The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-19
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ures and ObstRcIes that were Over.
e0Ine---FtshinE for the Lost Cable In
Mid'Ocean'ssA Graphic 1nd Exciting
StOry---The Two Cables now Work.
Ing, and the delicate Nature OF their
siOpeFntIOns-.-Inter and In.
struetive Speech by the RenOWnetl
Cyrus W. Field. t-figff t.E
The patrons of the INrE1LrdENcRR
are now reading nearly every morning
news dispatches from the principal
commercial and political centres of Eu-
rope. Frequently we have received
kilograms from London and Paris not
more than five or six hours old. The
prospect is that even this short time
will be reduced to an hour, and, per-
haps, still farther. The Atlantic tele-
graph is but in its incipiency, hardly
in its infacy, and is yet destined to de-
velope to us wonders in the way of
news that we little dream of now. And
yet how few people, amongst all who
read the dispatches, have ever acquaint-
ed themselves With even the latter day
history ofthe successful enterprise, to
say nothing of the scientific mysteries
connected with its origin and progress,
mysteries which few, save experts, can
appreciate. 1t is really strange that
thus far SO little has been, afforded the
public in the way of an inside view
of the history of the cable. Tho di-
ary taken down day by day, during the
!" paying out" process from the
ships In which the cable was coiled, has
never yet been published. Indeed, we
may say that tho speech made by Cyrus
w. Field, at the banquet given in his
honor at the Metropolitan Hotel, in
New York City, last Thursday night, is
really our first authoritative narrative
of the last and successful attempt to lay
the cable. In reading his speech we
can well imagine whatja thrilling ex-
perience he has had from first to last,
during the thirteen years since he
began to move in the great enterprise.
And we are filled, too, with admiration
at the marvellous pluck of the, man
whom no failure and no obstacle could
daunt, but who, in untiring and almost
sleepless pursuit of that success which
hope pictured to him, in the future,
crossed the ocean forty times, Keeping
alive the spirit of the enterprise in the
breasts of those who were less sanguine
and who fwere discouraged by their
heavy losses. at one time Mr.. Field
had banlrupted himself by his outlays,
and was Obliged TOT settle with This
creditors at "a discount. Recently, how
ever, since success crowned his long
waiting and working, he has paid up
every dollar, principal and interest, of
his Indebtedness, and has, at last, un-
like many noble experimenters in
science and art, received again the
bread thrown SO literally upon the
waters. AS a matter of finterest to many
of our readers we make the following
extracts from his speech at the banquet,
Thursday night last:
n SIT is nearly thirteen years since half
n dozen gentlemen of this city met at
my house for four successive evenings,
and around table covered with, maps
and tchRrts, and plans and estimates,
considered a project to extend a line of
telegraph from Nova, Scotia to st.
Johns, in New ,Foundland, thence to
be carried across the ocean. 1t was a
very pretty plan on paper. There was
New York, and there was ST. Johns,
only about 1 200 miles apart. 1t was
easy to draw line from one point to
the other-making no account of the
forest and mountains, and swamps and
rivers and CULTS, that lay in our way.
Not one of us had. ever seen the conn
try, ,sor had any idea of the obstacles to
be overcome. We thought we could
build the line in a few months. 1t took
two years and a half. Yet we never
asked for help outside our own little
O1H Tr1no1 fan 0hn1l6 mn
have got 1t if we had-for few had any
faith in our scheme. Every dollar
came out of our own pockets. Yet L
am proud to say no man drew back.
No man proved a deserter; those who
came first into the work, have stood by
it to the end. OF those six men four are
here to-night-Mr. Peter Cooper, Moses
Taylor, Marshall o. Roberts, and my
sell. Ny brother Dudley is in Europe,5
and Mr.. Chandler White died in 1856,
and his place was supplied by MIR. VIII
son g. Hunt, who Is also here. Mr..
Robert w. Lowber was our Secretary.
To these gentlemen, as my first aSsoct-
ates, it is but just that should pay my
first acknowledgements.
From this statement 9you perceive
that In the beginning this was wholly
an American enterprise. twas begun,
and 'toffEo years and a. halt was car
ried on, solely by American capital
Our, brethren across the sea did not
even know what we were doing away
in. the forests OF Newfoundland. Our
little company raised and expended
over million and a quarter of dol
lars before an Englishman paid single
pound sterling. Our only support out
side was in the liberal character and
Steady friendship Softhe goyernmant of
New fodndIand,a for which We were
greatly indebted to Mr.. e. NJ. Archi-.
bald, then Attorney-General of that
colony; and now British Consulin New
York. And in preparing for an ocean
cable, the first soupdtngs across the
GERS in American ships. - Our scientific
men-Morse, Henry, Bache and MauTy.
had taken great ytntarest In the sub
ject. The D. s. ship B0lpIttIt discovered
the telegraphic plateau as early as 1853;
and the q. s. ship Arctic sounded across
! from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1855,
a year before 81. MS ship CycIopS, ur-
der command of Capt. Dayman, went
over the same course. This state not
toNtake aught from the just praise Of
England, but simply 70 yindicate the
truth of history.
It was not tin 1s56-ten years ago
that the enterprise had any existence in
England In that summer went to
Brett, Mr.. (now Sirl Charles Bright, and
DR.. Whitehuuse, organized tina Atlantic
telegraph CompahyG Sclehce had be-
gun TO contemplate the necessity of
such an enterprise, and the great Rarar
| day chsered us, with his loftys enthust-
as1n. Then for the first time was en-
| listed the support Of English capitalists;
| and then the British Government began
l fIiah GENEROUS counsel which has con-