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Show LEISHMAN TO SEND A PICTURE BY HIS CODE SYSTEM ' c As an experiment with one of his new picture transmission inventions, Leroy J. Leishman, Ogden inventor, will send a photograph this afternoon to New York City and return. The photograph is that of President Wood-row Wood-row Wilson and It will be sent In code and returned to Ogden in code and reassembled re-assembled probably in Mayor Hey-wood's Hey-wood's office. The method to be used in this sys-tehm sys-tehm makes use of a sheet drawn .with lateral and longitudinal lines, so that these are something over 72,000 small squares on it, with letters and figures at the sides which designate certain squares. The letters and figures are sent over the telegraph line and when received denote different degrees of shading to be used in drawing the picture. pic-ture. "The process is chiefly valuable, in that it will enable 9ne to sen,d a picture," pic-ture," said Mr. Leishman today, "in a few hours that would ordinarily take several days, a picture for instance, of the recent Halifax disaster being sent to San Francisco." The code will be sent over the Postal Telegraph company, the distance dis-tance to and from New York being 4856 miles, nearly one-fifth the circumference cir-cumference of the earth, and the time for the entire process Is expected not to exceed five hours |