People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-05-21
The Triumph OF EIec is.;y.
New York, May l6.-Dr. Chauncey
NJ. Dep0w delivered an grafton ON the


Progress and Future of Electricity
to an audience Of about l0.CO) people
assembled IN the hall Of the National
Electrical Exposition, this evening.
To demonstrate the prOmptuess OF
modern telegraph service, a message
written by DR.. Depew and addressed
to Mr.. Edward D. Adams, President
of the Cataract General Electric Com
} pany, was transmitted over the Ines
and connections of the Postal Tele-
graph Company from New York, via
Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Vancouver, Winnipeg and Canso, to
London, and back via Boston to New
, York.
| Col. Albert B. Chandler, President
and General Manager Of the Postal
Telegraph Cable Company, acted as
the sending operator in the north bal
cony, aud started the message on its
long journey at S:34 o'clock. Mr..
Thomas A. Edison, who in his younger
days was also telegraph opera g,
received the message in the south bal
cOny when il came back, handing a
copy in his beautiful handwriting to
Mr.. Adams at S:3S o'clock.
The time occupied in telegraphing
the message over $1,000 miles of a part
OF the Postal company's overland and
cable system being exactly four min
utes. That portion of the circuit be-
tween New York and Buffalo was
energized with electricity generated
by Niagara Falls at the plant of the
Cataract Electric Company.
/ Mr.. Depew's message and NJ.
Adams reply were as follows:
New York, May Is, Edward
D. Adams, New York, via San Fran
cisco, Vancouver, Montreal, Canso,
London, Lisbon, Bombay and Toxic:
God created, nature treasures and
science utilities electrical power for
the grandeur of nations and the peace
of the world.
(Signed) "CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEW.n
REPLY
"Chauncey NJ. Depew, New York,
via Toxic, Bombay, Lisbon, London,
I CansO, Montreal, Vancouver and san
Francisco: Mighty Niagara, Natures
wonder, serving man, through the
worlds electric circuit, prOclaims 10
all peoples science triumphant and the
benevolent Creator.
(Signed) EDWARD D. ADAMS
When the message reached London
a copy was handed to the Eastern
Telegraph Company, and was for
warded by it over lines and cables via
Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexander,
Suez, Alden, Bombay, Hong
Kong, Shanghai and Nagasaki, Toxic,
Japan, returning thence via London
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 occupied being twenty-one min
utes.
The arrangements for Mr.. Depew's
Grafton and the demonstrations of
what is possible in lOng-distance cleo
trical transmission were conceived and
carried out by Mr.. F. w. Hawley,
Vice President and General Manager
of the Cataract General Electric Com
pany, which company furnished the
current for the initial circuit.
These demons trations of the annihil-
alton of time and space by means of
modern telegraph facilities are the
most extensive that have ever been
undertaken. The invention OF instru-
ments and the construction of the
vast systems of telegraph lines and
cables which make these remarkable
feats possible have all been the work
Of scarcely more than fifty years, and
large portion of it of the last dozen
years.
No better illustration of the worlds
progress during the latter halfof the
nineteenth century could possibly
have been devised. The very men
who handled the messages in the hall
are older ttan the science of which
they are the masters, and there were
many 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
aluminium levers. They were hand
somely mounted on an ebony base,
and will be presented to the Smith