Show A A CABLE ANNIVERSARY On the ilic of August next will be bc celebrated the fiftieth anniversary o oi the laying of the first Atlantic cable was was' wasa a failure One message message mes mes- sage only was s sent nt on r it It was like the infant that dies with its first cry but is failure suggested what was lacking in it and what would be needed to tomake is with the that success that make a n long ocean cable a 11 success genius of the thc late Lord Kelvin added But the laying laying lay lay- ing jug of that first cable was a n great ey event nt It was s t the e beginning of the thc drawing together of England and America A B British steamer brought half the cable from the coast of Ireland an American steamer carried carded half the cable from Cape Race east Those ships met in iii mid ocean and and the two ends were spliced Then the message was sent and then silence Then the thc British captain signaled I am I off ff for England The American captain thought he hc detected something to mean that the thc Englishman could not wait for the American for both ships were under tinder orders to proceed to England when hen the cable should be laid So 80 the American signaled back All right right will will seq see you Ou later and put nut his bis own ship on its course and beat the British ship in a day daJ and andI n I half The reason why that rivalry has not continued continued continued con con- to date late is because congress has fias made it impossible impossible impossible im im- im- im possible for American ships to run in competition with the heavily subsidized steamers of of- treat of-treat treat Britain It took twenty seven c ys at that time to get news from New York to California so the thc celebration of the event e came later in the west C Cyrus W W. Field was the master spirit of the first cable his brother Justice Stephen J. J Field was prominent in California Cali Call fornia so there was a special interest in in- celebrating tu tue occasion in Marysville l where here Judge Field was living Jiving He made a speech others made speeches a abrass abrass abrass brass band was in evidence but the closing number was the singing o of the Star Spangled Banner the whole crowd joining in the cho chorus us That was a good while ago All the chief actors are dead the distance dis dis- tance in fn transportation from New York to San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco has be been n reduced nearly 90 per cent the inter- inter veiling cHing desert has been redeemed and peopled since then a girdle roun round about the earth carth in forty m min minutes n- n utes hiS has s been realized the realized the face of nature has been c changed And now another invention more wonderful than thant t that tiit H t first cable has been made marle The other day from 2000 miles il s away a message came in from the deep sea that the great fleet was was' safe and was as making its way towards San Francisco o and und two days later when it dropped anchor in Magdalena bay bay miles awaya away avay awaya a message stole into Washington V n hington on the wireless leSS currents of the air ail that the fleet was anchored and was ready for any service ice that might be demanded of it Where will it bring messages from in fifty years ealS more |