Arizona republican., 1911-12-07
NEW SERVICE 0F THE
 WESTERN UNION co.
"LETTERWIRE" AND "WEEkWIRE'
 MESSAGES BY CABLE
Methods of Communication Similar to
 the Day Letter and Night Letter

the Day Letter and Night Letter
 LOS ANGELES. Dec. 6.-(SeciaD- , Theo. \. Vail, president of the West
 crn Union Telegraph company. madt i public at Portland tonight the plan by . which two new forms of cable service
 are to be instituted to b. known as r cable letters and week end letters
 which places the Atlantic cables at the service of patrons in the trans
 mission of letters by telegraph in the
 same manner as the Western Union
 lines in the United States now furnish
 the public with day letter and night
 letter service. By this arrangement.
 the Atlantic cables are placed within
 r,ach of the public at rates which will
 encourage their greater use for social
 and business communications
 | The new services are not offered the
 public as substitutes for the present
 regular rapid cable service but are in
 tended to create a new field for the
 transmission of lengthy communication
 from any part of the United States to
 Europe and vice versa which are not
 Of such pressing urgency as to war
 rant the use and cost of the regular
 expedited cables. The new arrange
 ment is based upon the use of the cable facilities at times when the loads caused by the expedited cables is low est
 Beginning Wednesday, Dec. 9th. ca ble letters and week end letters may be filed al any open Western Union office at any hour, from whence they will be forwarded to the cable ter minal at New York or Boston An ar engagement has been made by which the cable letter may be mailed from the office at which it is filed to either one of the above cities provided the additional delay can be assumed by the sender. but upon the Pacific coast practically all letters of this character will be sent by wire to either New York or Boston from which points they will be cabled to destinations in Europe. to reach London or Liverpool in time for delivery on the morning of the second day following their receipt at New York or Boston.
 The week end letters may be filed at open Western Union offices up to iiiAAi-Ar1ilA pii NofiNui 'idN TUT NtilNtIN dl London or Liverpool on the following
 Tuesday morning. Of course. they may be filed before Saturday but they will not be delivered until Tuesday. Both cable letters and week end letters will be written in plain English lan- guaGe S'~
 In establishing q rate for the cable transmission for cable letters the com papy has made q very marked reluc- tipn, the rate for such letters cover ing the cable transmission alone. being but one dollar and half for twenty words with thirty cents added for each additional five words For wcrk end letters the cable transmission will he one dollar and a half for thirty words with twenty five cents added for each additional five words. These rates also include the delivery of both char aCters of letters at London or Liver pool and cover the postage where the delivery shall be made through the mails
 One of the principal features of the new arrangement is the delivery by mail of those cable letters at destin- ations outside of London or Liverpool but the telegraph company has ar ranged so that the sender of the lp,- tcrs may have them handled by tele- graph beyond London or Liverpool by tie additional payment of one cent per word to points in Great Britain anu Ireland or by the payment of the regu- lar telegraphic word rates to other points beyond London which rates may ba ascertained at all Western Union offices
 Parties wishing to send these cable letters and week erd letters have the privilege of using either the regular expedited day message, the day letter pr the night letter in transmitting the cable messages to New York or Bos- ton to be cabled. The whole plan con of course, the same charac- ter of service from Europe to the | United States.
 The names which have been selected | h designate the two characters of | service handled by wire are Letter | wire and "Weekwire." Commencing | Dec 9th. deferred press dispatches il | plain English language for publication in the papers of this country will be over the Atlantic cables 8t five cents per word plus the news paper special rate from New York or Boston to destination for both day and night service and for publication abroad. The cable rate will be the same but a. lower rate will obtain upon he inland lines of the United States
 President Vail stated that on Janu-