The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-06-23
TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT
NEW ADDITION TO FORT HAYS
CURRICULUM ON SECOND
FLOOR OF ACADEMIC
HALL
PLANT Wen Equipped with App.r.,r.


mand OF the people of Western Kan
sas and the Railway and Commercial
Companies throughout the country.
One of the largest railroad comp
anles IN the country has installed as a
gift to the school, at a cost of So, 900.
the most modern equipment obtain
able and has made this department
not one of the best but the very best
equipped telegraph plant found in
any school in America.
The equipment consists of:
Three main line Railway wires Zone
dispatcher and Two Message wires)
A New Westinghouse 5O-VoIt Motor
Generator.
Sixty Keys
Sixty Saunders
Sixty Extension Arm Resonators
One Finjack Switchboard
One Strap Switchboard
Nine Steel frame, sixty position type
writer drop, tables and Four COM
plete telephones such as are used
on railroads for handling trains.
The wood work in the instructors
desk was made by the students of the
Manual Training Department of this
school under the supervision of Mr..
Davis. The Electrical wiring being
done by Mr.. J. Hilbert, a noted tele-
graph and telephone engineer of
Omaha, Nebraska.
The complicated electrical mechan-
ism of this desk is so compact that it
occupies no larger space than an
ordinary office desk.
From this desk the instructor can
control the Motor-GeneratOr and can
by means of a switch board on the
desk, connect any two positions at
the student desks, or make a connec-
ton whereby from twelve to thirty
six students can copy from the main
line, or from another student.
1t is also possible for the instructor
70 get in direct communication with
any position in the room and by this
means to give individual instruction
and supervision TO all students.
There is also, for the convenience
and use of the students, a complete
file of Railway Freight Tariffs and
Rules, Passenger Tariffs and Rules,
Express Tariffs and Rules, Baggage
Tariffs and Rules, and Commercial
Tariffs and Rules.
Mr.. V. C. johnson, Head of the
Department of Telegraphy, has had
twenty years of practical experience
as small station telegrapher, cashier,
station agent, train dispatcher, tele
grapher and office manager in some of
the largest railroad and commercial
Offices in the United States.
Courses offered in this department
include:
Telegraphy, Railway station and
commercial telegraph accounting,
Railway baggage department rules,
Railway transportation department
rules, Railway freight traffic rules
and tariffs. Railway passenger traffic
rules and tariffs, Western Union rules
and tariffs, Batteries, their prepara-
ton, care and functions, Telegraph
apparatus, Pinjack and strap switch
boards and Wire patching.
Typewriting, penmanship and COM
mercial arithmetic are a part of the
Telegraph course, but are handled in
the Departments of Commerce and
Mathematics.
Telegraph students are at liberty
to take courses in any department of
the school, at no additional expense.
The Normal has departments in all
regular college subjects and is CO.
equal with the State University in
Bachelors Degree work, and its de-
gree is recognized by the great uni
versities of America and is received
by them without question.
The rate of tuition for the course
in telegraphy at the Fort Hays Nor
NAL is approximately s37 for thirty
six weeks, which includes hospital
fees and activity tickets which admit
the student to all the entertainments
of the Normal School, as compared
with a tuition fee of from $50 to
500 in other schools. In view Of the
low cost of tuition, its superior equip
ment and instruction, and the oppor-
unity the student has of taking work
in any of the other departments, 1t IS
reasonable to suppose that the Sep
TENDER enrolment will fill this de-
partment to its capacity.
The qualifications necessary TO
enter this department are at least an
eighth grade education, applicant
must be between the ages OF II and
o. and must be able to pass the phys
;ca1 examination which all Railroad