The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-18


 cation with each other. Thirty years ago there were 75,000 miles of wire in the United States; to-day there are l. 000,0 900 miles. Thirty years go 5000, 900 messages were annually transmitted by telegraph; now there are 60,000, 900. In a quarter of century the receipts of the telegraph companies have increased from $1000,000 to $25,000,000 a year, Since the opening of the telegraph the imports and exports of the United States have grown from $220 000, ,000 to $1, 600, 900 900, while the internal com merce of the century from about $,- 900, 900, ,000 has reached the fabulous fig ure of $25,000,000,000 a year.
 In twenty years the use of the tele- phone has become such a necessity in our daily life that the mileage of the telephone wires has increased to 600, ,000 miles, and the number of telephones to 100 900. Nothing more distinctly illus trates the truth of the charge that the Americans are a talking people, than the statistics of this wonderful instru- ment, for during the past year there were had over the telephone wires of the United States alone 670O00,0O con versations. And yet the telephone is only partially developed
 Time will permit only brief sugges- ton of the rapid introduction of elec- tricty into every department of indus try It furnishes power for the mill and the machine shop, it is the motor for the railway carriage, it heats and it cools. it fprges and it welds, and it extracts from the most stubborn ores ordinary minerals and precious metals. In our practical age the dividing line between the scientific toy and the prof itable power is the cost of production.
 This exposition illustrates another beneficent advance in electrical deVel- opment. It suggests an opportunity to escape from territorial limitations of coal and the prohibitive cost of trans portation. Wherever there are noun tains and lakes there is water power. That this power can generate electric ity has been known, but it's usefulness has been handicapped because the mill and factory could not be readily trans planted We are here, 450 miles from Niagara, and witnessing that the power generated there can be transmitted here It is demonstration of incalcul- dDlt ctluCs
 | The next feat of electricity, now al- most accomplished, is to be its use in | transportation It is to accelerate the speed and increase the comfort of the passenger train, and it is to be largely | the substitute for the horses for the re- volving wheels Of the freght car, for l the agricultural and the road wagon; l it Is to furnish the light for dwelling and factory, for hospital and highway; l it is to be the power for the machinery of the mill and the press of the news | paper; it is to be the motor for trans i portation by land and sea.
 | While Mr. Depew was delivering his speech, frequent cannon shots fired 1 from the roof the building announced l the arrival of the message at points where it had to be copied for transmits sion. This always happened where land and cable lines met.
 A large map of the world placed al l one end Of the hall showed, by means | of incandescent lights on it's surface the chief points touched by the mes. sage.
 The message sent by MT. Adams was returned soon after that sent by MT | Depew.
 | After both the messages had been re. 1 ceived, nearly one hundred of the per, sons present were entertained with ar electrically cooked supper by the Ma, | tional Exposition company.
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