The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

of congratulation to Mr.. Mackay. Col.
Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular
affairs, cabled Governor Taft as fol-
lows:
congratulations to you, your associ-
ates and the people of the Philippine is
lands on the completion of the cable
and the beginning of the many result
ing benefits. No portion of the Ameri-
can public exceeds the army in rejolc-
ing at the progress of peace in the is
lands"
Judge Chase Magoon, the law officer
of the insular bureau, who has had
much to do with the formation of the
legal branches of the Philippine gov
eminent, addressed the following mes
sage to Governor Taft over the new ca
BILE:
Congratulations to you and the per
sonnet of the civil government and the
people of the Philippines upon the com
pletion of another tie that binds together
our common country. Our natal day
is fitting occasion for the Inaugural
ton of an enterprise evidenclng the
welcome fact that the arrows OF war
on our national emblem have been con-
verted into electric currents OF COM
merce for the advancement and pur-
poses of peace"
The course of President Roosevelt's
message around the world was by the
Postal Telegraph companys lana llie
from Oyster Bay to San Francisco.
thence by the Commercial Pacific cable
to Honolulu, to Midway, to Guam, ana
to Manila. From Manila to Hong Kong
the message passed by the cable winch
was lifted and cut by Admiral Dewey
in 1885, From Hong Kong it went to
Saigon, to Singapore, to Penang, 10
Madras, to Bombay, to Alden, to Suel.
to Alexandria, to Malta, to Gibraltar
to Lisbon, and to the Azores Be
tween Hong Kong and the Azores it
passed by foreign cables. At the Azores
the message was taken up again by the
Commercial cables and sent to Canso.
to New York, and to Oyster Bay
A message starting around the world
at s a. m. today would arrive at Hon
olulu at IL p. m. yesterday, at Midway
at 10 p. m. yesterday, at Guam at p
M today and at Manila at p m. to.
day 1t would pass through India at
D. m. today and would return to New
York before a. m. Thus 1t would have
made an excursion from today into yes
terday and have arrived back at New
York within an hour of the time 1t
started
Another message leaving New York
at y. m. today would arrive at Guam
at a. m. tomorrow, apparently Il
hours after it started. Continuing it,
journey it would arrive at Suez a.
midnight of today and back at New
York this morning.
The presidents message was sent
through the sections of historical cleo
trical circuits. welded into one circuit
and interpolated in the circuit of the
Postal Telegraph company
Section of the wire over which
Prof. Samuel F. Morse sent the first
message by means of the Morse tele>
graph
| 2-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.
3-Section of the Atlantic cable
through which the first cable message
was sent across the ocean by Cyrus W.
~ield
4-Edison plug and section of wire
through which was lighted the first in
candescent lamp ever lighted from an
electrical lighting central station.
5-Section of the first trolley circuit
put up at the historic Richmond, Va.
electric railroad by F. J. Sprague.
6-Section of the wire through which
the current of electricity was sent by
President Cleveland when he opened
the worlds fair at Chicago.
7-SectiOn of the wire through which
the electricity was sent to illuminate
the headquarters of the American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers by
Morse system of vacuum tube lightin2
this being the first room in the world
so lighted.
8-Section of the cable through which
! the first current was transmitted from
Niagara Falls electric power plant.
April Is, 1885. loaned by William II
Hammer of New York