New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-04
TINE TO TURN BACKWARD.
Around-the-WOrId Messages VIII
Drop Back to Yesterdau.

Fart OF to-day's celebration OF the Fourth OF
July viii be an event Of worldwide interest-ths
sending for the first time of MESSAGES bv cleo
tricity around the globe.
Notice OF the arrival of the cableshfp Anglia
at Honolulu. with the completing link of the
racine cable from Manila to san Francisco was
received yesterday at the offices OF the Postal
Ieiesraph-Caoie Company here. William H
Baker vice-president and general manager OF
tne company. announced that he expected that
the laying of the shore end OF the cable yvouIi
oe completed either last night or early this
morning. As soon as word is received that the
honolulu connection has been made word will
De sent to President Roosevelt at oyster Bay.
Inc PRESIDENT, 1t is arranged. will at once dis
patch one message. which will enCircIe ths
earth, and another communicating TO Governor
Taft Of the Philippines his Fluctuations on the
completion OF telegraph and cable lines around
the world The Presidents messages will go To
the office OF the company in this city. and
thence by some OF the overland lines to San
Francisco. and thence by cable via Honolulu
and Guam to Manila.
Governor Taft will send an answer TO the
Presidents message, which will be transmitted
by way OF India, Alden. Suez and Gibraltar 10
New-fork. The distance travelled by the mes
sages will be something over twenty-five thou
sand miles.
When the President is sending his congratu-
latory message to Governor Taft the King OF
England and the Emperor of Germany will also
send messages. which Will encircIe the world
returning to their senders- 1t is expected that
other rulers and prominent persons will trans
nit similar dispatches.
A LOOK INTO THE PAST AND FUTURE.
In their passage around the world the mes
sages will. in way. exemplify the thought OF
the line. Backward, turn backward. o Time
in your flight" Starting to-day, they will drop
back into yesterday. and then return to Satur-
day
A message starting at > a m. to-day for in
stance would arrive at Honolulu at II .. m
yesterday. at Midway at 10 p. m. yesterday at
Guam at Z .. m. to-day and at Manila at 6
p. m. to-day. 1t would pass through India at
3 p. m. to-day and would return 10 New York
before a. m. Thus it would make an excur-
sion from to-day into yesterday and arrive
back at New-York within an hour OF the time it
started.
Another message leaving New-York at p.
m. to-day would arrive Guam at 4 a. m to-
morrow, apparently fourteen hours after IL
started. Continuing its journey around the
world it would arrive at Suez at midnight Of
to-day and be back at New York this morning
In their course the messages will pass through
historic cables and waters. The cable which
will carry them from Manila to Hong Kong is
the one which lifted and cut by Admiral
Dewey on April %. 1898. to cut of the Span
iard's means Of communication with Spain. The
cables which viii carry them from Aden 70 Sues
rest with Pharaoh's army in the waters Of the
Red Sea.
The following schedule shows the stations
through which messages will pass. and the time
when they will arrive if started at > a. m. or
at > p. m. to-day.