Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28

try, and maintained by the Russian EN-
New York 10 London. Thence under the
English channel and across the Neither
lands to Berlin. Then on to st. Peters
burg, Warsaw and Moscow, and across
Russia in Europe and the vast territory
of Siberia, until it is safely received in
Nagasaki, in Japan. Then by cable it
hastens along the Chinese coast, through
Shanghai and Annoy until it finally
reaches its destination in Hongkong. II
you wish the message to go to Yeddo or
Yokohama it will be sent over Japan
from Nagasaki. Another route to Hong
kong is the 'Teheran' line. The message,
as l have already told you, goes here
from London, and thence across Western
Europe to Constantinople. From the
Turkish capital it speeds along to Teheran
in Persia, and thence through Bel
oochistan to Bombay in India,
where il unites with what
is known as the Falmouth
route, and at last reaches Hongkong.
The Falmouth route is almost entirely
under the water. 1t starts in England
from the city after which it is named, ex-
tends by cable to Lisbon in Portugal,
thence under the ocean through the straits
of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean sea, the
Suez canal and the Red sea to Alden.
From Alden the cable passes beneath the
Arabian sea to Bombay, and there the
route unites with the Teheran, and the
two lines become one and pass on to Sing
apore and Java. At Singapore a cable to
the %northward goes to Hongkong, while
the main line keeps IN to Port Darwin in
Australia, and crossing the great island,
opens communication with Sydney,
Adelaide and Melbourne, and finally with
New Zealand and Tasmania. You will
see by the map that three great routes,
the Siberian, Teheran and Falmouth,
make communication with the far coun-
ties certain at all times"
FROM HARTFORD TO soUTH BMERICA.
The reporter listened to the narrative
with interest, and asked how South
America is reached. The operator
turned to another map and explained:
Formerly all messages from the
United States to South America were
sent to Brest, from there to Portugal,
and thence via Madeira and the Cape
Verde Islands to P~ernambuco, in Brazil.
Then coast-line cables carried the dis
patch to Bahia and Rio Janerio, until
Montevideo was reached. Then a land
line passes over to Valparaiso, in Chill.
But lately a cable has been laid from
Galveston, Texas, across the Gulf of
Mexico, to Tampico. Thence through
Nicaragua to the Pacific Ocean and along
the entire western coast of South Amer
lea to Valparaiso. This route has just
been finished, and the cost of transmit
ting messages reduced 70 per cent"
"What is the charge for messagesT'
''To all parts of England and France,
80 cents per word; to Hongkong and any
other place in China, 49, so per word;
and to Japan, SO per word. By the old
route the tariff per word to South Amer
lea was about 81, now it is reduced to
81. 80. Nearly all of our foreign dis
patches are upon mercantile matters, and
a cipher is generally used by the senders,
by which a single word often conveys the
meaning of an entire sentence, and by
this means the actual cost is greatly
cheapened."
In regard to the space of time occupied
in transmitting a message, Manager
Lounsbury informed the reporter that tc
England and France an ordinary dispatch
! is sent in twenty minutes, and answers
. have been received within an hour. Al
showing the accuracy and speed attained
by the systems, he related an incident o.
a dispute sent in the Turkish language by
. a Turkish gentlemen from Hartford to
point in the Black Sea. The Turkish
words in the message were spelled il
English, and were, of course, unfamilia,
to the operator in the Office, yet Mr.
Lounsbury subsequently learned tina
=. they were received identically as spelled
and, Notwithstanding the many transfer
to which they had been subjected, ~exactl.
as the sender wrote them.