The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-17

CHAUACEY DEpEW'S eREaT oRArlOS.
God Created, Nature Treasured and
Science Utiiixes Electricni Power
for the Grandeur OF Nations and
the Peace OF the world-The An.
aver OF Edward Admins Follows,
Electrical Exposition Hall,
New York, May ls. 1896


New York, May l6. 1896.
Dr.. Chaunrey Depew delivered an
oratton on the Progress and Future OF
Electricity" to an audience of about
1000 people assembled I'M the Hall Of
the National Electrical Exposition this
evening, to demonstrate THE prompf
ness OF the modern teleSraphic service.
a message written by DR.. Depew and
addressed to Mr.. Edward ID. Adams.
President of the Cataract General Elec-
trio Company, was transmitted over the
lines and connections or the Postal Tele-
graph Gable Company from New York
vtm Chicago. Los Angeles. San Frnn-
cisco. Vancouver. Winnipeg and Canso.
to London and back, via Boston to New
York. Colonel Albert d. Chandler, presi-
dent and general manager OF the Postal
Telegraph Gable Company. adted as
the sending operator In the north bal
cony and started the message on its
long journey at 1894 O'Clock. Mr.. Thomas
Edison, who In his younger days was
also a telegraph operator, received the
message In the south balcony when 1t
came back. handing copy In his own
beautiful handwriting 60 Mr.. Adams
at s:3S O'Clock. the time occupied In car
rying the message $1,000 miles of part
of the Postal Telegraph Company's
overland and cable system being exactly
minutes. That portion of the cir
cult between New York and Buffalo
was energized with electricity gener-
ated by Niagara Falls to the plant of
the Cataract General Electric Company.
Mr.. Depew's message and Mr. Adams
reply were as follows.
May 18th, 1896
Edward d. Adams. New York, via San
francisco. via Vancouver, Montreal.
Canso. London, Lisbon. Bombay and
Toxic:
God created. nature treasures and
science utilizes electrical power for the
grandeur of nations and the peace of
the world.
signedl CHAUNCEY DBPBW.
cReply.")
Cauhcey M. Depew, New York, via
Toxic. Bombay. Lisbon. Canso, Mon
treal Vancouver and San Francisco:
Mighty Niagara, natures wonder, serv-
Ing man. through the worlds electric
circuit. proclaims to all peoples science,
triumphant and the benevolent creator.
lSigned) EDWARD ADAMS
When the message reached London O
copy was handed 10 the Eastern Tele-
graph Company, and was Forwarded by
1t over various lines and cables via Lis
bon. Glbralter, Malta. Alexandria, Suez,
Alden. Bombay, Madras, Singapore.
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Nagasaki,
TOXIC, Japan, returning thence via
London and reaching the Exposition
pnny and connections also transmitted
copy OF the message from New York
through Mexico, down the West coast
and up the East Coast of South America,
thence to Spain and back to New York,
the time occupied being twenty-one min
utes. The arrangements for Mr.. De-
pews oration and the demonstrations Of
what Is possible in long distance cleo
tricnl transmission were conceived and
carried out by Mr.. f. W. Hawley, vice
president and general manager OF the
Cataract General Electric Company,
which company furnished the current for
the initial circuit.
These demonstrations Of the annihi-
lation of time and space by means of
modern telegraph facilities are the most
extensive that have been undertaken
The invention of instruments and the
construction of the vast system of teie-
graph lines and cables which make
these remarkable feats possible have
all been the work of scarcely more than
fifty years, and a large portion OF II of
the last dozen years. No better illus
trations of the worlds progress during
the latter half of the 10Th century
could possibly have been devised The
very men who handled the message in
the hall are older than the science OF
which they are the masters. and many
are present tonight who remember the
occasion Of the sending of Morse's world
famous first message, What hath God
wrought" The instruments used were
OF the latest postal telegraph pattern
with aluminus levers. They are hand
somely mounted on ebony base. and Will
be presented to the Smithsonian Insti-
tute In Washington. together with att
tested records Is to the time occupied in
transmitting the message. and copies
OF every newspaper in the world In
which the occasion may be noticed
These Will be carefully preserved by
the Smithsonian Institute as evidence
to future generations OF the advanced
state of electrical science in this year
of 1896
Through courtesy of the Postal Tele-
graph Company. through Manager Ash
burn.