Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14
Iurrell and his bride are not on board. You
rin meet them in Liverpool.

Notbinp was said that night about this
annlicstior of Mr.. Edison's new system of
telegraphing between ships at sea; the same
method by which he now receives and SENDS
messages from moving trains at any rate OF
speed.
THE WIZARD is HOPEFUL.
This system of ocean telegraphy is the
same, but neither are perfected. YET, Inc
Wizard" believes that soon a thoroughly
practical telegraphic service will be work.
ing between vessels at sea WITHIN many
miles of each other. 1t was not until the
fourth day out that the mystery surround
ing the fair Young lady and the man wear
ing the artists mien was solved. About
the middle of the day the City OF Berlin,
another Iumau liner, was sighted with
white necktie two feet below the top OF the
smoke stack, bv which they can all be told.
Now there was to be no secrets. The City
of New York was dealing with trlend,
and the Young woman and her companion
took their places at the same spot In the
front part of the vessel, and of went the
following message:
Captain Land:
How is everything? What kind OF weather,
and how about ice We have mad clear WeaIher
and no frouble WATKINS.
A moment later back came the reply:
Captain Watkins:
Everything first class. Fair weather; no ice.
Everyone well and happy. LAND.
After this friendly greeting the secret was
revealed, and all the passengers knew tnat
the fair young woman was telegraph
operator who had come aboard under In
structions to experiment with lightning on
the ocean. OF course, she and her work
were tbe talk of the ship, and there were a
thousand and one conjectures as to what
would be done in the near future by this
strange man, Edison.
CABLEGRAMs FROM HOME.
As the conversation was still wagglng a.
j, Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was handed the following
Cassatt, City of New York:
Can't YOU 90 Immediately to Berlin and con-
fer with William Walter Phelps about the dip
your departure? Not a moment is 60 be lost.
Please make quick trip. THOMPSON.
''That destroys all my plans" said the
great railroad man, as he thrust the message
into his pocket. 81 wanted to 60 to the
Goodwood races after doing some business
in London, and then look at some thorough
breds to send home"
In the midst of a spirited discussion as to
the new energies and accomplishments of
this age, Wilson Barrett received the fol-
lowing:
Wilson Barrett, City of New York:
Your theater. which was just getting under
roof, was destroyed by fire last night.
PALLIN.
This set him in a worse humor than any
of the rest, and they fell to berating this ex-
cess of modern Improvements, when Miss
Florence St. John came from her stateroom
on the upper deck bearing this message and
entirely rutfied:
Your engagement in England for u months
is of, and instead of singing in comic opera as
you desired, YOU will return to America in Oc-
tober. EDWARDS,
She was in anything but a good humor,
and young broker from New York by the
name of Lawson was nearly frantic when he
got dispatch that the stock market had
gone all to pieces and that his business was
on the verge OF bankruptcy. Half dozen
more incidents of this character occurred
before we reached Liverpool, Just enough to
set everyone on board by the ears, and make
those who received dispatches miserable Tor
the rest of the voyage.
VOTED A NUISANCE.
This last innovation by the electric Edi-
son was the one topic of discussion during
the last days OF the trip. No one paid any
attention to 1t so long as it was confined to
intelligence between moving ships, and all
were delighted at the prospect of the cap
tains OF two vessels moving in any direction
communicating with each other freely in
case of accident or caprice as the case may
be, but when it came to being annoyed in
mid-ocean about matters they could not
help and from which they were Fastening
away, was anything but satisfactory.
One old fellow from Texas, who had been
across every year for long time, grew very
much excited in denouncing the new-fan-
gled notions by which a man had to have a
guide to show him to his room every time
he wanted TO go there; but this receiving
bad news in the Atlantic when one was 60
ing away from home to be free from news
papers and the annoyance of kilograms an
gered him. Up to the moment of springing
this experiment about picking kilograms
off the Atlantic cable" which manv cleo
trieians regard as perfectly practicable. and
telegraphing to and from vessels at a great
distance apart, the passengers had all been
congratulating themselves on enjoying the
very acme OF ocean travel on this king of
crafts. But at this moment there is a gen.
eral objection to the introduction of this
new system by which kilograms from home
or to home may be intruded upon ship
board, where everyone desires to have moth
ing to do except to eat, sleep and talk.
SPECIMEN OPINIONS.
Mr.. Wilson Barrett said: Gas a rule
Americans are in favor of luxury, demand all
the modern appliances, the best of food, the
choicest wines OF any people in the world,
and they are willing to pay for them more
than any other class of citizens I have ever
met. This remarkable ship, with its splen-
did equipments, taking nearly 400 officers
and men to run ard serve, is a monument
to their pluck and extravagance.
eyes" rejoined Mr.. Cassatt, ''that is all
true, but with all their rush they will not
tolerate telegraphic system which is bound
TO ruff1e their rest while crossing the ocean. I"
So far as I could make out the young
woman used only two instruments in her ex-
periments from day to day. One of them
was an incomprehensible mass of coils,
wires and plates, which detected, when low
cred into the water, the smallest changes in
the temperature of the ocean, and by ring
ing a bell announced the approach or pres
ence of an iceberg or ice field. The effect
of these upon the surrounding waters is
very pronounced. They chill the water
about them, and as they melt they produce
body of ice water which will extend Tor
miles and even leagues. A large iceberg
has been frequently known to chill the water
Ior 10 and 20 miles in every direction, that
is to say far beyond any point from which it
can be seen.
A WARNING RING.
The Edison apparatus is automatic, and
rings bell whenever the temperature falls
low enough to indicate the presence of a foe
or berg. 1t is not altogether accurate at
present, because it frequently happens that
berg is propelled in one direction by the
wind, while the ice water, formed by its
melting, is carried in an opposite direction