Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1883 — Page 7

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TELEGRAPHIC HISTORY.

An Interesting History of the Telegraph—Itg Invention and Variations.

The Different Companies Which Have ..at Varioas Times Opposed the W

.Local History of the Telegraph.

The electric telegraph is the invention of Samuel Finley Breese Morse, an American artist. On a voyage from France to New York in 1832, while listening to a discussion on the subject of electrical phenomena by some gentlemen wbo had witnessed some new experiments with electricity on the con* tinent, he conceived the idea of transmitting signals by this newly developed force in other words, he conceived the idea of the electric telegraph as we now t-haye it. He immediately set himself ahout to devise means of utilizing this power, and before his arrival in New

York be Invented a telegraph instrument, or a pair of them—one for sending aiitf o&6 for receiving the message— wl^iSb', in principle, were the same as tod ones now in use, and had devised t|ie alphabet, composed of dots and ddShBs, which is still used. Arriving at home he continued his experiments and perfected his instruments. He made

HIS FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION ia the University of New York in 1837. fa October of the same year the inventof filed a caveat in the Patent Office at Washington to secure his invention, and he obtained a patent three years later, covering not only the original invention hut also tbo improvement* made in the tneantimer' Being a man of little means Horse now aateett Congress for an appropriation to* uulld an experimental telegraph line,' AO that hte Invention could be thoroughly tested. Although the members of that body #ho witnessed the investor's exhibitions of his instruments were loud in praise ef tnat something which was so mysterious to them, yet no appropriation was granted. Three years were now spent in peculating among the governments of the different ^countries oi Europe, vainly endeavoring to induce some one of tliem to put the invention to a test in along line. Returning to America be tried Congress once more, and was at last 0. GK ANTED 130,000 with which to construct a line between

Washington and Baltimore. This was completed ana THB FIRST MESSAGES were transmitted successfully on May 27, 1844. Other inventors had bees experimenting at and before this time on -different contrivances similar to that ol

Morse. A printing telegraph'was invented by Alfred Vail, of New Jersey, in 1837. Sir Charles Wbeatstone went to worK on the idea of Vail, and made the first automatic printing instrument, in 1828 an idea similar to that of Morse was demonstrated by Harrison G. Dvar, of New Yore,- in* an instrument that transmitted trictional electricity through a wire, the charges being recorded by being passed through a sheet ot moving litmur paper.

Another invention, known as the English telegraph, was designed by Wui. F. -Cooke, who commenced experimenting on hi* idea in 1836. He became associated with Wbeatstone, and the two united their labors to perfect the instrument. The first patent foic an electric telegraph was issued to them in 1838.

They employed five magnetic needles and coils and as many wires, with a key-board upon whioh were arranged the letters. These were designated in turn as any two of the needles arranged across the center of the board pointed tooneand another of them. The apparatus underwent various modifications in the hands of its inventors, and was much simplified by the use of only two needier, and finally of only one, the different letters being designated by the Reflection of the needle to the ri.stbt or to the left one or more times in either or both directions. Among the many telegraphic contrivances that soon succeeded those already named, tnat ot Alexander Bain is particularly worthy of notice. This invention is what was known as the eloctro-chemical and

REGISTERING TELEGRAPH,

-the principle of which had been first applied to the purpose by Dyar. in th^| country many years before.. Mr. Bain'# telegraph was patented in Englaud a few years later than that of Morse, and it was brought to the United States in 1849. For "a time it was used on some important lines, but the superiority of the Morse system finally drove it out of use. The Bain telegraph is essentially the same :s that which is now being revived under the name of /'AUTOMATIC." "The revival of the system is due to recent discoveries in the arrangement of -circuits, by "which the rapidity of rbeordad electrical impulses through very long wires has been made quite definite.

Mr. Bain's plan waB to take a fillet of paper and upon it to record the message fa punched dot# and dashes resembling a message in the Morse alphabet. This -was passed over a metallic roller with great speed, and a line wire which rested •on the paper entered each bole as it moved and completed the circuit through the roller. The receiving machine was 'made to run at a speed corresponding with that of the transmitting machine, and the perforated dots and dashes were reproduced in black dots and dashes.

