Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-19
THE WONDERS OF TeLEGRAPHY.
Shown by Some Recent Very Interesting Ex
periments.

DIR. Chauncey NJ. Depew delivered an
Grafton on the Progress and Future OF
Electricity" To am audience of about ten
thousand people assembled in the hall of
the National Electrical Exposition, Satur
day evening.
To demonstrate the promptness of mod
ern Geographic services message written
by DIR. Depew and addressed to MIR. Ed
ward ID. Adams. president of the Cataract
General Electric Company. was trans
mittcd over the lines and connections of
the Postal Telegraph Cable Company
from New York. via Chicago. Los Ange-
les. San Francisco. Vancouver. Winnipeg
and CanSo. to London and back, via BoS-
ton to New York.
Col Albert r. Chandler. president and
general manager of the Postal Telegraph
Cable Company acted as the sending
opera tor in the north balcony. and started
the message on its long journey at s.34
o'clock. Mr.. Thomas a. Edison. who in
his younger days was also a telegraph
operator, received the message in the south
balcony when ii came back, handing
copy in his own beautiful hand writing. to
Mr.. Adams at SIS O'Clock the time occu-
pied In carrying the message over 1900
miles of part of the Postal Telegraph
CompanyS overland and cable system be-
ing exactly four minutes.
The portion of the circuit between New
York and Buffalo was energiZed with cleo
tricity generated by Niagara Falls at the
plant of the Cataract General Electric
Mr.. Depew's message and Mr. Adams
reply We're follows:
To Edward y. Adams. New York. via San
Francisco. Vancouver, Montreal Canso
London. Lisbon. Bombay and Toxic.
God created. nature treasures and
science utilities electrical power for the
granduer of nations and the peace of the
world. Chauncey NJ. Depew.
(Reply)
To Chauncey NJ. Depew New York via
Toxic. Bombay, Lisbon. London. Canso.
Montreal. Vancouver and San Francisco
Mighty Niagara. natures wonder serv-
ing man. through the worlds electric cir
cult. proclaimS to all peoples science tri-
umphant and the benevolent Creator.
Edward d. Adams.
When the message reached London. a
|. copy was handed to the Eastern Telegraph
various lines and cables via Lisbon, Glib
raltar. Malta; Alexandria. Suez. Alden.
Shanghai and Nagaski to Toxic. Japan.
returning thence via London and reach
| ing the Exposition Hall at 9.24.
The Western Union Company and con-
i nections 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 to New York, the time being
| twenty-one minutes.
The arrangements for Mr.. Depew's ora
| ton and the demonstration of what is
possible in long distance electrical trans
| mission We're conceived and carried out
| by Mr.. F. w. Hawley. vice president and
general manager of the Cataract General
| Electric Company, which company fur
| nished the current for the initial circuit.
| These demonstrations of the annihla-
| ton of time and space by means of mod
| ern telegraph facilities are the most eX-
| tensive that have ever been undertaken
| The invention of Instruments and the con-
| Struction of the vast system of telegraph
| lines and cables which make these re-
markable feats possible have all been the
work of scarcely more than fifty years and
a large portion of it of the last dozen
years.
No better illustration of the world s
| progress during the latter half of the 18th
| century could possibly have been devised
The very men who handled messages ii
| the hall are older than the science OF
| which they are the masters, and there are
| many present tonight who remember the
| occasion of the sending of Morses world
| famous first message: what hath God
wrought" The Instruments used were
Of the latest Postal Telegraph pattern
with aluminium levers. They are hand.
| somely mounted on an ebony base and
will be presented to the Smithsonian insti
| tute in Washington. together with at
| tested records as to the time occupied ir
| 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 as evidence to future genera.
tons of the advanced state of electrical
science in this year of 1896.