The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-07-06
Great Enterprise Completed,
and the Globe EnCirCled
BY Wire
The PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
The Successful Accomplish
ment of the Opening of the
Manila Cable

OYSTER BAY, July president
Roosevelt S opening o. the cable from
san Francisco to Manila has boen
.eIened OWING to the inteIposition of
the elements. A furious storm winch
.&ged near Honolulu yesterday pre-
y, med the cab-eShip from taking up
the terminus Of the caDIe tleie and
making connections with the Manila
lines. 1t was intended to start tie
Presidents message on its journey
about o'clock. All arrangements Tor
lansmitting the message here have
0een comp eted. The Postal Tee
graph company has placed set of N
stiuments in the executive Office here
and not having its own wire between
here and New York, connected the Ia
trument with a long-Qitance telephone
wire.
President Roosevelt was disappolnt-
ed at the delay, as he was part.cu arly
anxious that the opening of direct
cable between the United States and
It's possessions should occur on the
Fourth of July, as the completion of
The line would mark a distinct epoch
"a the history CT this country.
Assurance is given that no further
delay will occur and that the mes
sage will be sent surely this after
neon.
At / O'Clock the President will start
ion Huntington to participate in the
celebration of the 250th anniversary OF
ne town.
The course of President Roosevelts
message around. the world was by the
Postal Telegraph companys land line
from Oyster Bay to San Francieco
thence by the Commercial Pacific
cable to Honolulu, to Midway, to
Guam and to Manila From Mani
to Hong Kong the message passed by
| The cable which was lifted and cut
by Dewey in 1898. From Honk Kong
1t went to Saigon, to Singapore, to
enag, to Madras, to Bombay, to Alden,
to Suez, to Alexandra, to Malta, TO
| Gibraltar, to Lisbon, and to the
Azolts. Between Hong Kong and the
Azores it passed by foreign cables
A the Azores the message was taken
up again by the Commercial Cable
company, and sent to Canso, New
York and to Oyster Bay.
A message, starting around the
world at a. m. today, would arrive
at Honolulu at IL p. m. yeste day,
"a Midway at 10 p. m. yesterday, at
Guam at p. m. today, anu at Manila
at p. m. today. 1t would pass
through India at 8 p. 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 in New York
Nitnin an hour OF the time it started.
Another message leaving New York
at p. m. today, would arrive at
1uam at Z a. n. tomorrow, APPARENTLY
fourteen hours after it started. Con-
Ilnuing its journey, it would arrive
at Suez at midnight Of today, and
/ back at New York this morning.
The Presidents message was sent
through the following sections of his
tcrical electrical circuits, welded into
one circuit and interpolated in the
circuit of the Postal Telegraph com
pany:
Section Of the wire over which Prof.
samuel F. B. Morse sent the first
message by means of the Morse tele-
graph
?. 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 Bell.
3. Section of the Atlantic cable
, through which the first cable message
/ was sent across the ocean by Cyrus
| ". Field.
4. Edison plug and section Of wire
through which was lighted the FIST
| ihcandescent lamD ever lighted from
az electrical central lighting station.
5. Section Of the first trolley cir
cult Dut up az the historic Richmond.
| Va, Electric railroad by f. J. Sprague.
6. Section of the wire tNropgh
which the curent Of electricity was
! sent by President Cleveland. when he
opened the WorldS Fair az Cbicago.
Z. Section of the wire through
which the electricity was sent to IL
lumirate the headauavters Of the AM
erican Institute of Electrical Engi-
/ neers b. Moore's system Of vacuum
( tube liehting this being the first
room in IN. world so lighted.
/ s. Section of the cable through
which the first current was transmit
i ted from Niagara Falls Electrical
! Power nlant. Anril 1e 1895. loaned
by w Fl. Hammer of New York.