| Show for corb fart Mew affe the western union telegraph company ig trying to get bold of the first message that was successfully abent over the wires in order that it may be placed in the exhibit that the company will make at the worlds fair in chicago major stephen johnston of piana 0 to whom professor morse handed the alip glip with the message in cipher in 1844 haa millaid mislaid it somewhere Bome where among hia papera ant it i thought that it will be found J W kirk the veteran telegrapher tells an interesting tory of the way th slip happened to come into the aion of major johnston in 1844 professor morse waa experimenting with his telegraph lino fram Wan hington to annapolis find mr kirk took major johnston to hi room in the capitol morse said that he bad bent a man to annapolis to sea it ha coald send a message over the wire and while major johanaton Joh naton wax there a began to coma in professor morse off the clip of and banded it to major johnston paper who carefully ant it away in his pocket the next day professor moree astonished Waa hington by announcing an hour before the news arrived by train the can nominated at the whiff convention in baltimore new york tima |
