The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-11
MESSAGES UNDER THE OCEAN
CELEBRATING THE ORIGINAL CABLE
CO.'S QUARTER CENTENNIAL.
Mr.. cyru. w. rield Telling of the struraIc- o,

Chandler White Formed 25 Years Ago.
Mr.. Cyrus w Field and three OF the four
gentlemen who were associated with him in tho
enterprise. celebrated in Mr. Fields house
in Gramercy Park last evening. the
twenty-nfth anniversary Of tho founda-
ton OF the New York. Newfoundland and
London Telegraph Company. which is
name to signify tho Atlantic cable. In Mr..
Fields dining room which last evening was
| throngod with n distinguished company.
Just twenty-five years ago Ave gentlemen gath
cred about the Undiscovered table and sub
scribcdto the project Of which the cable was uti-
mately the outcome These wore Mr.. Field.
/ Mr.. Peter Cooper. Mr.. Moses Taylor Mr..
Marshall o. Roberts. and Mr.. Chandler
| White. All but the last Of these who Is
no longer living. attended ut tho ami
versary celebration last evening. Tho his
torica dining room was cleared Of its
table. and with the drawing rooms and the halls
served to hold the guests. Eighteen hundred
cards OF invitation had been issued, and proba-
bly, 1000 persons called at tho house
between tho hours OF and H. The
only ladies present were those belonging to Mr.
| Fields immediate family, They were Mrs
Cyrus W; Field, Mrs, David Dudley Field. Mrs
his two daughters. Mrs Lindley and Mrs. Jud-
Tho dining room had for decorations only
| the American and English flags. One double
| filg made OF the embcms Of tho two countries
joined together. hung above the iolding doors
the main OF every shin which since 1888,
had undertaken To- Law n cable across the Allan
served in Il temporary building. which covered
the whole. arca back ~ Mr. Fields house aud
Long tables. profusely laden. filed the
centre Of this, ro9m the walls Of which
were buried under the flags of all nations. Tho
assemblago included many faces we'll known In
the city and throughout tho ,countr and, was
made brilliant 10y mnmoer 1i Hn'drms ot me
and orders OF sundry OF tho foreign diplo-
m9tic Ministers f. 2gd T Gonfsuis; Mr.; Eyart5
Mrs David Dudley Field was escorted by Baron ron
Shiskin. the Russian. Minister. Among those
Peter Cooper. Baron Shiskiu tic Russian Min,
istcr. Coy Rice % Massachusetts, Mr. Henry NJ.
heilew. Henry Ward Beocher. Richard Grant
White. Judge Comstock. Judge Gilbert Speir. Al
shall Jewell. David Dudley Field. Or. bellows,
the Rev. DR.. Tiffany. District Attorney Phelps,
President Of the Chamber Of Commerce ). ID.
Rah.ock President Barnard Of Columbia
en.'' envoy q King Kalakaqa Mr.. Arclii-
bald. the British Consult Admiral Trench
Baird II the Smithsonian Institute; Chcvalicr
Raj. Italian Consul General eN-Gov Harranft
Father Biorrins. Judge Noah DAVIS. Mr.
BerSR. eS. Mayor r'' WicEham Wiinami Allen
Fuller. Collector Arthur. Joseph H. Choatc.
Nagr qG9p I I2 ga MT6 590 ,ss oI L B1
Howard Crosby. Joseph SeigmRn. the Roy. pr
Williams, missionary to China; the lsev Pr
Buddington Dr. Samuel Osgood. the Roy. DR..
Horace White John r AGnew. Dr. Hammond,
ton. President OF Now England society; Prof
Hopkins q Williams College: Judge Henry Hill
f Pras.do ut Chadboune of Williams College. cS,
SECRETARY NcCull.gh, Robert Hoe ADMIRAL
Dorsheimer. aud Vim. H. Taggard.
There were only three spcakers-Mr, Cyrus
Field. his brother Mr.. David Dudley Field. and
The addresses we're made in the dinna room
tho throng pressing in about the speakers 50 that
heard by persons twenty teet away Tie first
address was low Mr., Cyrus W. Field He WIS
greeted with enth usasm. and spoke as follows:
evening this house ~ this room and on tins table.
, Tic Sew York Ncwfouudsnd ami London Telegraph
VoinpHn. r., Sonpay VT ,.'n , OF a
ter cooper Nosss Taylor Marshall Q Re1cr, ami my
.cu-arc here tcni-ht The huh Nj chandler Whit.
