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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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Thus
the
whole
business
was
in
the
hands
of
the
Telegraph
Construction
and
Maintenance
Company.
It
had
its
own
officers
to
man
the
expedition--the
captain
and
crew
to
sail
the
ship--its
engineers
to
lay
the
cable--and
its
electricians
to
test
it.
Even
the
eminent
electricians,
Professor
Thomson
and
Mr.
Varley,
who
were
on
board
in
the
service
of
the
Atlantic
Telegraph
Company,
were
not
allowed
to
interfere,
nor
even
to
give
advice
unless
it
were
asked
for
in
writing,
and
then
it
was
to
be
given
in
writing.
Their
office
was
only
to
test
the
cable
when
laid,
to
pass
messages
through
it
from
Newfoundland
to
Ireland,
and
to
report
it
complete.
So
rigorous
were
the
rules
which
governed
this
memorable
voyage.
The
whole
enterprise
was
organized
as
completely
as
a
naval
expedition.
Every
man
had
his
place.
As
when
a
ship
is
going
into
battle,
everybody
is
sent
below
that
has
not
some
business
on
deck,
so
it
is
not
strange
that
in
such
a
critical
enterprise
they
did
not
want
a
host
of
supernumeraries
on
board.
Yet
the
Company
was
not
unmindful
of
the
anxiety
of
the
public
for
news,
and
since
it
could
not
give
a
place
to
many
correspondents,
it
engaged
one,
and
that
the
best--W.
H.
Russell,
LL.D.,
the
well-known
correspondent
of
the
London
Times
in
the
Crimea
and
in
India.
This
brilliant
writer
was
engaged
to
accompany
the
expedition--not
to
praise
without
discrimination,
but
to
report
events
faithfully
from
day
to
day.
He
was
accompanied
by
two
artists,
Mr.
O'Neill
and
Mr.
Dudley,
to
illustrate
the
scenes
of
the
voyage.
Thus
the
Company
made
every
provision
to
furnish
information
and
even
entertainment
to
the
public.
Several
of
these
gentlemen
afterward
wrote
accounts
for
different
magazines--Blackwood,
Cornhill,
and
Macmillan's.
Their
different
reports,
and
especially
the
volume
of
Dr.
Russell,
which
combines
the
accuracy
and
minuteness
of
a
diary
kept
from
day
to
day,
with
brilliant
descriptions,
set
off
by
illustrations
from
drawings
of
Mr.
Dudley,
furnish
the
public
as
full
and
complete
an
account
as
if
there
had
been
a
special
correspondent
for
every
journal
of
England
and
America.
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