New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-07
BIG CUT! IN DEFERRED
MESSAGES BY CABLE
Western Union to Reduce
Transatlantic Rates in All
but Expedited Service.
DATE NOT YET DECIDED
Night Letters Can Be Sent at
Twelve Words for rs Cents
Week End Letters "a
Words for S1.15.

Prospective reductions in transat-
lantic rates over Western Union cables
have been announced by the Postmas-
tiers General of Great Britain and Can
ada. The cut in price will be made at
an early date, not yet announced. The
discount is for messages that can be
delayed in transmission for a short
time, the regular price being main
tanned on the ordinary messages, on
the theory that speed in service is
worth the most money.
The new rate schedule by classes will
be as follows:
/. Regular messages, 25 cents word.
Code or any language permitted These
messages will have priority in transmits
sion.
,. Reduced rate messages. . cents a
word. No code, except code address. To
be written IN plain language Of country OF
origin or destination. including French IN
Canada. These messages viii be sent at
such times during the day or night as the
company finds convenient
s. Night letters, twelve words for %
cents. with five cents for each additional
word. No code except code address To
be written in plain language Of country
may be filed at any time UP 10 midnight.
and viii be delivered at the convenience
of the company within twenty-four hours
Of the hour Of filing.
4. Week-en letters, twenty-four words
for 81 Is. with cents for each additional
word. No code except code address To
be written in plain language Of country
OF origin or destination Week-end let
tiers must be filed before Saturday mid
ing
At present the rate for messages in
Glass No. is 12la cents a word; for
Glass No. 3, twenty words for 81 go
for Glass No. 4, thirty words for 81 80.
There have been recent cuts in press
rates. The regular price is cents a
word, but cents word is charged in
certain hours on the plan of delayed
Transmission.
The new rates quoted apply to all
points IN Great Britain and 10 such
points in the United States and Cam
ada as hitherto have been within the
so-called 25-cent zone. For points be-
yond this zone certain land line charges
will be added, as at present. These re-
NNSSANA4S W ~ nv oHPiS' AOl NAO pItStllI
at least, TO Continental countries of
Europe.
The Postmaster General Of Great
Britain made the announcement Of re-
auctions, expressed In terms of English
currency, in London yesterday.
In reference TO the prospective cut by
his company, Theodore n. Vail, presi-
dent Of the Western Union, makes the
following statement:
We think there is q considerable field
for the plain language message and that
the rates which have been arranged for
such messages will be availed OF by many
large customers and almost all Of the
smaller regular customers, particularly
by the occasional and transient customer
or traveller, to whom an elaborate code
is not only expensive but inconvenient
The object OF the night cable letter Is
10 give rate for business 10 which time
Is an important but not an imperative
consideration. In the ordinary course, a
night cable letter filed before, say, 8 p m
VIII be delivered during the business
hours Of the following Gay. 1t is, OF
course. not intended that these messages
shall have expedited cable transmssio
They are designed 10 give a service equiv
Rlent TO mail service between two .airiy
distant points with the long transatan-
tic mail transit eliminated