The San Francisco call., 1896-05-17
Marvellous Illustrations of Teleg.
raphy at the Electrical
Exposition.
MESSAGES AROUND THE WORLD
Part of the Circuit Is Energized BY
Niagara-Relics for the Smith.
sonian Institution.

ELECTRICAL EXPOSITION HALL,
New YORK, n. Y. May 16.-Dr. Chauncey
NJ. Depew delivered an grafton on the
Progress and Future of Electricity to
an audience of about 10000 people, assem-
bIed in the hall of the National Electrical
Exposition, this evening. To demonstrate
the promptness of modern telegraphic
service a message written by DR.. Depew
and addressed to Edward 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 Chi
cago, Los Angeles, San Francisco Van
couver, Winnipeg and Canso to London
and back, via Boston, to New York.
Colonel Albert B. Chandler, president
and general manager of the Postal Tele-
graph-Cable Company. acted as the send
ing operator in the north balcony and
started the message on its long journey at
S:34 o'clock. Thomas a. Edison, who in
his younger days was also an operator, re-
ceiyed the message in the south balcony
when it came back, handing copy in his
own beautiful handwriting to Mr.. Adams
at 8 :3S o'clock the time occupied IN carry
ing the message over $4,000 miles of part
of the Postal Companys overland and
cable system being exactly four minutes.
That portion of the circuit between New
York and Buffalo was energized by elec-
tricity generated by Niagara Falls at the
plant of the Cataract General Electric
Company. Mr.. Depew's message and Mr..
Adams reply were as follows:
May 16.-No. L. To Edws d D. Adams, New
York, via San Francisco Vancouver, Montreal,
Canso, London, Lisbon, Bombay and Toxic:
God created, nature treasures and science
utilizes electrical power for the grandeur of
nations and the peace OF the world:
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw.
The reply was:
To Chauncey NJ. Depew, New York, via
Toxic, mbay, Lisbon, London, Canso, Mon
treal, Vancouver and San Francisco: Mighty
Niagara, natures wonder, serving man through
the worlds electric circuit, proclaims to all
the peoples science triumphant ana the bene-
VIOLENT Creator. EDWARD d. ADAMS
When the message reached London a
copy was handed to the Eastern Telegraph
Company and was forwarded by it over
various lines and cables by Lisbon, Glib
raltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Alden,
Bombay, Madras, Singapore, Hongkong,
Shanghai and Nagasaki TO Toxic, japan,
returning thence via London and reach
ing the exposition hall at 9:24
The Western Union Company and con.
nect1ons 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 10 New York, the time occupied be-
ing twenty-one minutes.
The arrangements for Mr.. Depews ora
tion and the demonstration of what is pos
sible in long distance electrical transmits
sion were conceived and carried out by 4.
w. Hawley, vice. president and general
manager of the Cataract General Electric
Company, which company furnished the
current for the initial circuit. These dem
onstrations of the annihilation of time
and space by means of modern telegraphy
are the most extensive that have ever been
undertaken. The invention of instru-
ments and the construction of the vast
system 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 the
last dozen years.
No better illust ration of the worlds
progress during the latter half of the MIN
teenth century could possibly have been
devised. The very men who handled the
message in the hall are older than the
science OF which they are the masters, and
there are many present tonight who re-
member the occasion of the sending of
Morse's world-famous first message, "What
hath God wrought ?" The instruments
used are OF the latest Postal Telegraph pat
tern, with alum mum levers.
They are handsomely mounted on ebony
bases and will be presented to the Smith
sonian Institution al Washington, together
with attested records as to the time occu-
pied 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 Smith
sonian Institution as evidence to future
generations of the advanced state of elec-
trical science in this wear of Sq6