Show I 1 1 I 1 THE I 1 10 I 1 a and other facts I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ABOUT TIIE I 1 t 41 11 I 1 af I 1 tile I 1 business transact e d in tile onlea the wheat stone system I 1 I 1 I 1 A boiar B 0 11 4 ovir two million messages re octivea in cogdall I 1 f kt 0 ori armday of the operators for san fran cisco brought to mind the magnitude tr officio ortho great I 1 I 1 I 1 union and a rol orter of TH z determined to learn a low points concerning it oh we are growing as LAI as the I 1 city said matlager Mat iAger palmer the wheatstone oper store are v 11 lie continued as ito id the way into tile I 1 pera ting aren ftc I 1 room where the interim sible licks of tile many instruments althey bore I 1 their burdens oboy or over I 1 land almost des enea the ear but me have enough left of P and instruments fully to meet the re quire ments of th 11 I 1 tile wheatstone beert busy grind long lilies of tape in this city for many months these tapes are perforate 41 will holes in bacil a mcannor that as I 1 lie holes ps ss over the anstrum ent the receiver at theother tho other end of the vim records the impressions made J Us t as rapidly As they are transmitted at 7 the rate 0 words per minute the receiver in this office recorded I 1 tile characters aich vere I 1 in turn transcribed by lady ore gators ere bu by with writers transcribing at the rate of ir fifty to sevility civo words per I 1 minute V the F st on one of cheso instruments were re as fast as four men ere able to forwark them to san francisco I 1 I 1 TI is tone system will be intro 1 deuced in the day C ity in P few da ys when will be bent direct I 1 from CAti cago ta san franasco Frand I 1 will not detrimental busl mesa suggested the reporter as it shortens work no m bile at first it would seem P it is in as in many other things themore machinery has more men are given employment the increase in business fee m s to I 1 make up for the increase it baci lit les it was thought that ahen liari mating machinery was in I 1 tented that destroy the em nt of anany laborers aut it that this was not the case but I 1 I 1 a mat many more are now in the business in ma only to facilitate opera I 1 eions so that much in ore Is accod 1 b i foont of the ogden office Is situated on the second floor N I 1 the dool building oil tile corner of fourth streets Is 7 0 feet with a business oil ice in front mounting 1640 feet and a chloal I 1 room of feet there are two battery rooms situ I 1 abed in the building rach measuring mea surin 9 feet these are ranged mith shelving from the floor to the emiling at such a height and eidth as to just hold a line of batteria on each shelf 1 there are in these two rooms bout bottles or in other wo adika about of batteries send whining a long distance when con dermed and directed in certain chan 41 vels amse batteries are f ailed or re lem blied ondein I 1 biresh water is added nearly ev cry day to make up for evaporation one man Is regularly employed to attend I 1 to these rooms many operators have you 1 I 1 vad employed in the wheatstone ays eys 1 tem we have regular opera said palmer and four borsi loca operators ito have been en in learning the business the I 1 a 11 tem can be best operated in the 4 I 1 Y y time and between long distances 1 I 1 we am now using one each day for 11 the day dispatches and it reduces I 1 than before tile instruments were placed in this office I 1 what Is tile saying in this system I 1 I 1 I 1 well in the first place it cap be operated epe rated ordinarily about five tim es As fast alethe instruments and in this way t arises one over Is d can c be ina e to do ser r II 11 wa ila and it frequently happens th 1 ires are down the wheatstone system enables us to get outwork through on time even when I 1 wa have only one wire whereas U on api other system we had only one mire we work would at times be 1 I 1 great delayed at short distances 1 I 1 as hegt as words may be sent each way on tho same duplex wire making A transmission of words per minute this was done between two points in the east some days ago between abild ban francisco an average of 1 words per Is over 1 one of these duplex wires each way making a transmission each minute i of words with the inspru ments the highest average that can N be abat between repeating offices id 25 I 1 wards per then there Is the del in the repealing offices which I 1 I 1 y 11 I 1 I 1 IV mer went on to explain th t tin repeating offices vere in cheyenne and 11 yesterday lie continued wearied we tried 1 Z I 1 st louis to see W hat coul dJA don in case of det y arlei ing bout of the I 1 national ilc convention to U I 1 hold in that city the exper inions proved that words per minute could be sent from SL louis west and the will U a groat hel id I 1 cam of a rush in the convention fain of and genaria news as well as commercial business I 1 I 1 it is probably known to the public I 1 that the western associated dis f patches am not now used by its three lormor patrons in sail francisco the qu union and bulletin these IN spero now i V all dis 4 aches chic they am sell E other papers on the I 1 coast these dispatches now go to san in ogden there is in I 1 nc taps the it no so that a copy of them dispatches is I 1 dit in r hindering tile through I 1 I 1 dispatch s that is the words k I 1 droith dro wre and in san fran c 1 41 of the dispatches are then sent to salt lake from this office them are such taps on ti 0 line from chicago to the coast b t the I 1 power of the current is not alshel as there am batteries in each of these places which replenish me current and more thin return the stolen force I 1 all other dispatches that come over the morse instruments are repeated in this city several aide lines 1 center here and aboy fro in the ogden domce somewhat like the star routes of a post office there III the salt lake line the portland the butta and spokane falls an the overland jiffies tile am t edited and directed from the chicago effim sad marked so that no dispatch I 1 aray if instructions m fol 1 nowhere were tan AVIte atstone aper acors and wenty operators in this office Tho number now 1 working Is about thirty beside iL six I 1 clerks and the bhore pro eleven I 1 I 1 11 11 I 1 I 1 rec of q e int il uti ewitt i there are six through wires eacia call able of being duplex edat present eight railroad igei am behia or aerated era ted tile railroads being unab e to do their oan work to an increase in business tito N ires are in use day and night but the great bulk of press business is dono at highl during the past year the omes las grown with rapid strides and the company am at id I 1 ni no w facilities to their great 0 ver I 1 an tem sparing no ex to make it perfect besides I 1 ip sweeping reduction in cominer cial rates have we m ado as heretofore noticed I 1 during april was a light mouth compared with t he present messages mere rece v at the office evenal Ev enat hit rate the yearly receipt in mos would figure up to the enor MUs of tito mantl dy expense of this office Is about or per year paid out to operators line men for stationery and expenses that the amount used is almoas incredible largo quantities are brought in for each month anal piled up in an appropriate far handy use the cupy af pf everything received is kept for six months alterm aich it is do ed M 11 rece lilt 1 tile alice mount to probably per year an is now being put in at reno nevada chih u ill re abe only bite or two men 11 almer the genial and dobli g in g manager of the ogdan office has been in the service of the com ill y for many years in speak of ore he remarked to the reporter that no first class operator need ever be without employment there is always work for first class operators arld men and women of good character the union in this city Is among the hardest offices in the country generally in other places there ar 0 long per cods of ease when there Is no par nicular rush but it is otherwise here where day and night every hour and day in th year the click of the mat overland highway of lightning is with out cessation or rest newspapers especially in the west take a part 0 i a holiday or sunday now and then men sleep and for a short space bc 10 re the dawning tile busy marts of commerce are silent but the click of the telegraph lele graph goes on forever |