Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1894, Page 15

AS TO SALARY Interesting Facts Regarding the Pay of Congressmen. HOW OTHER COUNTRIES REGULATE IT Rulers Whose Incomes Are Princely in Amount. IN THE EARLY DAYS Written for The Evening Star. HE HOUSE OF Representatives in its eagerness to find a way of keeping a quorum in sight,with- out adopting the quo- rum-counting rule of the Reed Congress, sideration several propositions in differ- ent forms to fine members who absent themselves or refuse to vote on roll call. At short intervals reformers who are new to House ways introduce propositions to withhold the salaries of members who do Rot attend the meetings of the House. But ‘he older members contend that if a fine were imposed on recalcitrant members it could not be collected. To get at the mem- per’s salary it would be necessary to go zack to one of the first laws of Congress. The first members of Congress did not have annual salaries. They were paid like the members of certain state legislatures—ac- cording to the number of days they were called to serve. Their per diem was $8, and if they had worked every day in the year except Sundays on legislative business they would have drawn much less than the pres- ent members of the lower house draw for working an average of six months in a year. Members of Congress are now paid at the rate of $13.50 a day, or (allowing six months of actual work in a year, which is a good average) $27 a day for the time they give to legislative business. In addi- tion to the number of days spent at Wash- imgton, each early Congressman had an allowance of one day’s pay for each twenty miles traveled going to Washington or re- turning to his home. In the beginning of the century it took something like six weeks for a man to travel from Providence, R. L, to the capital. Nowadays he can make the trip in less than a day. Mileage Bow is figured at 10 cents a mile by the shortest route. The Senator who travels ia his special car without expense from the Pacific coast to Washingtontreceives 36v0 for the expenses of his trip, just as does the Senator who buys a railroad ticket. In either case there ts a considerable profit. Mileage is one of the indirect contributions of the government to the Congressman’s income. There are others—for example, the stationery allowance of $125 a year, which may be drawn in cash if the Congressman wishes, and the allowance for “binding,” under which the member frequently has private work done for him or his family. But with all of these allowances the Sena- tor or member of the House is seldom able to live within his congressional income. Pay cf Representatives High. We pay the members of our lower house more than similar statesmen are paid in any other country in the world. But we pay our Senators less than the senators of the Canadian parliament receive; and our cabinet officers draw beggarly salaries in comparison with the advisers of foreign rulers. As to our President, usually saves about 50 per cent of his sal- ary, he could not support the extravagances of the rulers of other great nations on ten “france, Atstria, Holland and Portugal follow the American plan of paying their legislaicrs annual salaries. In France these salaries are ivalent to about $1,780 a year: in Austria, about the same; in Hol- land, members of the — house receive r; in Portugal, Sa tive $355 = oe r. In Belgium a singular system prevails. Members of the chamber of representatives who live in Brusse!s recetve no pay: those who live elsevhere receive $Si a month, Virtually, therefore, there is no salary attached to the position of representative. The $54 a month 1s paid to out-of-town members In lieu of subsistence,as an army officer would “Great Britain and Italy pay their lesis- lators nothing; but the Italian legislators are entitled to free transportation and they receive other concessions in the matter of taxation and patronage. In Switzerland and Denmark the per @iem pay of the early United states Con- gress prevails. In Switzerland, members of the national council receive $2.50 a day, and members of the state council, $1.50 to $2.50 a day. Perhaps the most thoroughly overpaid gational legislature (if it can be called so) is the legislature of Canada. It has 56 more legislators than England. There are 215 members of the chamber of deputies who Graw $1,000 each for each session of the parliament; and there are 8) members cf the senate who receive $10,000 per year each. The speakers of the two houses re- ceive $8,000 per year each. That 1s just the amount paid to the President of the Senate of the United States and the Speaker cf our House of Representatives. Canadian t tive Salaries. The amazing discrepancies in che salaries of Canadian legislative officials are to be found in other