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CHAPTER XII. 



249. Prevention of accidents. 250. Its uses in the detection of crime. 

 251. Personal and domestic messages. 252. Electric news-rooms. 

 253. Telegraph extensively used in the United States. 254. Much 

 used for commerce. 255. Sums paid for telegraphic despatches by 

 mercantile firms. 256. Extensively used by American newspapers. 

 257. Illustration of the utility for political purposes. 258. Illustra- 

 tions of its domestic and general use. 259. Secrecy of despatches not 

 generally sought for. 260. Verbal ciphers of mercantile firms. 261. 

 Ciphers for newspaper reports. 262. Association of New York 

 journals. 263. Spirited enterprise of New York "Herald." 264. 

 Use of electric telegraph in determining longitudes. 265. In pro- 

 ducing horological uniformity. 



249. AMONG the serious railway accidents which, might have 

 been, or actually were prevented by the telegraph, the following 

 have been mentioned : 



In a storm, the wind blew a first-class railway carriage, which 

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