The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-02
USE OF DIRECT ] TELECRAPH WIRE ] WIDELY FAVORED How Hob E. Hedges" Became ssJo B. Edges" Through Mis- hearing on Telephone. FELEGRAPHERS ARE 4 OFTEN INVALUABLE Walter P. Phillips, Veteran Te-
 legrapher and Editor
 Recalls Story.
 
tBy William 2. Gardner.l


 Hdictata over the telephone to the local Telegraph office. messag9s to be trans @@znitted to their destinations by teIe-
 graph, receiving in turn, from the To- cal telegraph office, via telephone, in coming traffic Has the man ufaeturer lever stopped to consider the dfsad- #vantages the liability to error and de- May. in having his Telegraph business handled in this manner?
 To begin with, the average factory 4employe utilizes more time in dic- Etating one telegram to the local tele- @graph office than it would take a Morse telegraph operator to send two kor more such teIegrans on tele- Agraph wire direct from the factory, land the two or more telesrams trans limited hy the telo&r aph operator 4would bA nearing their destinations by Sthe time the one teisgram dictated@ by 6the factory emp1oye had reached merely the local telegraph office Tel Eephoned messages are susceptible of Sun ndesarab1e delays, before their trans 8znore, GraVss errors are frequently Hmade n telephoning telegrarnss Here. lis an example.
 To lob F. Hedges Spokane,'' the @phona, and the telegraph office en- sp1oyeI at the other end writes down ss<'Joe B. Edges, Spokanes,s for the two versions of the address sound very
 much alike What happeus2 The sl1n essage reached Spokane Joe B. Edges ig unknown there The fac Story's message lies unde1ivered until Spokane sends a service message to
 the originating point asking for better address. and receives a reply
 This. delay means annoyance to the 5senders perhaps, financial loss Now
 had the message in question been ste1eeraphed direct from the factory. : over a telegraph wire, this b1undering $ would not have occurred, for in tho < Morse telegraph alphabet each letter srepresents a distinct signal, and each letter is transmitted separately, thIs making 1t impossible for a teIegra-
 pher to confuse words because of @thefr pronunciat1on-
 In view Of the fact that the ssaI1- telegraph method is by far the
 speedaer and more accurate method
 for the handling of telegra ms, cer- tain W1de-awake mauu featuring plants throughout the country have Inducedathe telegraph coTnrsazai es to- Install main line wires into their paants-an arrangement which gives fhe manufactures practically pri- 5vate wire service and enables him to send and receive answers to import ant messages in the briefst time possi- b1e- Such manufacturing concerns employ their own telegraph operators Manufacturing plants thus equipped a#Alegraphica11y, receive full value for $EsAe amount of salaries paid their te- 1egr aphers. for the latter devote their &sS5are time to clerical duties other Than those performed in taking charge Of the telegraph service of the zconeern.f For one thing, most tele- graph operators are typewriters, sKhose skill is a marvel to employers HSEho are familiar, only. with the med a1coreI work of the average graduate 4ef the reg gulation business colleges, Which fact alone renders their ser Vices of great value to an office force. @ Factories wishing to avail them selves of rapid and accurate message transmission service should take up with the telegraph cpmpa nfes the
 matter of having the wires from the Telegraph companies installed in their sfactories- The telegraph companies, If shown that both parties to the ar seangement would benefit thereby, EEould no doubt, be glad to cooperate s99she Western Union has already done
 R in respect of the American Graph
 qp hone Company and a regular cir 5saait from the factory having been Eh$ta blished, under the supervision of *HaIter P. Phillips. It was over this
 wire that matter was recently trans Fitted to New Orleans at the rate of 1z0 messages per hour by the Morse Phillips Telegraph The distance is Duplicated by any other automatic telegraph in use today MT. Phillips expects fo@perform a similar feat be- tween Bridgeport and San Francisco, few weeks hence. The cost to the Telegraph companies, if this plan were made general, would be simply the exA Dense of building loops to the factor les interested,
 With such an arrangement in op- eTation MT. Factory OfactaI. the inn portant eablegrams or te1egFalns which you file for transmission, would Maove toward their destinations imme- s9iately. Are you not willing to in zerease the efficiency of the service Mou render manufacturing concerns 34as itanever occurred to VOL that the 3fxne utilized by your employees ltf1ose s5n n1anufaeturing centers) in receiv- Ing telegrams over the telephone. ! could be more proftably devoted to 1
 Acreasing the efficiency of your gen 1 @raI service to individual business. if l guch employees were relieved of 1 Handling by telephone the Aggregated Nolurie of factory business which passes thrc lgh their hands daily? Eend your solicitors into manufactur-
 Sg centers to look into this matter. 1 and wherever business warrants it. ! Approach your clients with the sugges l tton of looping telegraph wires into 1 their factories thereby increasing the .sf1cfeneys of your telegraph service to zEn nanufacturing concerns, relieving Your employees in rnanufacturine towns of an unnecessary burden, and aceuring the valuable services of efi- l nient Iegraphers-utiIizing them i1l Hy new and effective capacity. ssa Mir. Manufacturer, wake up to the 1 sopportunity which is yoursI Look tnto your telegraph account and if $ou consider that you are sending and receiving enough business by tel r &graph to warrant you in making a | request of the telegraph companies For a loop into your factory so that you can, with the greatest degree of | accur&cy and the least amount of de- | nay, send and receive important mes Al ges to and from your business as- s1ciates. do not hesitate to take the l