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or broadcast equipment or health care apparatus by schools offering training—and trying to attract students. The Georgia Telegraph School may not have had niain line wires, but it was a going concern with students, curriculum and a plan for attracting students. The March 1898 edition of “Dots and Dashes,� a flier created by the school, has been preserved in the University of Alabama Libraries. The four-page leaflet was sent to John Cocke, presumably a prospective student, who lived in Greensboro, Ala. The flier touted the school’s “equipment for teaching� as well as a “method of instruction� that was “far ahead of any so-called telegraph school anywhere.� There also was a sentence about Georgia Telegraph’s “facilities for placing our graduates.� “Dots and Dashes� promoted the field of telegraphy as offering superior opportunities for farming, clerking or teaching school. The flier concluded farming “is poor business� and clerking was a job where “the pay is poor� and the worker “knows there is no promotion ahead.� As for teaching, one of Georgia Telegraph’s selling points was that telegraphy was a year-round occupation. Unlike today, when teacher salaries are divided into 12 monthly payments, teachers in 1898 often received all their pay during the school term. The Senoia school probably was just getting started when a copy of “Dots and Dashes� was sent to John Cocke. The flier noted the school’s articles of incorporation had been granted at “the last term of Superior Court� and that the school had been chartered with $25,000 stock. The flier also indicated the institution was “the only Telegraph School in the South,� which likely means the Newnan school had not yet begun. From its early days, Georgia Telegraph welcomed both male and female students, though women were encouraged to study shorthand and typewriting because “railroads prefer to have males� as telegraphers. In 1898, for $100 a male student could get four months of schooling along with board and railroad fare from his home to Senoia. In the Senoia City Cemetery is the tombstone of Eugene Row, the Mississippi native who started Georgia Telegraph. He married into Coweta’s Linch family and died in 1903 while his school was still in operation. Technology and the jobs it creates are ever changing. Eugene Row’s tombstone and the Reese Opera House are reminders of the era when the telegraph was transforming America. NCM
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