New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-11
ORLEANS SUNDAY,
Ovation to Professor Morse.

There was, last night, in all the tele-
graphic offices "a sympathetic ovation to
Professor Morse, extending all over the
American continent, and far beyond to
those remote regions, with which in former
times it required months to communicate,
but which, since the invention of the time
annihilating telegraph, are within the reach
of communications requiring but a few
minutes.
Yesterday at twelve o'clock the statue
erected in honor of Professor Morse, to
whom the world is indebted for commercial
facilities exceeding the widest dreams of a
couple of generations ago, was inaugurated
with appropriate ceremonies in Central
Park, New York. Every arrangement had
been made to make the ceremony most I'M
pressive, not the least of which was to send
at given hour a telegram, dictated and
signed by Professor Morse himself, to all
parts of the civilized world.
AS the momentuous hour approached
when one mortal man standing at an ap-
pointed spot ON the surface of the globe was
to hold familiar converse with people afar
off In remote lands, the interest became in
tense. Assembled in the operating room of
the New Orleans telegraphic Office on Camp
street were number of gentlemen, among
whom the daily press of New Orleans was
duly represented.
Pending the preparations of the crowning
telegraphic event about to be consummated,
we were supplied by Mr.. Flanery, superin-
tendent of the telegraph in this city, with
a large amount of curious information re-
specting telegranhic matters among us.
For instance, we find that there are at pres
ent in the United States 73, ,27l miles of tele-
graph line; 150,Si3 miles of wire stretches
to all parts of the country, and 1914 offices
throughout the country. The branch
in New Orleans employs full fifty persons in
all the various departments. The follow
ing constitute the corps of operators:
Superintendent, d. Flanery; chief day
operator, e. Dwyer; chief night operator,
james Newall; cashier, j. I. Alleyn; oper
ators, Taylor Adams, William j. Landy,
Albert S. Ayres, Alexander X. Sinnott,
j. Fische. Charles d. Thomas, john E.
Wright, Ed. P. Whittord John Swindell,
John X. Dunbar, John l.. Jones, Alexander
Wark, James Mccormack, j. d. Smith.
At length the peculiar tick of the talking
machine announced the message which Pro
fessor Morse was to send to all parts of the
world. In moment it came as follows
THE MESSAGE.
Greeting and thanks to the telegraph
fraternity throughout the world. Glory to
God in the highest earth: peace and good
will to men. S. F. b. MORSE.
This was Immediately followed by the fol-
lowing answer from the New Orleans office
THE RESPONSE.
To him, whose lightnlngs have enlight-
ened the world, whose ways are in the sea.
whose paths are in many waters; to Morse,
the telegraphers of New Orleans offer their
congratulations.
For the fraternity.
DAVID FLANERY.
The above message was dictated and
signed by Professor Morse, and manipu-
lated by Miss +. Marriott, the same lady
who dictated the first message ever sent
over any line in the United States This
occurred on the twenty fourth of May, 1874,
and the message was sent from Baltimore to
Washington. Wonderful improvements
have been made since that time; for the
telegraph at the present time is actually
talking machine. The operator at this sta
ton listens to the clickclack of the machine,
produced at thousand miles distance. and |
the click is intelligent to him as language. |
While the operators in New Orleans were |
reading the message from the inventor, |
hundreds of offices in all parts OF the CONT |
nent were doing likewise.
After the message had been received the |
politeness of Mr.. Superintendent Flanery |
relieved itself by copious refreshments of
fered to the company, after which they re
tired. -....