The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-17
Was Morse's Message From Bal.
timore to Washington
MEN WHO WERE LIVING THEN
Gather 20 See the Worlds Electrical
Girdle Completed
The Tremendous Development Of Fifty Years
Exemplified by the 1anagers of the
Electrical Exposition
Compliments of the Pacific Postal Tele-
graph liable COMPANY

Compliments of the Pacific Postal Tele-
graph-Cable Company.
ELECTRICAL EXPOSITION HALL,
NEW YORK, May 16-Dr. Chauncey M.
Depew delivered an oration on the Prog
ress and Future of Electricity to an
audience of about 10000 people assem-
bled In the hall of the national cleo
trical exposition this evening. TO DEM
onstrate the promptness of modern
telegraphing service, a message written
by DR.. Depew ana addressed to Mr.. Ed
ward d. Adams. president of the Cata-
ract General Electric company, was
transmitted over the lines and connec-
tions of the Postal Telegraph and Gable
company from New York, via Chicago,
to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Van
couver, Winnipeg and Canso, to Lon
don and back via Boston to New York.
Col. Albert B. Chandler. president and
general manager of the Postal Tele-
graph Gable company. acted as thN
sending operator in the north balcony,
and started the message on its long
journey at S:34 o'clock. Mr.. Thomas A.
Edison, who in his younger days was
also a telegraph operator received the
message in the south balcony when it
came back, handing copy in his own
beautiful handwriting, to Mr. Adams at
S:3S o'clock. the time occupied in carry
ing the message over 15000 miles of the
Postal company's overland and cable be-
ing exactly four minutes. That portion
of the circuit between New York and
Buffalo was energized with electricity
generated by Niagara falls at the plant
of the Cataract General Electric COM
pany
Mr.. Depew's message and Mr.. Adams
reply were as follows:
May 16. To Edward D. Adams, New
York via, San Francisco, Vancouver.
Montreal Canso, London, Lisbon Bonn
bay and Tokio.-God created natures
Q1aptrfcQI
power for the grandeur of nations and
the peace of the world.
"(Signed) CHAuNCEY M. DEPEW."
The reply is as follows:
ITO Chauncey M. Depew, New York.
via Toxic, Bombay Lisbon, London,
Canso, Montreal, Vancouver and San
Francisco-Mighty Niagara, natures
wonder, serving man through the
worlds electric circuit, proclaims to all
the peoples science triumphant and the
benevolence of the Creator.
"(SigneD EDWARD d. ADAMS"
When the message reached. London a
copy was handed to the Eastern Tele-
| graph company, and was forwarded by
it over the various lines and cables by
Lisbon, Gibraltar Malta. Alexandria,
/ SueZ, Alden. Bombay. Madras Singa-
| pore, Hongkong. Shanghai and Naga-
| saki to Toxic Japan, returning thence
via London, ard reaching the exposi-
tion hall at 1924. The Western Union
transmitted a CODY of the message from
New York through Mexico. down the
west coast and UP the east coast Of
South America, thence to Spain ana
back to New York, the time occupied be-
ing tWenty-one minutes.
The arrangement for Depew's oration
and the demonstration of what is possi-
bic in long distance electrical transmits
sion We're conceived and carried out by
Mr.. F. w. Hawley. vice-president and
general manager of the Cataract Cen
eral Electric company. which company
furnished the current for the initial cir
cult.
These demonstrations of the annihil-
alton of time and space by means Of
modern telegraphy are the most extern
SiVe that have ever been undertaken.
The invention of Instruments and the
construction Of the vast system Of tel
egraph lines and cables which mako
these remarkable feats possible have
all been the work of scarcely more than
fifty years. and large portion of it ot
| the last dozen years.
| No better illustration of the worlds
progress during the later half of tho
nineteenth century could possibly hav.
| been devised The very men who ham
| died the message in the hall are older
than the science Of which they are tho
masters, and there are many present to-
| night who remember the occasion Of the
sending of Morse's world famous mes
sage, What hath God wrought" The
| instruments used are of the latest Postal
| Telegraph pattern, with aluminium lev
| ers. They are handsomely mounted on
| ebony bases and will be presented to the
| Smithsonian institution in Washington,
| together with attested records as to the
| time occupied in transmitting the mes
| sage, and copies of every newspaper IN
! the world In which the occasion may be
/ noticed
These will be carefully preserved by
| the Smithsonian institution as evidence
to future generations of the advanced
state of electrical science in this year Of