The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-08-16
"ALL RIGHT DE sAgTY.o

New York Times: Mr. Cyrus w.
Field is the philosopher of the tele
graph. 1t Is he vino has inspired those
wonderful bulletins given 10 the credu-
lous public twice daily concerning the
condition of the Western Union Tcle-
graph Company's machinery. The
hand is the hand of Press Agent Somer-
vile, but the voice is the voice of Cyrus
w. Field, continually crying, 20. X"
If the network of wires covering the
American continent should be suddenly
melted with the terYent heat of the Last
Day, and telegraphy, geography, and the
solar system should be blottea out of
existence, somewhere on the
outer rim OF the chaos OF the
universe, in the midst of the
wreck of matter and crush of worlds,
would be found bulletin, 80. K.-Som-
erville" 1t is part of the duty of an
empIoye of the Western Union Tele-
graph company to DO and say whatever
he Is hidden. The corporation has no
soul to be lost or saved. It is presumed
that the employees soul belongs to the
company. Therefore, although the COM
panY may be helpless, lame, halt and
blind. Mr.. Field, the cheerful philoso-
pher, will forever cry. Everything is o.
K. We have forgotten that there was
such thing as a strike" no
With just such acry as this Mr.. Field
first came upon the world as tele-
grapher. When the first Atlantic cable
was laid, two continents We'd with each
other in celebrating the wonderful event.
Queen Victoria and President Buchanan
exchanged messages of congratulation,
which, for the sake of safety, were sent
by mail and were published when the
signals through the cable showed that
the current was actually to be transmit
ted. Then the mayor of New York (Mr.
Tiemann) exchanged with the lord
mayor of London. The first news mes.
sage through the cable was received,
with great wonderment and solemnity,
Aug. %, 1853. 1t related to the W ar in
China. Then the current slackened,
faded. and died away. While the CONT
nent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
was ablazs with enthusiasm, and fire
works, cannonades, music, and dinners
and orations numberless celebrated the
humiliation of time and space, the little
Bay, Newfoundland, fiickered and went
out Mr.. Cyrus w. Fi.ld, the promoter
of the wonderful enterprise, found time,
in the midst of banquets and serenades,
to telegraph to the operator at Trinity
Bay: keep it up, o. K" And SO.
long after the cable had ceased to give
signs of life, there appeared in the daily
bulletins this CHEEKY telegram: "All
right DE SAUTY."
History repeats itself. Mr.. Field is
still to the fore. The Western Union
Telegraph Company has closed nearly
all its branch offices. The apprentices
who are making wild work Of the bust
ness Entrusted to them are overburdened.
The dispatches sent along the wires
look as if struck by lightning when re
ccived. Everything is in a muddle, and
the managers of the concern are at their
wits end. But Mr.. Field, through his
faithful press agent, cheerfulIy chIrps
ioJth twice day, 30. K.-Somerville."
BOW like De Sauty this is! DIR. o. W.
Holmes, seizing upon the humor of the
hour, addressed a comic poem
to the mythical creature who
sat on the shore of Trinity Bay, in
1858, and, although the cable had failed
and everybody knew it, sent opt his re-
assuring message, "Till the land was
filled with loud FeVerberations of sAll
right De Sanity" There came time
when this piOus fraud was exposed.
when De SautY faded away with harts-
horn odor of disintegration, and the
parrotlike cry Of can right De Sauty"
was heard no more. But for awhile the
dear delusiOn was kept up, and the re-
joicings went on after the cable was as
dumb rs a fish. The old trick is good
for weeks to come. But, by and by,
when the public patience is exhausted,
the faithful press agents chirrup will
be heard no more, and Mr.. Field will
cease to cry, 80. K.-Somerville."