Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-02

STORY OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE. =

cry from the ship. as II once mora tho
cable was wounded ana In main ,The
electricians looked grave. for rho IN
sulatlon was completely destroved ana
me electric current was escanins, 80
the sea. P"'e ii''
me cable was hauled In till the de-
iectVe part was brought up from m.
DOitoh' IN water two miles deep. Now
NHlalhy was suspected and a man was
arrested VINO confessed that he had
peeh hlred to do the injury. strict
Watch thereafter was kept TN mid
ocean was reached, and an appeared to
oe gong prosperously But few
leagues further and a sudden termIna-
lloh came TO their hopes. They had
run out about 1900 miles Of cable and
were now within 1900 miles of New
touhdidnd What happened was this.
grating sound was heard. as If a
piece OF wire had caught In the ma
chincry, and soon another fault had
passed over the stern of the shin IL
was not a bad one since il did NOT pre-
vent communication with the land. but.
small as II was, It could not be left be-
hlnd' Down on the deep-sea floor was
some minute defect, pins point in n
length measured by the thousands OF
miles. Yet this was enough" The shin
was swung back over the cable, and
me work Of hauling up the cable BEGAN
ii broke and plunged into the sea-
Now began a work OF which there
mad been no example In the annals of
the sea, The forlofn hope was to be
trled. And now came forth the Crap
nels, two hye-arned anchors with
llukes sharply curved and tapered TO A
tooth-llke end-the hooks with which
the Giant Despair was going 10 fish
from the Great Eastern for take
worth, with all its belongings, more
than a million" These huge graphing
irons were firmly shackled to the end
OF the rope, and brought 10 the bows
ana thrown overheard. Down T. goes
deeper, deeper. deeper still" For two
hours II continued sinking before IL
struck the earth, and like pearl diver,
began searching for it's lost treasure on
the bottom Of the sea. The grapnel was
thrown over about oclock, and struck
bottom about 3, when the ship began
slowly drifting back on her course. All
night long those iron fingers were rak-
Ing the bottom OF the deep, but grasp
ing nothing. tn toward morning the
long rope Quiyered like a fishermans
line when something has seized the end.
and the head OF the Great Eastern be-
gan to sway from her course, as II Il
felt some unseen attraction. IL was
the cable. Thus they had good hopes
of getting II again. their confidence IN
creaslng with every hundred fathons
brought on board. For hours the work
went on. They mad raised II 700 fathoms
Or three-Quarters OF a mile--fr0m the
bottom, when a swivel gave way ana
the cable once more fell back into the
iea carrying with II two miles OF rope.
Two other attempts were made a,
recovery, and each was very near 10
success when the rope broke and again
the cable was lost Now all resources
were exhausted, For that time all was
over and the Great Eeastern swung
sulenly around and turned her inn
perial head toward England.
Defeated as the expedition OF is6S
was, the feeling was far different from
what IL was after the failure OF 1865.
Confidence in the ultimate success Of
the enterprise was perfect. The con-
tractors shared In the general hopeful.
ness. They proposed to go on with the
work. and themselves assumed new
nsks. The manufacturers were en-
gagged TO fabricate new cable But
legal question arising under the old
charter, II was resolved to organize
anew. The result was the formation Of
he Anglo American Telegraph COM
pany, with capital of s3.0OOO00. This
,apital was raised without the original
investors losing the control.
AZ last the fleet was made ready, the
Great Eastern taking In the cable as
before. Friday morning, July Is, land
was left behind The weather was fine
and the ocean calm. The seventh day
out they were In the middle OF the At
antiC and communication was perfect
with London. The feet pursued its
way without OBTAINING accident, and
Friday, July o. II entered the bay of
But though the voy-
,ge was ended there was yet no COM
nunicaton with New York. Before
hat could he had the company's old
inc over Newfoundland required TO be
nut in order and the cable across the
iulf OF St Lawrence repaired. This
hastily was done in two days and COM
nunication was established with New
YIN tfil ~ chNuAl HihlIlukf July ~,
llmost instantly congratulations be-
,an 10 pour in from every quarter. As
eyen years before, at the first success
or few days, friendly messages we've
between the sovereign OF
England and the head of the great re-
lublic. who now was Andrew Johnson.
\mong Others was a message from San
Francisco. which came at the same
moment with one dated from Alexan-
ria In Egypt This article may well
onclude with a few words quoted from
Ienry NJ Fields STORY Of the Allan
ic Telegraph
What n meeting and mingling Of
oces was this when a winged saluta-
lon flying over the tops Of the Rocky
reached the same ear with
message which had been whispered
long the Mediterranean and under the
.tanuc: when the farthest East
)uched the farthest West-the most
ncient kingdoms answering 10 the
ew- born empire 81 the Pacific"
Mr. Mackay win not have such eI-
erlcuccs as these TO encounter.