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Show TnE MOUXINfl EXAM1XKIT; Frucuci) requires that four aud aors be employed sending uSan TELEGRAPHY Importance of Ojden in Western Union EVERY DIRECTION WIRES RL'N mi L"e,t tN World A,r Now Being c;bl: J Icro.. Croat Cat Cablo and Ul Telegraph Land Sorvieo n, .itu-ti- g.aitbiral un of Og- - iii'ix'rtan oanpautes. on porbapo ao and t 22 in lmp.rtr increase ri,i undoubtedly li6e- TllU 1,1 (hr city grows Union Western .pprta.lr true of the L.pb ii. 1 THE UNION WESTERN' GRAPH COMPANY. TELE- 31 le- wire at the eching messages ou same time, that is two at each end of the line, and a qiiaditiplexed wire would No finer illustration of the imports.ire of Ogden as a renter ran he offered than the groat teirgrapli aye tem of the Western Union Telegraph Company, occupying as it does the unique position as one of the roost important telegraph renters in the United States. Thia may jot lie generally understand hy all hut the tart remains that from an rlrnrirsl standpoint more than ever, the office of the company in this city remains the hub of the great system In these It might he admitted parts although that for economical reasons it became necessary some two or three year ago to relay a portion of the business at Rail Lake; but let it he understood that the principal-reason for the company not employing a.i many oieraurs here as it did lo former years is the fart that the telegraph lias run apace with all njn-r- TTAH. MONDAY MOKX1XG, MAIJCII 27, 1903. OfiDEX, - operator.. employ eight at each end. four At i he present time the Ogden office takea care of automatic reieatcr fur New ,ork, Chicago. Omaha, Denver, gait Lake, butte. Helena, Sun Francisco and Portland, as well as the wires assigned to the Associated Tress system, reaching out to all the important cl lie, between Chicago and , St. Louis In the east and San lortland and Seattle to the west. , Under the management of W. J. the local office employs five elecirical experts to take care of iir automatic repeaters, which, it might be added, require constant aiicuiion. night and day. Resides a number i single line repeaters, the equipment of the office comprises sevp.i qimilru twelve duplexes and one plexe-- , Wheatstone automatic duplex, the Utter being entirely sn automatic aud run at a aimed of one hunwords per mi.i-ui- e dred and twenty-fivin each direction, making the real capaciiy of that wire two hundred and fitly words per minute. The electrical energy required at d this point lias been heretofore hy seven thousand cells of gri-ii- y battery, stored away in two immense but it now has been determined to replace this by fifteen machines to cost ap. proximitely $,01111, I ho equipment lor which is now on the ground and will boon be installed for regular service. A difficult problem cropped up when it became ih desire of tlto company lo follow (lie railroad over the great cut-of- f across the lake and 110 small amount of thought was indulged in by (he oflieiala aa to the be-- t means of following the new route. The question of maintaining satisfactory and service hy mraas of the usual construction of exposed wires was declared to lie unfeasible owing to the proximity of the salt wmer, which, during wind si arm- -, would throw a spray on to the poles and insulators and thus cause them to beeome cosu-with salt, offering a most serious impediment to the working of the wires hy leakage on the salt crustailmi. is the Seeing that tho cut-onf advanced Ideas in railroad engineering and is classed as one nf ihu greatest accomplishments in this direction, it was but datural that the Western Union also should attempt to do omethiug which in telegraph circles is deemed extraordinary It wsa finally derided, therefore, to try the experiment of an aerial cable, composed of nineteen strands of ropper wire over the entire ihirty-sevemiles of ths lake. This is by far the longest cable of its kind known to be used for telegraphy In fhe world and is said to be entirely a new innovation in this direction. To those who are si rangers to the subject it might be said that no comparison can he made between a cable of thia kind and one of the submarine type, as in the latter only one conductor ran he used and in this case it is desired to work eleven' wires through it, leaving some wires 10 spare for future additional requisites. On account