DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHY.

Evening Star, Issue 4119, 10 May 1876, Page 4

DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHY.

There is no end to the ingenuity displayed by our American cousins in the adaptation of scientific discoveries to the wants of daily life. A correspondent has sent the Melbourne ‘ Argus ’ the prospectus of the American District Telegraph Company, which undertakes to come to the rescue of subscribers in cases of fire, burglary, or sickness, and which, as the correspondent vouches, is in successful operation. The following is an extract:—“ Subscribers having the aparatus can instantly summon policeman, fireman, messenger, or servant, to perform any reasonable service. A subscriber awakened by a burglar can touch the telegraphic key located near his bed, which will record the number of his house at the district office, and within three minutes a policeman will be at the door. In case of fire on the pro mises of a subscriber, the fact can be instantaneously communicated to the district office, and the fire department thence notified, the company being provided with keys to the fire-signal boxes, A policeman will also be in attendance within three minutes, with a fire extinguisher. In a case of sickness, requiring the attendance of a physician or nurse • (night or day), a messenger will answer his summons, Sared to execute any order. If a suber wishes at any hour of the day to send a telegraphic despatch, a touch of the key will summon a messenger, who will forward his message to any part of the world. Thus every subscriber’s house becomes for him a Western Union Telegraph Office.”