governments. The United States pays its Senators and Representa- tives alike, $,000 a year ¢ach; anl to the presiding officers of the two Houses it pays $8,000 a year each. Canada pays 31,400 to one class of legislators; $10,000 to another, and $8.0 each to the presiding officers. England pays nothing to the members of the house of lords or the house of commons, but the speaker of the commons has a sal- ary equivalent to $25,000, and a house; while the lord chancellor draws a salary of $),000—equal to that of President Cleve- land—of which $20,000 is his salary as speaker of the house of lords, and $50,000 is his salary as a judge; and the retiring sicn of the lord chancellor ts $25,0u0 a ea 7 Other English salaries are equally amaz- ing compared with those which are paid to similar officials under this government. There is the chief justice of the supreme court, for example. In England he has $40,- 0 a year. Chief Justice Fuller of our Su- preme Court has a salary of $10,590 a year. The judges of the higher court of justice in England receive $25,000 each; the asso- ciate justices of our Supreme Court receive $10,000 each. The attorney general of Eng- land has $35,000 a year, and his fees seme- times amount to $25,000 a year more. The first lord of the treasury receives §25,00) a year; the first lord of the admiralty, $22,200 year. Attorney General Oiney, Secretary Carlisi2 and Secretary Herbert have to get along with $5,000 a year each, and a horse wad carriage. Pay of Rulers. Our President does not draw the smallest salary paid to the head of a nation, but he comes within a very few of doing so. The president of Switzerland receives $8,000 a year and the president of the Argentine Republic only $30,000. President Cleveland draws $50,000 a year; and, as I have sald, | Probably saves half of that sum. It is said to have been a point of honor with some of the president of the French republic that | hey would not save any part of their tal- ries, because they believed that the money Was intended to be used in supporting the dignity of the office. No President of the United States has had any such idea, and most of them who have served a full term have taken nice little nest-eggs away with them. The salary of the president of the French republic Is $240,000 a year. Napo- — pas areceives 35,000,000 a year; but he ad to bear many of the ex Sof i government, such ai aiakanca ce palaces, subsidizing t ent head of the French republic has none of these expenses, and he can leave office a rich man if he serves a term of fair length Our President has @ house given him, and all of the “official” expenses of that house are paid for him, but the distinctly house- bold expenses come out of his own pocket. The Queen of England receives $10.000 ers, &c. The pre. for the privy purse, besides a civil allow-| enee nearly six times as great. The Prince of Wales has an income of $500,000 a year, has had under con-; although he; both peers and} THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. 15 the $50,000, and each of the chil- Great of the Prince of Wales $180,000 a year. The Emperor Francis Joseph receives 000 a year from Austria, and $1,400,- a year from Hungary. Le is oblized to maintain out of this a number of libraries, museums, parks, &c., and to pay the sub- sidies of several theaters. Humbert of Italy has an allowance of $3, 000 a year, out of which he, too. has to keep up palaces in different ot the nation—in cities formerly cap!' of in- dependent states. The Emperor of Japan has an annual al- lowance of more than two and a quarter millions of dollars. The Prince of Monten- but Russia al- The Shah of Persia. The Shah of Persia has the income from a private fortune of $27,000,000, accumulated by his family tn office. ‘The King of Sweden and Norway recetves nearly $600,000 a year from his people. The King of Greece has an allowance from his country ef $200,000 a year, and a further allowance of $20,000 from Great Britain, France and Russia. The King of Belgium has an allowance of about $650,000 a year. | The King of Servia recetves $240,000 a year. The infant King of Spain and his family have an aliowance of $2,000,000 a year. The Emperor William gets $1,225,000 frem Prussia alone, and his grandfather {s said to have saved $12,000,000 out of his al- lowance from the state. The Czar of Ru: is credited with re- ceiving more than $12,000,000 from his gov- ; ernment. | In the light of these facts concerning the | pay of forel; rulers and foreign law-mak- ; ers. it would appear that the statesmen of America are rather under-paid. It is a fact that, with the exception of the President, the man who saves money in public life is @ great excepti Perhaps that is one reason why the average Congressman does not take kindly to the proposition to “dock” him for staying away from the sessions of the House. It is a fact that if certain busi- ness men, whose services are of great value |to the House, did not run home occasion- jally to look after their affairs, they could not afford to remain in Congress. A great Many men can say that Congress bas ruined them financially. ——__ LITTLE DIVING HOYS. | | A Pretty Scene in the Harbor of St. Thom From St. Nicholas. We were nearing St. Thomas; al! the pas- sengers were on deck looking with interest at the pretty little city, with the hills at its back, and a fringe of palm trees at its feet. | When within a short distance of the shore j the captain signaled, down plunged the an- chor, and before the water had ceased from troubling we were surrounded by a fleet. First came the fine longboat of the health officer, with its gaudily striped awning, flag flying at the stern, and half a dozen dusky oarsmen, who rowed with great style and precision. Then there were the passenger boats, the stern seats neatly cushioned, to which fact the owner called your attention while inviting your patronage. One of these men rejoiced in the possession of a tall hat. which raised him far above his fellows, while he was further distinguished by the name “Champagne Charlie.” But, hark! hark! the dogs do bark—the rag-tag and bobtail are putting out to sea! Boys, boys, boys and boys—all ready and eager for a dive! Some one started the exhibition by throw- ing a dime overboard. Instantly there were a dozen pair of heels in the air—one splash and a train of shining bybbles rising to the surface showed us that the little divers were on their way down in search of fortune. The water was so clear we could see the ccin slowly sinking, and see the little brown body dart after and seize it. On coming to the surface the one who made the capture would display the coin in his hand and then shrewdly pop it into his mouth. The checks of the lucky boys were round and hard as apples. It was so pretty to see the ease and grace with which they moved through the water; and they en- treated for more so pleasantly (with eyes glistening and teeth shining), that the rain of silver and copper continued to fall over the rail until the ship's stock of small change was depleted. <o——_—__—— Wedding Etiquette. From the Philadelphia Times, A wedding breakfast is the correct form of entertaining nowadays. This is in every way as formal as a dinner, though the la- dies do not remove their bonnets. Bouillon, salads, birds, oysters and other hot and jcold dishes are served, together with cham- !pagne and other wines. When the health }of the bride and groom is proposed the jgroom responds, and in turn proposes that of the bridesmaids, the best tan returning thanks for them. Breakfasts en buffet are {quite as much in vogue as the sit-down |funetions, and many more guests may in |this way be served comfortably and far ; more quickly. | Wedding presents are sent any time | within two months of the wedding, and are jarranged artistically for ibition if the |bride’s family desire them to be shown. |The bride should write a personal note of thanks to each donor. After giving about an hour and an half }to her guests the brile returns to change {her dress. Upon coming down stairs in traveling attire she is met by the groom, and after a farewell to the family they |drive off in a shower cf rice, old slippers and good wishes. During reception the | guests offer their k.n1 w: |ing the bride mue! ulating the groom. is |packed neatly in pretty boxes, each guest | taking one as they leave th Wed- |ding favors—another English are of white ribbon and artificial flow used to decorate the horses’ ears | Servants’ coats. No reply to a wedding invitation ts re- \quired, but all invited cues! ust call jupon the young couple upon their return from the weddlinz journey. soe My Dead. To the Editor of The Evening Star: Maj. Bell, who, during a fit of aberration of mind, brought on as a sequel of la grippe, committed suicide at his rooms, 701 6th street northwest, was not only a brave and Patriotic soldier, but a poet as well. As a specimen of his talent in this department of literature, I append one of his poems, not long since composed, which stamps him as @ poet of no ordinary ability. ae 3 Kit Carson Post, No. 2, G. A. R. Over the mantel a group I see, The faces of dear ones gone before. A father and mother now waiting for me On the other side of the Unknown Sea, Which We all must cross to return nd more. A brother who fell "mid the deadly strife Of a battle field, as he led his men Where the air was with burtling missiles rife And band to hand was the struggle for life, As our broken lines were restored again. My little boy with bis childish face ooks down on me with his dark blue eyes With his curling bair and boyish grace He seeis so near, as his form I trace Ttut, though often I question, he never replies. I esk, does he find in that “Summer Land’? The forms of the so dear to me. Joes he sometimes come, band luked in hand i With bis little companions to walk the strand ‘To watch for my coming across the sea? Does he learn? Does he grow? Will he meet me there, ‘The same little boy that I used to know; With his eager eyes and his golden hair, With his clinging arms, and his face so fair Who “loved me so well” in the “long ago.” In vain I ask! Like a prisened bird My spirit would fain be loosed end To that far off land, where no more is heard From rest spirit’ the questioning word, re all Is “made plain” in “The By’ and By.’