Show around the world in sixteen en minutes forthe for the purpose of determining the time it would take to aw accomplish the fact the new york times the other day tor for worded a message ines sage of n nine words around the world word by wire it took exactly sixteen and one half minutes for the message to fco make the journey of miles overland and under the seas of the two hemispheres 1 in that time it parsed through the hands of eighteen different agencies operating land and suu sub marine lines in the new and old world traversed the united U T t states and touched at the ha 7 islands guam the phill A ivines china two party of india africa spain and the azores az or es it flashed alog aloag the bottom of the pacific atlantic and indian oceans the red and renean seas and suez canal and 1 from froin madras to bombay buzzed its way wa y through tile primeval mival forests of the man eating tiger pan panther therl boa con constructor tor and python oyer the miles of land owned by the indian government ern exi ment mient the experiment has 11 lis a special cial significance in view of the fact that th at fifty four years ago this month T n anth cyrus W field saw liis his dream of ee electrical communication act between een england and the united states realized in the successful laying of the first atlantic cable and the transmission mission of mes ages ageg b between the two widely separated sepe rated nations that achievement followill following g the introduction of the land telegraph of professor profess s or morse by thirteen years moved the world forward a thousand years was enami ed to notify the worldon world worl dof bof the sinking of the spanish armada under montojo Man tojo miles away in manilla ba bay Y an hour after the his historical tor ical disaster to castillian in the far fai east As we think of this marvel the picture of nathan rothschild riding ridin at tp top speed on a fiery steed over night to the coast of belgum with the first news of tho the defeat of napoleon at waterloo and its dispatch by boat and relays of trusted carriers every forty miles from dover to london unconsciously looms before us as a ghost of the wistful past reverting in fanoy fancy to those primitive days day s as we feliciate on the wonder of the modern ocean greyhound crossing the atlantic in four days the world now jiow recalls in amazement how it took eighty for ben franklin to make the journey to france on his masslon far the american colonies from the of the cable dates most of those electrical cical engineering and other mar vels which h have ve since stirred up universe and fi fired red the inia imagination ginat of the pro progressive dessive and t though buo h ful t ul since then alexander gr graham a I 1 ham bell has given us the tole tele phone edison the wonders af of the electrical light bassimer Bes simer 1 his great secret of modern steel making holland and lake their submarine sub marine destroyers delany his time annihilating automatic telegraph system westin westinghouse house his bis striking M me chanice chan icle e inventions and marconi marcom his marvelous wireless oless system not to overlook the automobile the air ship and the great inventions ven vent ions which have alade possible the mile a minute railroad train the skyscraper the great canals viaducts and brid bridges brides es which fa ciliate communication communicate 0 n between communities and add to their comfort and convenience t jager schmidt a paris pans journalist circles the globe in forty days for his bis paper and makes jules vernes conception of such an undertaking in 80 days once considered an extravagantly 1 impossible accomplishment look ridiculous ridi culus assuredly the world esq is spee speed d mad the question is not how fast it ife is moving but when and whore where if ever will it sto stop P |