Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-17
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Electrical Exposition Hall New York,
May 16.-Dr. Chauncey N. Depew deliv-
cred an Grafton on THE Progress and
Future of Electricity" to an audience Of
about 10000 people assembled in the
hall of the National Electrical Exposi-
ton this evening.
To demonstrate the promptness OF
modern telegraphic service a message
written by DR.. Depew and addressed
to Mr.. Edward D. Adams, President of
Cataract General Electric Company.
was transmitted over the lines and con-
nections of the Postal Telegraph Cable
Company from New York via Chicago,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver,
Winnipeg and Canso to London and
back. via Boston to New York.
Col. Albert B. Chandler. President
and General Manager of the Postal Tel
sending operator in the north balcony
and started the message on its long
journey at S:34 o'clock. Thomas A. Ed
ison, who in his younger days was also
a telegraph operator, received the mes
sage in the north balcony when 1t came
back, handing a copy in his own beau
tiful handwriting to Mr.. Adams at S3S
o'clock, the time occupied in carrying
the message over 5000 miles of part
of the Postal Telegraph Companys
overland and cable system being exact
ly four minutes.
That portion Of the circuit between
New York and Buffalo was energised
with electricity generated by Niagara
Falls at the plant of Cataract Gener-
al Electric Company.
Mr.. Depews message and Mr.. Ad-
ans reply were as follows.
New York, May 16, 1S96.-Edward L.
Adams, New York, via San Francisco,
Vancouver, Montreal, Canada, London,
Lisbon. Bombay and Toxic: God cre-
ated, nature treasures and science util-
ICES electrical power for the grandeur
OF nations and the peace of the world.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEW.
Reply:
To Chauncey N. Depew New York. via
Toxic, Bombay, Lisbon-..s ;@.0i!s = -, -
so, Montreal, Vancouver and San Fran
cisco: Mighty Niagara. Natures won
der, serving man, through the worlds
electric circuit, proclaims to all peoples
science triumphant and the benevolenq
creator.
(Signed), EDWARD. D. ADAMS.
When the message reached London
copy was handed to the Eastern Tele-
graph Company and was forwarded by
it over various lines and cables by Lis
bon, Gibralter Melta, alexandria. Suez.
Alden, Bombay, Madras, Singapore,
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Nagasaki to
Toxic, Japan, returning thence via
London. and reaching the exposition
hall at 9:24.
The Western Union Company and
connections 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
occupied Delng Il minutes.
The arrangement for Mr.. Depews
oration and the demonstrations of what
is possible in long distance electrical
transmission were conceived and car
ried out by Mr. F. w Hawley. vice
president and general manager Of the
Cataract General Electric Company,
which company furnishes the current
for the initial circuit.
These demonstrations Of the annihila-
tion Of time and space by means OF
modern telegraph facilities are tho
most extensive that have ever been un-
dertaken. The invention Of instru-
ments and the construction Of the vast
system of telegraph lines and cables,
which make these remarkable feats pos
sible have all been the work OF scarce
" more than fifty years, and a large
proportion of it, Of the last dozen years.
No better illustration Of the worlds
progress during the latter half CT the
nineteenth century could possibly have
been devised.
The very men who handled the mes
sages in 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 Morse's world famous first
message. What hath God wrought
The instruments used were OF the
latest postal telegraph pattern with
aluminium levers. They are handsome
" mounted on an ebony base and will
be presented to the Smithsonian In
etitute in Washington together with at
tested records as 10 the time occupied
in transmitting the message, and copies
of every newspaper in the world IN
which the occasion may be noted.
These will be carefully preserved by
the Smithsonian Institute as evidence
10 future generations Of the advanced
state of electric science in this year OF
1896.
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