The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-18
AROUND THE BUSY WORLD
MR. DEPEW's WORDS SENT BY TnE
 WEsIERN UNION COMPANY

an Answer in Fifty Minutes-Cooking by
 Electricity.
 New York, May 1.-The transmits sion of messages over long distance tel egraph and cable circuits by the Postal Telegraph and Western Union Tele- graph companies last night at the Ma tional Electrical exposition was a bril- liant success.
 in eleven minutes and half the return of message sent through 27,500 miles of wire. The Postal Telegraph compa- ny received in fifty minutes the return of message sent through about S0,000 miles of wire. The points reached by the two companies were not identical.
 The message itself, which was writ en by Chauncey M. Depew, was as fol- lows:
 God created, nature treasures, sci ence utilizes electric power for the grandeur of nations and the peace of the world"
 The main hall and galleries of the electrical show in the Grand Central Palace were densely crowded at eight o'clock last night, when those concern ed in the sending and receiving of the messages began to arrive. Three boxes fitted up with the necessary telegraphic apparatus had been reserved for the occasion.
 The Western Union officers occupied 4lo o+ bn oos stA end If the gallery. This box was decorated
 with the United States flag, and with
 the flags of Central and South Ameri- can nations, as the Western Unions message passed chiefly through these countries. Vice President John Van Horne of the Western Union company was in charge of this box, and his send ing operator was Charles A. Tinker, general manager for the company, while his receiving operator was G. w. I Dickson.
 The Postal Telegraph company had s two boxes, one at each corner of the western end of the gallery. In one box were MT. Depew, Speaker Hamilton I Fish of the state assembly, President 4 A. B. Chandler of the Postal Telegraph { company, John W.MackayA H. J. Smith, president of the Exposition company, \ and others. In the other boxes were \ Thomas A. Edison, Edward D. Adams, president of the Niagara Falls Power a company; Francis Lynde Stetson, Spen- 8 cer Trask, Edward Wickes and Mayor Wurster of Brooklyn.
 Mr. Depew gave out his message at ' 8:35 clock D. m., and President Chand- z Ter became his operator for the Postal Telegraph company. The message was dispatched in three minutes, and one # minute later-at 8: 8:39-Mr. Edison re- 18 ceived a signal on his instrument that # the first word had reached London, af- ter passing from this city to Chicago, M Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancou- yer, Winnipeg, Montreal. Cape Breton, K and Ireland.
 x In London the message was copied N by the Eastern Telegraph company and was at once dispatched to Tokio, Japan, by way of Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, AL M exandria, Alden, Bombay, Madras, Sim N gapore Hongkong, Shanghai, and Nag x asaki The message was returned to B London by the same route and to New N York by way of Cape Breton and Bos- H ton, the first word reaching here in fifty E# minutes dlLGI IL Ildu UeCil III SI uiopebeSI- K ed from New York
 The Western Union sent off MT. De- E pew's message at the same moment as the Postal Telegraph company, the E route being by way of Chicago, to San K Francisco, to Los Angeles, St. Louis, K and Galveston, making in this country K circuit of 10000 miles. At Galveston E the message was given to the Mexican E Telegraph company and the Central E and South American Telegraph com K pany, by which it was taken to Mexico. N San Juan St. Elena, Chorilles, and N Valparaiso, Chile, thence by land line N across South America to Buenos Ayres, H where it was handed to the River Plate, I Western and Brazilian, and Brazilian ! Submarine companies, by which it was taken by, way of Rio Janeiro, Pernam- ! buco, and St. Vincent to Lisbon. From 1 Lisbon it went to Penzance, England, and thence, by the Western Unions At
 lantic cable by way of Cape Breton, it
 was returned to New York;
 After the first message had been dis
 patched a second one, written by Ed
 ward D. Adams, was sent out over the
 same routes. It was as follows
 Chauncey M. Depew, New York:
 Mighty Niagara, natures wonder,
 serving men through the worlds elec-
 tric circuit, proclaims to all peoples sci
 ence triumphant and the benevolent
 Creator.
 The allusion to Mr. Adams message
 to Niagara was because the current
 generated there was used to energize
 the telegraphic circuits
 When both messages had been dis
 patched MT. Depew, who was introduce
 ed to the audience by Speaker Fish, de-
 livered his oration on "Electricity
 Down to Date," which was, in part, as
 follows:
 Scientists and experimenters work
 ing upon Franklin's great discovery
 continued groping in the dark until
 forty-one years ago. when, in the pres
 ence of the doubting congress at Wash
 ington and the incredulous people of
 the country, Morse flashed over the
 wire line between the capitol and Bal
 timore the first message ever instan-
 taneously transmitted, the first prac-
 tical application of Franklin's kite and
 key, this beautiful and concentrated
 epigram, What God hath wrought"
 We can measure the results of these
 Inventions only by estimating their in-
 luence upon commerce, transportation,
 and the material development of na-
 lions and the effect uDOn governments