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Updated: June 14, 2025
Late on the very evening on which this story opens, and they had been "making up" the Denver Express in the train-house on the Missouri, "Jim" Watkins, agent and telegrapher at Barker's, was sitting in his little office, communicating with the station rooms by the ticket window.
Morgan was roused out of his brief sleep at the Elkhorn hotel shortly after sunrise by the night telegrapher at the railroad station, who came with a telegram. "I thought you'd like to have it as soon as possible," the operator said, in apology for his early intrusion, standing by Morgan's bed, Tom Conboy attending just outside the door with ear primed to pick up the smallest word.
"General Grant," the President quaintly added, "is a copious worker and fighter, but a very meagre writer or telegrapher. He kept "pegging away," and was putting brains as well as energy into his work. The records show also that Burnside took the hint, whether intended or not, and in this campaign did not err on the side of copiousness in dispatches to Washington.
It will be seen that the times have changed radically since Edison became a telegrapher, and that in this respect a chapter of electrical history has been definitely closed.
There are no words in the English language adequate to express my feelings of gratification when I heard the instruments clicking off the messages. It had been seventeen years since I had handled a telegraph key when I was a railroad telegrapher down in New England and how I fondled that key, and what music the click of the sounder was to my ears!
The aeronaut of the Army of the Potomac was Mr. S. T. C. Lowe; he had made seven thousand ascensions, and his army companion was invariably either an artist, a correspondent, or a telegrapher. A minute insulated wire reached from the car to headquarters, and McClellan was thus informed of all that could be seen within the Confederate works.
Every one does not know the International but every local telegrapher knows the American." "Yes, but I don't see why " "If some unscrupulous person should send you a message purporting to come from me you would know that it did not if my instructions were not carried out, wouldn't you?" "Certainly, but have you any apprehension that " "It is possible. I will let you know to-night.
"Men plan mutiny Arm!" Madden got to his feet with nervous quickness, and stood listening intently. The question of who sent the message now became of sharp importance. If the men planned mutiny, he could rely upon the telegrapher perhaps. There was still enough light in the steamy cabin to discern objects.
The newspaper man, lingering, asked if there would be only one telegrapher on hand after the execution. "I shall have a lot of stuff to send over and I want it rushed. Some of the papers may get out specials. I would have brought an operator with me but we thought there was going to be a reprieve although the sheriff didn't seem to think so," he added.
"There wouldn't be any chance at the tunnel either, would there? They haven't cut through yet." "No and they won' finish until June. That is when they figure " "That's a long way off." "Too long," agreed Ba'tiste, and turned again toward the telegrapher, once more alert over a speaking key.
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