The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05
GLOBE NOW
 IS GIRDLED Pacific Cable is Com Dleted.
 -s ROOSEVELT Tcs 4ov. TAFT
 -@- First Mess ; Round World in 9 l-2 Minutes. Taft, in His Answer, Incorporates a Plea for the Reduction of the Tariff on Exports of the
 Philippines.

| New York. July 1.-The last connection in the Commercial Pacific Company's cable was made at Honolulu tonight at lo:5o o'clock. eastern time, and a cable message was flashed around the world in nine and one-half minutes. The first | message over the cable was sent at l0:60 p. m. by President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay to Governor Taft at Manila. It read: | Oyster Bay, July {. To Governor Taft, Manila.
 open the American Pacific cable with greetings to you and to the people of the Philippines. Theodore Roosevelt.
 Reply of Taft. The reply was:
 Manila, July 1. To the President:
 | The Filipino people and the Americans resident in these islands are glad to present their respectful greetings and congratulations to the President of the United States conveyed over the cable with which American enterprise has | girded the Pacific, thereby rendering greatly easier and more frequent com munication between tne two countries. It will certainly lead to closer union and better mutual understanding of each l others aims and sympathies and of their common interest in the prosperity of the ] Philippines and the education and de- velopment of the Fiiipinos. It Is not in- | appropriate to incorporate in this, the first message across the Pacific from the | Philippines to America, an earnest plea | for the reduction of the tariff on Filipino products in acordance with the broad and l liberal spirit which the American people desire to manifest toward the Philippines | and of which you have been an earnest l exponent. Tart Message to Mackay.
 The message from Theodore Roosevelt to Clarence H. Mackay, around the world I follows: Il Oyster Bay. N. r.. July !. Clarence H. Mackay. President Pacific
 Cable Company. Oyster Bay, N. F.: I Congratulations and success to the Pa- cific cable which the genius of your iamented father and your own enterprise made possible.
 Theodore Roosevelt.
 Onicial time of the message from Roose- welt to Clarence H. Mackay sent around the world was twelve minutes elapsed l time.
 | (Signed) W. Fl. Baker.
 The answer to President Roosevelt from Clarence H. Mackay. sent around the world, occupied nine and one-half min utes and was as follows:
 10 the FTeblOent, OyStoI Ddy' | thank you deeply for your message and I earnestly hope that the Pacific cable by opening the wide horizon of the great East may prove 6 useful factor to the commerce of the United States. | Clarence Fl. Mackay.
 Course of Message.
 The course of President Roosevelt's message around the world, was by the Postal Telegraph company's land line from Oyster Bay to San Francisco. thence by the Commercial Pacific cable to Hono- l,iiu. to Midway, to Guam and to Manila From Manila to Hong Kong. the message passed by the cable which was lifted and cut by Admiral Dewey in 1898. From Hong Kong, 1t went to Siagon to Singa- pore, to Piangat to Madras. to Bombay to Alden. to Suez to Alexandria. to Malta to Gibraltar, to Lisbon and to the Azores. Between Hong Kong and the Azores 1t came by foreign cables. At the Azores the message was taken up again by the Commercial Cable Company and sent to Canso, to New York and to Oyster Bay. A message starting around the world at 6 a. m, today would arrive at Honolulu at Ii D. m., yesterday at Midway at 10 D. m., yesterday, at Guam at p. m, today and at Manila at D. m. today. It would pass through India at D. m., to- day and would return to New York be- fore a. m. Thus 1t would have at ex- oursion from today into yesterday and have arrived back at New York within an hour of the time it started
 Another message leaving New York at D. m, today would arrive at Guam at a. m., today appaently fourteen hours after 1t started. Continuing its journey around the world 1t would arrive at suez at midnight of today and back at New York this evening
 The Presidents message was sent through the following sections of histori- cal electrical circuits. welded into one cir cult and interpolated into the circuit of the postal telegraph circuit.
 First-Section of the wire over which Prof Samuel F. Morse sent the first message by means of the Morse tele- graph.
 Graham's old Wire.
 Second--Section of the wire over which audible speech was for the first time transferred by means of the Bell Tele- phone by Prof. Alexander Graham.
 Third-Section of the Atlantic cable through which the first cable message was sent across the ocean by Cyrus w. Field.
 Fourth-Edison plug and section of wire through which was lighted the first in- candescent lamp ever lighted from an electrical lighting central station. Fifth-Section of the first trolley cir- cult put up at the historic Richmond, Va, electric railway by F. J. Sprague.
 Satisfaction of the wire through which the current of electricity was sent by President Cleveland when he opened the worlds fair at Chicago.
 Seventh-Section of the wire through which the electricity was sent to illumi- nate the headquarters of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by Morse system of vacum tube lighting This being the first room in the world SC lighted.
 Eighth-section of the cable through which the first current of electricity was transmitted from Niagara Falls electric power plant, April Is. 1885; loaned by William Hammer. of New York
 The Presidents message around the world to President Mackay, starting westward. consumed twelve minutes President Mackay's reply, starting east ward, consumed nine and one-half min utes.
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