The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-02
CABLE LINES HANDLE
RUSH OF MESSAGES
Despite Unprecedented Amount
of Business Service Con-
tinues Uninterrupted.

The greatest amount of business the
cable companies have ever had to handle
is keeping the local Offices busy twenty
four hours in the day. with the probability
that there will be no Sunday letup. The
number OF messages daily sent and re-
ceived amounts into the thousands. despite
the fact that practically all are sent sub
ject to delay
No restrictions had been placed upon
business last night. though IL was expected
that orders might come at any moment.
Most OF the messages sent out are from
friends and relatives in America who want
to get persons travelling abroad into places
OF safety as soon as possible. There arc
also thousands OF messages received from
travellers reassuring friends and rela-
tives here. and in some instances asking
that efforts be made TO get them out of
danger zones
At all the counters OF the cable COM
panies yesterday there were long lines
waiting to file messages. Sometimes the
crowd would be ten deep. and IL was re-
cruited from the outside as fast as senders
could be attended to. The Commercial
Gable Company. the Western Union Gable
Company. the French Gable Company. the
German and the Anelo-AmericG all were
working every minute out of the twenty
four hours The French company sent out
the following notice last night:
The French Telegraph Gable Com
pany announces little possibility OF traffic
for Germany getting through rs all tele-
graph communications with Germany
have been cut should senders de-
sire to forward traffio for Germany by
the French company II IL at their own
risk and responsibility.
The French company said it had a report
that the International Express. the Paris to
Berlin train upon which thousands OF Ameri-
cans travel. had been taken on. The Com
mercial Cable Company sent out the follow
ing notice.
Gables for Continental Europe gen
orally are subject to delay. Germany
! has not issued notice OF restriction. but
IL Is evident that cablegrams are subject
! to unusual treatment. We should rec
ommend the use Of German language
: so that the meaning may be clear @ Ger
man officials. Messages should be ac-
/ cepted subject to delay. Accept cable
I grams to Russia subject to delay.
! The Western Union company declined
yesterday to accept money orders for trans,
mission to Europe. All Western Unior
cables were running in excellent fashion
yesterday. The single cables were sending
out all average of forty-five words a minute
and the duplex cables. of which there arr
eight. about ninety words.
! A few messages from Austria, Servia
Rumania and other countries In the war
zone have been received in this city durins
the last tventy-four hours. but they wer,
away behind hand. some of them beine
forty-eight hours late The cable com
panies here can't assure anything abou
messages after they reach the first European
stations. They simply take the messages
here at the sender'e risk. with the exception
Of the French company. which was still
guaranteeing prompt transmission on al
traffic throughout France.
II the warning nations seize the csbl,
Offices abroad all it means is that message
will be subject to censorship. such as th'
! United States established at Galveston
when war with Mexico was imminent.
No ciphers will be allowed. as the nations
must protect themselves against hostile
messages. The ordinary messages, how
ever, will reach the persons for whom the,
are intended without any difficulty, so IA
as can be seen now. with the probabilit!
OF delay attached.