The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-27

tho days Of their y0uths when they were struggling for q foothold on the ladder Of fame and years before they reached their present positions of af- 1zuence and power-dayS when they handled stock quotations, railroad business, messages that carried Joy 10 some and sorrow to others, and the vaTexabed news or +he world--thas IS vvlnaf the latest production of the genius of Wa1ter F. Phillips, inven- for retired press association manager .s1d composer, to be known as the Diamond Medal Telegraph Records' means to such former telegraph oper- ators as Carnegie. Edison, Delaney. c7owry, Eciert, Mnnsey, Gillette and a host of others prominent Tn the ad- fairs of the country.
 To the young man casting aoouS fer a start in life these records mean that he can set aside the nusacaI reo- :. ords and with the Diamond Medal Eslegraph Lessons. a set Of eight lV- inch discs containing sixteen lessons arsn1v himself thereto when the ram 3Iw is not using the graphophone ana byk dI1sEent practice soon become q proficient operator, so lar as peans able to read the Morse characters IS concerned, as the records gre nnat1s bv the best senders in the land ana tl1e telegraphy Is Of the finest The records can be played on any sorai-3 nary graphophone and # there lsn r AlESa0Y a. 413Gf1141S HI Se-ASs ouk1tt complete can De ootaAned al q very reasonable figure
 sEsf1ia sscourse in telegraphyP is not n suddenly thought of, wild cat aIIaar but the result of years of anVessisa- tion and experiment. and one or us s,rigas.lDlA aesets-the fact that the | Norse is of the best qualify and can be reproduced at any speed, from the A3s,yverk for the beginner to the last eat for the efficient receIAer- dnsures tta success
 1.rr. FshflIips is himself one of the e,,SrsT,sT old timers in the. telegraph 7,Issi71ase. being a personal friend Of samuel F. B Morse who produced the Horna alphabet, and having been I through it from start to finish IS n q IS,osstion which enables him to know fsaa hest when he hears it, with the v.g,,s4e ts,s.t he has the services of such fafnots operators as George ". Con Con K K ling champio11 Phillips Code trans- hitter and sender of the most perfecI Morse Of all operators in the Worlu, Frederic M McClintic,s VViliian M sl Gibson, David J- E1lington, Eugene f1. Bf3oknar and others s
 7sae lessons start from tn 2 very be- o1nTfns. No I containing the letters of the alphabet, figures one to nIne and tIae punctuation markss No. containing words and sentences uslng 2 all the letters sof the alphabet ana l from then on each successive record fs considerably advanced from Z the last one. There Is a. printed key for each lesson up to No. bur the re- aaining seven are advanced ana can ! be read without the copy. The rec tslFs4sa axe manufactured by the Elec- trio Novelty and Talking Machine fsrur,x,auy Of Bridgeport, and the pur- <shsse prioe for the especially made uasc4due and records incfudes tne1r improved eendeFs set
 <1.e kafrrr ps,rF14 as e cornpaT1son between this 1akask method of nasterfong the nays 4ass<sa oR the dots, dasf1es and spaces, kmz,d the various old-tinne means are a8 Nnx1ONE.
 H1l rnsoresefsl1 telegraph operators 7sejeaa of the earlier days end of the present. day, have practically tau ght ' 4a,aanee1ves or have, by association xlifh expert operators in regular teIe- xrauza offices while acting as office boys and messengers Tor the compaAy' E become versed in the art and advanc- t cd to an operators position
 Te1exraph schools are not counte- ktylnnced by the telegraphic profession { hecaxase all those operators who are fff to teach invariably occupy high E u1ous asProfessors set themselves UT
 e teachers of an art which they have t a1az1aoned because their skill was not srff1cient to earn them a. livelihood us operators. Telsgrapdny is exactly E 1f1rva r11uedf, Iuvarfaibly the pupil ab- 5 E lsorbs every familiar trait of the mas E fan Thereroxe it is essential that the 4ntarpretat1on by the teacher. of the ken6rve feaegrap1l alphabet. be a.bso- 1n2s1y correct. because the impression upon the student Is lasting
 With all the uncertainties of life an chi1dren-ricI or poor. boy or gir I ---ahouId have a profession, whether they expect to follow it or not T
 is better than life insurance policy
 Oue of the most gentee1 of the pro, feasf0ns is teiegrap11y. An average I ef1l&ent can learn teIegraplay if prop
 months; that Is. prepared to accep1 M position Some do 1t more quickly
 Photography, when properly acquir- cd. Is one of tho easiest stepping stones to success Thomas A Edison
 foremost inventor of the age, Patricl Fl B sI1eIaa1v next to Edison the greates
 telegraph inventor in the world, ana Andrew Carnegie, the great philan
 flTopise began as tezegraphers. Mer at the heads of our great ra1lwaz systems: in government circles ana T every commercial line owe their ad I4vaucernent to telegraphy-
 President Lincoln used to talk yer, Z freely with MeezEB. Eckert. Bates Tinker and Chandler of the telegraph 5 department and he took a great fanc. to Jesse 61Dn0A WAO WS1S Si checked boy in 1882, when the thing
 to which MT Lincoln referred in hi
 talk with the youngster were takins plaee:
 ..Young man.. said the whole soul
 cd citizen of the world with his awfu
 bnrden of a civil war on his hands
 s4vouuee man. I would give a thou
 ana dollars if I had learned to do tha
 when I was young The ability t read those signals is never-endint mystery to me. And, Jesse, McCieI Ian says he needs more men Wha
 ro you think He has quite a fev
 down there at Alexandria and hs seems inclined to keep them taer,