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Show NEW MACHINE IS BEING USED 10 SAN FRANCISCO Tho Southern Pacific company has inaugurated a system of dispatching messages that is one of the greatest Improvements in that line that has pome out in recent 3rears. It Is called the "Morkrum Printing Telegraph." This wonderful machine was put into operation today for the first time at the Union depot-It depot-It is designed to handle the through messages between Ogden and San Francisco. In addition to this, the company has installed its own train dispatching system. Heretofore the dispatching for the road was done under un-der the supervision of the Ogden Union Railway & Depot company. This caused some confusion that it was felt could be avoided by the installation installa-tion of the company's own system. The Morkrum machine sends messages mes-sages direct from a typewriter keyboard key-board from Ogden and at the San Francisco end that are recorded di-recty di-recty from a typewriter that works electrically with the sending machine. Tho operation is somewhat as follows: fol-lows: An operator sending a message mes-sage typewrites it. Tho machine is so arranged that when a key Is struck, perforations are mado in a waxed tape. This" tape goes directly into another machine the sender. At the other end of the wire these perforations cause impulses on the receiving typewriter. type-writer. Tho keys on the typewriter strike tho paper, transmitting an exact ex-act reproduction of the message sent. It is a most Interesting and novel sight to soe the machine in operation. It has a great many advantages over the old system. The greatest one Is the speed at which tho work can be done, as 220 messages per hour can easily be transmitted. By tho old man powor method the best that could be done was about fifty messages per hour. The machine was installed by B. L. King, superintendent of telegraph for the company on the Pacific system. Until local operators learn the use of it, Charles Krueger and Frank JLowry, exports from San Francisco, will remain re-main in Ogden. Tho machines will be operated by Miss Phyllis Leldig and another young lady not yet selected. The dispatcher's office will be In charge of F. E. Barton, formerly of Ogden. Og-den. He has been with the railroad company in San Francisco for the past several years. ' It is said that the Morkrum machines ma-chines are quite extensively used in the east by the Associated Press and other news concerns. They are also used in brokers' offices to supersede the old tapo method of tabulating market mar-ket reports. . oo |