The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 518
be effected by es-tablishing a central departmentfor the purchase of supplies forall offices. Mr. Wade thereupon had Mr. Hunter transferred from Cin-cinnati to Cleveland, and charged him with this duty, which grew, evenwhile in Cleveland, to vast proportions, and saved large sums of money.So… … William Hunter. ■if-^ 486 American Telegraphic History. once organized a similar department of their own. At one time undera spasm of parsimony, such as sometimes afflicts a board of directors,the purchasing for stationery was partly taken from Mr. Huntershands, and by an economy, as ridiculous as…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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