St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-27
WILL GIRDLE THE EARTH.
Chauncey M. Depew to Undertake 9
Remarkable Feat

Remarkable Feat.
NEW YORK, April 26.-Chauncey M. De-
pew expects to perform on Nav the great
est triumph of modern electrical science.
lie expects to rival the famous first tele-
graph message, What hath God wrought ?''
with an epigrammatic sentence that is to
be sent around the world by a current of
electricity generated by the power of Mag
ara Falls.
For many days Mr.. Depew has been STUDY
ing over what is to be heralded as his great
est epigram. 1t must not be more than a
dozen words in length, and it must express
the master thought of a master mind All
this famous takers eloquence all his learn
ing, and all his ready wit must be concen-
trated in the one sentence.
The object of sending this message is to
demonstrate the triumph of electricity over
distance. Telegraph wires and cables reach
now to nearly all parts of the world, and
some OF them make single jumps Of hun
dreds Of miles, but everywhere throughout
the telegraph and cable system there are
unavoidable delays, and messages are often
repeated before they reach their destination
With the power Of Niagara Falls the great
est electric power In the world is generated
for the purpose Of distributing it to many
points. Electricians have said that long
distance transmission of electricity is i'm
possible. Nicola Tesla said he would prove
that it was possible, and the Niagara Power
company backed him with millions of dol
lars.
The wonderful exposition Of all the newest
things in electricity opens in Madison Square
Garden May 4, and the electric power gen.
Grated at Niagara Falls will he transmitted
to New York on ordinary telegraph wires
of the Western Union company. 1t will be
made to demonstrate that 475 miles is COM
paratively nothing for electricity to Jump
Then Dr. Depew will make the great trial
OF sending one continuous current around
the world, or as nearly around the world as
the cable lines will permit. His message,
addressed to either e. D. Adams or F. w,
Hawley, Of the Niagara corporation, will be
telegraphed from Madison Square Garden
over 200 miles of cable and be received
again in the same room, accompanied by the
certificates Of telegraph managers at the
various points of land it touches. The cleo
trio tour will be over in very few min
utes, but just how long 1t is impossible to
say.
The message leaving New York will go
over the Western Union cable to Penzance,
England, thence onward to Lisbon, and un-
derneath the Mediterranean sea, coming to
dry land again at Suez, to run along the fa-
nous canal, and then diving under the Red
sea to emerge at Alden. There, borne along
by the power Of Niagara, 1t will pass under
the Indian ocean to Bombay, across India to
Madras, and under water again to Singa-
pore, on the Malay peninsula. The next
place it will be heard of is in desolate spot
on the northern shore Of Australia, and then
in Melbourne and Sidney.
II there were q cable under the Pacific
ocean DR.. Depew's epigram could make a
circuit of the world complete by long dive
under the sea to San Francisco; but that
cannot be done. So the message will re-
bound on it's trail, and by running along the
east coast of Africa reach Cape Town. Then
it will jump to Lisbon again and start across
the Atlantic ocean to Pernambuco, Brazil.
South America will be the last continent
touched, and with one more flash under the
seas it will be back in New York
"Dr. Depew was selected to send this mes
sage,' said Mr.. Hawley yesterday, 'be-
cause his fame has spread throughout the
world more, perhaps, than that of any living
American. We concluded, too, that If he
could not clear the track for a grand flying
tour of the world, then no one else could
The various telegraph and cable companies
have generously entered into the project,
and the message will demonstrate the great
powers of electricity in this direction