| Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I HOW THE TELEGRAPH CAME CANE TO BE STRUNG ON POLES FOLtS Ity By 11 i J 1 1 This ThU daily sari rl of ot and 1 I Heiden that throw new W Interesting and nil frequently dramatic Imatt Unlit light on famous Mo events event end and nd of the pan have 11 been by b ard during nearly forty tort l years yam of 01 m HI more r ot or lees Jew III male rn m t I many of or the Ih lender leaden sines the War Each or r nt I is fresh Ir h from Mr Ir iU nn notebook and either r In whole or In fn It II con N w News Nw of Yesterday Ve l nl y R gains tl d from the mon men who mach in d the tho the or from equally lI sources A As Ini hll nt nf of II the Human In iciest on sort rt to 10 history these th have a value all sU n their own N the th these days ilaya II of almost l ll the ph pole hike the bed hoyla I II o Tn Ta 11 the lay mind It Id kt aa as much an nn ef n tl J part of or th the telegraph M as the More In key kr H Itself ir If Yet M in tl tI the original i rims Ins tan of tho inv Inventor of or the Ilse telegraph ft the tho telegraph pots poto did not figure by so o much 11 AH as a II dealing thought 1 1101 ow tho t tj k Pole 1 01 did 11 1 1 come cont Into Ino existence II told loM to 10 m a 1 short Irm before hl his death donth bj by en a rf f the two 1110 men who were with Prof Mores Home In building the fleet tele ll telegraph r t line between I mero und Imd My Informant ran On OM Kwant Wollman who died about three th years ago agu gu find and while It Hili may have tidal tto Isla before that the die original ort j i won watt to 10 place pitt th the nt 1 lino litre In ht a subway r but bill that poles pole wore tiled used I hardly believe tJ full story tIry of how hw thin this earn cam about Iton I be been n toM told f Gen ren n Hornell by b the tho way Y w wee a one of ot tit the most mont montfa fa famous won civil mill and military of or hi Uy day Ja II n Ifs organised anti ami tim ed l the IhO volunteer engineer engineer en regiment r for the lh Un I nten ha lie INti tied 41 built th the famous swami Angel batteries In tin the 1 harbor harr of Charleston and he h wu aue 11 the llio Ut chief engineer 8 of tl the 10 tunnel T The h to Ill Alfred Vail 1 o various suggestions ii t led kI d to tu great t Im la II Prof Mar Invention and amid alt myself were wel tate Ld l with lint lor Nurse In lit II the Sleet operating plant mid 11 ViV n the tho general nOd mid wild to inn mo aa Ra v I e s f sat at t In let I the 1 of or hi hi his hume home hOle Lind Ao let le me 10 tell lel you 1 It I Was ivas WOI a II pretty serious wo we wore t going to lx I tw ebb abl to Lo complete for commercial nee line any aly telegraph plant at al all aiL Prof Pali Jor Mo More Moree lied had the tho nil ni right and In he be mild a I message 11 nv sav v eral nt mile mil of rolled wire but ut the th problem was low how was wan WiH lw be e going to vet set t up UJ a plant when lie h lint not the Ito money with wih Wt to 10 build It Mr Ir Vail al all wl who o l brain rame one of the II grAt gr tt It leader In telegraphing hurt had nom noimi fl money mony and nd was waa willing to 10 back lck Prof Morse Mun an as I air nr airas ae He he h could Hut But UI Prof Imf Morse had hart the Idea that If It tin Ih was wun to 10 b b be It II would wouW have to 10 bo lea carried cr through pipes pipe land landIn In tr exactly tm as I the telegraph tI 1 and telephone wires wire wll are ar one n Installed In elline where overhead ov wires wl are 1 not allowed allowe l by l law tw II Veil Vail VAl lu I was IVA V H K aal 01 and I who woo wa as a I civil engineer realized d that to dig a n tanh from to 10 put hollOW hallow holli II In It I and haul ul telegraph wi through h the ripen pipes pie would cost sl n a I treat threat t deal dal el more mere ler money than ni haul had to 10 put back baek of Mor Marco 01 or that Morse lorl o multi cull probably obtain from other source So Bo tho looked dubious for 01 day and ami Prof tone Morse naturally was waa much UM Finally there mOle came a n day diU when whon Mr Ir 1111 who lw bad l been thinking almost elu uv over r the grave crave problem Ung uv us u auhl to 10 Morse e In III my 01 pros plOll t enoe tlDe I r wonder how It would do lo to string the wit wire on stoka It Jt do at 81 all alt Mono Marco replied The 1118 wires would J constantly be Le broken or otherwise with AI Al ties a man who R spoke hi his hla mind mindI I J dont believe It he ha wild said bluntly to Morse Mora Io I 1 have made math several ex experiment x r stringing wires upon ticks At the Iho sticks I have run the tho wire through the necks of broken battles boUle ti to to te them ami atal they work nil all tight Now Vow If It we lie get tall enough ticks stick and utilize trees wherever we Hod fled them along wong tho the route roulf I am um sure ure that wo w o 0 ann onn trinK our wire VI Ht at very 1 email cost cont and antl nothing short hort of a n big windstorm or heavy hv w would ulU 1 do then them the theAll any All damage dOl I r took kak eldee with AI AT V Vail Villi ll at al once th the venerable engineer with witha a undo You see my served tIM m at I told Prof Prot Man florae that t Vail Villi plan nos p perfectly and when wl Vail fall all added d led during the course courso of or the ensuing argument that list all aU well wed o to do would be bo to Lo set net up the at eth LJJ k keeta n we wo called thorn thom along the highways and that thee the tho right of or way IIa would toot cost u us nothing I argued for hi hIs hie vl we more mono t Ot than ever aver At last we persuaded Prof Prot Morse to put ankle aalde th the trench or buried w a Ire II and turn lurn to 10 stick or nr pole XIII In the meantime Veil Vail had t III w H t up III some poles polen and strung trun telegraph t wire alo smog th theta m and ami thus thu proved by ocular that thai hi his plan Irian wa was t At that thai It time Um w we got jIt the u Ides Idea Id of or having tit III ti teI gr ph about tb the height of the Ute ordinary cloth PelO l lo but bul before we vo began tho work of amt ami tin iii pole pol JO we c all aJl thre litre 1 d that a o higher r P pole 1 would b be better It would keep UM the wi wires out of or reach of p people 11 and vehicles vehicle out of ot hn way M So 80 a pole 1101 aboul the height of the present telegraph pole was w ds on OIl Vail all I believe determining thu heWitt I Utter lAter on UM Ute t tC Uon tint that we made l between Baltimore Mid ud AV l over our wires wi Strung tat OR docks or poles nolen MIH 11 tie and thu tin took Wok It proper place among the great graat invention of tb the ages K But Dut not until mAny years yearn later bate n in come om of our big bI cities du there came a pub l Uc ho outcry to 10 get rid of ot telegraph wires wire Irea and poles pole won was there thorn a return to Ii Prof of original plan to run the telegraph through subways uby |
