The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-12
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kQWpped with facilities 10 accommo-
Gate city Of $4,000 the Western Tn
ion office stands out as one of the
progressive plants of Ardmore Its
daily volume Of business is equal TO
that OF most cities of larger popula-
ton than Arimore sending an average
of 600 messages or 1900 words. Dur
ing the recent Clara Smith trial, which
lasted days, the company transmitted
an average of 10000 words daily.
This sudden increase in business was
handled without confusion, and with
cut working an undue hardship on the
operators, according to w. T. Sails
bury, manager He gave as the reason.
the unusual facilities in the Office,
Enormous Oil Business
Probably the reason for Ardmore
having q telegraph office that is sever.
al years ahead of its growth is caus-
ed 10y the enormous volume OF oil
business done here, The oil industry
accounts for 60 per cent of the Vest
ern Union business in this city,
An element Of interest in the working
of the improved telegraph system,
man, is the fact that the old plan, Of
having two wires for every circuit, and
which in fact was discarded many
years ago, is today replaced with a
quadruplex set which consists Of one
single wire between the two points of
transmission and reception, and yet
allows Of four different messages be-
r ing Transmitted and received at the
Same time. This single wire has its
circuit completed with a ground at
each end, or in other words, the earth
acts as the second wire 10 complete the
round circuit necessary for an cleo
trical movement Of direct current
The workability of this quadruplex
plan Is arranged by a complex system
Of coils, transmitters and other at
tachments at this cffce and at the Of
flee Of destination OF origin, as the
case may be.
One Of these sets allows Of 100 mes
sages being transmitted within an hour
or about 5000 words
Connection With World
Connection with the outside worlu
comes into the Western Union office
here from Oklahoma City and from
Dallas. Six wires. being as many cir
cults ordinarily, or "a under the quad
ruplex plan, terminate in the pegjack
board in the Office after leaving under
ground cables.
From this board the circuit can be
transferred, by means Of loopjack con-
nection, to any position on the opera
tors table. There are six positions on
the operators table, each having a
sender and receiver
Rapidly of Service
The minute a message comes in
II is turned over to the delivery clerk.
who stamps it with q time stamp
which is regulated by the electrical
clock. The rules Of the company COM
pei the delivery clerk to see that the
message is given to a messenger boy
and on its way to the addressee three
minutes after it is received This sys-
TEN often allows OF messages being
transmitted from the person sending to
the persof, receiving in as short q time
as 10 minutes.
Company rules likewise compel the
receiving clerk when accepting q mes
sage from a local person for trans
mission to another city. to stamp the
telegram with the time clock and see
it is on the wires 10 its destination
within 10 minutes.
In sending messages from here 10
any point in the United States a con.
nection must be made at the offices
either at Dallas or Oklahoma City. II
the message is a short one. il is sent
10 either one Of these offices and then