of the high voltages necessary fur multiplex telegraphy, a number of obstacles presented themselves in the attempt to utilize the required number of wires, chiefly the rapacigreatly increased elqrtro-staii- c ty of the circuits and the liability to interference by Induction one wire with another which would seriously Impede ihe duplexing and quadrupliexpering of Ihe rircuits, in orderandto attempt, ment for future guidance to overcome these difflclultle. Wm. electrical engineer Flinn, a and cable expert, was sent from New York and after several weeks of continuous experimenting It might lie said that all the difficulties have been overFran-cisco- ler-mody- sy.-to- e imp-pile- motor-dynam- o d ff n The Postal Telegraph Cos New Building hOOOO-JOO- . other 'scientific discoveries and the elimination of manual relay transmission is now almost complete. For the last' 'ten years this branch of the science, has been slowly dei eloping and now, by the aid of Ingenious elecirical devices, San Francisco, for instance, is in constant direct communication with New York. In former ru times surh working was deemed to be impracticable and the business between thete points wa.i relayed manually at Ogden, Omaha and Chicago, but now all this ia charged and the relay is performed automatically. By glancing at the diagram, it will be seen that wherever there is a railof lines road you will find a belonging to the Western Union Telegraph Company and the through wires sa a general rule do not tolich any come. point except the duly appointed repealer stations, although in every inPOSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE stance special local or wsy wires are COMPANY. . built for the accommodation of all The establishment In Ogden of tha telegraph and cable service of the Postal Telegraph Cable company makes Interesting at this lints the history of the growth and a condensed statement of the present extent of what has como to lie one of 1 ho largret and must telegraph and cable si) stem in the world. It was In 1881 that the Western Union Telegraph company, trader the leadership of Jar Gould, formed a complete monopoly nf fhe telegraph business of this continent and aeros The demand for the Atlantic competition between principal points, the growing requirement of large business bouses for private wires, and the disposition to exploit new systems f transmission, together with ths speculative element, resulted In building up a within the three subsequent year more extennive competition than had ever before existed. 1 hn original Posltl" was among the most extensive and Important of the The corporal ions that were firmed. original prosperltis" of the Postal company setting forth expectations of vast profits from small expenditures through the use nf compound steel and copper wires, automatic and multiple systems of IransmlhMon, a very low tate. made uniform regardless of distance, business relations with the post-offidepartment of the government, and other extravagant and Utopian theories leads one to wonder that 0 men a Its original promoter a could have been so sanguine of the nf their -- rheme. It was at this time John W. Maekay. came Into control of the property bearing the Postal" name, and It was through uAngeej about the his efforts that a laying of the new ealdes. across the Atlantic ocean, the reorganisation of Western Union Telegraph Wires To and From company upon a firm finanthe Po-t- sl Ogden, cial foundation, having a land-lin- e Utah. Qgden Is the Great Telegraph Center of the West many times greater than all previWestern Union ous compet itors of the company, and with- rabies not only connecting with Enrope but across the i'MT own Interest. and made that the small towns along the different vast. Pacific ocewn. L was paint for internifiliain lines and It Is by the furtherance of The Po-iTelegraph .!!irouhouL in IMS, been after the this that rule has northwest, and the company organized ' ,w-from Os1 and startfunked t00.k able to establish by far the greatest Commercial workmen, In importance the telegraph system in the entire world, ed hy taking over a number of small none W of iia prestige with maintaining no fewer than 23.253 tele- telegraph line, the majority of which h he seen from the graph offlees throughout the United were bankrupt, and with this unpromI,.. tn'1,4n-hrrpw(h. States with an aggregate of 1.125.642 ising material the company- has built :tl mn'ri . 