Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-01-22
EASTERN.
A airdis Rouud sne world.


CHICAGO, January 21.-A Times
New York special says: The World
says the consolidation OF the tele-
graph companies is but prclimina-
ry, as it appears, to o rapid and
systematic development under Gen.
Eekert's management Of q grand
telegraph net work extending
around the world and having its
centre, not at London, but at New
York. While Field has been talk.
ing about it, the Englishman,
Bender, mas been adding wire to
wire TO form his world
girdle Of international tel.
sgraph, the base of which
was to be the complete eubordina.
tion of the whole cable service of
the world to the cable consolidA.
tion effected by Mr.. Bender in
London. On the 14tu of December
last the World announced the first
step toward breaking the continue
ty OF Bender's great combination.
1t had been taken by the American
Union Telegraph Company, In be-
half of which Jay Gould ordered
from Messrs. Semens & Co. new
cable of the first class to be laid at
the earliest possible moment from
the coast of England to the coast
OF Newfoundland. There was fled
at Albany on Wednesday q certiti-
cate of association of the American
Telegraph and Gable Company.
This company is organised for the
purpose Of owning, constructing,
purchasing or otherwise acquiring
and maintaining land and .subma-
rine line or lines of electric tele-
graph. The capital stock of the
company will be $50, 900, 900, with
power to increase the same to such
amount as may be necessary to
build the lines of telegraph and
cable contemplated by the compa-
| NY u.de- she eoasoIid~sion 0f
the three telegraph companies, the
American Telegraph and Cable
Company will at once proceed not
only to increase the existing cable
facilities between this country
and Europe and to extend
southwark the cable which now
connects this country with Cuba
and the West Indies, so as to Sc
cure for the great coffee trade of
the United States direct telegraph.
ic communication with Brazil, but
also to lay cables under the Pacific
from San Francisco to Honolulu.
From Honolulu one cable will be
laid under the North Pacific to
Japan, connecting there with the
cable from 1tAki to Shanghai,
China, and another under the
South Pacific by way of Ellices
leland and the Friendly Isles to
New Caledonia and thence to
Brisbane, in Australia, where it
will connect with the Australian
and New Zealand cables system in
one direction and with the Aus
tralian and Straits system in the
other direction. 1t is not the In.
tention of the company to adopt
the idea OF Evarts, of asking for o
government guarantee on these
Pacific lines, as it Is we'll ascer-
tanned that If these cables are con.
stracted on sound principles and
managed with judgment and econ.
omy, they cannot fail to be remu.
nerative. Should the governmen
desire it, however, connection
may be made from Van.
couver's Island by way OF
Alaska with Pietro Paulowsky
and thence with North Japan, and
for such con nection 1t would seem
to be proper and fair that the gov.
ernments Of Russia and Japan, as
we'll as the United Statss, should
assume reasonable pecuniary re.
sponsibility, since, except in con.
nection with the whaling interest,
which now suffers greatly from the
rem oteness and inaccessiblIity OF
the seas in which it is SO largely
prosecuted, very little profitable
business is likely to be developed
10 that part of the world, to pro-
vide cable, for some years to
come. Under the new arrange
ment our tslegraphic and cable
communication with tho West
coast of Mexico, with Central
America and with South America
can and will be pushed forward
with great rapidity.
the Ponoa Commissioners.
CHICAGO, January 2l.-The Zri-
bune's Washington special says:
The members of the Ponca Com.
mission are preparing their report,
which they now expect to submit
to the President In about
= week. No official infoKma-
tl0n can be obtained from them as
to the result. 1t is alleged that
there will be tworeports-msjority
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