Show NEW NEWS 1 of f YESTERDAY v if ins by E J EDWARDS first of submarine cables colonel colt cults invention that antedated that of samuel morr morse but wi was dropped for manufacture of revolver revolvers not long ago I 1 told tho the etory story of tow bow general zachary taylor ancon eclo made the revolver popular after if is inventor samuel colt bad had failed to induce the army and the public to look kindly upon the new now weapon colonel colt alway always gave old hough rough and heady ready full credit credi for making the revolver 1 a success md to his intimate friends be sometimes declared that it wa was general taylor also 1 who perhaps kept him from being known t tc tame fame aa an tho the inventor of tho the transatlantic cable one of the friends to whom he thus expressed himself was marhall jewell who waa was a fellow towns man of colt colts in grants cabinet ae as post poet rustle matter r general before bat that minis ter to russia and twice governor po ro vernor of connecticut and like colt for many yearn yeara one tine of the leading manufacture ers er of when be the country waa was going wild over the laying of tho the llast atlantic bablo aid laid governor jowell jewell and over the ibe exchange of messages between queen victoria and president duchanin Du colt auld me that a num ber of year years earli erat about the time when professor ir moree morse wae was per teching his telegraph system ayEl emhe he con melved the idea that it would be pos sible to lay a telegraph line upon the v bed of a river or along the coast that would be successful and he further more was ae of the opinion that there was as in science which stood a the way ay of laying a telegraph line upon the bed from continent to continent nov nop sam colt was a man who when an ea occurred to him involving invention lovent lon and experiment never let it lapse unless he bad had tested it and found it wanting so go he bad a it good many anany talks with Fro protestor fessor morse in the this latter little laboratory on the top floor door ol 01 a building facing wash ington square in new now york and be he leaca from morse mures that the great ob tre that stood to in the way ay of at a submarine telegraph lino line was inabel ity to secure an insulating medium that statement was sufficient to let set barn sam colt at work experimenting to see whether or not bo he could find some inexpensive material which woula serve arvo As s au insulator to a otele telegraph graph wire under ater lie ile made a flood road many expert mentA rubber was out of the question it A as too costly net put it occurred to him that cotton yam yarn was cheap and that it if he soaked the yarn in which Is a non john broughams Brou oham re rei of the way fame and artune missel missal him and cell to other others what queer prank pranks destiny play plays ual said john brougham one autumn evening la in 1877 1371 we were bitting sitting in the tb nw now study of the irish actor and whom whose name was widely known in england and america in connection with matter theatrical from rom 1840 until bin death in ISCO 11 ll 1 was thinking sir air brougham continued how queerly the fate alee bare have allotted their gitta gifts so far as I 1 am concerned there if in the case of london assurance tor for instance which ban been a favorite will english and ad american playgoers ever over since ua its first production in covent garden in 1811 by dion in tho the writ finx of that comedy I 1 vola borated jtb dian Boucle ault yet almost all hit of 0 tte ito money which came from Is s prodo elon went to dion and the play made ills his reputation aa a playwright white while john brougham remained einsig vincant Inifi all the time that it waa was being compared favorably fuTor ably with sheridan ibbe tl rivals ah yes ye there la Is uch such a thing as luck IP ir the world of the drama aa as well As 1 in the world of at business and a later experience and an even more tricking tri king one than this with london will erra to illustrate the point hot not long alter my return to the united states after the close of the th avil war I 1 was reading over for the be fourth or 1110 time charles dickens old curiosity shop a grat grat favorite of at akie when ibe the idea sid denly occurred to me that if just the right act met toss as could be found Ift would be r ole is to wilts a aily liy based on the norel novel la to which the cha chatters of at little nell and the Mare bloness could be taken b by the tho same atson I 1 realized that it r would require a great dal deal of ability a wonderful tui versatility tor for any one on tor tar play little nell in one act and emd the IQ to another I 1 kept uie ile idea la in wind and later told that a young girl who bad been in new now york many year years california CaU fornIa where ebe be bad oa on the stage as a mere child enst r fit the dual role both in was and dramatic drs maite ability tt it war wa pro that I 1 write a 6 pay play tor for and pint around a wire protecting the whole with asphaltum and then carried the wire thus insul abed through a lead pipe b 9 would overcome come the difficulty thi this scheme of insulation worked perfectly in the laboratory and colt procuring a wire long enough to stretch from lire leland island to what Is I 1 now coney island N Y insulated it with hie his mixture encased the whole in a lead pipe and bunk sunk it beneath the waves the was wa the first submarine telegraph cable laid so far as trane trans mission of electric electria signals was con can corned it wa was successful and colt after the mono morse telegraph had been proved a commercial success a year or two later determined to develop the submarine cable commercially first by laying abort ocean cables and then a transatlantic trani atlantic one but curlo enough as sam colt to put it to me juet just when he wee was all but over the preliminary work general zachary taylor then fighting tho mexican mexicans sent in to him an order tor for a thousand revolvers which colt bad had ceased to make a num her of year years beform because no one would buy the weapon and colt teeing seeing a splendid plen did bual neen ox chanco chance in tailors order at once ones set to work ork to fill 11 it the result being that a large demand soon grew grow up for the ver yet the meeting of this demand at occupied all of colonel coll colts time and energy and as a be he saw a fortune rapidly growing out of the manufacture and alo sale of at the weapon