'The proppP1e gained an entrance mile, of wire. It also operates two up Us magnificent rrtm.year and opened up an duplexed Atlantic cables with regularl- er! is In the United1 ff rarer owned and fc November to all controlled hy the company, represent 1st, only bringing y- established connections a frl . hues into this city, and points of the civilised world. sn investment aggregating over $25,- ,thrr 1 "imP'3r tion kfal telegraph t, In all r wires enter the Og- 000.000. 0ni lhe business is trans-to- r den office and, with the exception of Ihe pole mileage of the system is ,0 511 bkh is also a re- - nine of these, which are operated liy now 49.012 miles of land lines, and the for I0'! that company. the different railroads, they are util- wire mileage, is 21 J15, and the point W tote Of tbs points mu,.h of the rear work ized exclusively for Western Union reached are 20,341. j.ir, rf Prating of s has been business. Msny of theee wires are reached 1.782. in 1903, were connected 'with hr the telegraph com-- !' composed of hard drawn copper and by no other telegraph company, and r , through linre. be-- hhve' been erected at enormous cost. nearly 4000 new offices were added the important cities, and AU but the local or way lines are. as year. The total number of east with the wet by f s rule.elther quadniplexed or duplexed, handled by them In 1503, was 31,600,-Si- i. I . r- .This is not only a matter which mea.ts that in reality a quadrThe growth of the Commercial Cable raving to the companies, but I uple-1 equal to four and a duplex ,K In company ha- - been more rapid than that Improvement in the ror- -. equal to two single wires as 1, a the du- of any other Cable rompany in ,vig a large amount of delay the old way. For Instance,York and wviild, and it wa found ncitb-ar- v m,in necessarily follow when me in plexed wire between New Telegraph company, ns all of their trirrj to the nonhweatern part of the United gtiim paH through the local office and thb to true of a great majority of their linn from lie east to the west, The total Telegraph and Cable company have not as yet made this important a point in their system as the Western Union on account of their wires following an entirely dlN ferent route from the east. As a railroad renter Ogilen, of course, heroines the center of Importance to the railroad telegraph system. These three department of the telegraph system bring info the city in the neighborhood of fo.OiM) per month, In the way of rcniala and salaries. Some time ago Ihn Western Union rompany removed a large force of relay operators from this city to Salt Lake, for reasons that they deemed best well-know- net-wor- k alii-eie- ce aim-ces- er-te- m al iwo-yv-sr- e Cable-compan- v '.1 sta-iri- fifty-fou- mea-age- -i me-eag- es m-l- he lit di-o- - n-- ed 1 WASHINGTON AVENUE, OGDEN OTY- UTAH - OWWWOtOfOHHOddMdWHO hOI OHWOKMOWHOHMOHHOHWOkHOWHOtWOWWOI PI OtOHHWtoOHMOWOKWHCRHOWwi lay a third cable bHween New and London, while in 1900, a fourth wa laid. With Ihe iiiemute of be company continuing it also took over the operation f the American end uf the German Atlantic Cable company linen, making no lex than five cable across ths Atlantic being operated by them. In 19ti1 the Commercial Paelfli: Cable company was organized for the purpose nf laying a cable front Sun Francisco io the Hawaiian InlanUa, Midway, Guam, the Philippine Nandi mud China. Tide rahle, which ix nearly namh-a- l inilva in IpuriIi, ha iraen of about $1 2, lumpleicd at a t aud It is the cable line will be extended to Japan in tbs nesr future. There are about 233,0uu miles of subfit the world. Of thia marine cahli-the Postal Telegraph Commercial ('able st stem controls alout 27,000 miles, or more than nf the total, and also 281.000 miles of telegraph line. In addition to this (he Postal system has direct communication, via the Canadian Pacific, railroad telegraph- -, with the British Pacific Australian tabic. Ills progrea- - of thia Telegraph system ia evidenced hy the continued extension of the land lines, the numerous and Important rallnmd nmnection- - recently made, the valuable connection with (he Germs ethic, the Pacific cable, the Direct Vet Indies table, I lie Bermuda' cable, cfo; Tbs Commi-rrla- l "Cable Telegraph in 1884, since rompany was when, by leiiiaiiiiiifiG-- Imolutelv independent, it ha effected a reduction of 60 per cent in AtlknlBt Cable rates, and thus secured in tlie cabling public a saving of at. lcgt $75,000,000. Ita tem embrace four cables sernaa the Atlantic from the United Hi airs ; to Euroie. of which two lanrj in sad are operated from New' York City; tha other two land at $ point near Bin-to1894 t York 1)00,-(h- one-nin- th a i This company1 c&inecl ion with (tie German Atlantic company provide fa-- rl lilies for the handling of German traffic which cannot be approached by it compel It ora. 