New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-17
FLASHED ROUND THE GLOBE
A GREAT TELEGRAPHIC FEAT AT THE
ELECTRICAL EXPOSITION.
MR. DEPEw SENDS A MESSAGE WHICH ALMOST
CIRCLES THE WORLD AND 1T Is RECEIVED
ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE
HALL IN FIFTY MINUTES
AFTER TRANSMISSION

HALL IN FIFTY MINUTES
AFTER TRANSMISSION.
Over ten thousand people visited the Electrical Ex-
position last night on the occasion of the great tele-
graphic feat of sending messages around the globe
From a box on side Of the Grand Central Palace
Chauncey NJ. Depew sent dispatch over the fostai
Telegraph wires 10 Edward d. Adams, the president
of the Niagara Power Company, and in box at the
opposite side OF the hail MIR. Adams dictated mes
sage back to Mr.. Depew. covering the same route
Both boxes decorated with flags Of the different
countries through which the dispatch would travel
and there were many foreign representatives pres
ent. Among those who took part in the proceedings
were Consul-General Percy Sanderson, Great Brit
ain: Consul-Generai August Feieel. Germany; Alex
ander Oarovsky, Russia; Arturo Baldesano, SPAIN
Consul-C neral Louis Forsyth Venezuela Consul
General Carlos Roh Argentine Republic; Consul
General T. Alexandra Santos Bolivia; Consu-6en-
era Antonio Forioura Xavier, Brazil; Consu-Gen-
eral FREDERICK A. Beelan. Chill. and Committeeman
Juan n. Navarro. Mexico.
THE MESSAGE.
At s:3i o'clock Mr. Depew handed the following
message TO A. b. Chandler, the president OF the
Postal Telegraph Company: God creates. nature
treasures, science ulzes electric power Tor the
grandeur of nations and the peace of the world
The exact moment Of the sending of the message on
its Journey around the earth was announced by the
firing of cannon on the roof OF the building In us
transit II first travelled via Chicago, Los Angeles
and San Francisco to Vancouver From the latter
place II was sent through Canada by way of Winnl-
peg Montreal and Canso and then cabled to London
from where II continued to Lisbon Gibraltar
through Malta Alexandria, suez and Bombay, to
Madras and thence via Singapore, Shanghai and
Nagasaki to Toxic from which centre 1t was sent
back by the same lines to London and to America
The message was received back in Mr.. Adams box.
at the Grand Central Palace by Thomas A. Edison.
at ?:2i having occupied an elapsed time of Just fifty
minutes.
-Four minutes after the dispatch of the mes
sage Mr. Adams forwarded an answer to Mr.. De-
pew along the Western Union wires over the same
route which real ne nrs snrrc CIR
cult procans to all pe9pIs science 81 M ds
message was exactly the same as In the previous
case the distance over which each one was sent
sent to galveston Tex to Mexico. right around the
South American continent. then 70 LISBON ahG Lon
which il covered Of about OcO miles was traversed
In twenty-one minutes. The receipt OF the messages
the exhibition by the firing Of the cannon and each
report met with hearty outburst OF cheering
MR. DEPEW's SPEECH.
During the time consumed in the sending Of the
first message from New-York around the world, Mr.
Depew delivered address, in the course OF which
he said:
There is a logical sequence in the processes OF
discovery we must devoutly recognize that the
cvcies OF time have been with all-wlse Provi-
dsnce years Of IS or
ton we place the demonstrations OF tne pres.n'
against the results OF the infinite past ana grate
fuIv saw I'VE are the heirs OF all the ages In the
foremost files of time" The earth yielded It's coal
when the water had developed steam. and the rude
ar pllcations OF iron evoiIted into the benencent
proc, sses OF Iyessemer, while the electricity OF the
air was being harnessed by science. ,
pieces OF amber together electricity was produced
The conclusion OF the scientists OF that period was
m nhtr
the universities and the learned electricity con-
tnued 10 be an Interesting toy and subject ior eH,
pertinent and yet an unknown factor for the use OF
han from the time OF this Greek philosopher down
almost TO our own day.
