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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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"All
the
details
connected
with
the
manufacture
and
stowage
of
the
cable
are
now
completed,
and
the
conclusion
of
the
arduous
labor
was
celebrated
yesterday
with
high
festivity
and
rejoicing.
All
the
artisans
who
have
been
engaged
upon
the
great
work,
with
their
wives
and
families,
a
large
party
of
the
officers,
with
the
sailors
from
the
Agamemnon,
and
a
number
of
distinguished
scientific
visitors,
were
entertained
upon
this
occasion
at
a
kind
of
fete
champetre
at
Belvidere
House,
the
seat
of
Sir
Culling
Eardley,
near
Erith.
The
festival
was
held
in
the
beautiful
park
which
had
been
obligingly
opened
by
Sir
Culling
Eardley
for
the
purpose.
Although
in
no
way
personally
interested
in
the
project,
the
honorable
baronet
has
all
along
evinced
the
liveliest
sympathy
with
the
undertaking,
and
himself
proposed
to
have
the
completion
of
the
work
celebrated
in
his
picturesque
grounds.
The
manufacturers,
fired
with
generous
emulation,
erected
spacious
tents
on
the
lawn,
and
provided
a
magnificent
banquet
for
the
guests,
and
a
substantial
one
for
the
sailors
of
the
Agamemnon
and
the
artificers
who
had
been
employed
in
the
construction
of
the
cable.
By
an
admirable
arrangement,
the
guests
were
accommodated
at
a
vast
semi-circular
table,
which
ran
round
the
whole
pavilion,
while
the
sailors
and
workmen
sat
at
a
number
of
long
tables
arranged
at
right
angles
with
the
chord,
so
that
the
general
effect
was
that
all
dined
together,
while
at
the
same
time
sufficient
distinction
was
preserved
to
satisfy
the
most
fastidious.
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