* piicucioase looo' Uoeilte Too Severe a Test. From Puck. Brother Bob—‘For heavens sake! Nan, what are you doing with my foot ball suit ster Nan—“It is bargain day down to Lacey's, and I'm going to wear this down.” Brother Bob (excitedly)—“No, you're not! No, you're not! You go and take it off. sa brand-new suit, and I'm not going | to have it torn all to pieces. I want to use it myself next fall” ELECTRIC PRINTERS | |How Messages Are Sent and Re- ceived by the Wheatstone System. MORSE SYSTEM OUTDONE The Latest Practical Advance Made in Printing Telegraphy. TESTING BOTH SYSTEMS Written for The Evening Star. ERHAPS ONE OF ‘he most fascinating machines around a arge telegraph office s that of the Wheat- stone electric tele- graph printing appa- satus. It has been frequently referred to Jn the daily press, but no elaborate detail of its working has been made. Through this system messages may be sent between the large cities at the rate of about 2) words a minute and a speed of 800 words a min- ute has been known to have been made in test cases. That it has not come into more general use is on account of its elaborate machinery and a demonstration of real/ speed when the occasion demands. It will be remembered that the apparatus that Prof. Morse set up at the very in- ception of telegraphy was a printing ma- chine resembling somewhat in miniature the lately patented threshing machines. A paper tape that had been prepared was run through the machina and the char- acters were registered thereon by indenta- tion. The telegraph operator that could register a speed of 35 words a minute in those days and then read what he had sent was a wonder. At that time all that was necessary to fit one to act as receiving op- erator was a knowledge of the telegraphic signals and their meaning, which, at most, was a matter of a few hours’ study. Then by transmitting the characters at a very slow rate of speed the veriest student of telegraphy could make a correct translation ef the message sent. This mode of tele- graphing was in vogue a long time before receiving operators began to find out that they could distinguish the telegraph signals by sound alone. The idea of a receiver con- fining his attention wholly to the sound, however, was not entertained for some time, as such a proceeding was consid- ered too risky, though operators were al- lowed to copy messages from the sound and then compare their copies with the signals registered on the slips. When it had been conclusively proved that operators could interpret the signals by sound as well as by sight the instru- ment was abolished and communication was carried on entirely under the new system. Although the Pennsylvania rail- road is considered one of the most pro- gressive in America they had the paper slip register in use on their main line up until about ten years ago. This was no doubt done to keep down the salary list of the operators, as a new man could learn to read by sight inside of four months, and as a consequence the waiting list was al- ways large. Taking Advantage of the Morse Al- phabet. The mode of first registering the Morse alphabet by indentation was no doubt taken advantage of by Sir Charles Wheatstone, who, some thirty years ago, perfected the system of telegraphy bearing his name, of course going further by sending and receiving automatically. This system is in general use in the british empire and upon the continent and no doubt tits to a nicety | the ideas of speed held by the members of the business and social world of the old| country. Some years back a set of Wheat- stone instruments was placed in the big Western Union building up on 1éth street, but Manager Marean quickly comprehend- ed its weakness on account of speed and they were removed about three years ago. This will appear strange to those not ac-| quainted with the business of the Wash- ington office, as, of all things, the Wheat- | stone idea would seem to fill a long felt | want on account of the press matter going t from that office. But Mr. Marean has/| ngs with press correspondents, | yea, these many