The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-05-28
EDTTOR'S CHAT.

aporND THE WORLD IN FIFTY MINUTES.
The most marvellous achievement growing
out Of tie Electrical Exposition going on IN
New York was the triumph OF the telegraphle
experiment to send q swift message around the
world Inasmucb as the Electrical Exposition
is operated BY water-power from Niagara tails,
at distance of $50 miles, ii may now be said
that the same Yankee ingenuity that chained
the lightning is utilizing the thunders OF the
cataract to bless mankind.
The Western Union aud the Postal Telegraph
Co. were represented, respectively, in box, on
one side OF the Electrical Exposition, by Chas-
A. Tinker and Prof. A. b. Chandler, who were
to send out messages prepared On the oiher
side Of the Exposition, in another box, were
the receiving operators, G. w. Dickinson Tor
she Western Union and Thomas a. Edison iof
the Postal.
The message to be sent was prepared by Hon.
Chauncey NJ Depew. and read as follows:
God creates, nature treasures science util-
ICES electrical power for the grandeur OF ma
tions and the peace OF the world"
Though so near together In the same build
ing the sending and receiving boxes were over
$1,000 miles apart by electrical connections.
Relays were many. but each company had sent
and their best operators at their posts. when
the cable changed to land line an operator
had 10 repeat it, The routes over which the
message WAS sent follow:
The Western Union route was from New
York 10 Galveston, via Chicago, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, and ST. Louis; from Galveston,
over the lines of the Mexican Telegraph Com
pany and the Central aud South American
Telegraph Company, about 6 500 miles, by way
of Mexico Nicaragua Ecuador. and Peru, to
Chile: thence by land line over the Andes
Mountains to Buenos Ayres From there to
the cables Of the River Plntte over the lines oil
the Western and Brazilian aud the Brazilian
Submarine Telegraph Companies. about 5000
miles. via Rio Janero. Peiuambuco, and ct.
Vincent. to Lisbon. From Lisbon, over the
cables oil the Eastern Company, about liUOU
miles. TO Penzance. England. Thence over
Western Union Atlantic cables, via Canso,
r. S. TO New York, about a 600 miles.
The Pos al Telegraph Company's route was
from New York TO Los Angeles north TO San
Francisco aud Vancouver east from there, via
Ninnepeg Montreal, aud Canso, over cables TO
London aad thence back TO Boston and New
York From London again over Government
and other lines, via Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta,
Alexandria. and Bombay, 10 Toxic, japan, and
returning to New York by the same route,
thus crossing North America twice, the At
lsntic 0ce4n. Europe, Asia, aud Africa
Just fosr minutes after Prof. Chandler sent
out the message from the Postal box Edison
key clicked, announcing its arrival in L%ndon,
having travelled from New York TO San Fran
cisco aud back to Canso, Novo Scotia, thence
by cable TO London.
In ILL., minutes after General Manager Till
koT sent out tie message or the Western Union,
the receiving box announced its arrival IN
London, after 10000. siile trip, first TO Los
Angeles then 10 Galveston. City of Mexico.
Valparaiso. Buenos Ayres, PcrnamDuco, across
the Atlantic Id I.igOn then a Landau.
just 20 minutes from the time the Postal
sent cut the message, LdisOn's instrument
clicked, aud DIR. Depew's words came back
FROM their journey Of 27,500 miles, without
the 81 giIicst change even in pHnetHalion-a
tribute 10 the accuracy Of the operators the
world over.
The message after leaving London, had been
to Lisbon, SBez Aden Bombay, Madras, Singa-
pore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nagaseki, aud
Toxic; returning via thc same route to New
York.
The Depew message sent by the Western
Union made the South American route to
Lisbon aud return via Nova Scotia in q
minutes.
message sent out By tie Postal route, from
Edward d. Adams TO DIR. Depew, made the
A,5OO-mile trip in &c minutes, and WAS as
follows:
Natures wonders, serving man through
the worlds electric route proclaim TO ali peo-
pies science triumphant and the benevolent
Creator"
While the messages were on their travels,
DIR Depew delivered an address upon the de-
VelopmeBt Of electrical inventions, from which
are the following extracts. When the tclo-
graphic test was over, dainty supper, cooked
By electricity, was served the scientific party.
P2oGKEss or DISCOVERY.
DIR. Deprw said "There is a logical sequence
IN the processes OF .scovery. We must de-
vOutly recognize that the cycles Of time have
been, with all-wse Providence years OF
preparation for the development which we
celebrate. Without Boosting or exaggeration,
we place the demonstrations Of the preseut
against tho results Of the infinite mast and
gratefully say We are the heirs Of all the
ages IN the foremost files Of time The earth
yielded its coal when the water had developed
steam, amd The rude application of iron pro-
Rressed iuto the beneGcent processes of Bessc-
MGR, while the electricity Of the air was being
hnrnessed by science
we can only measure the results OF these
inventions by estimating their influence upon
commerce, transportation, aud the material de.
velopment Of Nations, and the effect upon Gov
ernments aud peoples Of instantaneous COM
mnnlcation with each other. Thirty years ago
there were -, 600 miles Of wire in the United
States to-day there are ], 600, 900 miles Thirty
years ago 100000 messages were annually
transmitted by telegraph; now there are 60
oO0000. in quarter Of a century the receipts
Of The telegraph companies have increased from
s70Oooo0 10 $3.50 600 per year.
WATER POWER AND ITS USES
"This exposition illustrates another benef-
cent advance ia electrical Development. IL
suggests an opportunity OF escape from terrific
rial limitations OF coal, aud the prolibitive cost
OF transportation. Wherever there are mount
aims and lakes there is water power That
this power generate electricity has been
known. but its usefulness has been hanGi.
capped because the mill aud factory could not
be readily transplanted. The most sublime
concentration Of continuing force ia the world
is Niagara Falls.
We here $50 miles from Niagara aud
witnessing that the power generated there can
be transmitted here. 1t is demonstration oi
incac-lable value III will redeem the waste
places OF the world. The tnmbling torrent
WIFI become the treasuro-house of nations
Wherever water flows electrical power may be
generated, which, transmitted great distances
will create the mill, the factory and the furnace
and give that employment to capital and labor
which relieves the farmhouse of its surplus oil
boys aud girls and gives the farm the profit.
able market in a ncghboring scat Of pOpuia