Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-05-30
lIlIHILATED. Time and Space are No Longer Considera-
 tiOnS.
TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE.
Electric Spark Flashed Around the Globe in Four Min
 uteS.

Dr. Chauncey M. Depew delivered al oration on the "Progress and Future O Electricity" to an audience of abou | 10000 people, assembled in the hall O ! the National Electrical exposition il New York. To demonstrate the prompt neae Q, modern telegraphic service, { message written by Dr. Dspew and ad dressed to Mir. Edward D. Adams, piesi dent of the Cataract General Electric company, was transmitted over the line' and connections of the Postal Telegraph Cable company from New York, vii Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco Vancouver, Winnepeg and Csnso, tC l Landon, and back via Boston to New York.
 Col. Albert B. Chandler, president and general m manager of the Postal Telegraph Cable company, acted as the sending operator in the north balcony. and start ed the message on It's long journey al S:34 o'clock. Mir. Thomas A. Edison, who in hls younger days was also tel eeraph operator. received the message Tn the south balcony when 1t came back, handing copy in his own beautiful hand writing to Mir. Adams at 8:3e o'clock.
 The time occupied Tn telegraphing the message over l5, GOO miles of a part O. the Postal oompany's overland and ca ble system being exactly four minutes. That portion of the circdit between New York and Buffalo was energized with electricity generated by Niagara Falls at the plant of the Cataract General Electric company.
 ar. Dspew's message and MT. Adams reply were as follows:
 New York, May 16, 1896 Edward D. Adams, New York, via San Francisco. Vancouver, Montreal, Conso. London, Lisbon, Bom bay and Toklo: God creat- ed p8ture treasures ard science utilizss electrical power for the grandeur of na- aions and the peace of the world.
 (Signed) CHAUNCEY M. DEPEw."
 (ReDly)
 "Chauncey M. Dspsw, New York. via Tokio, Bnm bay, Lisbon, London, Canso, Montreal, Vancouver and San Francisco: Niagara, natures wonder, serving man, through the worlds elec- trio circuit, proclsims to all peoples sci ence triumphant and the benevolent Creator.
 (Signed) EDWARD D. ADAMS"
 When the message reached London 6 copy was handed to the Esstern Tele- graph company, and WAS forwarded by 1t over vsrlOus lines and cables via l. L's- bon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Alden, Bombay, Madras, Singapore, Hong Kong. Shanghai and Nsgasaki, IokiO, JapsD, returning thence via Lon don and reaching the exposition hall at 9:24 o'clock.
 The Western Union company and connections also transmitted a 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 occu pied being twenty -one minutes.
 The arrangements for Mir. Depew's oration and the demonstrations of what is possible in long distance electrical trsnemission were conceived and carried out by Mir. F. w. Hawley. vice presi- dent and general manager of the Oatsr- act General Electric company, which company furnished She current for the initial circuit.
 These demonstrations of the annihila- tion of time and space by means of mod ern telegraphic facilities are the most extensive that have ever been undertsk- en. The invention of instruments, and the construction of the vast system of telegraph lines and cables which make these remarkable fests possible nave all been the work of scarcely more than fifty yeare, sRd large portion of it of the last dozen years.
 No better illustration of the worlds progress during the latter half of the nineteenth century could possibly have been devised. The very men who hand led the messages in the hall are older than the science of which they are the masters. and there were many present wbo remember the occasion of the send ing of Morse's world famous first mes- sage, What hath God wrought?"
 The instruments used were of the lat est Postal Telegraph pattern, with alum inium levers. They were handsomely mounted on an ebony base, and will be presented to the Smithsonian Insutu tion at Washington, togetter with rec ords attested as to the time occupied in transm,ttiog the message and copies of every newspaper in the world in which the occasion may be oticed. These will be carefully preserved by the Smithso- man Institution ss evidence to future generations of the advanced state of