Show 1 Wn wOO T r I C wit I f I I IG Andrew Carnegie G at the Key ley t r p i t i N f 74 1 tk a j p Ii six 1 4 I la I i ri L d ii 1 I iJ f II y 2 I t I j jt t t t I J JI I r I F r I j 1 I V I I I tI Jill I II I I i 4 fi L f IY 0 NY fol Robert i I dowry I Telegrapher i 1 r r J f x at Dull Run V I I I HE l telegraph strike as ns n n xi T reminder of oC the net fuel n xi IC re remarkably huge of or orf off the tho most niost noted telegraphers In inthe f f the history of ot the tho urt uit are arc still l 1 mid kicking though not still ticking and 1 clicking As 5 a 1 rule they have 1 f gone one to the tho head of tiC the tho class clas either In or 01 something Just as good l 1 nr II r better bolter Thomas ul T P Eckert i Iho venerable dean denn of ot the th corps vast a 4 youth of or nineteen when S 8 K F KD 1 D tEL lor A of thu tho system Ind IndI tho first telegrapher managed utter after mighty to establish the thu pioneer telegraph line lino between Baltimore and Washington In III IS 1811 II I It Is i not easy ea for the he present gen generation to realize that telegraphy Is nb years elUI old This world wide wonder of genius Is tho the advance advae agent of nf civilization It Il t Has nas revolutionized human society by time and space and arni ng together the ends lids ot of the Iho earth carth That historic message What hat lath God wrought v IK III vastly vust more Inure apt today than n when It was sent over the tIt wizard In II IS 1844 14 Professor Morse who gave this now new wonder Londer worker to the tho world has ha been lead years but ho lived long nough to contemplate u It statue of or him himself self sol raised by grateful people In New Nc orl Of or the living telegraphers whoso I famo funo Is JI 1 wide thieve there aro are General Eckert l cl Thomas rhomas A Edison Ellison Andrew Carnegie Robert C Albert Albeit B U Chandler Edward and David Homer Bates The Tho fame famo of or Billson HIllson and anti Cal Cui logic c lo like the electric spark has ha hash d u round around the world Alt All the tho and also ul o Carnegie were wereth I th war telegraphers Another L telegrapher who was wn born bornn n the same year C r that gave birth to toi 0 k i Eckert hut but who died In 1885 13 General Anson Stager In Octo it cr 01 1861 Stager was in ado general su suj j of ot o government telegraphs In all nil departments serving nerving until Sop Sep September 1868 Ho left leCt tho the service with the of ot brigadier general for meritorious work worl In Iii addition to his Ills able ablo military Stager Introduced great groat In the telegraph batteries and the arrange arrangement meat ment of C wires Next In command to General Stager cr crIn In tho the telegraph service ervIce I during the tho civil war was Thomas Thoma T or j Eckert I whoso whose place of oC duty hit nl t of oC the time was vas at nt Washington General Eckert I saw and talked with ith Lincoln dally daily when the tho gaunt president was wua wont ont to haunt tho the telegraph t room of ot the tho var ar In III Inquest quest of oC news from the tho front Eckert In those days was accounted almost ns US asgood good n a story teller toller as ns Lincoln and an the tho pall pair used to swap 1181 yarns by b the tho hour while the tho busy operators were clicking out messages to the at the front or receiving reports of ot and movements Eckert I vas president of the Western Union Tub Tele Telegraph graph raph I company from 1892 until live Ie years ago ugo when ho he was WIlS succeeded by bythe b bythe the tho present heat head of oC that concern Colo Coin Colonel net nel Robert C dowry This noted telegrapher won von his hits title In the tile military telegraph service dating the civil war He had charge ot of the thu war telegraph district Including Mis litis Missouri Misouri sOllI ouri Arkansas and Kansas In III Mis lItls Missouri soon and Alkansas there thoro was a R great deal of or lighting fighting Colonel Clowry was IRS on the job early cally and late luto A somewhat amusing story Is told ot of his experience In sending the first wire wireless less message years before Marconi was born Colonel Clowry was at al ji J a point in Missouri Across the Mississippi sippi I was a l detachment of oC tho the army with which ho lie wished to communicate Xo o 0 wire reached across the stream It was highly Important that communication tion be bo established Suddenly the tho teeg heard from tram across the tho river tho toot loot of a locomotive whistle His I L F I JJ i 1 be i 1 k 2 Gen Thomas T Edison sri still oil vu Expert I n HOCK NY Y i own foice had a locomotive also Tho rh resourceful commander ot of the Iho lie squad leaped Into tho the engine cab cub and began pulling the tho whistle cord Toots were welo In a xi most astonishing stylo t lo Long toots were WelO followed by a it series of or short ones or vice versa Velsa Tile The en Oil engineer and arid fireman feared that thal Clowry Clown had hud gone crazy Hut But presently across the river camo an nn answering series serle of or similarly Insane toots The rhe telegrapher with the tue other oilier force had heard beard the tooted tooled dots and und dashes and mill andas was as responding Thus time the two opera operators tors carried canted on their toot talk at will Wireless messages altogether by car ear were cne an all accomplished feat There Theto is Ia also alho a n story to the effect 11 I I f 1 that Edison EoJ on when a youth employed e l the sumac faino method of telegraphing across the tho Ohio river upon an all occasion o when wiler the