Show 00 FIRST OVER mke professor morses morsels Telegraph lo message sent tn in 1836 record show ake word were oat attention ont 1 tho the UnI varol vercel by king dome right wheel I 1 referring tp to the historical uon of samuel 15 B morse inventor of tho the telegraph printed in tho the york evening post woodman morrison Morr lson of the bureau of public information ot of now york university writes to tho the editor ector of the evening post fost as follows according to a late issue ot of that newspaper 1 I wonder how many who read the article by lames 4 sayers in tho evening post of yesterday on the celebration of the one hundred and thirty sec ond birth anniversary of prot prof samuel P B morse inventor of the tha telegraph know that the first recorded telegraphic message hangs on tho the wall of butler boll at new york university th thae mca ea sage Is not that famous ont one what wonder hath god wrought wrong ht sent by morse over the forty cao ae wire between baltimore and washington to ba IS 1844 almost ten years before that balti balta more mom washington telegram was sent tills this message was clicked over a wire wh attention I 1 the universe I 1 by kingdoms right wheel this message was sent over a wire which ran from one class room to another in the old gothic structure in washington square which was tho the first home of new york university attached to the dot and dash transcript of the message in butler hall Is this note of explanation 11 sent and recorded in the new york university january 24 1830 by prot prof S F B morse of the chair of art and his associates alfred 9 vail gaii of the class of 1830 and prot prof lewis D gale of the chair of chemistry underneath the sign message Is a translation la in dim pencil marks in professor morses handwriting as follows attention the universe by kingdoms right wheel I 1 As mr sayers ints out in his article professor verse morse was primarily an artist and not a scientist ile he had estable established bed at new york university the first chair of art in any anny american college or university the organization which grew into the present national academy of design was founded by him and lie he was its president for the first 10 years of its existence in his younger days professor morse painted miniatures on ivory for band profiles for 1 lie he was an associate abroad of the early american artists washington allston and benjamin west and the london adelphi society of arts gave him a gold medal for a plaster model of the dying hercules after his return to america lie he established the chair of art at new york university and painted portraits of president monroe chancellor kent fitz greene halleck la payette ano aa other distinguished men nis his experiments with the telegraph were tier ti er carried on in the university and he be definitely perfected his invention there late in ma |