Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-23
TIPPING BY Phone
BIG BUSINESS AID.
New Device AnnihiIates
Space and Promises to
Be Widely Used.
BY J. G. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 20. - serv.
ice giving practically instantaneous
transmission Of letters and written
messages Is being installed today be-
tween the Lewiston Bleachery ana
Dye Works of Lewiston, Me-; the
Pepperell Mills Of Biddeford. Me-, and
the Boston office of those companies.
This service involves the latest de-
velopment OF telephony. the telephone
typewriter. This is the first time the
telephonetypewriter service has been
installed for operation between wide
~ separated cities, although 1t has
been used in a limited way between
offices in Chicago.
The service, according to officials
Of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Co.. not only eliminates all de-
lay incident to the use of the mails or
telegraph. but adds a permanent
written record to the telephone serv.
ice.
Way Machines Work.
The system employed involves use
Of typewriters, telephone circuits and
electrical impulses. The typewr1ters
used are similar to those In ordinary
commercial use. When one or more
typewriters are connected on the tele-
phone circuit, the electric impulses
arc so arranged that when a key OF
one machine Is touched II causes the
corresponding key on any or every
other machine on the circuit to move
forward and make an impression
upon a sheet of paper.
The advantage given Is that the
moment a message is written In one
Office IL is simultaneously reproduced
in the distant office. The system Is
such that no record Is made Of the
message except at the place for
which it Is intended, although 1t can.
IL desired, be recorded on every type
writer on the circuit.
Messages are transmitted over
these new circuits at the rate OF 40
words minute.
To BE Widely Used
II is expected that the system will
become widely used by large manu-
featuring companies with plants
scattered in many different sections
The Pepperell Co. will maintain the
circuit to the two main plants con-
tinuously from am. to s pm. Since
memoranda and letters to one branch
plant Of a big manufacturing conf
pany are frequently of interest to all
other branches, these may be trans
mitted to all at once, while matters
affecting individual plants can be con-
fined to those plants. The United
States Steel Co. now is using air.
planes for transmission Of some OF
its mail between plants.
Professors. heads of departments
and deans OF so colleges and UNIVERSE
ties today are comforting with Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph Co. Off
Gals here over questions Of economic
and business administration as 1t at
fects the phone system. 1t is the plan
Of the company to secure all the ad-
vice available on how to bring out
the best in it's 35o,0o0 employees and
help them to develop the science of
telephony.
Interest College Men.
Like the New York department
stores and some of the steel and au-
tomobile manufacturers. the telephone
company is seeking to interest col
lege men with a view to training
them as executives.
I'VE must maintain an organization
to study present methods and devise
new and betters ones" II. B. Thayer
Of the Bell system said today. This
means we must provide an adequate
supply of trained supervisory officials.
We must schedule the production Of
general managers as we do our supply
of hi,ildjncs and sNitchboardS"