The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-02
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Three Connecting Lines to he Laid from
HEARTS Content.


Hearts Content,
The New York Newfoundland, and London
Telegraph Company have decided upon several
important Improvements and new enterprises,
in order to insure perfect telegraphio connec-
tlons with the prominent cities Oh the. Onlted
States and Europe. A new land line rs to be
constructed from Hearts Content TO Placentla,
in Newfoundland. From thence new cable
will be laid to st. Pierre (Miquelon), and from
that island across to Sydney, Cape Breton,
where it will connect with the present land
lines.
An entirely new line will also be built from
Hearts Content, N. F., to Port Hood, Cape Bre-
ton, where it will connect with the present
lines coming to the UniLed States. The present
land line in Newfoundland is to be entirely re-
built of the best material, and great care will be
taken that in the construction of the other two
lines above mentioned, only the best workman
ship and stock shall be employed.
The two cables across the Gulf Of st. Law
renee are and have been in excellent condition.
1t will be seen by the above statement that the
New York, Newfoundland and London Tele-
graph Company will soon have three distinct
lines connecting with the Atlantic Cable, which
will leave no chance for accidents by severe
weather preventing the United States from
being in daily and hourly communication with
Europe.
The Delay of Atlantic Telegraph Des-
patches Explained-Letter from Secre-
tary Seward.
ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY, l
LONDON, October 10, 1856. !
TO The Editor Of The Evening Tetegraph;-
! am instructed by the Directors of the Allan
tic Telegraph Company to ask of you the favor
OF being allowed to give an official contradc-
ton TO the statement which they have with
regret, from time to time, observed in the
columns of the New York press, relative TO the
supposed responsibility of that Company for the
serious delays which have, several times since
the opening of the cables, taken place IN the
transmission of intelligence between Hearts
Content, Newfoundland, and the United States.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company is in no
way responsible for those delays. The entire
line between Hearts Content and New York is
owned and managed by two companies, whose
directors are American citizens, and whose
head Offices are in New York. The New York,
Newfoundland, and London Company owns
the line from Hearts Content to Port
Hood, and at the time the cables were
laid, their own cable across the gulf
was broken down, and the land wires in
Newfoundland required reinsulatlon; they
had abstained from incurring the necessary
expenses of repairing these lines, owing to the
repeated delays experienced in laying the cables
across the Atlantic, which, not unnaturally,
had inspired many minds with distrust as to
the eventual accomplishment OF the enterprise.
Immediately after the success of the Atlantic
cable they repaired the St. Lawrence cable, and
they have since laid second cable by its side.
They are also, we are assured, engaged very
actively in reinsulating their lines across New
foundland; but these pass through very wild
country, and will take considerable time to
repair.
dition as will warrant the expectation that tele-
graphic communication can be carried on be.
tween Europe and America with certainty and
despatch. the Directors will be prepared to make
material reduction in the tariff; and until that
time arrives they hope that the people of the
United States will give them credit for doing
everything IN their power for the interests of
the public on both sides of the Atlantic.
1 am, sir, yours respectfully,
GEORGE SAwARD,
Secretary and General Superintendent OF the
Atlantic Telegraph Company.