'The German company has st present one, and i now engaged in laying a second ralde direct from New York to Germany via the Azores. The Western IJnlou i Ihe only company whose land line facilities In America equal those of the Postal Telegraph Commercial Cable system, Iuil four Atlantic the rommercial pusae-se- a cablss aa compared with the Western Union's two. All of these rahle- - -- re duplexed anl tlielr carrying rxpsrity thus doubled, and Ihe company has also Introduced on its cables a new system of automatic repeaters whereby rate cable may lie electrically coupled to another and thusdi-pense- d with. From 1 lif above it will be seen Hist Is m worthy competitor of the Po-t- al the Western Union, and the placing of an office In this rl'r gives the benefit of their service 10 Ihe cilisens of (hi cltv. When I be offli-- was opened In Ogden Richard Cogan, now connected with the Associated Press in Balt lake, was the He has been succeeded hy manager. la addition to Mr. W. K. O'Brien, O'Brien, tliere are s clerk, and a number of messenger lioy employed at the e local office. THE RAILROAD TELEGRAPH. The general telegraph office of the Harriman line in this city employ-elevmen, under Manager W. C. Camp, in addition to taro messengers, the salaries of which approximately amount lo $1,000 per month. In (lie office there ara fifteen local h quad wire. wire and three connection to had on tbs east lo Omaha, Chicago and New York, on (be west to San Francisco, and on the south to Salt Lake. Through circuits are maintained between Ban Francisco and Chicago, and between Salt lake and Omaha, all of which paaa through this en Tele-grap- office. The railroad telegraph work of the Oregon Short Une. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad is almost entirely handled through this office, and It ia alao a hramh office for the Western Union company. An average of 2.40 railroad messages an handled dally, and the office with a new has lately ben equipped ! switch board, and Improved loop as well a a complete set of new and raincluding modern instrument, pes ten. The relay work innli of passing between Salt lake and the west, and to the different points on the Oregon Short Line. In thl- - office train orders are handled for all. passenger on the trains, in and '"it of Ogdi-n- J' me-sa- ths line, including both freight and passenger. Tim .train dlnpaleher1 office from which train nre handled between Ogden and Groan River, is located at Evanston, Wyn.. white (he movement of trains over the Oregon Short Line, but It north and south of ibis piste, la directed from Salt lake. in addition lo them two offices there is a telegraph office located In the general yaidmssler'a office building near the center of the loc al yards, which employs three men, who receive in salarle close to $350 per month, and where all the freight train orders are handled from the three different dispatchers' office named above. Ihe mriRS work regarding the Immediate handling of trains through the etc., is all handled yard, their make-u- p, through this office for the general both day and night. I located in Another telegraph offi the freight depot, where messages pertaining eolely ta freight shipments, etc., are sent and received, and where two operators are employed who do. in connection with their telegraph work, some clerical work. From the above account it will be seen thst there are very few. If any, rltlea ihe size of Ogden where the imtelegraph IntercM are of greater portance. and with the progress of the place, the telegraph interests must accordingly. yard-maste- r. way-bill- se w. R. SCOTT Division Superintendent With quarters in Ogden. . Head- rommeserd railroad W. It. with the Atchison. Topeka A Santa Fe at Topeka in 18VJ in Ihe Mejbaufoal three different line. deiartmcnt. and was employed in the enAdjoining the telegraph office at the capacity of locomotive fireman and Union depot I tBe train dispurher'S gineer until 1891: promo'ed to traveling office of Ihe Southern PariUr rompany. engineer, with jurisdiction Chicago to where six employed unAlbuquerque: continued in that, posiA. W. tion until Aurjs'. 