Show took pessimistic view of wire communication A number of prominent men of professor morses period were dubious about the practicability of the telegraph and believed it to have vera ver restricted limits in view of the development of this form of com communication munt and its present high effle efficiency lency it Is interesting to note some of these ea early aly comments J fennimore cooper author of the famous leather stocking enles wrote to morse on january 31 18 1838 1813 13 its as follows my dear friend I 1 wish you all success with the telegraph which might be made very useful tor for long distances your difficulty will be in communicating between more than two stations for halt half a dozen sparks traveling on the baro wire will play piny the devil with the registers the western union today sends tie many os as eight messages over one wire nt at the same time by ingerd ous autom automatic t c devices |