The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-05
President Sends a Message Around the
Reply I'm Nine and One-Half.
C0NGRATULATES W. II. TAFT
AND Is GREETED BY THE COVER
NOR AND FILIPINOs.
Marvellous Feat I'm Ocean Telegraphy-
Governor Durbin's Message to
Auditor Lawshe.

NEW YORK. July 4-The Pacific Cable
was completed at 1850 o'clock tonight.
Eastern time. by the welding together Of
the eastern and western links at Honolulu
on board the cableship Anglia, thus COM
pleting the entire line of telegraph from
San Francisco to the Philippine islands.
distance of over 5000 miles and bringing
to a conclusion the greatest and most diff
cult submarine cable enterprise undertaken
In the history of ocean telegraphy.
A message from President Roosevelt to
President Mackay. of the Commercial Pa
cific Cable Company. was sent over the
new cable and around the world in twelve
minutes and Mr.. Mackay's reply going
east from New York was sent around the
world in nine and one-half minutes. The
the world was made on one sent by United
States Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew from
the national electric exposition, Grand Cen
tral Palace, New York city, in 1896. 1t took
fifty minutes to transmit the message.
The first message sent over the new Pa
cific cable was one from President Roose-
Welt at Oyster Bay to William H. Taft. gov
ernor general of the Philippines. Manila.
Following Governor Taft's reply was the
message from President Roosevelt to Clar-
ence II. Mackay, president of the Postal
Telegraph and the Commercial Pacific Ca
BILE companies. Mr.. Mackays reply was fol-
lowed by a number of congratulatory mes
sages from Governors of States and other
public officials to Governor Taft.
The time for sending the globe-encircling
message had been set at noon but weather
conditions at Honolulu were unpropitious
and the event had to be postponed.
A BUSY DAY.
1t was busy day for Clarence H.
Mackay. Vice President Baker and Superin-
tendent George H. Usher and all the other
officers of the telegraph and cable COM
panies. 1t was at the Broad-street offices
that arrangements had been made for the
receipt of the messages on their return
from round the world, to receive them
from the marine cable at Canso and re-
transmit it by hand to President Roosevelt
in his summer home at Oyster Bay.
AT Oils o'clock tonight Vice President Ba-
ker announced that the ends of the shore
and deep-sea cables had been spliced on
board the Anglia. AT $40 o'clock, New York
time, and $3.50 o'clock, Honolulu time, Mr.
Baker received a message from the manager
of the Honolulu office saying that the last
strands in the cable were splicing A few
minutes later Mr.. Baker was advised that
the cable was spliced and when it had suf-
ficiently cooled it would be ready to receive
the first message.
At 1880 President Roosevelt. at Oyster
Bay, sent the following message to Cover
nor Taft at Manila:
II open the American Pacific cable with
greetings to you and the people of the
Philippines"
GOVERNOR TAFTS REPLY.
Governor Tafts reply was received at
IL 10 p m. and was as follows:
ITO the President-The Filipino people
and the Americans resident in these islands
are glad to present their respectful greet
of the United States conveyed oyer the
cable with which American enterprise has
girded the Pacific, thereby rendering great
ly easier and more frequent communica-
ton between the two countries. 1t will cer-
tainly lead to closer union and better
mutual understanding of each others aims
and sympathies, and of their common in
terest in the prosperity of the Philippines
and the education and development of the
Filipinos. Ii is not inappropriate to in
corporate In this. the first message across
the Pacific from the Philippines to America
an earnest plea for the reduction of the
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