The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-07-10
American Gable Across Pa
cific Completed
PRESIDENT SENDS FIRST WORD
Greetings Extended to Governor Taft.
and the Fi1ipinos. Gables
Dispatched around World

(New York Specially The connec-
ton in the Commercial Pacific com
pany's cable was made at Honolulu
Saturday night at 1880 eastern time)
President Roosevelt sent n message
to Governor Taft.
"Oyster Bay, July 4.-To Governor
Taft, Manila: I open the American
Pacific cable with greetings to you
and the people of the Philippines.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
AT 11:19 p. m. the following reply
from Taft was received by President
Roosevelt.
Manila, July ITO the President:
The Filipino people and American
resident in these islands are glad to
present their respective greetings and
congratulations to the president of
the United States conveyed over the
cable with which American enterprise
has girded the Pacific, thereby render
ing easier and more frequent COM
Lhu1lSuIlOh DCINCth IhS CNO
It will certainly lead to a closer union
and better mutual understanding Of
each others aims and sympathtes, and
Of their common interest in the pros
perity Of the Philippines and the edu-
cation and development of the Filipi-
nos. 1t is not inappropriate to tncor-
porate in this first message across the
Pacific from the Philippines to Ameri-
ca an earnest plea for the reduction
of the tariff on Filipino products in ac-
cordance with the broad and liberal
spirit which the American people de-
sire to manifest toward the Philip
pines, and of which you have been an
earnest exponent. TAFT"
The president then sent the follow
message around the world westward
to Clarence H. Mackay, who was with
President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay:
"Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 4.-Clar-
ence H. Mackay, president Pacific Ca
BILE company. Oyster Bay, N. Y. Con-
gratulations and success to the Pacific
cabley which the genius Of your la
mented father and your own enter
prise have made possible.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The message was sent at 1923 p.
NIB. and was received by Mackay at
1875, making the time of its trans
mission around the world IL minutes.
MI. Mackay replied as follows, his
message going aroud NJ world east
ward:
ITO the president, Oyster Bay:-I
thank you deeply for your message,
and l earnestly hope that the Pacific
cable, by opening the wide horizon of
the great East, may prove a useful
factor to the of the United
States. Clarence H. Mackay.
President Roosevelt received the
message at 1904 IL. The time
consumed in passing around the world
was 8 IL minutes.
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, a distance of ver 5000 miles,
brings to the conclusion the greatest
and most difficult of submarine cable
enterprises undertaken in the history
of ocean t~elegraphy. The previous
time for a message around the world
was made on n sentby United
States Senator Chauncey N. Depew
from the National Electric exposition.
In the Grand Central Palace in this
city, in 1896. 1t took so minutes to
transmit 1t.
Secretary Roots cablesram.
Washington, D. c., July 4.-Secre'
tary Root today sent the following
cablegram to Governor Taft at Manila
over the new Pacific cable, when the
connections were made:
Congratulations to the Philippine
government and people upon being
brought closer to the peoples Of Amer
lea on whose friendship and good faith
rest hope for a glorious future for Phil
ippine patriotism. One more great
event has added to these which would
make the Fourth Of July a day of hap
py memories in the archipelago"