bo he thought less ess and leis less of the tle submarine cable finally dropping from his mind all bis his old plan plant in connection with it pel Per harm bans bad had he be held bald to those plans they might hare bays been successful sam colt to the day of bid lii death alays held that they would bays been successful anil and be he likewise al at ways believed thai that cyrus W N field got bis his arst lara t idea of submarine telegraphy from the little cable that waa was laid by colt in new now york harbor back in III 1843 copyright by E M J edward edwards all rights reserved 4 story of a SO bill A most charming 1 worn wom an camo came to new york for the day and her husband banded handed her a fifty dollar bill for tips and small change relates the new york telegraph at tho the station in philadelphia she left the pullman to bar a periodical lp hr br bas carelessly on the tle boat seal there cwi wwi w another woman occupying the adjacent chair upon her romarn the philadelphia woman opened her bat and found no fifty dollar bill she aads no to accusation but when the other woman fell asleep she quietly opened bar ir bag and abstracted abstract id the bill in new york they bowed amicably and parted when the philadelphian returned bonne home her husband asked hor bor if it she had enjoyed the trip I 1 yes but I 1 spent all the money she replied all the money eald said the husband why I 1 was worrying over the fact that you left your fafty dollar bill on your dressing table chance meeting of enemies how taft isain rabid pro slav cry ery Adf advocate acate and william lloyd garrison leader of abolition itta late became acquainted the present generation baa has forgot target ten ton isaiah yet la in abo ante bellum day days his name wag was a ti millar one out it symbolized northern proe pro e 4 a ar t ery try sentiment its bearer waa was regard ed by tho the abolitionists aa an a sort of ogre a roan man dominated by ferocity ot of political sentiment lie was indeed I 1 one of the most of all the pro caery aimery democrats of the north and as united states marshal for the southern aou thern district of at new now tork york to t which office ho he was appointed first by president pierce be beut bent hie his ener oner kite to running down fugitive alarea slaves and returning them to their mastera masters I 1 met marshal Rhyn dera tn in 1975 TO my m surprise I 1 caw saw A man of at lender slender build a man of moat most gentle demeanor 0 rate fate and a noted irish actor girl in which she be appear alternately ai as little I 1 11 and the Mar marchion thion ess certain terms wo men cloned to me and I 1 accepted the proposition and went to work well in due time I 1 fixed flied up the th play and when hen it wax was produced in 1867 it made one of the greatest auca besses a of the american tagi stags it made the fame of charlotte crabtree better known as lotto lotta it wae was ilie lue basis ot of the fortune she he now poss jocene erses and ehe deserves every penny yf of it dear garl I 1 jt at again john brougham was obscure e nor not had he more than thin a paltry return of money tor for bla work would you bare bays known if it I 1 I 1 ad not told you jul just now thai that it wu wes t who little no nell and the the irish actor playwright ballod philosophically ah me he be bald said 1 I am not corn cam planning pla ining taing it la Is nil all fate and I 1 presume this will be my fate until the end I 1 three year years later a the age of 70 brougham died leaving the tzanu script of a play upon uron which he had based great home but ahl which b by rca tea son on of his death was wa never produced Copy copyright richt 1111 by til J edwards Edi rard all flights reserved 1 with a bright and kindly expression in to his eye and a smile that told of hie his fondness for humor could this be the man who bad been painted as a demon in human form not so me very many years before aa As we zat at talking of at the daya days when waa was in the thick of 0 events political the door ot of tho be room of the post postmaster mastor of new york opened and there entered a gen tieman whole whose manner and features tee be the scholar the man of at cult and refinement ills height must have been something more than six feet feel ills dress was that ot of a man who kudwa bow to dress well but net not conspicuously I 1 paw saw at once that tho the postmaster was in some embarrassment lie ile look ed furtively at marshal then again at the newcomer and then evidently mustering his courage he said bald 1 I 1 am very glad of tle alsa 13 opportunity to bring into acquaintance two mea men vibo bo have been known for many years to each other by name but who I 1 pre sume have havo cover never met personally marshal I 1 atko great pleasure la in introducing you to my ray personal friend lloyd garrison mr at garrison Oar rleon the great leader ot of the the first in n all the north to agitate against slavery and to teach opposition to the fugi fugitive tivo slave law and marshal tying in bis his career and symbolizing in kle big namo name the more rabid slavery party df 61 the decade before the civil war stool stood facing one another for an instant ml mt garrison was wits penetrating the ox x united states marshal with his glance while on the ether other band hand was studying the personality of the great antislavery anti slavery leader in a moment however they seemed to realism realise fully that the issues which had bad given them fame were of the past kach fach ext exuded Ded hie his hand they took toot seats side by side and a it moment or of two later the th postmaster and I 1 vent went out of the room unobserved for abo two men were engaged in int intimate conversation perhaps halt half an hour later william lloyd carrison came from the mailers masters room through tho the anter anteroom ebere bere be met us ills 1113 face waa was benn ing 1 I found marshal A most interesting and entertaining man he be ald paid 1 I am glad to have had the opportunity to meet and chat with him then he went way away and as a he did so marshal stepped into tho the anteroom garrison la Is a great man and I 1 good roan man he said Mir Par nelly netly sincerely we became triena I 1 shall sl way ways remember tie tle conversation I 1 have just hud had wll wilhm hm and I 1 am glad in to think thai that be may hv obtain obtained edill different impression of me than be hed in tt tho day days when 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