Died Two rNeaa' ai'et ana h. place was r tst,n
: 81 nv S..ccis,,.' It '"I IS to he .SG to t,oir
e % Men % pson h shS sSsa h y' o
The undertaking mag'uy tr twelve lon{ YEAR, ur9uslI
Those who applaud success know little through whai
NOM ,1as' WI hope sr-d made iRs SeS SICK Ne
had h,,s help from outside io5 few haG Any aim #
10 stood by 1t 70 the end Ny brother Dudley Dudley Is
was prS'gh' a the WIKI ss SI @y.s eenSn sss
. s TSt to uNewidnniismS to ' Obtain the ehSrSsf
. and va; our legal adviser uroush iho.e anxious ant
Johu the nrst man to give us hearty wgcom.. and
; Archibald. then Prime Minister OF Newfoundland and
FOR more than twenty years ihe honorcd repre
n also here 70 night ltsa matter tor CRATE al aeknowl
work mat W. began ard mat We can meet now AZ III,
Y What has been wrought other parts the world
or n.ie , SoR ~ S-me o o "sls 0 GSnpa1
which entitled 70 share " our cosran.ian, AM "a
I'm ,, vsre tom AN, ,,nt,e to IN. raenc, and '
It Tn sn ea sS Win 9 rrope A,a AREA An.trsa Se
d ZgaAnd. me Wet Indies and south Amcnca Al, a..
!, once Sery dlirrcnt has It been Win The HuaWt, rce
sgs Io9n n .c wes % g,'I II i@ s @nn!
u were eighteen English ami Twelve AMERICAN directors
IS tired from the Board alone suu remain one OF th
Nam Of ' great men Gt 'ssneI on SG io. p M
A,tnn. W"I ns"iSu ~ W NV n'" w. bs1 eH "a
II Whose coast survey m9pped out the Whole lime Of ~
10 a IAil through the depths 81 the aud Berr,man
(. Who sounded across Me Atlantic, and Moro. an'
=, last but not least Henry Across the water ~
N ms. some Who eid a. much as any men n
q, Faraday and Whctt-tone. Stephenson and Bruncl-
N sng an conservation. because of the interest wlcl
IA cn.in,rr,uc sll II proud snn.ncon 10 roiroui.
~ INT while The two Governments aied ~ 40 eencr'u-
r. carving our cable IN The nrs' Expeditions such men
o un.ic the Two countries, ami ~ the end 10 bring u
- Others there are. among the hying and the dead, &
81 whom under great oh,giuo but cannot =,
peat the long roll oi ustrlus names Vet must paw
p tribute 20 Who friend. as Dee Wn
ia friend Of my country. Richard Golden H.
"a the first Go look forward with the ut ftt
"a Ia what has come A. long 1851 h
y had Of prophets dream that the might
aud al Nt~d France Albv t. de- ut the
oi the Great London Exhibition of that year tu an u
titus unite England America. lie did
live 10 see his dream tulutd.
.. hat though die. their works their dscoycriC.
II ant their inventions live From their small hrshuin
I'D under This art I'll then scarcely known
that of tel.graDhiug through the depths ui the sea
Twenty Ave years there cable 81
the world short lines had been laid across ti
channel from England 10 the Continent hut all were i
shallow water Even science hardly dared 10 cuuccN
OF the possibility u Stnllng human Intelligence thruus
10 the AiN u thc kut when struck out O
the Atlantic we had to lay cable over tWu thou
sand mile, long IN water over two miles deep tina
"a success gave an immense impulse to fuhnarin
-, biography then IN ITS Infancy, bat which has sluc
10 ul IL has stretched out It's fingers tipped w
ie FIRE into all IN" waters Of the globe Its lines hay
IN all the ' aud its words TO the ends NJ a.
~. world To-day there over seventy thousand mile
a OF cable crossing the cas- and the oceans And AS ~
- not enough To have messages sent with the speed
r. lightning they must he nj IN opposite directions at ia
ne moment have JLh received telegram from Va
al euta ireland which reAts, Ths annlver,ary witness
"a, duplex WORKING the Atlantic as an accomplish
- TACT by which the capacity OF all our ocean cables
doubled
y VINO can measure the effect n this swift intelligence
III passing o Rul tuf Already 1t regulates the markets
IA the world Bu better still is the new relation into wic