| Show VERY FAST TRAVELING the new news of the hanging of deeming la in australia Au outrun outran tile bun sun A an interesting t cresting instance of the magic of tho h e t telegraph e I 1 an illustration of the way it can annihilate space outrun the sun and perform mystifying jugglery with old times hour glass and with the calendar and an object lesson in everyday science are afforded in iu connection with the execution of the sentence of murderer deeming in australia deeming was hanged at 1001 a in and the news and details of the be execution were read by the readers of morning papers at the early breakfast table and even before daybreak that da day 7 it if the execution had been on any other day the tile news would have been printed in the evening papers the day previous to that of the execution tor for the news of De emings death was received in new york before fl 9 on sunday evening apparently thirteen hours before he was hanged the news was in S san zan francisco soon after 6 5 clock sunday evening having been sent by way of montreal the tile telegraph beat the sun by almost a whole day the message had to travel the course traversed by the sun too and arid did not make the gain by cutting across lots or doubling back and stealing a lap with a cable under the pacific the message might have doubled on the suns track and gained a day in a minute or so telegrams from australia must take the western or sunward course and make the full circular tour the message left melbourne on the farside far side of 0 australia very soon after 10 monday In morning orning traveled about miles was retransmitted thirteen times through aa as many different stations and different lengths of cable and reached new york at p m sunday the difference in time between new york and melbourne is fourteen hours and forty minutes so that when deeming was 0 on I 1 the gallows it was sunday evening tu in new york and the message traveled tl the miles in the remarkably quick time tim of less than an hour and a half this was the route the message passing from one cable and one set of instruments to another at each station from melbourne across the australian continent by land line to port Darwin thence to baij banjae 00 wangle in java to singapore to madras nf adras across india to bombay under tho the indian ocean to aden in arabia under the lied sea to suez along the suez canal to alexandria under tinder the mediterranean to malta malta to marseilles across france anil under tho the channel to london thence to ireland under tinder the atlantic to capo cape canso nova scotia and then down the coast via vil conet cone island and the brooklyn bridge t to 0 broad street new york the time 0 mccu cu pied pled by ft a cable message in reaching any distant taken up by the number of transmissions the actual electrical transmission through any one cable being I 1 instantaneous taking that into consideration the news traveled remarkably fast it might heern from the foregoing that by traveling around and around the earth one cue might have the fame faine day lay and date for an indefinite period provided he kept pace with the sun but the day must end somewhere and end very abruptly and the point where the old day dies and the new one is born is out in the pacific ocean about midway between san francisco c 0 and yokohama and running due north nort h and south that line of demarcation in the calendar runs through bearing sea cuts across and among the fiji islands and just scrapes the end of new zealand but for convenience sake and not to have it sunday midday on one bide side of the street and monday noon on the other in some islands of the Paci pacific the line baa has been crooked so that it does not cut any island As the earth carth turns before tho tile Y of sunday would advance around the world until it struck that line when it must perforce change or every day would besonday be sunday the change angels is really made at midnight it may require a little thought to straighten out the subject but it will come ht raight eventually new york sun |
