The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-16
uEsSAGE ABOUND THE WORLD.
Arrangement for a Great Test of Tele
 rrnnhy To-night.

Arrangement for a Great Test of Tele-
 graphy Tonight.
 New York, May 15.-The Smithsonian original messages that will be sent around the world tonight at the Elec- trical exhibition The first message will consist of two hundred and fifty words written by Chauncey, Depew A. B. Chandler president of the Postal Telegraph company, will send the mes sage, and after it has gone around the world it will be received by Thomas A. Edison. President Edward D. Adams, of the Niagara Power company, will reply to MT. Depew's message and Ed ison will send it, and MT. Chandler re- ceive it at the other end of the wire.
 The first message will be sent by MT Depew when he begins his speech from the first balcony of the big hall As the telegraph instrument clicks out the first letter. an arrow of electric light in a Moore tube will be formed showing that the message is being sent While Mir. Chandler is sending the message the band will play Hail Columbia. :" When the message is reported by the cable company at London, a peg will be stuck in a. mammoth map of the world, showing that it has reached British soil The peg will be the signal for the band to play God Save the Queen.
 By cable from London the message will go to Lisbon. The peg will be moved and the time in New York noted on the map, while the Portuguese na- tional air will be played. From Lisbon the message will go to Suez; from Suez, via Bombay, Madras Ceylon, Mel- bourne and Madagascar, to Good Hope. From Good Hope, via the African coast line to Algiers, and from there to Per nambuco Buenos Ayres and up the Pa- cific coast cable to the City of Mexico From the Mexican capital the message will go to San Francisco, and reach New York via Vancouver, St. Johns and Newfoundland. As the message is reported back from every place the band will play the national air of the country from which the message is re- ported. When the instrument at which MT. Edison is seated commences to tick the band will play Johnny Comes Marching Home"
 MT. Adams will read the message and send the reply while the band plays the ''Star-Spangled Banner" The reply will it is thought. reach Mir. Depew as he finishes his speech
 This message will traverse 2S,600 miles of wire, which is the longest dis tance telegram was ever sent. In each town through which it passes a telegraph operator will be on duty to copy it as it goes over the wire and give it to the public. Besides the original message, the Smithsonian Institute will secure copy of every paper in the world in which the message is printed What time it will take to translate and send the message can scarcely be fig ured on with any degree of accuracy, although it is thought two hours will be required for the message and reply.
 According to telegraph authorities, but two messages have ever been sent over anything like the distance that this will cover One of these two mes sages was sent by the Prince of Wales from London to India, and the other by the police of St Louis to Australia at the time of the celebrated Preller mur- der by Hugh Brooks Maxwell in the Southern Hotel Of St. Louis. The last one was translated into seventeen lan- guages before it reached its destination and cost over one thOusanG