Show THE FIRST TELEGRAPH LINE the following interesting sketch is ia taken from an electrical journal on may 24 1844 the first electrical telegraph line ever constructed was waa completed between washington and baltimore on april 80 1844 it had bad been completed to annapolis junction md on the following day clay and Freling huysen were nominated by the whig convention at baltimore as the presidential candidates which i n formation was transmitted by tele graph from annapolis An junction to washington as aa professor morse mores writes one oae hour and a quarter before the oars care reached there on the morning of may 24 when it if was wa completed to B sl the following correspondence between professor morse at washing ton and mr stephen vail at baltimore occurred baltimore may 24 1844 what hath both god wrought M pa ilyes yea V IP the city of baltimore V IP gayes yes M pa stop a few minutes minu tea M 11 yes yea V Ps baltimore may 24 1 I am ready M 6 1 yell yea V I 1 have yuu you any news M P na V I 1 mr santons saxtons Sax tona tons respects to you M 11 my respects to him V IP t what time have you M 11 nine twenty eight minutes V I 1 what weather have you M 39 1 cloudy V PP separate your words more M PP oil your clockwork clock work V s1 sa 1 I have a great crowd at my window M PP obi abl V IP A van buren cannon in front with a foxtail fox tail upon it V I 1 11 1 I 1 wait for news M PP state convention met at the odeon 10 am a m V I 1 the line was gradually constructed in the direction of now new york and in january 1846 was wail completed to fort lee on the jersey side of the hudson river there was then no means of crowing crossing the river and the terminal station was on the grounds of professor audubon the famous naturalist after the inauguration of president james K polk a business office was permanently manent ly established at washington and although that city was filled with people brought there by the advent of a now new president the income of the washington office was very small on the he first day it was practically nothing on the second day it Is was sixty cents on the third day it was and on the fourth day it was |