New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27
Western Union Will Cut
Over" All Lines to New
Quarters Tomorrow.
NO HALT THREATENS
10000 MESSAGES
Every Detail Perfected for the
Speedy Change to Big
Walker st. Building.

rLo ,o,t-overp Of the $500 incoming
Srires of the Western Union Ielegrapl
COMPANY from its old quarters az
nos broadway TO the new ouilGlhg az
"a Wslker st. will be accomplished III
tbo frst few hours Of Sunday mo rno
80 To.morrow a total OF loVUVV
,,,essegas the Western Unions oaiIy
n,,arass will be received and sent AZ
the new headquarters. -. Aovo
For tbirtv-nine years all wires nave
la to broadway and Dey ST.. but az
70 o'clock tonight the first connection
will he made at the Walker-Lispeha!u
building, and a lonely Operator III
FLORIDA or Montana may nave sno
honor Of sending the hrsV mess"e'
into the new quarters. -, .o1
Within the next hour or two VIII lo I
low the speedy connection OF the
,,a;nder of the wires, and at no tiIne
J,r;nS the process will business be IN
terrupted. In preparation for the CUT
ovor" n force Of eighty men mas Deei
81 work in the new building for yeaiI'
The new structure runs through
from, Walker TO Lispenard ST., ana tne
Aoors from the eleventh to the seven
.oortb will be occupied by the tele-
s,royb company. Several departments
- atreadv in the new quarters anu
the generating department; WIN Us
800 of seventeen hundred employees
viii vii be the last to take its place
viii Have Roof Garden.
TIL. tventv-fve hundred incoming
,;,as viii converge at the thlrteenth
door where they will be received py
tbirtv-four Ewitchboards. The OPERA
nc rooms. with positions for l,OZzS2
operators, will occupy the IouT I Uss.,.',
md fifteenth floors. On inc seye!'
teeDth floor is a restaurant Win
for three hundred and ABOVE az y,
-oof garden for the women Slnp I S. TT,
In the operating room eIeVen 'SG ~
of transmitting sets nave Tee H. r -s'
stalled. ranging from the s1IiiPle i t;Oio
kew to the multipleX. me Illu.s IlP,.os
so1ds four and receives four message
s;r,+,Itaneously over q single wire ahu
,.annires sixteen operators-tour re-
nsiyiro and four sending at each emu
In sending on the multpleN no use
e ,nade of the Morse key. The senGlhg
generator writes upon typewriter Key
hoard and the message appears auto,
rnatically typewriter at the other enc
Of the line. -....
Another feature of the new quarters
consists of repeater tables" when
contain apparatus for automatically
reneating incoming messages to points
beyond New York. From this building,
also. tens of thousands Of clocks ana
stock quotation tickers throughout the
city will be controlled.
Room Messengers Ousted.
The operating rooms are equipped
with twenty-five, incoming pneumatic
tubes from the various local offices,
and an elaborate system Of moving
belts has been installed to convey these
messages to the operator by whom they
are to be sent out. In the Old quarters
this work was done by messenger boys,
but in the new building the entire
process will be mechanical. The maxi
mum time required for transferring q
message from q receiving station to a
sending station will be seventy-fve sec
onds.
Such departments as are not housed
in the Walker Lispenard Building will
remove to the building at 16 Dey st. on
July l. Then the building at 1876 Broad
way, which has been occupied by the
company since moving from l45 Broad
way, in 1875, will be torn down to
make room for a skyscraper.