[Newspaper]
Publication: The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati, OH, United States
vol. 12, no. 211, p. 2, col. 5
SPECIAL NOTICES.
A CARD.
There is a standing advertisement, in most of the city papers, headed, "House Printing Telegraph," "Only Direct Line to Louisville and St. Louis," the unfairness of which announcement demands some explanation. The facts are simply these: There are no less than three other lines to Louisville, quite as direct, and so far from having the only line to St. Louis there is no line connecting Cincinnati and St. Louis, which employs the House Instrument. At Louisville, the messages taken by the House Office here, are from thence transmitted by the old Louisville and St. Louis Wire, (with which the public are already too well acquainted), built some four years since, crossing two rivers, and which does not employ the House Instrument at all, being changed only in name. The only line to St. Louis from Cincinnati by any means direct is the New Wade Line constructed expressly for the purpose of establishing the Telegraphic communication with St. Louis, which did not exist before. Instead of being transferred from one Line to another, therefore necessarily repeated, a message given to the Wade Office here, is written directly to St. Louis, each letter being produced in St. Louis, simultaneously with the movement of the key in Cincinnati.
If the public will travel through those means of communication they may soon discover which is the direct Line to Saint Louis.
WADE TELEGRAPH CO.
