National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-22

lOuUu W WOTk NOmlfuDly, rpNlIlng MT. u. n most
sanguine entclpotions. This being the first cable
ever laid down In America three times three hearty
cheers were given for the successful result.
This was q part Of the Atlantic telegraph
enterprise the object being to connect Prince
Edward Island with the main land. Having
successfully made this connection, Mr.. Gis-
borne proceeded to Newfoundland to cut
pathway through the forests to lay a telegraph
across the island, with n submarine cable, to
Cape Breton, thus forming connection with
the United States through Nova Scotia-initia-
tory steps in his grand enterprise of au inter-
continental telegraph.
MIR. GIsBoRNE's ENTERPRISE IN NEwFouND-
LAND-A SUDDEN AND SHARP DIsAPPoINT-
MENT
The st. Johns On. F. Patriot, July Q, 1853,
has the following:
CAPE RAY TELEGRAPH.
The prospect of this magnificent enterprise is full
OF promise. An encouraging move has been made
toward 1t by Mr.. Osborne, who left IN the Ellen
Gsborne accompanied by the Grace Darling last
Monday, for Trinity Bay, taking $50 laborers and
uadesinen, to commence In that locality the
necessary operations for the laying down of the
wires TO Cape Ray.
Here IL will be well to let Mr. Archibald tell
the story. In his letter in the New York
Herald, already quoted in part, he says:
In the spring of 1853 Mr. Osborne set vigorously
to work to complete his tavore project of the line
(Which he intended should be chiefly underground
from St. Johns to Cape Ray. lie had constructed
some thirty or forty miles of road and was pro-
ceedlng with every prospect of success, When most
unexpectedly, those OF the company In New YORK
who were 10 furnish the needful funds dishonorcd
his bills and brought his operations TO n sudden
termination. He and the creditors of the company
were for several months buoyed up with promises
of forthcoming means from his New York allies,
which promises were finally entirely uniul1lled,
and Osborne, the only ostensibe party, was sued
and prosecuted on all sides stripped OF his whole
property, and himself arrested to answer the claims
of the creditors of the company;
He eheeriully aud honolobly gave up every
10 hp aoNHIo nd N rpliyn
the severe distress in which the poor laborers on
the line had been involved Had the matter ended
hero he would have been utterly ruined in his
worldly affairs and whatever Of merit, in connec-
ton with the enterprise there may have been In
leading Mr.: Osborne TO rely Oh engagements
which, at this critical juncture so disastrously
failed to be performed, Is certainly due TO Mr.. Teb-
belts and his other New York associates. Mr.. Gs-
borne himself was, however, not TO be depressed
by these discouragements; and about the end OF
the year 1853 with the consent of his creditors he
proceeded to New York to endeavor TO retrieve his
fortunes and TO obtain the aid of other parties to
carry out his enterprise.
MR.. OSBORNE MEETS CYRUS W. FIELD PETER
COOPER, AND OTHERS, AND A NEW COMPANY
is ORGANIZED.
Mr.. Archibald, in his letter, goes on to say
He (Mr Gsbone) there eventually fell in with
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field who, with others, agreed to pay
of the debts of the company and buy out their
rights on condition Of obtaining new and more
liberal charter on more extended plan, having
for its ultimate object telegraph from Europe TO
AlleTlCH lOgtlner WIN lllc MGSSIS. llCIu ullu
White, Osborne returned TO Newfoundland in the
spring of 1874 and uscCully eXerted himself In pro-
curing the new charter, in which his name appears
as corporator, and in which II was therein in.
serted at my solicitation when the act had passed
through several stages, in order that as the under
taking was now to pass into new hands, he might at
least hare the eradication Qf ScsiHG MS name PERNA-
NESTLY connected ,0h project irhich had bo1 ORIG.
MATED ny HIS ENTERPRISE, and IN lchich he hdd an
dTgone so mdny rcrerseS Of good and i'll fortune.
There is the result. Tho italics and small
capitals are mine. The words are Mr.. Archi-
bald's. The brains belonged to Osborne. The
honors are claimed by Cyrus w. and my
brother Dudley" How permanently Mr..
| Gisborne's name was connected with the en-
terprise the sequel will show:
Mr.. GIsBoRSE's NAME REMOVED AND THE
NAME OF DAVID DUDLEY FIELD sUBsTI
TUTED.
tine article from which the Gisborne-Brett cor
| respondence was quoted, says:
The new company was at once organized, and
| Mr. Field agreed with Mr. Osborne that If he tMr
| g. would accompany himself and Others to New
foundland and aid in procuring the repeal of his
old Newfoundland Company's charter the debts OF
that concern would be formally and finally as.
sumed. This, proposal Mr.. Osborne accepted, and
| titled The New York, Newfoundland and London
Telegraph Company" granting exclusive privileges
Y n, he E9Wng n@Sd rGtSr S9Sopsr
| Chandler White, and Frederick Newton Osborne
In the card published by Mr. Field on the 9th OF
September 1858, David Dudley Fields name is in
serted among the six original corpOratoTs IN place
Qf that Of Frederick Nelrton GisbOIaei
And in the card is the following declaration
"The result is as much truth discovered MS
a work done. 1t was not work of chance,
but the accomplishment of plan or scheme.
| The scheme originated with the two gentlemen
whose names are last subscribed TO this card" !"
that is, Cyrus w. and my brother Dudley
| Exit Osborne
Mr.. Osborne was employed by the compan y
rs civil engineer, at a salary OF 5000 a year
to lay the telegraph lines across the Island of
Newfoundland, and place the cable thence to
the mainland in Cape Breton. Matthew Field
a brother of Cyrus, without skill or scientific
knowledge, was made superintendent of the
work over Mr. Osborne. He made the work
unpleasant, and Osborne resigned his position
after completing the wires across the islHnd
But his experience was Indispensable and Mr.
Cyrus w. Field went to the Island and re-en
listed his services to lay the cable to the main
land which Mr.. Osborne successfully accom-
plished, and then finally severed his connec-
tion with the company, without reward OF
honor, save their certificate that his work WIS
well done.
CREDIT TO WHOM CREDIT is DUE.
At the Gramercy Park banquet the other
evening the name of Mr.. Osborne was studi-
ously suppressed by the two Fields in thu
| mention OF those who aided the enterprise
though it is to his genius and energy they are
indebted for the honors they are now appro
priating to themselves, as the originators o
this great enterprise. 1t is a most ungenerous
deal Even for investing in tho stock of the
original company the Fields cannot reasonably
claim larger share of credit. BY the Boston
Courier and other papers of July and August
1858, when the laying OF the first cable wa
completed, l find that the distribution of tn,
original stock was follows:
THE capital stock of the New York Com
pany was fixed at $l,750,000, and the Who'll,
was subscribed for 1Ol shares in London, So in
America, Sc in Liverpool, 81 in Glasgow, 2s in
Manchester, and the remainder in other parts
of England" Only IS shares in America.
Aud here leave the subject. The public
mind will draw its own conclusions as to who
originated and who invested most largely il
the Atlantic telegraph enterprise.
j. STILES.
WAsHINGToN, d. c., March 10, 1879.
IT is plain fuct that 25 per cent OF the deaths IN
our larger cities are caused by consumption; anC
when we reflect that this terrible disease in It's ear
lpr will rpndilV WELD q "A Of Dr