The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-21
THE NEW CABLE.

THE APPROACHING COMPLETION OF A NEW
LINE-THE REDUCED RATES AND THE STOCK
OF THE NEW COMPANY.
The New York Times of the 10th inst,
says: The arrival at Portsmouth, N. H., of
the long expected steamship Faraday with
the shore end of the new cable on board was
topic of conversation yesterday among
those directly interested, as well as the still
larger portion of the general public who
will be benefited by the promised reduction
in cable rates The last has become an un-
disguised necessity to the business portion
of the community, the heavy tariffs of the
existing lines forbidding all but the most
limited communication with foreign mar
kets. The present charge per word is 81
gold. Bv the new cable this amount will be
materially reduced, probably not less than
fifty per cent. Such decrease viii allow
the transmission of an ordinary message
from New York to London for s., or even
less, and can hardly fail to give immense
impetus to the business of the new company
it, indeed, il does not result in a similar
lowering of rates by the other corporations.
At the Broadway Office of the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company, to whom the
exclusive use of the new cable in this coun-
try has been guaranteed, the news of the
Faraday's arrival was well received. This
line, which. tor number of years past, has
been steadily extending its connections
across the continent and throughout tie
West and south, anticipates large increase
of business from the consummation of the
new enterprise. The following report of the
length of
LINES OWNED AND OPERATED
by the Atlantic and Pacific and the Frank
lin Telegraph Companies, both of width are
under the same management. was furnished
a reporter by the secretary of the former.
n 10 nd xryir lnna nn6
operated by the Atlantic and Pacifi, and
Franklin Telegraph Companies, $4,000;
miles of line and wire of companies under
contract of connection or else with the
same, Is, 745; miles of pole and wire line
making voluntary connection and inter
change of business with the above two COM
panies, 1905 It will be thus seen that,
counting the cable, which cannot well be
estimated at less than 2, 500 miles, total of
over $4,000 miles of pole and wire is con-
trolled by the new Direct United States
Cable Com panv and its connection In this
country. In addition to the lines already
mentioned is the project tor the construction
of automatic telegraphs along the routes of
the principal railways, after the plan
mentioned yesterday, and which it is stated,
was originally proposed by the late j..
Edgar Thompson, President of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. The roads alleged to have
been included in the original project we're
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio.
On completing the laying of the shore end
the Faraday will return to England. and
there take on board the deepest cable. This
last has been constructed with unusual care,
and &C considerably larger than anv of the old
ones. The wire Is more securely protected
agaiDstthe action OF the water, which has
heretofore proved such source Of annoy
ance. 1t is expected that the cable will be
open tor business by the 25th of August.
The Springfield Republican, in speaking
of the close of the Amherst Agricultural! Col
lege, says: The examinations into the cir
culation of sap in plants have absorbed much
of the time of several persons and the re-
suits are certainly most valuable; over
sixty species of trees and shrubs have been
operated upon by means of murcurial gauges
made for this purpose by Professor s. II.
Peabody. By means ofthis instrument the
pressure of the sap in several parts of the
same tree and on different trees was meas
ured with great accuracy; 1t cost over