Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-12-31
NEW YEAR
CALL By WIRE
Seasons 6reetinssSent Around
The World By Oar Uncle
Samuel
THE SECOND TRIP
Only $4,000 Miles. Will
Reach LAs Vegas ~ Nine
O'clock Tonight. Impor-
tant Results
THE SECOND TRIP

WASHINGTON u. Cy Dec. H.
Promptly on the stroke Of midnight 70.
night Uncle Sam win start q New
Year greeting around the world. The
army post and naval stations Of the
United States In Hawaii. Guam, the
Philippines, Porto Rico. Alaska and
other parts Of the world will receive
the message, the sending Of which 10
made possible by the completion OF
the Pacific cables and those In Alaska.
In less than ten seconds this salute
win completely encircie the globe and
return TO the starting point--thc
white, towering naval observatory on
Georgetown Heights.
This. ut least. Ii the calculation Of
L~ientenant-C Commander Everett Hay
den, the naval officer In charge Of the
observatory. The route uf the mes
sage will be by telegraph 70 San Fran.
cisco and thence by way of the new
Pacific cable to Honolulu, 10 Midway,
Guam, to Manila and Hong.Kong.
Flashing up and down the entire east.
ern coast Of Asia Il will cross Sumatra,
B0rneo and Java 1 D Australia and New
Zealand. by the land route across
Siberia It Will be flashed 70 MOSCOW
and st Petersburg. and passing Lon
don and AZ the same time spanning
the coast or Africa. From Alexandria
II will be shot 100 miles up the Nile.
into the very heart Of the dark col
tinent. Leaping out Into the sea It
will register itself In the Isles Of MAZDA,
gascar and Mauritlus. From Lisbon
to the Madeiras and over the Cape
Verde islands II will jump to Pernam-
buco. Brazil, thence down into central
Argentina and up into Bolivia. across
the Winward isles, the LASER Anti.
les and the west Indies. and then home
again to Washington.
Over 1850. 900 miles Of wire aud ca
bic will be utilized In transmitting
the message. When the midnight
signal reaches Chicago il will be an
hour before the birth Of the new year.
Similarly, II will be 10 o'clock when
the signal flashes Into the Denver and
mountain belt towns ana . o'clock
when Il reaches the Pacific coast,
When the Island Of Midway is reached
the clocks will register . y, m Up
70 this point the message will be
ahead Of the new year. but as the ISL
and Of Midway marks the information.
al date line where each year Ii born,
the instantaneous spark Will be fash
ed into Guam at 3 p. n. New Years
day. while our soldiers In the Philip.
pines Will receive the greetings ut
about the hour they have finished their
New Year dinner. Al Calcutta and
coyIon i will be II a. m; at Bombay.
10 a. M. at Alden, 5 d. M at Rome
Ga. M; IN the Canary Islands. ! a m.
in eastern Brazil. 8 a, m. and 30 on
back to Washington. all within the
ten seconds following the midnight
hour when the message was started
on Its way.
II is intended 10 receive both the
outgoing and incoming eignals On the
same chronograph at the naval OBJ
~seryatory. and thus preserve a per
manent graphic record u both on a
single sheet Of paper. II Is suggested
that. besides demonstrating the pos.
sibilities Of practical astronomy aud
telegraphy, working together through
international cooperation. benefits
will result from the general attention
that Il will direct 10 the advantages
OF the use Of accurate standard time
throughout the worhi.
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