years, and no one knows| their impetuous ways better than he. Imagine a press correspondent with the} knowleige in his head that his matter was being delayed about ten minutes upstairs to be perforated. Then collect a dozen eal them in the office under the same circum- stances—Sitting Bull's brave warriors in the height of a war dance would not be a marker to it. The press correspondents know the value of time, and also know that a first-class man at both ends of a wire| will handle his matter in such style that it will be in the office for which it is in- tended while another man’s copy is being perforated for the W tstone instrument. Some years back when the system was in use between Baitimore and Washington a trial was made between those two points | on a press message of five hundred words. | The copy was given to the lady perforator and the seading Morse opera at the same time. ‘The item reached Washington over the Wheatstone circuit just ten words ahead of the Morse circuit, but the time where the “bea counted was while the) perforated message was being written on | a typewriter in the latter office. This delay became known to customers and a type- written message at that time was looked upon with much disfavor. This was es- pecially noticeable among stock brokers | and it was known among the telegra; craft that Wheatstone messages were tre- quently written out with a pen so as to deceive. The Wheatstone system has been in use on eastern circuits for about fifteen years, and about six years ago was put in use on the long western circuits. On the latter circuits a speed of about 150 words a min- ute is registered, but this is not considered | an exceptionally high speed for the system. In France, Germany and England, where the intervals between stations are compara- tively smail in comparison with distances | in the United States, the average speed on unabbreviated matter is between 450 and| 500 words a minute, while it is asserted that | in France the 1,000 mark has been reached with abbreviated words. In the transmis- | sion of dispatches by the Wheatstone sys- | tem abbreviation may be practiced with im- punity, as the signals are inscribed on a} roll of paper at the receiving station and the receiving operator, or copyist, may study the characters at his leisure. The characters are registered on the slip and may be referred to frequently, so there is much less danger of abbreviations being! incorrectly interpreted than in the Morse| sound system. A Source of Amusement. It used to be a great source of amuse- ment, up in the Western Union office, watching the lady Wheatstone copyists going around amongst their companions carrying a couple yards of tape messages and beseeching them to heip out on a more than usual difficult problem in the abbrevi- ation code. More work was done on the! Wheatstone machines in this city in the} way of sending out messages than receiy- ing. Washington is about a three-fourth sending office and one-fourth receiving. This overbalance is due principally to the | enormous amount of press matter sent from | this city to all parts of the country. An| operator receiving by sound, especially on | the press circuits, must be a man of quick | judgment, and must bend every energy to| the work in hand and then fill out the ab- breviated words as the sounder rattles them off. It seers almost an impossibility, but there are men on the press circuits’ that will go through a whole week and some. | times two, without having a single break | registered against them. That means that | they have received on an average of 8,000 words a day without a mistake and with a| | full understanding of the context of the | different ftems. It is work of this high order that prevents the Wheatstone system from being more generally adopted. The machines may, perhaps, register a record of 40,000 words a day, but to reach that | high standard from eight to ten perforators | and copyists will be required at each end of the line and they will have to be experts | at their business. The manner of preparing and transmitting a message over the Wheatstone system is about as follows: The Wheatstone ‘puncher” or perforator, as he is known, | Is located at the sending end of the wire. | He places the message that is to be sent | Morse operato | words a minute, while the Morse mage! tape on a roller. Attached to the ox, and with one end of the oiled tape con- nected with it, is a small iron machine, the perforator, on the top of which ar three buttons, one each for “dot,” “dash” and “space.” The puncher, with a pair of small iron or brass mallets tipped with rubber, strikes these buttons alternately, and in so doing perforates the oiled slip in such a way as to reproduce on the tape the characters desired. The tape is oiled 80 that the