The telegraph manual: a complete history and description of the semaphoric, electric and magnetic telegraphs of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, ancient and modern.

LOCAL TARIFFS —EMPLOYES. 761
ARRANGEMENT OF LOCAL TARIFFS.
Each telegraph company arranges its tariff of charges, and
supplies its offices with printed schedules, which are also
transmitted to all other companies. The tariff is prepared in
the following form, viz.:
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New-York..................... 25.2 40.3 50.5
Philadelphia.................. 25.2 25.2 40.3
Baltimore..................... 40.3 25.2 25.2
Washington........ 50.5 40.3 25.2
Each station has a tariff thus arranged to all other offices on
its line, and when messages are received for stations on other
lines, by adding the two tariffs, the whole is known. Suppose
a message is offered at Baltimore for Boston. The tariffs
from Baltimore to New-York, and thence over another
line to Boston, are added together, and the charge, 80 cents,'
and 6 cents for each additional word, is the price of the message.
Baltimore receives the 80 cents and transmits the dispatch to
New-York, where it is written out in full, and it is then,
with the 40 cents, delivered to the New-York and Boston
line. Lines occupying the same building have facilities in
matters of accounts and the transfer of messages from line to
line. In former years, when rivalry was at its highest, the
companies would deliver the message and the money to the
next in course, in the same manner as the public. No accommodation, no favor of any kind, nor any association between the agents of the companies, was entertained. Feuds
between rival companies, however, are fast passing away, and
it is to be hoped that ere long the misfortune will cease to
exist forever.
The tariff of charges on messages in the Canadas, NovaScotia, Newfoundland and New-Brunswick, are established in
the same manner as upon the lines in the United States. In
the provinces, where a monopoly has been enjoyed, a higher
and more remunerative tariff has been charged from the first
organization of the lines.
QUALIFICATIONS OF EMPLOYES.
There have been no fixed rules determining the qualifications
of persons proposing for employment on the telegraph lines in