The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-07
AROUND WORLD
N IN instant
SwifteSt Message to GirdIe
the Earth
ROOSEVELT TO WRITE 1T
Something of Places Through
Which it Flashes

Through the air, under the sea, over
lonely islands and through tropical jun
giles, the Postal TeIegraph-CabIe Company
proposes to fash a message around the
world in the fastest time ever made.
The company has just completed the
tremendous circuit of the globe with its
wires and cables, and arrangements are
now being made to girdle the earth with
lightning fash, which viii discount the
swiftest time ever promised by Puck
President Roosevelt VIII be asked to
write the message and some of the very
best operators in the world viii be called
upon to send it.
From the Postal Telegraph office in this
city the message viii flash To San Francis
CO. Without moments delay il Will
dive under the blue leagues Of the Pacific
to Honolulu and from Honolulu to Mid
way Island. the strangest cable station
IN the world.
TE-ve is nothing al Midway Island but
Sci birds and cable operators. For the
former il Is but one vast nest. mile
wide and a mile and a half long. For The
oprators ii is more lonely and uninterest-
ing than the island Of Robinson Crusoe
il is rnged about by blue summer seas
that seldom contain a sail Sometimes
il iS visited by the Japanese pirates in
their swift praus. seeking the feathers
ard skins of the sea gulls.
The message viii lose no time in Mid
way. because the operators viii have
nothing To do bat push ii along
Its next stopping place viii be Guam.
From Guam ii will pass TO Manila and
from Manila it viii flash out Of the do
minion Of the Stars and Stripes into
China
In rapid succession it win be hurried
along Ia singapore. Madras. Bombay.
Alden. Suez. Alexandria and thence west
w. 20 Malta. Gibraltar. Lisbon and the
Azores.
rUly wonderful itinerary FOR a mes
sage. But this is not the most wonderful
part OF il 70 the lay mind When the
message starts westward from the cable
building it viii gain several hours on
every division Of its journy.
Now suppose il should start from New
YORK al noon on sunday MAY o. At
THIS time would be midnight Of Tuesday
a; point through the earth directly
opposite New York. Would it be possible
Tor the message 20 pass into Tuesday
evening and from Tuesday evening to
Tuesday morning. supposing it were
transmitted instantaneouslye
Further than this. We young students
o. physics 4 the message 70 San Fran
cisco and twelve hours to Hongkong and
a day ia the complete circuit OF the earth,
would it be possible To send message
westward TO London today and have it
arrive III its destination yesterday
or course. the Postal Telegraph-Cable
Company officers understand all these
things. but the youth with a vague idea
OF TIE earths rotundity may wen ponder
upon them
Astronomers and seamen can answer
the question easily. but 1t generally proves
a puzzlcr 70 those who have not studied
fl
The present record Cor a round-;he-
world telegraph message is AZ minutes.
Il was made at the National Electrical
Exhibition held in Madison Square Gar
den in 1886. in the presence of twelve
Thousand people.
The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company
had arranged TO send messages from New
York Via Los Angeles. San Francisco.
Vancouver Winnipeg. Montreal and
Canso To London and thence hack 20 the
hall
The Eastern Telegraph Company was IN
readiness To take the copies OF the mes
sages as they passed through London.
forward they to Toxic. Japan and bring
them back via London to New York only
The lack Of cable under the Pacine Ocean