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Show NEWEST FEATURE IN TELEGRAPHY Salt Lake Tribune Back in Now York City or down In San Francisco or In any one of hundreds of offices throughout the country, a telegraph operator poundB a sending key, and as he sends each letter a typewriter in Salt Lake City responds to the touch and his message, transmitted In the Morse code, is delivered from the typewriter In readable English. This Is one of tho more recent wonderful won-derful accomplishments In the art of telegraphy, and though such a system sys-tem has been In use in the larger tolegraph centers for some time, the -complicated machinery which it requires re-quires has Just been installed In the operating rooms of tho Western Union Tolegraph company in Salt Lake City The process wus given its first try-out try-out locally on Friday and Saturday, and was found to work satisfactorily In every detail, though local conditions w.ere found to be such as to make its Installation more difficult than Is usually usu-ally the case. The system is known as the Barclay Bar-clay Typewriter-Telegraph system. The machinery Incident to the process is varied and delicate. The technicality technical-ity of the system, the wh)S and wherefores, are complex and bewildering bewilder-ing to the layman, but briefly stated It Is merely the process of "sending a message on a telegraph Instrument and having it received automatically on a typewriter and written In the regular letters of the alphabet at tho recoiving station Barnard Cummlngs of Denver, who hns been installing the 'local Instruments, Instru-ments, explained the workings In detail de-tail to Tho Tribune yesterday after noon iur. uummings says mat xne system Is being placed by the Western West-ern Union company wherever business warrants it, and Salt Lake City having recently been made a division point, It was advisable to have the instruments instru-ments placed in the local offices as soon as possible. Tho machine is capable of sending and receiving eighty-five messages an hour over good wires. Tho messagos come in on a perforated strip In code dots and dashes, and as this stripe is fed through a relay, a series of electromechanical electro-mechanical machines operating In con-Junction con-Junction with nicely attuned magnets airike tho proper keys on a typewrit er and the message is then taken from the typewriter ready to be dollvored to the addressee The typewriter Is a standard keyboard machine, and the carriage action and the line Bpacor work automatically. An operator feeds in the blanks and takes them out when the message has been received re-ceived or is to be sent, and the machine ma-chine does the rest. The system requires the attention of three men, not necessarily skilled laborers, and It does the work of four telegraphers. It Is fast, cloan and accurate, ac-curate, and In fact represents just about the last word in telegraphy. Tt Is possible. Mr. Cumrnlngs'says, tocut In any number of typewriters on the line, and coplca of messagos can be made also from feeders anywhere any-where on the line. Mr. Cummings says that unusual, and to a certain extent unaccountable conditions were experienced in Salt Lake in mnking tho machine work satisfactorily. "There seems to be a certain condition of cllniat'said Mr. Cumminj-'s yesterday, "(vhlch I have not encountered lu placing the system ftlscwhero The static capacity is such that it was difficult to get tho machines working so that they would operate at speed, though we have accomplished that now, and everything every-thing Ik lovely. An Iden of changed conditions locally may be had from the knowledgo that whereas the system sys-tem calls for, and wo usually use. 150-ohm resistance colls, wc have found It necessary to use 3fi0-ohm colls in Salt Iake City, in Denver, though tho nltltude is Jiigh. no difficulty diffi-culty was experienced and we can account ac-count for the trouble hero only as irome climntical freak which Is not Tullv understood." Tho typewriter-telegraph system will be used regularly beginning to-dav, to-dav, the trials Friday and Saturday havinir slven verv satlsfarnrv results |