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Show Ctio end. when VTaugli seltleg (town to business lie look oils though he bad fallen asleep. Il may lio remarked, however, that the man at tho other end of thowire does not think so. 1 1 in jvcti Hies over the shoot for dear life, and the buzz of tho busy Instrument is like the shrill Bt rid illation il-lation of 11 dozen katydids. Mr. Fred Catlin Is a rattling Bender, ulllioiiKh ho is a veteran. Ho claims to have several "dark horses" I'l tho Western West-ern Union ollice whom ho says will make records for themselves. There Is probably prob-ably no man In tho country who has the records of fast ox-rators down so pat 11s Mr. Walter P. Phillips, tho general man-ngei man-ngei of tho Uliited Press. Mr. Phillips was formerly ii star of tlio Ilrst magnitude magni-tude in the telegraphic firmament, ami has thu records of tho old timo champions, cham-pions, many of whom are now dead, at his linger ends. "The fastest sender I ever heard, "said Mr. Phillips during a conversation, "ivas 11 man named Fisher, who used to work in tho south along iilsiiit lH.IH. I do not think tho oierator ever lived who could beiithlini at least, his record has never been equaled. Along in tho Into fifties ho sent an article from Harper's Ferry at the ratoof (ifty-llvo words a luiiiulo for twenty minutes. This is almost equal to o word every second. "In ltj07, In a contest between Hilly Kettles and l'atsy liiirim for a gold key, Kettles was victorious, averaging 4i words a inlnuto or 250 words of printed mutter. On HiIb occasion Hums claimed that ho was out of condition. They met again tho following year nnd Hums squared up matters by easily defeating Kettles. "In I8rt9 E. M. Hlmpe, of Milwaukee, sent 2,0lil words in one hour. Tho ro-ceiver ro-ceiver wns K. Curry, of Ht. Faiil. About ten days sulisequnnt to this l'atsy liuriia started out to Ix'iit Shajie's record. I was selected as tho target upon which Hums wa to train bis long range of artillery fire. My fingers were a great deal more nimble in those days than they aro now. At tho end of tho hour Hums had iu nt 2,731 words, beating Shape's record by just 100 words. This record yet stand i at tho top." For tho part ho took In this feat Mr. Phillips was presented with a beautiful gold pen by I'rofesior Mors". The record for a half hour's fast work was made by Dick Hutchinson, of this city, who sent 1,500 words to Nick Snyder, Sny-der, of Philadelphia. There jrere more fast senders twenty year ago than Hum aro at present. Tho necessity for them has virtually died away with tho quadrupled quad-rupled facilities, and at present tho telegraph tele-graph companies put a premium upon men who put speed in tho background ami bring care ami caution to tho front New York Frews. 5VIFT TELEGRAPHERS. inmt imf tlio Men Who Ituva KJado It!pa-tMtloni It!pa-tMtloni fur liapM WorU lit tlio Key. Among telegraphers who have r pu-;afions pu-;afions for speed are A. H. Ay res (l'atsy) ind AV. L. Waugh, of tho UniU-d Press--; I. W. Itoloson, of tho PL.;tal Tel graph company, Prank J. Ki'.m, of The lirook-lyn lirook-lyn Eagle; William (iibson.of The Evening Even-ing Sun, and M. II. Toomey, of tho Western Union Telegraph company. Every ono of these men is capable of sreat speed, ami, collectively speaking, they have probabiy caused more cass A "curvature of tho spino among the unlucky receirtrs than any half dozen men in the telegraph tervice. Pacing years have told somewhat upon the faces of ono or two of them, but their fingers aro still as nimble as tho flying shuttles of a weavei's loom. In the old timers' class IJob Martin, of tho United Press, will probably prove quite as young as he looks. Everybody in tho telegraph business knows Pob. He is rather apochrypha! sometimes in hi-i anecdotes, and many of them need substantiation, but tho fact remains that in the old war times the e were very few men in the country who could equal Hob in slinging dots and dashes over a telegraph tele-graph wire. Although he has been practically prac-tically out of tho business for gmne time, he is still a "hummer." Ho is Ayres. Patsy can take two columns of nonpareil, nonpa-reil, light his perfecto, strike a forty-four word per minute ait, and keep it ud to |