The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-01
WONDERS OF THE TELEGRAPH.
A Convssation Carried On by Cable
at q Distances of Nearly 5000
Miles.
An Interview Between an Editor in Lon
don and Man in British
America.
Gable dispatch from London. |

Gable dispatch from London
The fdu Mall Gazette, which has been
called inc lshmael of the London press,
the more Its editor is attacked, his motives
impugned' or his newspaper lampooned,
seems TO increase what is often called its
Amerlcanesque enterprise. This evenings
issue contains the following instance. 1t
is headed, "Telcgraphing Extraordinary
interviewing by Cable Across the World"
The article begins:
AN altogether unprecedented feat in
telegraphy was performed last night when
an interview took place by cable between
our special commissioner, now at vancou-
yer, and the editor at the Offices
II the Commercial Cable Company.
The arrangements in London were
under g.. Ii. cambridge, Superiptend-
ent of the Mackay- Bennett Company.
hr Hosmer, manager of the Canadian
Pacific Hallway Telegraphs, and Mr..
Ward, manager OF the Commercial Cable
Company, superintended on the other side.
The origin OF the interview was the desire
OF our special commissioner TO afford the
Old World new and striking manifesto
ron of the extent to which time and space
have been annihilated by the electric tele-
graph and cable. The exact distances
trayersed by the electric current convey
ing the messages are as follows by wire:
London TO Bristol, spur cable, 146 miles;
by spur cable TO Watervile. Ireland, 800:
by cable from Waterville to Canso. Nova
Scotia, $3.50; from Canso, New York,
and Canadian Pacific Railway telegraph
lines to Vancouver, 4, 400, making total
1913 miles. Conversation was carried on,
allowing for breaks produced by storm
that interrupted the wires, first between
Ottawa and Montreal, then on west of
Winnipeg, consecutively for three hours.
The private messages ON either side, of
course, have been excised from this public
record. This unequaled interview by
wire outstripped the sun by eight hours, it
being l o'clock in the afternoon at Van
couver and o'clock at night in London.
The conversation began with bon jour
message from the Pacific upon the Van
couver morning. and in few minutes only
the salutation was returned from London.
Next came. within six minutes time, the
following from the Pacific side:
There are with me the Mayor OF Vancouver,
G. Oppenheimer editor of the Vancouver NeiCS-
Advertiser, and Mr. Cotton, Superintendent OF
the Pacific Division OF the Canadian Pacific
Railroad Telegraph. Mr.. Wilson is at tho key.
After half an hour of instructions be-
tween the editor and correspondent, the
latter says
See the Pacinc as I write. In few Gays
ahall start for i,(0O-raile voyage on the Eng
lish ship Partha over another ocean. yet am
able 70 report myself to you and talk as quickly
and easily as II we were speaking through the
tube in Northumberland street at our Office.
During the electric interview Manager
Ward in New York told London:
1.-THE lines beyond Winnipeg have suddenly
given out but I expect them to be through in a
few minutes The weather was very severe in
the north The thermometer in New York last
night was zero. II is now 20 deg above. hope
the conversation has been satisfactory so far.
During the interview several Vancou-
verans took part in the electric converse
ton, thus:
THE Mayor and corporation of the city of
Vancouver send greetings to the Pail Mall
Gazette. They trust the visit of his commits
sioner may be beneficial to the Gazette. as IL is
certain to be profitable to Vancouver and
British Columbia. ID. OPPENHEIMER, Mayor.
ITO which London answered:
Thanks from the editor OF the Pau Mall Ga
zette for the kindly greeting and hospitable
welcome.
"The following came from Winnipeg:
greetings to the Pail Mall Gazette. 1t is zero
here to-day, but we are not freezing to death
in Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. No biz
yards here, Goodnight.
"This was followed by:
Editor Of the Pau Mall Gazette sends hearty
thanks for the kind greetings ana congratula-
ti)ns OF Winnipeg. her journalistic enterprise,
AMI freedom Il ON billiards..
There were established seven points for
the current over the continent. There
were repeaters at Donald, Winnipeg, Port
Arthur, Carter, Montreal, Albany, and New
York"
The Pal Mall Gazette adds these COM
ments: AT Waterville, where the cable
across the Atlantic connected with
the shore. the messages were taken
off by Sir w. Thomsons recorder,
which produces DELICATE, wavy,
penciled line, utterly unintelligible to
all but the initiated. The current
on this side was generated by thirty cells,
which transmitted messages from Lon
don to Waterville. On the American side
the line was worked by similar or greater
number, while relays of an equal number
of eel were established at seven points en-
route, the current used in each case having
range of about 600 miles. The current
necessary to cross the Atlantic was much
feebler. A single cell will generate enough
electricity TO carry message from the Old
World TO the New. This is owing to the
much more perfect insulation of the cable.
The messages from the special commits
sioner, therefore, we're transmitted by Morse
from New Westminster, read off at Canso, IN
Nova Scotia, and retransmitted to Water
vile, where they we're read off by an opera
tor and retransmitted to London, where
they were recorded on Wheatstone re-
ceiver and read off at the same time by an
ordinary sounder, the click of which was
almost incessant."
BLESSED BY THE POPE.