The Indianapolis journal., 1896-05-17
DIR. Chauncey NJ. Depew ON the Growth
OF the Telegraph and the Telephone
Since Their InventiOn.
MESSAGE AROUND THEWORLD
FEATs PERFORMED BY
THE POSTAL AND WESTERN UNION.
The Globe Nearly Circled I'm Four
Used by the Space Annihilators.

NEW YORK, May 16.-Dr. Chauncey NJ.
Depew delivered an Grafton on the Progress
and Future of Electricity to an audience
of about ten thousand people assembled in
the hall of the National Electrical EXPOSE
ton this evening. To demonstrate the
promptness of modern telegraphic service,
a message was written by DR.. Depew and
addressed to Mr.. Edward d. Adams, presi-
dent of the Cataract General Electric Com
pany, was transmitted over the lines and
connections of the Postal Telegraph Cable
Company, from New York, via Chicago Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Winni-
peg and Canso, to London and back via
Boston to New York. Colenel Albert B.
Chandler, president and general manager Of
the Postal Telegraph Gable Company. acted
as the sending operator in the north balcony
and started the message on its long jour-
ney at S:4 o'clock. Mr.. Thomas A. Edison,
who, in his younger days was also tele-
graph operator, received the message in the
south balcony when 1t came back, handing
a copy in his own handwriting to ;dr.
Adams, at S:3S o'clock, the time occupied in
carrying the message over fifteen thousand
miles of a part of the Postal Company S
overland and cable system. being exactly
four minutes. That portion of the circuit
between New York and Buffalo ener-
gized with electricity generated by Niagara
falls at the plant of the Cataract General
Electric Company. Mr.. Depews message
was as follows:
ITO Edward A. 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 peace OF the word"
'CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEW."
Mr.. Adams's reply to the above was
ITO 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 words electric circuit
proclaims 10 AL people science triumphan,
and the benevolent nj, {, Creator .n,s,
When the message reached London copy
was handed to the Eastern Telegraph Com
pany and was forwarded by 1t over various
lines and cables via Lisbon, Gibraltar,
Malta. Alexandra. Suez. Alden. Bombay.
Madras, Singapore, Hong Kong Shanghai
and Nagasaki, to Toxic, Japan, returning
thence via London and reaching the exposi-
ton hall at S:SS o'clock The Western
Union Company and connections also trans
mitted 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 being twenty-one minutes.
The arrangements for Mr.. Depews oration
and the demonstration of what is possible in
long distance electrical transmission were
conceived and carried out Mr.. T. Hawley.
vice president and general manager OF the
Cataract General Electric Company. which
company furnished the current for the in
itial circuit. These demonstrations Of the
annihilation of time and space by means of
modern telegraph facilities were the most
EXTENSIVE that have ever been undertaken.
The invention of instruments and the con-
struction of the vast system of the telegraph
lines and cables which makes these remark
able feats possible nave all Deem TIE work
Of scarcely more than fifty years, and a.
large portion of IT, of the last dozen years.
No better illustration of the worlds prog
ress during the latter half of the nineteenln
century could possibly have been devised.
The very men who handled the messages in
the hall are older than the science of waicn
they are the masters, and there were many
present tonight who remember the occas sion
or the sending of Morse's worid-famous first
message: What hath God wrought"
Tine instruments used were or the latest
Postal Telegraph pattern, with aluminium
levers. They are handsomely mounted on
an ebony base and will be presented to the
Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, to-
gether with atteSted records as to the time
occupied III transmitting the message ana
copies of every newspaper in the world liz
which the occasion may be noticed. These
will be carefully preserved by the Smithson-
ian Institution as evidence to future gener-
ations of the advanced state OF electrical
science in this year of 1896.
Another dispatch regarding the message
sent around the world says: THE message
over the wires of the Western Union Gem
pany made a circuit between New York and
Galveston of ten thousand miles. 1t went by
way of Chicago. San Francisco, Los Angeles
and st. Louis. AT Galveston it was handed
to the Mexican Telegraph Company and
transmitted by way of Mexico. San Juan,
Nicaragua, St. ELENA, Ecuador, Chorilos,
Peru, Valparaiso. Chilli. thence over the An
des mountains to Rio Janeiro. Pernambuco.
ST. Vincent to Lisbon. From Lisbon II
went TO Penzance. England. returning over
the Western Union Atlantic cable to New
York. The total circuit traversed was 1850
miles. practically circ.ing the western hemis
phere, crossing the Atlantic and touching
Europe on its return. -Four minutes after tho
first. message was sent out ii was repeated
from London. after circling North America,
The first message was sent out at 1884 and
received at 9:24. requiring fifty minutes for
transmission. The second message was sent
out at $40 and received at $40.