FRANKLIN AS A PHILOSOPHER.
The most practical philosopher who ever lived was
BENJAMIN Franklin. Theory and discovery were
worthless In his judgment unless they could be ut-
tied for some beneficial purpose He Became familiar
with an that was known Of this mysterious agent
and instantly inquired: From whence does 1t come
and ,ybnt can be done with H." the kite the string
ana the key In his hands wrested from nature her
boustIess storage battery OF electricity that the
thunder Is lts marching music and the lightning ts
UNFRAMED and undisciplined power scientists ana
oxpermcnters. working upon Frankn's great DIS
covery. continued cropping In the dark un hfty.Pne
years ago. when In the presence OF the doubling
Congress at Washington and the incredu'ous people
Of the country Morse flashed oyer the wiae between len
simultaneously transmitted. the first practical apph
cation Of rr1nS gra ss w sn ;Sd hath wrongh It
had ,aken ali The intervening time from Adam talk
ing to rye IN thc onrIn r od y,re 70 utze cleo
iriciy But The energy Of mi, liberated ana tdu-
Nmliless endcayor ana miraculous achievement Ten
years elapsed and then under the Atlantic Ocean
was sent over the cable from the Queen OF Great
Britain 10 the President OF the United states the
message Il friendship and peace between the Eng
Ush- sp,aklng nations Of the world. Twenty years
later The telephone engthenlng the lovers telegraph
from Zee; 10 miles. hnd annhlatcd space for the
sacred confidence OF The family ana The negotiations
Of business.
VICTORIES OF GENIUS.
Tho Egyptian Babylonlan and Assyran stories
are revealed TO us In the gigantic monuments
whose inscriptions scholars have declphered The
beauty and the height OF Grccan civilization, art
and literature are cmbalmed In a dead language
The rise. the rule for thousands OF years and the
fal OF Rome condensed In few volumes upon
the shelves OF the libraries. These events covered
unnumbercd centuries, and yet IN the huinanz MIA
ton, the elevation, the civilization ana me hdpp!-
OF the people Of n earth they ana nttle com
pared with the accomplishments OF inventive genus
during these four marvellous decadeS The electric
telegraph In lAJ. the cable in 1856 ana the tele-
phone in 1876 are part OF the victories We can only
measure the resuts Of these inventions by estimat-
ing their Influence upon commerce. transportation
and tho material development OF nations and the
effect Upon governments ana peoples Ti s'unss
ncous Communication with each other Thirty years
ago there 5000 miles OF wire In the United ne.
Sta;es: to-day there are 10aWN miles; Ihry
wears ago 5000 900 messages were annually trans
mtted by telegraph; now there are 6oooooe1: In
ruarter of century the receipts of the telegraph
companles have increased from 10000 to ;25 600
per wear Since the opening OF the telegraph the
imnorts and exports OF the United States have
crown from 0o to 81 GOO 600 0O0 while the In
ternal OF the country has grown , rom n.
about 81 600 the fabulous figure OF S2ooo"-
00O, 900 n year. ,,, ,.,. OIL, vyrl,,r
THOMPSON nj our Centennial Exposition in 1915,
after he had examined the telephone: What yes
today seen realized" In twenty years the use OF
the telephone has become such necessity IN , our
daiIv life that the mileage OF the telephone wires
had increased 10000 niles and The number tho, OF
,nonhones 10 700 coo Nothing more distinctly NUS
@ ~ ths truth of the charge that the Americans
are taking people than the th as yes of there's 5ns
VIZ rad over the telephone wires OF the United
ts aIore SO 600 900 conversations. And yet the
the telephone Is only partially developed
ELECTRICITY AND INDUSTRY
Time will permit only brief suggestion OF the
rapld Introduction of electricity into every depart.
rrant Of industry 1t furnishes power for the MIL
,A tho machine shop: 1t is the motor for the rail-