Evening journal., 1896-04-23
TO GIRDLE THE EARTH.
Depew viii Try to Telegraph
Around the Globe.
POWER GENERATED AT NIAGARA.


1t Promises TO De the Greatest Test Yet
Made In the Science Of Electricity-De.
pew Composing an Epicram which
win Go Into History.
NEW YORK, April Chauncey NJ.
Depew expects 10 perform on May the
greatest triumph Of modern electrical sci
ence. Ho expects to rival the famous first
telegraph message, What hath God
wrought, with al epigrammatio sen
tence that Is to be sent around the world
by current of electricity generated by
the power Of Niagara falls.
For many days Mr. Depew has beer
studying over what is to be heralded as hi
greatest epigram. 1t must not be more
than dozen words in length, and It must
express the master thought Of a master
mind. All this famous takers eloquence
all his learning and all his ready wit mus
be concentrated in the one sentence.
Tho object of sending this message ie
20 demonstrate the triumph Of electricity
over distance. Telegraph wires and cable
reach now TO nearly all parts OF the world
and some Of them make single jumps oil
hundreds Of miles, but everywhere through
out the telegraph and cable system ther,
are unavoidable delays, and messages are
often repeated before they reach their des
tination.
With the power of Niagara falls the
greatest electric power In the world is gen.
Grated for the purpose Of distributing it
to many points Electricians have said
that long distance transmission of elec
trioity is impossible. Nicola Tesla said h.
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 Mad
ison Square Garden May 4, and the cleo
trio power generated at Niagara Falls
viii bo transmitted to New York on ordi
nary telegraph wires of the Western Union
company. II will be made TO demonstrate
that $40 miles is comparatively nothing
for electricity to jump.
Continuous Current Around the World.
Then DR.. Depew will make the grea
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 E. ID. Adams
or T. w. Hawley of the Niagara corpora
tion, will DO telegraphed from Madison
Square Garden over "a, 600 miles of cable
and be received again in the same room
accompanied by the certificates Of tele
graph managers at the various points OF
and IL touches. The electric tour VIII be
over in very few minutes, but just how
long it Is impossible to say.
The message leaving New York will 60
over the Western Union cable to Penzance
England, thence onward to Lisbon and
underneath the Mediterranean sea, com
ing to dry land again at Suez, to run
along the famous canal, and then diving
under the Red sea to emerge at Alden.
There, borne along by the power of Niaga
ra, IL will pass under the Indian ocean T.
Bombay, across India to Madras, and un
der water again to Singapore, on the Ma
lay peninsula. The next place IL will b.
heard Of is in a desolate spot on the north
ern shore of Australia, and then in Mel
bourne and Sydney
II there was a cable under the Pacific
ocean, DIR. Depew's epigram could make a
circuit Of the world complete by long
dive under the sea to San Francisco, hui
that cannot be done. So the message will
rebound on its trail, and by running along
tho east coast of Africa reach Cape Town.
Then il viii jump 10 Lisbon again and
start across the Atlantic ocean to Pernam
buoo, Brazil. South America will be the
last continent touched, and with one mope
flash under the seas it viii be back in New
York I
Dr. Dopew was selected to send this
message, said Mr.. Hawley, because hi
fame has spread throughout the world
more perhaps than that Of any living
American. We concluded, too, that If he
could not clear tho track for grand fly
ing tour of the world then no one elsn
could. The various telegraph and cable
companies have generously entered into
the project, and the message will demon
strate the great powers Of electricity in
this direction.