Connecticut western news., 1892-07-21

 marine telegraphy. It was brought to his attention by a telegraph operator named Osborne, who had secured charter from the Newfoundland legislature for a cable between St. Johns and New York. A cable was laid across the Gulf of St. Lawrence after great difficulties.
 Mir Field then induced Peter Cooper, Moses Taylor, Marshall o. Roberts and Chandler White to join him in the enter prise. A company was formed under the title of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph company. It was thir- teen years after this before any results worth speaking of were obtained. This was the most remarkable period of Fields life. He bore up against rebuffs of all kinds and financial disaster which would have easily subdued most men. sIe made fifty journeys across the Atlantic on behalf of his scheme. A few great men encouraged him. Mir. Thackeray and John Bright were among them.
 The Cable Laid.
 After long series of dismal failures cable was laid in 1858 Two ships, one com ing from Newfoundland and the other from Ireland, met and spliced the ends together. Messages were sent over this cable for few weeks, and then it became useless. This failure was doubly disheartening, and nothing more was done for some years Cyrus continued his agitation of the cable scheme, however, and in 1865 the huge Great Eastern was chartered to lay another cable. By this time Sir William Thomson had perfected his instruments for measur- ing currents and for ascertaining the posi- ton of submarine cables. On the first oc- casion the Great Eastern had gone about ], 200 miles, when the cable parted.
 The cable layers succeeded in getting hold of the cable again, but the rope with which it was hauling up gave way, and there was not enough rope to make another attempt. It was also too late in the season and too rough to continue the work that yeir. In 1866 the Great Eastern went out again, sue ceeding in laying a new cable and in pick ing up the one abandoned in the previous year. On July 27 communication was es- tablished between the two continents, and since then it has never been interrupted.
 Honors were heaped on Field. Congress presented him with gold medal and the thanks of the nation. Lord Palinerston de- clared that the British government would have known how to honor him had he been a British subject. John Bright said he had moored the New World alongside of the Old.
 He was the last person to receive the hon. orary freedom of the city of New York A gold snuff box was given to him at the same time. He also got the thanks of the state of Wisconsin, with a gold medal; the thanks of the American Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool, with gold medal; a decoration from King Victor Emmanuel of Italy; sil- yer service from George Peabody, and in- numerable thanks and gold medals from all over the world.
 His Monument to Andre.
 Mir. Fields house on the Hudson was 1 called Ardsley, from the house which his ancestor Zachariah built in 1630 Some years ago Mir. Field created stir on the or dinarily peaceful banks of the Hudson by putting up a monument to Major Andre, ! the young English officer who bravely uu- ! dertook the duties of spy and was very properly shot by General Washington's or | ders when caught.
 As Andre was captured by three local | heroes, whose deed is also commemorated in stone, focal and national patriotism moved Mir. Fields neighbors to pull the monument down. He put it up again and 1 they pulled it down again, and in time he | grew tired. Mir. Field was freely accused | of anglomania. This offeuse consisted in 1 submitting to the friendship of the most eminent Englishmen of the present and the ! last generation.
 ! Mir. Field was careful of his personal ap- i pearance, but his dress was quiet. 1t was marked by one peculiarity, an emerald 1 given to him in South America which he always wore in his shirt front. His conver- | sation was rapid and witty, and he could | get through more business in five minutes i than many in an hour His recent troubles are too well known to need repeating here.