128. was pro0' der Chief Train Wen receive to trainmaster off theNortherndivlaion This for Wright. salaries, 'approximate!:1, close to $1,0W of the Santa Fe Tex. Hue. The folper month. lowing year was made superintendent The movement of D train between of same di lzi'n. A ear Uier sign'd dln-t- ed from to go with the Fort Worth 4 Ogden aud the wrt are in dispatcher bring on railroad as general auprrlniiD'h-nithl offl'-e- . t service busl-nr- s timc. of resigned i'lfiS, the August. ajl duty traiiaied 'I'n- deprnqH largely um pa to take aeivhe wiih on the numlei of trains moving over Suuib'.'iu radilc. eer-vli- re to - 11 F. E. LEWIS Superintendent oft Pacific Hotel and Dining Car Co. HIS RECORD IS A GOOD ONE From the Pullman Company Ho Wont to tho Hotel ond Dining Car Service and Has Achieved an Envlabla Record. F, E. Lewis, Ihe superintendent uf the dining cars and hotels of the Union Iaelfln, Oregon Short Une and the Ogden to Oakland lines of tha Southern Paelfle, began his railroad career In 1888, and alnce (hat time It has been one of continual promotions and successes in various departments of the railroad business, and during Mr. Jowls' management of tha hotels and dining cars ot tho Ilorriman lines there has been a constant Improvement In the service until a reputation second to none In ihe country has been established for the system. Mr. 1 wis was born at Elmira, New York. Marrh 13 1868. He received his education at the Rochester University, and in 1888 he accepted a position in the office of the car of the Mexican National railroad, of which line his father was the general superintendent. From that position he went to the office of F. M. Gannon, general manager of the eastern terminals of the Baltimore A Ohio railroad In New York City,. In 188(1 he entered the service of the Pullman company and held various positions In the operating department of that company until 1903. when he accepted the position of superintendent of dining cars of the Erie railroad under Pullman Jurisdiction. In 1894 be wan transferred to the posi'Jon of Comsuperintendent of Ihe rullmanPenn)'-vania missary department at the hi Jurrailroad in Jersey City, isdiction covering Ihe dining csr service on tho PennsylvsnU Limited, all the limited coast trains to Florida and all the Pullman bullet service out of Jersey City. In 15)C Mr. Lewis was appointed (.hid inspector uf the Pullman Com missary service, bln Jurisdiction cow ering all of the Cniied Btatea, Canada He remained In that and Mexico. position until 1901, when, wearied of constant travel, be resigned and an cepted the position of Assislaul Hu perintendent uf dining ears and res. tsurants for the Pennsylvania Rail, road company. In 1903 ho left the Pennsylvania to accept the position of Superintendent of the Oregon Short lJne dining cars. In the spring of 1903 the operation of tho Union clfie dining cars was turned ever t Mr. IiOwls' management sad in the fall of the same year he took over the management of all the hotels and boarding ears from 3. E. Mark el, who had previously operated the hotels and boarding cars of the allied Baca. In January of the present year the operation of the dining care and hotels uf the Southern Parlfice Ogden to Oakland lines wee also given over to Mr. Lewis' Jurisdiction, placing the management of the dining car and hotel department of the Harriman lines from Kansas City and Omaha to San Francisco under the one management. r The Best Drug Store la the one that best aerves its customers- - Our constant aim is to give every customer tho boot possible service best in quality of In goods; boot in attention; inboat ovary-thin- g pharmaceutical skill; boot tho makes the moot satisfactory kind of e drug store.Is Our the otsadily increasing patronage beat evidence that wo are succeeding in giving tho boot drug store oervice. Wo cordially invite you to bring buy your your prescriptions to us, toilet articles and sick room necco-sitiouo corns to for all of us, and drug store supplies that you may need. ; o . CULLEY DREG CO. PRESCRIPTION 2 79 Wash. Avs. SPECIALISTS. Ogden, Utah. |