The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-05-13

IlullIS PlCCluuO oui giving ZIG AAfOcbGIOL
and the remarks of Gov. Stanford, DR.
Hardness, Gen. Dodge and others
The principal cities east of Promontc.
~ Point celebrated the event with much
enthusiasm. And our nearest great-clty
neighbor, Chicago, was not outdone by
any of them. The Tribune in giving an
account of the celebration in Chicago,
speaks of magnificent procession, eight
miles long, on parade" and of the dem
onstration being witnessed by over one
hundred thousand people"
We give the following from the 1f16-
atne as of general interest.
':The sun never shown upon finer day
than that which nature vouchsated tor
the Pacific Railroad celebration on yester-
day. Early in the forenoon unusual signs
of activity were manifested in the vehi-
culor world, while at the mercantile and
manufacturing establishments curious col
lections of all sorts of wares and imple-
ments were being arranged on wagons,
FLAGS and banners tloated from the roofs
of the depots hotels and principal build
lngs of the city; crowds of people throng-
ed the streets, and evidences OF design
on the part of the public in general to
make a day of it were to be seen on every
hand. During the forenoon General Stag.
er, Superintendent of the Western Union
Telegraph lines, in conjunction with E
P. Chandler, Superintendent of the Chi
cago Fire Alarm Telegraph Department,
conducted circuit from the Western
| Union Office to the Court House tower,
| forming an electrical connection by which
every alarm bell in Chicago, as also every
engine house gong, should be struck
simultaneously. At Promontory Point,
| the place where the Governor of Califor-
MIA and suite were to drive the golden
spike into the polished laurelwood tie on
which the last rail rested, the telegraph
apparatus had been so arranged that the
sounding key was placed under the spike
and when the hammer struck the head of
the golden ingot the stroke was carried,
with the speed of electricity, direct to
! the Court House tower in Chicago, there
acting instantaneously upon the wires
communicating with the different alarm
bells and engine house gongs sounding
thirty four OF these at precisely the same
instant. a similar arrangement was made
i'll all the principal cities of the Union
wherein the fire alarm telegraph Is in OPP
Grafton, thus announcing to millions of
people that the grand work had received
the finishing touch. At four minutes past
2 o'clock in the afternoon Chicago, time
and atabout half past IL o'clock Promon-
tory Point ii ne, the hammer touched the
head of the two hundred dollar spike, and
the bells of Chicago rang out the news.
A scene of intense interest ensued Hats
were lifted, loud hurrahs rang through
The air, bells pealed, steam whistles sound
ed, cannon doomed, and for few moments
the din was deafening. At the fremont
House, where the illustrious visitors from
abroad sat in carriages, together with the
Mayor and prominent citizens, Governor
Bross proposed three cheers for the Paci
fic Railroad, which were given. with en-
thusiastic earnestness, Vice President
Collax, as well as the rest, rising to his
feet and joining in the grand huzza.
/ Thus the great event of the age has
been fttingly celebrated by the people o.
Chicago, Of the cities of the Antlantic
slope and of the Pacific slope of the At
lantic coast and of the Pacific coast-by
the pc aplc Of the United States. TIL,
Pacific railroad is a fixed fact. The At
latte and Pacific are connected by the iror
rail, and locomotive and cars without
change will traverse the intervening spac,
from ocean to ocean. Nor will the one
railway now completed long be the only
one. Two more will soon follow the pres
ent one in their completion.
What next?
Shakespeare has not yet, in body, cir
cled the globe in thirty minutes-or sec
onds-we forget now which. But intelli
gence will 90 round the globe-one way
in less than thirty seconds, and the 9th
err in less than no time The tele
graphic circle around the globe will b.
completed at no distant day, and the1
intelligence will circle the globe, as wei
as the wire and the cable.
And then; what next Has progress
come to an end? Not at all: It vii
then, in our opinion, have only just com
menced. Fifty years to come will max,
more progress than the past fifty-pas
hundred-haye done. Inwhat direction
In all directions. But in our opinion il
She social, moral, psychological and spirit
ual domains more than in the purely phys
ical and intellectual. Time will UNFOLD
the progress and the directions in which
it will be made. And, for the present, w
are willing to labor and wait, and abid