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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
112
But
while
these
festivities
were
kept
up
on
shore,
hard
work
was
done
on
board
the
ship.
To
coil
thirteen
hundred
miles
of
cable
was
an
immense
undertaking.
Yet
it
was
all
done
by
the
sailors
themselves.
No
compulsion
was
used,
and
none
was
needed.
No
sooner
was
there
a
call
for
volunteers,
than
men
stepped
forward
in
greater
numbers
than
could
be
employed.
Out
of
these
were
chosen
one
hundred
and
twenty
stalwart
fellows,
who
were
divided
into
two
gangs
of
sixty
men,
and
each
gang
into
watches
of
thirty,
which
relieved
each
other,
and
all
went
to
work
with
such
enthusiasm,
that
in
three
weeks
the
herculean
task
was
completed.
The
event
was
celebrated
by
a
final
dinner
given
by
the
shareholders
of
the
Atlantic
Telegraph
Company
in
Liverpool
to
Captain
Hudson
and
Captain
Sands
of
the
Susquehanna,
whose
arrival
in
the
Mersey
enabled
them
to
extend
their
hospitalities
to
the
officers
of
both
ships.
While
the
Niagara
was
thus
doing
her
part,
the
same
scene
was
repeated
on
board
the
Agamemnon,
which
was
still
lying
in
the
Thames.
There
the
work
was
completed
about
the
same
day,
and
the
occasion
duly
honored
by
a
scene
as
unique
as
it
was
beautiful.
Says
the
London
Times
of
July
twenty-fourth:
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