The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-07-13

the bedside Mr.. Fiel is three brothers
David Dudley Field, the Rev. Henry nj.
Field, and Justice Stephen J. Field; his
daughter. Mrs. Isabella Judson, and her
two sons, Cyrus Field Judson and Frank
Judson. Mr.. Field had been suffering
from physical and mental exhaustion
brought on by the many troubles which
have overtaken him during the past year.
Cyrus West Fields patent Of nobility
was made eternal and irreversible on the
9Th OF July, 1863, when the dispatch was
flashed across the Atlantic and over both
continents that the Atlantic cable was
successfully laid and In perfect working
order. In the events which led 10 and
followed that dispatch lie his claims TO
immortality. and no man can doubt that
the claim will be fully honored. His fame
Is forever secure Through all time the
man who laid the Atlantic cable will hold
high rank among the great ones Of his
tory. Columbus the discoverer, Washing
ton the deiiverer and Lincoln the pre-
server are not more certainly enshrined
for all time than the man who bound the
continents together by the wonderful
mechanism Of instant thought transfer
ence.
Mr.. Fields father, David Dudley Field,
clergyman, OF East Gnilford, Conn, is
destined to pass into history as the father
OF the 4four noted Fields
His four sons were David Dudley, the
famous jurist, born Feb. IL, 1905; stephen
johnson, now on the supreme bench OF the
United States, born Nov. 4, 1916; Cyrus
West, born Nov. 80, 1919, In Stockhridge,
Mass, aud Henry Martyr, clergyman, and
editor Of the New York Evangelist. born
April 3, 1922, and still spoken OF by his
acquaintances a. very young appearing
man, The four brothers held their last
social reunion on the Cd Of December, 1890
at the home of Cyrus, In Gramercv park,
New York, the occasion being the celebrar
tion Of his golden wedding
In 1858, having acquired considerable
fortune In the paper manufacturing busi-
ness, Mr.. Field passed ak months In
travel in South America, and about that
time bis brother, it Ii said, suggested to
him that q telegraphic line might be laid
across the Atlantic ocean. His imagina-
tfon took fire 1T once. His destiny was
fixed. For the next thirteen years the
man was swallowed up In the work.
over
the details of these eventful years, Of Mr..
Fields many journeys across the Atlantic
and his final success lii getting the needed
funds Suffice 1t that on the 18th OF June,
1857, the United States steamship Niagara
and the British steamer Agamennon took
each Its half OF the cable in midocean and
commenced laying toward It's own coast.
The wire soon broke, and broke again, and
yet again, aad so that plan was failure
In 1858 the cable WAS actually laid, the
vessels arriving at their destination July
90 and Aug. s. A few messages passed
and there was an international hurrah
! Then all communication ceased and for
seven years nothing was done. The civil
war absorbed the energies OF the people,
But all that time Mr.. Field and his sub
ordinates were experimenting, and st last
acable was devised which, IN the opinion
OF experts, might lie under salt watsr 3
thousand years without injury. The
famous leviathan steamer, the Great
Eastern, was then employed, aud this
time, IN 1865, the cable brake.
Still the indefstigAble Cyrus kept the
field. And now : system OF tanks. trollsys,
drums and regulating wheels Was estab-
nshed on the steamer, 20 complicated that
description would Ill two columns. The
effect WAS that no matter how rough the
weather might be the cable conId ~ paid
ont with perfect regularity and without
slack or strain. The rest Ii known. On
the 18th Of July the Great Eastern started
from the Irish coast. and on the 27th
grounded ths American end Of the cable
e Hearts Content, Newfoundland. Ifs
operation was perfect.
Thsn al Europe and America broke