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Denver reported ten inches at eleven o'clock and it's fifteen miles from the range. There was three inches when the train started. Lord knows where that freight is I can't get any word from it." "But " "Gone out again!" The telegrapher hammered disgustedly on the key. "The darned line grounds on me about every five minutes. "Do you hear anything from Crestline about conditions up there?" "Bad.
While extended consideration cannot be given here to the telegraphic inventions of Thomas A. Edison, no discussion of the telegraph should close without at least some mention of his work in this field. Edison started his career as a telegrapher, and his first inventions were improvements in the telegraph.
Really all that is necessary to be a first class copy operator is to be an expert telegrapher. It is simply a work of sending and receiving messages all day. However I wanted to learn, so I kept my ears and eyes opened, and studied the time card, train sheet, and order book very assiduously.
He was absent, but we might see something of the central direction of one hundred and fifty thousand men in the course of one of the most brilliant manuvres of the war, before staffs had settled down to office existence in permanent quarters. That is, we might see the little there was to see: a soldier telegrapher in one bedroom, a soldier typewritist in another, officers at work in others.
Used to, when using a certain road, throw their caps into the air as a taunt at our helplessness. "Cassell had been a telegrapher in civil life and joined up when war was declared. As for me, I knew Morse, learned it at the Signaler's School back in 1910.
Since that time great improvements have been made until now it is difficult to recognize in the delicate mechanisms of the relay, key, sounder, duplex, quad, and multiplex, the principle first promulgated in the old Morse register. Its influence was at once felt in all walks of life; it was an art to be an expert telegrapher.
It was called a depot merely through courtesy, consisting of a layer of cinders, scattered promiscuously so as to partially conceal the underlying mud, and a dismantled box car, in which presided ticket agent and telegrapher. A hundred yards below was the big shack where the railroad officials lodged. Across the tracks blazed invitingly the "First Chance" saloon.
He brought the severed ends together, and was overjoyed to see a snapping little blue spark play about them. "Great!" he shouted aloud, and then set himself to send the message. He was an expert telegrapher and knew the Morse code as well as he knew his own name.
The telegrapher, at the frost-caked window, rubbed a spot with his hand and stared into the dimness of the flying snow, toward his station. "Guess I'll have t' call for volunteers if I get in there to-day. We'll have to tunnel." Ba'tiste and Houston joined him. The box car that served as a station house always an object of the heaviest drifts was buried!
The telegraph receiver was ticking away at a lively rate, and Jackson, who had charge of the office, was taking down a message on a blank. "Hullo!" cried the telegrapher, as he finished and looked up. "Here is a message for Mr. Randolph Rover hot off the wire. It won't take long to deliver it," and he handed it over. "It's paid for," he added. "But you'll have to sign for it," and Mr.
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