The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-05-02
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In TELECRAPHY
Chauncey N. DepeW Nill Try to Send
Message Over 240O
Niles Of Wire.
NIAGARA FALLS THE POWER
Interesting Description Of the Route Over
Which DR.. DepeN's Epigram Will Travel
at the Opening Of the Electrical
Exposition 10 New York

The following account Of one Of the
features OF the opening OF the great
NIasara Falls electric power. taken
from an Eastern paper. VIII be found
Of general interest:
Chauneey n. Depew expects to per-
form on May the greatest triumph Of
modern electrical science. He expects
to rival the famous first electrical mes
sage. What hath God wrought" with
an eplgrammatic sentence that Is TO be
sent around tie world by a current OF
electricity generated BY the power OF
Niagara Falls.
For many days Mr.. Depew has been
studying over what Is TO be heraided as
his greatest epigraui. II must not Be
more than a dozen words in length, and
II must express the master thought OF
master mind. All this famous takers
eloquence. all his learning and all his
ready Wit must be concentrated In the
one sentence.
The object OF sending this message b
10 demonstrate the triumph Of electricity
over distance. Telegraph wires and
cables reach now 10 nearly all parts of
the world, and some Of them make single
Jumps Of hundreds OF miles. but every
where throughout the telegraph and
cable system there are unavoidable re-
lays, and messages are often repeated be-
fore they reach their destination.
With the power OF Niagara Falls the
greatest electric power IN the world Is
generated for the purpose Of distribute
"A .frrfg ~ la NraI
have said that long-disfance transmits
sion is impossible Nicola Tesla SAID
he would prove that It was possible. and
| the Niagara Power Company backed him
/ with millions Of dollars.
/ The wonderful exposition OF all the
newest things in electricity opens In
/ Madison Square Garden May 1. and. the
| electric power generated at Niagara Falls
will be transmitted to New York on or
! binary telegraph wires OF he Western
/ Union Company. II viii be made to de-
/ monstrate that 40 miles Is comparatively
| nothing for electricity to jump
Then Mr.. Depew will make the great
4 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 f. ID.
Adams or F. W. Hawley, Of the Niagara
4
Madison Square Garden over 2l.eo9 miles
of cable and be received again in the
same room, accompanied by the certifi-
Gates Of telegraph managers At the vari-
Gus points OF land II touches. The
electric tour will be over in a very few
minutes, but just how long Il Is impoS-
sible to say.
The message leaving New York win go
over the Western Union cable to Pen
rance, England, thence onward TO Lis
bon, and underneath the Mediterranean
sea. coming to dry land again at Suez.
to run along the famous canal. and then
diving under the Red sea to emerge az
Alden. There, borne along by the power
Of Niagara, II will pass under the Indian
ocean to Bombay. across India TO Mad
ras and under water again 20 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 Sydney.
II there was a cable under the Pacific
ocean DIR. Depew's epigram could make
circuit Of the world completely by a
long dive under the sea to San Fran
cisco; but that cannot be done. So the
message will rebound on its trail. and
by running along the east coast OF Al
rica reach Cape Town. Then II vii
Jump to Lisbon again and start acros:
the Atlantic ocean to Pernambuco. Bra
zil South America viii be the last con
tinent touched, and with one more fiasl
- under the sea II win be back in New
York.
Or Depew was selected 10 send thh
message" said Mr.. Hawley yesterday
because his fame has spread through
out the world more, perhaps, than tina
of any living American. We concluded
too. that II he could not clear the tract
for grand flying tour OF the world
then no one else could. The variou
telegraph and cable companies have gen
erously entered into the project and tn
message will demonstrate the grea
power of electricity in this direction"