The advantage of this system lies in the transmission of long messages, which ate receiyed and recorded by several operators on the paper. The paper is •then passed through the transmitting ^machine. Until recently this speed •could be obtained only on short circuits, the marks on long circuits running into each other .and becomiug illegible. Some •of our eastern lines are now introducing 'this system. The new American instruments have sent more than 5,COO LETTERS A MINUTE between Washington and New York. In doing this ten operators are required to feed one instrument, ten copyists to transcribe and one operator to manipulate each of the two instruments—one transmitting and the other two receiving.

Royal E House, of Vermont, invented along line printing apparatus, which was patented in 1848. It was an admir.able contrivance for printing the message in Roman capitals. The apparatus was very complicated, and little more -can be attempted than to state its great

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power ot execution and its perfect accuracy. The mechanical mevements of the machine are set in action by hand labor applied to a crank which works an air-pump for supplying a current of condensed air, which, under control of the electric current works, carries forward the movements of the composing and printing apparatus, so that each letter may be printed at the exact instant that it is struck upon the key-board of the instrument. Mr. Hughes, in 1856, patented a telegraph in which the feat of printing a letter with every impulse or wave of the electric current was accomplished. In the other telegraphs, as already described, several impulses, produced by successive makes or breaks in the circuit, are required to form a single letter. Shortly after the Hughes telegraph was patented G. M. Phelp9 perfected an instrument combining the most valuable portions of both the House and Hughes patents. This has been introduced with great success, and is known as. the •MR- "COMBINATION" OB "TICKER." It is used very extensively in reporting market values, and it may b« seen in active operation during many hours of the day in many of our hotels, brokers' offices, bucket shops and upon ths Merchants' Exchange. It prints the messages in plain letters and figures, bat the abbreviations in the spelling of werds are largely used. The Dial telegraph is worked much on the principle of the "combination," but instead of printing, it carries a light needle around whioh points at the successive letters. They are thus visual and riot recording telegraphs. The fact that two currents may be sent simultaneously—one from each end—has been long recognized oy electricians, but

THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DUPLEX'' ', was revived and patented by Stearns, an American, in 1872. At first the duplex working was only tHed on short circuits of forty to sixty miles, but it has now become a matter of daily use on every busy circuit, long or short, both in this country and in Europe. The principle of the duplex system is that the current sent on the depression ot' the key is divided into two parts, one-half being carried throuarh one pair of coils in a differential galvanometer to the line, and the other half through the other pair of coils to a resistance coil, and thus to the earth. The resistance of the latter is made exactly equal to that of the line wire, and the instrument of the sender being so placed that this divided current passes equally in each direction, this instrument remains unaffected, while operating cn the armalure of the first instrument. The two"d*mjents on the line wire assist or oppose each other in such away as to affect the equilibrium In the differential galvanometer, but each opefatee only on the distant instrument. Duplex workiBg led to difiex, that is,

TWO MESSAGES PASSING OVER A WIRE in the same direction at once, and to this has followed quudruplex. and multiplex telegraphy. Quadruples working was first perfected in 1876, by Prescott, Edson add Garritt Smith, but the possibility ef its being accomplished was suggested by Stark, of Vienna in 1855. Jsi

THE FIRST TELEGRAPH LINK *X built in the United Statvs as a company enterprise was between Philadelphia and Fort Lee. The estimated cost was $15,000. This was a very modest sum to ask of the enterprising capitalists of great cities like New York and Philadelphia. But the men of capital looked over their immaculate collars at the ticking machinery and into the faces of the hungry exhibition and up at the wire among the chimney tops and then down at the meagre furniture, and »aid "No." Each feared to be the first fool. But what capitalists would not do, humbler men, and the friends ot the inventor did. One of the first men in New York to invest his money in the new device was the keeper of an eating-house. Mr Corcoran, of Washington,~'vas ttoe first to contribute $1,000. The necessary money was at length rained, but chiefly outside the great citlep, and "The Magnetic Telearraph Company" completed the cone ruction ol its line in 184G. The capiial stock was $60,000, hall' ot which was given to the inventor in consideration of his patent. The next company organized was known as the New Orleans Telegraph Company, which extended its lints

