
ed Code words are excluded. The
4 rate for fifty words is to be the same
/ as the day rate for ten words, and
/ one-ffth of the day rate is to be
/ charged for each additional ten
! words or less.
eve are inaugurating this night
/ letter plan in order to keep our idle
wires busy at night" says an official
/ of both the American Telegraph
and the Western Union Telephone
/ Company 1T will be a great
economy to business men and an ad-
/ ditional convenience to them.
Messages handed in at a Western
. Union Office in one city up to mid
night will be transmitted to destlna-
tion with customary rapidity. The
Office of destination will place the
messages in stamped and addressed
envelopes and messengers will carry
them over to the local postoilice,
depositing them there before 8 a. m,
long before the first morning mail
goes out.
The night letter service is real
ly meant for letters 1t insures
quick transmission. If letter is
sent from Honesdale to St. Louis,
FOR example, by mail to-day it will
reach it's destination day after to-
morrow, and may not be delivered un-
til the next day If | send the same
letter by the night letter service
this evening the letter will be de-
livered in st. Louis tomorrow morn
ing in the first mail"
People who live remote from the
telegraph office, where the telegraph
office closes early in the evening,
are to have city accommodations
under the new plans that have been
worked out They may call up the
Bel. Telephone Company central
in their locality and dictate their
telegraphic message. Central Will
communicate the message to the
. nearest office of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, and
il will from there be dispatched to
its destination over the telegraph
wires.
AS the American Telegraph Com
pany's offices in the big cities are
open day and night, every private
person who has access to Bell
telephone may send telegram TO
any distant part of the country at
any hour of the night. The answer
also can be delivered back TO the
sender over his telephone by tele-
phone central.
Ff~I. hn Eh
combination of telephone and tele-
, graph service have not yet been
worked out but it was said recently
, that they would not be high.
Edward J. Nally, Vice President
and General Manager OF the Postal
, TeIegraph-Cable company, says tha'
, the idea of a night letter service was
not new, having been discussed DI
, telegraph men for years. For MS
o. company he had made an exhaustive
study of the question, however, tol
T the purpose of finding out if there
I was a demand for such service
Y and the reports he received were
I that what the public wanted was no
r q deferred service but an instantane
o Gus service; the result being that th'
= Postal Telegraph last August in
4 stalled special rush service, unde
/ which they undertake to handle
Il messages between all importan
: places, from customer to customer
within twenty minutes. This ser
Y vice. Mr.. Nally says was an instan
e success. Facilities by which person
n having telephones could get in toue.
is with remote telegraph offices at a.
A. hours Of the night, MIR, Nally ADDED
10 had been furnished by his compan
s. for some time.