tIc wires were down don He lie appio pIO I u it switch engine established communication by UI toot tuot anti and talked half halfa It a day dlLY with tho the operator In III the tho engine cab eal across tIle the stream IMIson was waR accounted a II marvelously rapid 1 sender and receiver In those early CUrl days It l was vas his connection with telegraphy that led Ild him Into electrical study and resulted In the various vailous Inventions of oC universal fame and nn l use with which his hili mimo namo is connected for all nil time limo to come Thus Thull hns has telegraphy telegraph vastly widened Its Held lel l of usefulness In lines beyond It Itself itself t self Edison like of or tho the noted teli Invented many Improve Improvements ments In iii the system before ho turned Ills attention to the tIme clE etre light the phonograph and his other and even now no ho he at ot times enjoys clicking a It telegraph key I c as all in lix the till old nh days All 11 these men foresaw early curly u IL wonderful future for COl telegraphy t Je hut but not hot all 1111 of or them evinced u a like enthusiasm for fOI other device It Is 13 Isa Isa a matter tt et of record that In 1877 Alex Allx Alexander Allxander ander Graham Boll nII Inventor of oC tho tile telephone utTered offered General Ticket t tom foi tile the telephone rights for COL a II of oC lifty miles l New 01 ev York city The Tue telegrapher declined the tile proposition lion tion He lie See we It II fhe The same proposition In Is woith millions today to and will be he more millions tomorrow These old aid time telegraphers still take delight In telling lolling stories of oC their Will war wartime time experiences Edvard 1 of the Omaha Bee mind and a o stand standing 1 tog ing tot tt Sat Sats sena BenIt senator for tor belonged b d U lJ t III t it mu Ii I I a sy l ih corps corp dm doming Ing tile the Will war He lIe did In all the telegraphing for CI the Ui army at nt the bottle buttle of ur Dull Hun HUll len Gen oral IB I Pope Pwe was Willi as so SI thrashed by b Lee Iee LeeI I thought thu ht our army was going to move right light on OIl to 11 at III that time says say ur Mr III and amid I ask asked ed that I be made ono One nf Of the telegraphers raphers In order tint thit I might ho bo one of at the tho to o C at nt th Confederate erate capital At Al Bull Hun HUll I 1 had hail my ills 11 Instrument placed on Oil tho ground among the 1001 was lall shooting going on Oil around me IIII and I not miot tIll tell whether wo Wl whip whipping plug ping tho till or they were tero whipping IH xI 11 Gonera Popo vi was spud InK ing all nil day stating slating that thuit ho lie howa wa wn was banting tho the while In iii fact ho wag really being defeated Ih Mr III dt tells n II story lito I ot of tho first battle of nC Hull Bull Hun tun which Allows something of oC the tho surmount surmounted ed eel by h the operators at nl the till from froni The Ilme operator hi lie h stales was Lens all u II moan man Hose itose Tile Tho wile was Wl not pot curried to tr tho time bottle battle Itself t but tho thu was for tOl ten tell to 1 Station Statton end n l then lien hent nl to On Oil III the th day IlY of oh tin time tutu telegraph office desk clink chair etc ll of or a 8 railroad tie tit upon non which tho the wan placed For Kor a considerable l time Mr Ir Rose Hose Rosewater water belonged to the corps of at telegraphers raphers l phol on Oil duty nt at the hum th wax war IH depart department lent ment hl bus hIli associates being Al AI Albert Albert bert hert 11 Ii 1 Chandler now president of uC the tue th Postal company o m va II and David Homer Bates who iIii was 1111 inn li linger nger uger of oC the time war department telegraph and anI cipher operator and amI who now IR is publishing a IL series of lIC l loC of oC Lincoln In the telegraph Mr U recently told the thi story atory of r tile the th removal of cC If General from command 1 of or the tho A tiny o of t the hit Ih After lam the tho and Sec See Secretary I rotary hod had tc to toInO move mailer InO forward ml l against Le Ie had harl tWill sent ji m lIlloU pro pre prote tet te I tim tom for lie II Finn by i i to t 0 Mr III tie 10 following Collo IllS big collie came nt Lincoln We l c a 1 still delayed horses S 1 ens re Ill sort 1 U n M CT 1311 AN ANThe The hi i f a vi room 11 m oh i c r lv ca use 1 Of or 4 i til th 1 i r lit mu nf f i the Ih t i of till tile hor hI II c in m mx 1111 I m a I staid IMn ii fl him fur fer the ibm tI tote grum gre Ill l V i i clel It ln n s hall was ivas oil off I he S n 11 Will war per perhaps et haps S 1111 I 5 I II MI t 11 othel men mimi n living ii V log 01 ox dead xi Urn 10 h n w tic th t I illations 1 r fl Lincoln ind Stanton for rol both the LI president ro and hH hl grim grimI I tt nf l vuu I i 11 II I i the Ih t he t riom Ii LO io l I ii III at t my tay oil all lug and anil ix 1 11 i iv n ages ol oh ht Ii t Ini in n fl lu hf of tin vm I Mr I r iii 1 i n It I alHO IHO 1 I io hue has n i ni f r ivar t oro highly net 01 11 f fw fr Ill ht l In th 5 tele ide j gee 1111 Form fonI Eel 1 He tie n a 1 il 11 1 n IL key wy today as al i es IS h II nn rum s give ve away avas a u I In Iii the tho early days s of oC t mes meR mesag meRi i ag s wi ie ic Ivd 11 by h th 1110 tape method tile tho riots lotH and amid being printed on mu a thin ribbon f i 1 unwinding from u IL coll coli hs h l Bound had become nn an net ait before the war wal how over OlI nod mind the best scorned tile tape tulle A tape tallo In the tIle field was called u xi plug LOVE |