The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-18
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ELECTRICAL HALL, NEW YORK,
May 17.-Dr chauncey NJ. Dspcw delIv-
cred an Grafton on the Progress and
Future Of Electricity" to an audience
Of about 1000 people, assembled In the
hall OF the National Electrical Expo
sItlon yesterday evening.
To demonstrate the promptness OF
modern telegr4phiC service, a mesSage
written by Or! Depew, and addressed
10 Edwin D. Adams, president Of the
Cataract General Electric Company,
was transmitted over the lines and
connections OF the Postal Telegraph
Gable Company from New York via
Chicago, LOS Angeles, San Francisco,
Vancouver, Winnipeg and CanBo, to
London and back. via Boston, to New
York, Colonel Albert B. Chandler, pres
ldent and general manager OF the Pos
tai TeleRFaph-Cable Company. acted as
the sending operator, In the north bal.
c0ny, and started the message on Its
Journey at S;N O'Clock. Thomas Ed
son, who in his younger days was a
telegraph operator, received the mes
sage In the south balcony when It came
buck. handing copy in his own beau.
tiful hand writing to Mr.. Adams at S:SS
o'clock The time occupied In carrying
the mesEnGe over 1900 miles OF a part
Of the Postal Telegraph Company's ov.
erlHnd and cable system was exactly
four minutes. That portion OF the cir.
cult between New York and Buffalo
was CnerRized with electricity genera
ted by Niagara Falls, at the plant OF the
Cataract General Electric Company
Mr. Denew's message and Mr..
Adams'sc reply were as follows:
Edward D. Adams. New York, via
San Francisco. Vancouver, Montreal.
Canso, London. Lisbon, Bombay and
Toxic.
God created, nature treasured. and
science utlllzes electrical power for the
grandeur of nations and the peace Of
"cHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw."
ITO ChnuneeX N. Depew. New York,
May lG, via Toxic, Bombay. Lisbon,
London, Canso, Montreal, Vancouver
and San Francisco.
mighty Niagara, natures wonder
serving man, through the worlds cleo
trio circuit, proclRlns TO all peoples,
science triumphant and the benevolent
Creator.
edward D. ADAMS"
When the message reached London, a
copy was handed To the Eastern Tele-
graph Company, and was forwarded by
u over the various lines and cables via
Lisbon, Gibraltar. Malta. Alexandria,
SueE, Alden, Bombay. Madras, SInga.
pore. Hong Kong, Shanghai. and Nag.
aSaki, to Toxic, Japan, returning thence
Win London.and reaching the exposition
hall at 1924. The Western Union Com
ali =
copy OF the message from New York
thdouEh Mexico, down the west coast,
and up the east coast OF South Amerl-
ca. thence to Spain and back to New
York, the time occupied being twenty
one minutes.
The arrangements for Mr.. Depew's
Grafton and the demonstrations OF
what II possible In long distance elec.
trlcal transmission were conceived and
carried out by F. w. HaWlcy, vice pres
ideut and general manager OF the Cata-
Tact General Electric Company, which
company furnished the current for the
initial circuit, These demonstrations
Of the humiliation OF time and space,
by means Of the modern telegraph facll-
tiles, are the most extensive that have
even been undertaken. The invention
OF instruments and the construction Of
AAAG ass SSSN vi tGAGEl apAllC IlIltb ana
cables which make these remarkable
featS possible have all been the work
of scarcely more than ilfty years, and
O large portion OF Il 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
handled the science Of which they are
the masters, and there were many pre-
sent 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 Smithsonian
Institution in Washington. together
with Httested records as 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. us evidence
to future generations OF the advanced
state OF electrical science in this year
Of 1888.