holes may be clean cut. When @ button has been struck and the slip per- forated, a small spring wheel pressing against the tape pushes it forward to make room for another perforation. On the per- forated tape perpendicular lines represent- ing dots and diagonal lines dashes have been made. Thus the letter A is repre- sented by a dot and a dash, B by a dash and three dots, C by two dots, a space and one dot—the same as in the Morse alphabet. Other alphabets have Been tried and de- clared with great enthusiasm to be far superior to the original telegraphic letters, but time proves all things and Prof. Morse'’s conception hes stood the test and comes to be the stardard alphabet of all practical telegraph printing machines. After the tape has gone through with the operation of having the message punched through it is now ready for transmission. It is placed in a small groove of an instru- ment attached to the line and called a transmitter. The tape is pushed through the groove by small wheels pressing upon it, and kept turning by means of a heavy weight underneath the machine. All this Ume two small needles, of the finest steel, placed in the ffansmitter directly under the grooves, are moving in and out of the per- forated holes of the slip, thus alternately opening and closing the electric circuit of the wire and thereby causing characters, similar to those on the punched slip, to ap- pear on a roll of blue paper tape in the re- cetving instrument at the other end of the wire. The receiver contains a roll of blue tape, which, while it rolls out, is tapped by a small revolving wheel attached to an ink vessel on the receiver, and so the charac- ters are formed in ink on the slip. The ac- tion of this revolving wheel is controlled by the action of the two steel needles at the sending end of the transmitter. An Operator's Story. In conversation with an old-time operator, who has had considerable experience with the Wheatstone system, an Evening Star reporter was told of the practical points of the apparatus. He said: “When the Wheatstone system first came Into use the rank and file of telegraph operators thought their days of usefuiness were numbered. During the first weeks of the trial of the machine we lost all idea of the useless fringe, so to speak, attached to it, and were struck with wonder and dis- may at the speed attained. We would see 4 message of a thousand words on a small Paper roll placed on the machine, and in about three minutes’ time the -expert in charge would notify us that it was in New York or Baltimore, as the case may be. The working force was reduced considera- bly, and we all began to consider the ad- visability of tackling a pick and shovel, when, all of a sudden, complaints began to pour Into the office about delays and mis- takes in messages. Upon tracing the mat- ter up We found that all the complaigts were directly caused by the poor work of the ‘punchers’ and copyists. Then the of- ficlais became wary of the machine, und its usefulness took a backward step. Now the machine is principally used on early press matter and ‘red’ messages. The former 1s & class of matter that is handed in, ray about 5 o'clock in the evening, to be used 5 by the paper for which it is intended the next morning. If that matter gets into the editorial rooms by 10 o'clock there is no kick, and as we have about four or five hours to do the transmitting in, we general- ly land it at its destination on time. A ‘red’ message is one that is handed in dur- ing the day, to be sent during the night, the cost of which is only half-rate. Thous- ands of these messages are collected each day, as it is a cheap way for the business men to transmit letters that are hardly Valuable enough on which to pay full tele- graph tolls, and yet important enough to demand faster transmission than the mails As the ‘punchers’ have all day in which to prepare these messages, and the receivers all night to copy them, it can be easily seen wherein Nes the usefulness of the Wheatstone idea. ly one wire is re- quired to work a set of machines, and, as many wires are idle at night, their chief employment then takes place. ‘The ‘punch- ers,’ copyists and machine men ure all under pay, comparing them with operators, $50 and 360 being about the highest sale paid, while the average is about In New York the la the business, and the way they can punch a tape is a caution; as to copying, we all know what they can do with a typewriter. |The work is clean and the hours reason- able. It become a business by itself, and the operators no longer fear its in. roads upon their ranks. Qne Good Feature. “One good feature in the machine, and about the most commecida from a commercial point of view, is that in case of wires being broken or crippled by storms, or other causes, messages may