FROM NEW YORK TO NEW OKLTANS, by way of Wilmington, Cbarle&ton! Montgomery and Mobile. It was organized in 1848, but it was more than two years betore its lines were completed. The contractor's charge for tbe construction was $150 per mile for a single wire and $200 tor two wires wherever thev were needed. Numerous other telegraph companies were started about this time, many of them using the different pvstems oi telegraphy described. The Morse interests found it necessary tn defend their riirbts against these different devices, which they looked upon as infringement*. The result was aeries of expensive suits, in which Morse and his followers were generally successful, the result in most of such oases being a consolidation with the Morse companies. The Faxon lines, stretchnorthwest from New York city, ached Buffalo in 1846. The National lines from New York ran westward by way of Pittsburg, reached Cincinnati and Chicago in the same year. St. Louis was reached by the same lines one year later, 18-17.

The Western Union Telegraph Company was organized at Baltimore, November 10, 1848. The route of its line wfs from Baltimore to Wheeling, by way 6fHarper's Ferrv and Brownsville. The dtftance was 277 miles. Many of the stockholders in this company were interested in many other companies, and the result, in course of a. few years, was the gradual absorption of nany small liues into this corporation. In 1860 it had embodied within itself the Faxon, the O'Rtley, the House, the Bain, the National, the Ohio, Telegraph Companv, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Louisville and the National lines. The United States Telegraph «ompany was started iu 1860 and absorbed by the Western Union in 1866. Tbe Atlantic and Pacific v«as organized in 1865 with a capital of $5,000,000. In 1877 it became incorporated with the Western Union. The Mutual Union, established in 1880, met with the fate of all its predecessors six months later. The Baltimore and Ohio, organized in 1880, is the only company werthy of nete which now stands up to dispute the ground with the overwhelming Western Union.

THE MORSE ALPHABET.

The telegraph is worked by the operators by sound. The operator who is sending the message manipulates the key and the current ia transmitted to the receiving operator, who reads from the "sounder." The alphabet now in use invented by Morse, consists of dots, dashes and spaces. The "dot" represents a short tick, the "dash" a long one, and may vary according to the length of the dash. The "space" represents the pause between the dots or dashes. Thus, for instance, A is represented by a dot and a dash. The "dot" is the sharp, quick Qlioking sound 'the "dash" is a long circk, which is made by holding the key down. All the dashes in the alphabet are the same length except that representing "L." hich is twice the length, and that representing the cipher '(0),

which is three times as long as the others. The length is indicated on tb§ instrument by the duration of the time which the "key" is held or presse^down on the instrument. The alphab^jf is as follows: A N--" Z---E*

LOCAL HISTORV.-

Recollections of the Various Companies Which the Western Union has Run Outof Terre Haute.

The history of local telegraph times, goes back to 1851, when a corporation owned a line which connected this place with Indianapolis, the line being placed along tbe National Road. This enterprise was sold out to the St. L. A. & T. u. R. R., when that iiue was built, and afterwards sold to the Western Union, which corporation now bolds it. One of tbe oldest telegraph lines in the state, is the one running from Terre Haute to Evansville, a part of which was built by a wealthy citizen of Evansville, even before the National Road lint' was built.

The Western Union bought out the St. L. A. & T. d. R. R., company's line in 1861, and placed it in charge of Mr. E. L. Norcross. woo has continued in th&t capacity ever since. When the office waj first established, Mr. Norcross was theTonly operator in the office, and had four instruments in charge. At the present time, the office contains 17 instruments, four operators—besides the manager—five messenger beys, one clerk, and & line repairer.

The wages of operators now is just $5,00 lower than at the time the office was established the first time, the wages were cut $3,50, and the second aBd last time— in March, 1878—51,50. a total of $5,00.

Tlfere have been but two opposition telegraph offices here botifcif which have' been absorbed by the Western Union. The United States telegraph comoany had an office here in 1865, but it didn't last quite a year. Harry Douglass was manager.

