The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-07-26

A Newspaper Marvel.

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/ | read the letter again. The CON
I cludlng clause was so pregnant at
swords points with each other with
possibilities that il fascinated me.
don't know what you will think Of
II. but II strikes me that IL is a mighty
good scheme TO be able automatically
10 compress column OF ordinary
news matter into one word. and 10
/ perform the same process with these
words until one has the entire con-
tents OF morning daily paper. let us
say, concentrated into a single word
which may be cabled TO any point in
/ the civilized world at the minimum OF
cost Allowing for the difference in
time. with my system in use. a Lon
don daily might be published in New
YORK each morning simultaneously
] with its appearance three thousand
miles away. by reversing the process
. with the csbled word.
l | knew WadSworth the writer. as a
! man of extraordinary fertility OF mind
If not a positive genius-and there
was scarcely a field of human en-
deavor upon which he had focused his
remarkable mentality during the past
few years which had not been made
! 10 Nleiu new treasures
Was this latest vagary % his the
fentasy of a disordered imagination?
! l occupied a seat in the first train
leaving for the city where he resided
my mind alternating between fights
"f supreme exaltation and descents in
10 the dismal abyss OF dependency.
lie met me at the train. and the
carriage soon reached his laboratory.
Two curious nickelplated machines
were ranged upon stands near the
windows. In appearance they seem.
ed To resemble "A combination OF type
writer and cash register.
( This" said Wadsworth. lis the an
| aIyucal machine. Have you this
mornings News? will Compress a
paragraph for you. and you yourself
snail reverse the process and produce
me paragraph automatically upon the
synthetical machine"
He seated himself al the nearer in.
strument an dtouched the keys lightly.
After writing several sentences he
! threw over a small side lever. and
/ there fell from the machine a card
/ bearing the word "b-o-s-t
! l went of i'm spasm OF laughter
/ which ! only succeeded in controlling
after observing the offended counte-
nance OF the inventor
Then seated myself al tho synthott.
/ cal machine. and lightly touched thu.
. Keys IN my turn.
y curious iarTago Of jumbled letter
was tho result. / looked al WadswortL
I Ia surprise
Now. write those again on the ma
. chine" he said.
complied. and the Identical para
graph which ne had written was re-
b Produced without error Even 81
purctuRtion was correct.
/ Ia six months We had ORGANIZED a
company
Nadsworth wa stationed in London.
WIN an analytical machine comprnss-
/ Ing Tor he alone knew IFS principle oil
/ operation, which was based upon a
theory ombodyinG the permutation OF
numbers. ] was Installed w New York
with corps % assistants. transform.
ing back again with the ~yntEetica
mechanism
no result was tho London Daily
Phoenix. aggressive and pot.utial m
thc worlds politics IL was eagerly
P"ruS"d az ih" breakfast tables OF nine
million Americans. conferred around
"" York. Chicago aud san Francisco.
ID" lhp'ridlistic policy Of the TIM.
I"' states had been growing IN popi.
Ter favor zinc" IA" first term ~ Prrsf
u'n' Mckinley. and tho diplomats
at Dad Wcr. growing
%" utt'rtuc"s Of th" different I.cs
ii0us a. European courts were becom.
' ihE very uufsDuk"n upon such guos.
N"h aS acquisition ~ tcrritor, ." the
open door poiicy." ard tho right. r-
ih" governed. 80 that ALREADY muir
mns OF discomfort ominpus in sig.
ilirance. filed tho political atmo,.
pl'r'
Ih" foreign u"ws columns % N
diHrr"nt editions of th" Phoenix com.
h"nd-d clientele - readers which
"' "'h"F paper could ever hope 10
posses as our process was JEALOUS is