The evening times., 1896-07-27
hlsHEDlR0UhDT THE GLOBE
Experiments in Long Distance
Telegraphing Satisfactory.
TO SEND INSTRUMENTS HERE
They VIII Re Exhibited at the smith
sonian-R Reports OF the Results OBJ
tained In These Experiments Also
to Be Flied at the Institution-Wires
Do Not Circle the World.

the Smithsonian Institution Is TO be made
within short time. This is the collection
OF apparatus used ut the National Eieetri-
cal Exposition in May last in making
tests as to time and other results in long
distance teiegraphing.
With the Instruments are to be filed
reports OF the results obtained In these
experiments. The fact that Thomas A.
Edison. the wizard OF Menlo Park, was
one Of the operators in the tests adds in
terest to the exhibit. No arrangements
have yet been made with anyone here
for space for tins material, but it Is not
likely that there will be trouble about
giving place to anything that is meri-
torious.
With the instruments. etc, used are to
be furnished the original messages trans
mitted. These are in the hand writing Of
Chauncey N. Depew and Edward d. Adj
AIMS. Also the transcription of the mes
sages by Mr.. Edison as they were turned
out In Lis OWE handwriting will be put
into the collection. A report OF the whole
experimentation. as presented by the sew
eral telegraph companies participating,
will accompany the exhibit
This report has just been made, and has
become public only to electrical engineers
and others specially interested in such mat
ters. 1t tells how the tests were condcted,
and goes into considerable detail. The in
iercsting question, how long it would take
toput a girdle around the globe, isanswered
For years orators have been quoting Puck =
III put eirdle round the earth
In forty ninutes::"
and saying science with electricity has
accomplished this. But they really hayen't
known whether this was true or rot practi-
cally- The results sho w that tn e telegra a pher
can do even better than Puckis promise.
WHERE THE MESSAGES WENT.
One circuit was made from tee Exposition
building TOP Pittsburg, Chicago. Omaha, Chey-
enne, ogden, Reno, New; San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Flagstaff, AriZ.; Pueblo, Col
Kansas City. st. Louis, Little Rock, to
Galveston, 1887 miles of wire and four
| teen sets OF automatic repeaters. AT the
Exposition building tie gold key used by
President Cleveland to open the Worlds
Fair in 1888 was put into the circuit.
The messages were handed to MIR. Charles
A. Tinker, the operator. at S:3S p. NJ. and
put ON the wire immediately. The trans
mission to Galveston required 1ust six
minutes. From Galveston the messages
were taken by the Mexican Telegraph
Company and the Central and South Ameri-
| can Telegraph Company, by way OF Val
pariso 10 Buenos Ayres, 6,272 miles; then
| by the River Plate Company to kcnteyideo,
Ii miles; By the Western and Brazilian
| lines to T ernambuco, 1854 miles: by
| Brazilian submarine to Lisbon, 1858
| miles; by Eastern Telegraph Company, to
| Penzance, ss9 miles; by Western union
cables to Canso, 2,62o miles, aud from
Bangor, .1s7 miles. They were delivered
| to AIR. Depcw n, New York in tyyeat y-one
| and half minutes.
| The other circuit was made from New
| York to San Francisco By way of Buffalo,
| Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas City. Albu-
| querqae and Los Angeles. 4, ,l1S miles; San
| Francisco to Canso, y. s., by Vancouver
| Wiunipega and Montreal, ABA miles;
Canso to Londcn. g 1923 miles, and LonSlon
| to New York, 1868 miles. by Commercial
| cable, making total OF 1878 mikes. The
| message for this circuit was received four
| minutes before the other and was returned
| tc Afr. Thomas A. Edison, the receiving
| operator, in Just four minutes. Col Albert
| B. Chandler, president of the Postal Tele-
| graph Company, was The sending operator
When the message reached London Il was
| taken by the Eastern Telegraph Company
and sent through a circuit of 81 ,354 miles
| to Toxic. Japan. and back to London, q
1 total OF AZ ,S72 miles, in At 1-2 minutes.
| The route was as follows: London to
Portlicurno, Lands End. 25O miles: to
Lisbon. s56: Gibraltar. 336S Malta, 1 126;
| Alexandria. 913; suez, 154; Alden. 1 ,4o3
Bombay. $50; Madras. about 500: Pc,
| nang. 1 ,4S7; Singapore. S9S; Saigen. $50
Hong Kong. ss1; Fooshcow. 4T3: Shang
hai. 459; Nagaski, .241; Toxic, about
| 600; total of 1867, with the return
making double that distance.
THE MESSAGES.
Tie messages transmitted. which will
appear in the writing OF Mr.. Depew. Nj
| Adams and Mr.. Edison, in the Smithsonian,
are as follows:
New York, May 16, 1896.
ITO Edward d. Adams:
| God created, nature treasures, and sci.
ence uti lies electrical power for the
/ grandeur OF nations and tile peace OF the
| world. CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEW."
ITO Chauncey NJ. Depew:
.'Miglity Niagara. natures wonder, serv.
ing man through the worlds electric cir
cult. rrociaims to all peoples science tri
| umphant and the benevolent Creator.
| edward d. ADAMS"
| 1t is u curious Commentary upon human
| forselfnlness that the year is not given ii
the date of the telegram. Also, there ar,
| those who wonder what Mr. DcPew means
when he says NATURES treasures" Wht
is Nature: Is she force, niat...el, a com
| biiiatIon ofthe two or only form?
The actual circuit of the globe cannot b,
| made by telegraph because there is M
cable across the Pacific ocean, but tn,
| time required as shown by these result
| would probably be about one minute fol
every thousand miles or little mere thar
twenty-five minutes for the entire distance