be punched as usual, and the punched slips allowed to accumulate until such time as the wire is repaired, when transmission is | resumed at the rate of about 250 or 300 words a minute, according to the capacity of the repaired wire. It can be easily seen that at this rate considerable lost time is regained. In the working a repaired wire, he is making good time if he can register a speed of thirty words a minute. “I recall a humorous case wherein the two systems were put to a test about the time the Wheatstone first came into promi- nence. A newspaper correspondent, who had graduated from the telegraph ranks, where- in he had been one of the best, one day rushed into a Western Union office with a special which he particularly wanted to get off promptly. The young lady at the win- dow received his message with a smile, and with additional sweetness added thereto, grasped a rubber stamp, and with a flour- ish of the arm marked in letters of red across the left-hand corner, ‘Wheatstone.’ Now the corre ndent was thoroughly ac- quainted with the system, and in a tone of disgust protested against having hi ter ‘punched.’ At the time there wa: ed behind the counter an expert Whea operator, who took offense at the corres- pondent’s words, and blurted out: ‘You don't know what you are talking about. The Wheatstone system will handle your message in one-half the time it takes a That's all rot,’ replied the correspon- dent. ‘I'm a little stiff now, but I'll bet you $10 I can send that matter to New York and have it on my boss’ table before your ma- chine gets started. “Of course this was exaggerated some, but they finally bet the money, and each adjourned to the operating room, where the night chief was made stakeholder. ch man was give five minutes to make his arrangements, and the Wheatstone expért picked cut the best ‘puncher’ in the office, while the Morse man secured good man for the other end of tho wire to take the stuff from him. The five minutes were quickly up, and in the presence of about two dozen excited onlookers the con- test started. The lady puncher was very nervous, and her apparatus refused to work satisfactorily, but she had a com- panion in trouble, for the old operator was equally timid, and several times made bad breaks. Then both parties struck their gait, and how their hands did work. The lady was able to knock off about perator was doing an average of forty, without ab- breviations. “The little lady finished up the message with a tremendous spurt of speed, while her opponent had about 700 words hand. The Wheatstone expert was jubi- lant, and springing to the machine, prepar- ed to send it buzzing over the wire. But for some reason the wire wouldn’t work. In nervous haste the wire chief placed another wire at his disposal-it was no good. Then another and another wire was tried, but all refused to do their work, and several of the circuits were thrown into confusion in the endeavor to get a clear wire. All this time the Morse man was humping himseit and sending as he never sent before. The little lady that did the ‘punching’ was a picture of dismay, as she saw all her good work go for naught and the words roll off to New York under the quivering hand of the correspondent. “Finally, with a swoop of dots and dash- es, the correspondent rounded up his work, the receiving operator gave ‘O. K.,’ and he arose from his chair with a look of anxiety on his face—he having been too busy to notice the confusion around the switch board. The Wheatstone message was still in the local office, and, of course, he had to smile. Then the wires, all of a sudden, me all right, and the machine message went spinning toward New York, but ar- rived there half an hour behind the Morse message, and the correspondent won his money. Several of the working force up in the oflice carried a queer look on their faces for several weeks thereafter, and I finally cornered one and made him tell me the 2. eeThat entire force was working with the correspondent, and through their endeavors ‘Killed’ the wires until he had sent his stuff. Then the wires came ali right, and after 12 o’clock, when the gang knocked off work, the $10 was spent at a neighboring saloon.” Wheatstone | © of a Morse operator | a rattling | 7 7 | before him on a box about a foot high, in which is contained a roll of white oiled The name of Donoboe's Magazine, founded by Mr. Patrick Donohoe of Boston in 1879, is known and respected throughout the English-speaking world, Within the past year it has achieved almost marvelous success, and stands today peerless in its field, doiug splendid work for greater re- ligtous tolerance and better econorie conditions. Ths success has been won under the direction of its new publisher, Hon. Daniel P. 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