Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-03
VIA HISTORIC SEAS
President Roosevelt to give out
Message from Ills Home in
Oyster Bay.
EXCURSION INTO YESTERDAY

CHICAGO, July 3.-Tomorfow morn
ing, July 4th, the opening OF the new
Pacific cable to Manila is to be cele-
brated by sending a message around
the world in the shortest possible time.
President Roosevelt will hand the mes
sage to the Postal Telegraph company
at his residence at Oyster Bay, N. Y,
at about s am, which will be a. m
Las Vegas time, and that company
will transmit it directly from Oyster
Bay to San Francisco. This, without
doubt, will be the longest distance
a telegram has ever been Transmitted
overland in one continuous wire with
out relaying, since the invention OF
the telegraph.
From San Francisco it will go via
the Pacific Commercial cable to Hon
olulu, to Midway, to Guam and to
Manila. From Manila to Kong Kong,
passing over the historic cable which
was lifted and cut by Admiral Dewey
in 1898 to cut off the Spaniards' means
of communicating with Spain. From
Hong Kong it will go to Saigon. to Sin
gapore, 10 Penag, to Madras, to Bonn
bay, to Alden, to Suez, to Alexandria,
to Malta, to Gibraltar, to Lisbon;
thence to Azores. At the Azores 1t
will be taken up again by the Atlantic
commercial cab{8s and sent to Canso,
to New York, and returning to Oyster
Bay, N. Y, having completed the cir
cult around the world, travelling 25,
735 miles.
A message starting around the
world at 5 a. m. today would arrive
at Honolulu at IL p. m. yesterday, at
Midway at 10 p. m. yesterday, at Guam
ct 7 p. m. today and at Manila at 6
1t would pass through India at 3
.. m. today and would return to New
York before a. m. Thus, it would
have made an excursion from today
into yesterday and have arrived back
ct New York within an hour of the
time it started. Another message
leaving New York at 5 p. m. today
would arrive at Guam at a. m. TO-
morrow, apparently fourteen hours at
ter 1t started. Continuing its journey
around the world, it would arrive at
Suez at midnight OF today and back
at New York this morning, travelling
25,735 miles.
On May 18th, 1896, at the Nationa
Electrical exposition held In the Grand
! Central hotel, New York, to demon
strate the promptness of modern tele
graphic service, a message written by
the Hon. Chauncey Depew was sent
from New York to Chicago, Los Ange
les, San Francisco, Van Couver, Win
nipeg and Cansa, London, thence via
Lisbon to Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria
Suez, Alden, Bombay, Madrdi, Singa
pore, Kong Kong, Shanghai, Nagasak
and Toxic and back agin to New
York. where 1t was received by ThOm
rs A. Edison. The time of transmits
sion was fifty (50) minutes. The tel
cgraphic message which will be sent
around the world will be sent through
circuits, which are among the mos
interesting circuits through which
electricity has ever been sent, these
sections being welded into one circuil
and interpolated in the circuit of the
Postal Telegraph company, over which
the messages are to be sent.
]. Section OF the wire over which
Prof. Samuel F. Morse sent the first
message by means Of the Morse tele
graph.
2. Section of the wire over which
audible speech was for the first time
transferred by means OF the Bell tele
phone, by Prof. Alex. Graham.
8. Section OF the Atlantic cable
through which the first cable message
was sent across the ocean by Cyrus
w. Field.
I. Edison plug and section Of wire
through which was lighted the first
incandescent ever lit from an electric
Al lighting central Statious .*ilx
s. Section Of the nrst trolley cir