In 18tl, tbe Pacific ami Atlantic Telegraph company reached here with their lines, and stayed about two years. Ttteir office was over Hunter's shirt factory ou Main street, with Chas. Reihle as manager. Our ex-townsman Cap. Ed. Friend, was an employee of this company.

The Western Union has moved its office several times within the twenty years of its existence here. The first iiflice was over the First National Bank, on the corner of B'ourth and Main. The li ret removal was to the second story of V. E. McLean's building, between Fourth and Filth, on Main. From there, the office was moved to its recent location, over the Buckeye C*sh Store, on the corner of Sixth and Main. Last fall the office was moved to its preser.t location, No. 60!). Main street.

The present, strike is the second which the office here has experienced. In 1S70. the operators made a similar effort to the present one, which however, was not successful. In this respect this present strike will probably be dissimilar to it.

A Minnesota Mob.

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RUNNING TRAINS BY TELEGRAPH. The Erie Railroad was the first to run trains by telegraph. It was introduced in 1851 by the president, Chas. Minot, "gainst the greatest opposition. The registering instiuments were used entirely, and the operators were paid $1 a day.

OPERATORS PAY.

At that timo operators in tbe commercial offices were receviBg from^!30 to $55 a month. Salaries continued to increase till 1870, when from$40 to$125wa« paid. A reduction of ten per cent took place at this time, and within the year a strike—the first on record—was organized to regain what was lost. This effort on the part of the operators to hold their salaries up proved a failure, and at the end of four days they returned to their places. Another general reduction in salaries, of fifteen per cent, was ordered the Western Union in 1875 shortly after that company bad absorbed the Pacific and Atlantic. Tbe "sliding scale" has been in vogue ever since, by wliich salaries are constantly being lowered without an actual cut. it is aone in this way Ar operator who has been in tbe business lor eome tine and is regarded as gcod and receives a fair salary is transferrd to a more important position without any increase in salary. A new man oj£a man trom an interior position takes hft place at a salary from 15 to 25 per cent less and remains there. If an operator finds it necessary to leave his position to enter another office he is always cut $5 on the month..

July

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City special says a party of masked men proceeded to the county jail, overpowered the jailer, seized a man named Rignev, whom fiev took about mile outof'town ami haiisred to a projecting end of a railroad tie over a culvert. Iiigney had linen jailed the day before tor disorderly conduct, and bore the reputation of a'hard citizen, being accused of robbery and other crimes. He was a bartender in the saloon of the Cosmopolitan theatre, and two hours after he was hansred the theatre burst into flames and was completely destroyed, with six other buildings, »mona which was a lurge drus? store. The progress of the tire was arrested by tbe buck building of the First National bank, otherwise the entire block would have been destroyed. Total loss. $50,000. It is generally tnought the tire was the work of incendiary, in retaliation for tbe banging of Rigney.

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TIME TABLE.

rite Logansport Division.—'Trains leave for tbe nortn at 6:40 am and 4.00 m. 'rite E. T. H.—Trains leave for the South at 4:05 am 3:00p ni and 10 40a m. 'A'Jhe Illinois Alidlartd.— Train leaves for the Northwest at 6 47 a m.

Cbica.ffe&: Eastern Illinois.—Trains leave for the North at 815 am 2 25 and 12 05 a BQ.

Terre Haute & Worthingrton— Trains leave for the Southeast at 6 40 a and 3 00 pm.

The Vaudalfa.—Trains leave for tbe East at 1 40 a m: 110 pin '115 and 7 00 a «. For the West at 132 am 10 20 am and 2 55 pm.

Tbe I. & St. L—Trains for the East at 2 37 a iu 417 and 7 25 a m. For the West at 10 38 am 12 35 m: and 1 55 a m.

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An appraisal has been made of the property of the poet LoDgfellow, which shows that he was possessed of $200,000 in personal property and $150,904i^trea^ estate. »fNt'

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VIGO Woolen Mills are still in the re tail trade, with a number one stock goods of their oWn make and a numbei of pieces that have been cut which we will sell at rednced prices. We are always ready to exchange goods for wool at net cash prices. U. B. JEFFERS. Cor. Tenth and Main streets, Terre Haute

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What Bested and Refreshed a Weary Man in Memphis.

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