Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-05-09
OLD TELEGRAPH
PLAN RECALLED
PROJECT WAS To CONNECT NEW
YORk AND LOxDFyS ny
gFIlING STRAIT

lrsr.a. m TOO ssu
WtsuiNGTON. . e.. MAY e.
rrg gehr ago this summer. in
tafr.t u fhe great project Of ron
Meeting tho American and European
continent by land telegraph was 81
H HEIGHT and consummation OF the
aUteriaFne Ras regarded as prac-
ideally assured The plan Wa 10
connect Ne2 York and London by
aag oI Herring strait
Although fhe first ocean cable Wa
laid DOB 1854. there existed much
sEap,I. co. regarding Il and as late
as I-ss % aas declared 10y many 10
to af no practical use The enOr.
mons labor and cost OF laying ar
ocean cable and the unsatisfactory
manner OF the working Of those first
IaId gave r..' 10 ne opinion that
a..Hr. would BE- the uliimat" ou l.
come
fFe.n.ug ine wide demand for
fr.srraplI. communication between
rHrf.1 .Dnunenis. Perry Macdonald
Collin. ZOO american engineer OF note
conceived iBo idea ~ an overland
route il. plan VAS for private
company backed by the tniiod
g.afr government 10 build tele-
uauh Ir. north from San Francisco
fhrot.f British Columbia and Alas
kl. f1 o. point ON Herring Strait near
rt siberian land simultaneously
tho Russian g0sernmsnt Was 20 build
Cnn IS, Petersburg acrosH siberia
Co. point uppl iip 'he American ter
m.ua 600 borIus strait
IHt foH 'hn wires were 10 be-
carried Actors 'Ho thirty 0f forty
mile 0f g'rf separa INK the tno
Continents nag n0fef Wlh worked
0u blt series OF iloa'ina bu0Ys
200 maI. H.p. nrmk anchored Hua
Thought CO. offer O solution of The
problem
Thc ,uirpr.c advanced Boz due
um. 200 fHr p.In. where repre- "nil.
glt scr. srrf fD So Petersburg iu
la hr piHu before the Russian
government Snraos3 attended The
mis. .uu tO fHr r,ioui ol tentative
apre mout whereby the car was 20
0rt.. fh. ..r.rru. ion of the Siber
IAN Iur whenever o. praciicahiiiif
Wua demonstrated uy the American
promoter. Tul. permission Wa
granted for an American engin erinr
party t1 explore Eastern Russia and
the great Siberian eilds tor the pur
pose 90. lrUatlnE rou . ana testing
The Feasibility ol maintaining trlo
aph Iiue loo that gion
Numerous surveys we're made
through British Columbia and Alas
M and q route vu' practically De.
eid,1 upon Nearly all of iho Vay
70 led through au minhahird coun
tfy remote from sources oi supply
lad lu.o vast region locked In b..
and uoW during seven ur eigIii
month. 0l th, year lhroughnul
i'is region. DO vhs proposed 90 main.
tnu relay station frequent poin's
here operator and. linomon would
always be on duty
From ist. tp 1865 many parties
and expeditions we're organized aud
sent out 20 cNplor and demonstrate
&c, rE. KEENAN,. afterwards well
known in the United States a. q
traveller and lecturer Joined one %.
me expeditions. when uuly eighteen
wears of lgc. aud speui over Two
years iu siberia. building and oper
atiug experiment 10 lines KEENAN,
Was an expert telegrapher and hi.
mission was 10 prove 10 the salts
faction Df governments and capital
ISIS that tclrrraphic communication
could be- maintained constantly iu
hc polar REGIONS.
On siberia. the KEENAN, eypedi
tiun travelled thousands oi miles h}
doe .siedgo and ON horseback, inycs
tigaiiur climatic condition. and max.
ius hury y. IL report 10 the Car
and % the American promoters wa,
tb8. tine project was entirely feasible
u is said that the Trans Siberian
Railway subsequently followed much
of tho line marked out by the Am e.
leans
o. was while engaged in making
further SURVEYS. believing fully thai
,hc American rud of the line va.
already under construction TIA.
m axe. hy courier from So Peters
burg reached KEENAN, iuiorminf
hm that the enterprise had beer
abandoned and ordpriug the cNpedi
ton 90 return 10 the niied State.
Tor i,scharg"
The successful laying and opera
ion of the second Atlantic cable 10
1856 blasted the hope oi the pro
meters e. the NmeJIcIu-Siba riaI
line. Governments and capitalist.
looked coldiy upon tH' ~rea' cut
las nccessarg and refused 90 fin
ance further experimentation Thu
an of the expeditions wcre recalle,
and the promo INK company dissol'
a The irony or fate made 10 pos
snle Tor KEENAN, when he iiuall'
reached London io send message
by cahlc to friends boz America
Viewed from The standpoint %
Hry ycars ato. thr prnieo was one
OF the most Ei-artIc ever consider
cd hy men r, lay tho undertaken
Is virtually accomplished the oul!
remainirr Ink boz bridging of Der
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