The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-09-14
Around the World i'm Sixteen Min
utes.

For the purpose of determining
the time it would take to accom-
plisb the feat, the New York Times,
the other day, forwarded a message
of nine words around the world by
wire.
1t took exactly sixteen and one
half minutes for the message to
make the journey of 2S.613 miles
overland and under seas of the
two hemispheres. In that time it
passed through the hands of eight
cen different agencies, operating
land and submarine lines in the
new and old world, traversed the
United States, and touched at the
Hawaiian Islands, Guam, the Phil
hptnes, China, two parts of India,
flashed along the bottom of the
Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
the Red and Mediterranean Seas
and Suez Canal and from Madras
to Bombay, buzzed it's way through
the primeval forests of the man
eating tiger, panther, boa-constrictor
and python, over the $50 miles of
land lines owned by the Indian
Government.
The experiment had special
significance in view of the fact that
fifty four years ago this month, Cy-
rus w. Field, saw his dream of
electrical communication between
England and the United States re-
allied in the successful laying of
the first Atlantic cable and the
transmission of messages between
the two widely separated nations.
The achievement following the in
PRODUCTION of the land telegraph of
Professor Morse, by thirteen years,
moved the world forward a thou
sand years.
With its aid Dewey was enabled
to notify the world of the sinking
of the Spanish Armada under Mon
toto, $500 miles away in Manila
Bay, an hour after that historic
disaster to Castillian ascendency in
the Far East.
AS we think of this marvel, the
picture of Nathan hothschild, rid
ing at top speed on a fiery steed
over night to the coast of Belgium
with the first news of teh defeat
of Napoleon of WATERFORD and it's
dispatch by boat and relays of
trusted carriers, every forty miles
from Dover to London, unconscious
ly looms before us, as ghost of
the wiStful past Reverting in fan
cy to those primitive days, as we
felicitate on the wonder of the
modern ocean greyhound crossing
the Atlantic in four days, the
world now recalls in amazement
how it took eighty for Ben Frank
lin, to make the journey to France
on his mission for the American
colonies.
From the introduction of the ca
BILE dates most of those electrical,
engineering and other nnarUalS
which have since stirred the uni
verse and fired the Imagination of
the progressive and thoughtful.
Since then Alexander Graham Bell
has given us the telephone, Edi-
son, the wonders of the electric
light, Bessinger his great secret of
modern steel making, Holland and
Lake their submarine deStroyerS,
Delany, his time annihiliating tele-
post automatic telegraph system,
Westinghouse, his striking mechani-
cal inventions and Marconi, his mar
velous wireless system, not to ov-
erlook the automobile, the airship
and the great inventions which have
made possible the mile a minute
railroad train, the skyscraper, the
great canals, viaducts and bridges,
which facilitate communication be-
tween communities and add to their
comfort and convenience.
Jager-Schmidt, a Paris journalist,
circles the globe in 40 days taking
in 80 days, once considered an ex-
travagantly impossible accomplish
ment, looks ridiculous.
Assuredly the world is speed |
made. The question is not how
fast is it moving, but when and |
where - if ever - will it stop?