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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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This
was
a
hopeful
beginning;
and,
though
the
charter
was
not
yet
obtained,
feeling
assured
by
this
official
encouragement,
and
the
public
interest
in
the
project,
that
it
would
be
granted
by
the
colony,
Mr.
Field
remained
in
St.
John's
but
three
days,
when
he
took
the
Merlin
back
to
Halifax
on
his
way
to
New
York,
there
to
purchase
and
send
down
a
steamer
for
the
service
of
the
Company,
leaving
his
associates
to
secure
the
charter
and
to
carry
out
the
arrangements
with
the
former
company.
To
settle
all
these
details
was
necessarily
a
work
of
time.
First,
the
charter
of
the
old
Electric
Telegraph
Company
had
to
be
repealed,
to
clear
the
way
for
a
new
charter
to
the
Company,
which
was
to
bear
the
more
comprehensive
title
of
"New
York,
Newfoundland,
and
London."
This
charter--which
had
been
drawn
with
the
greatest
care
by
the
counsel
of
the
Company,
while
on
the
voyage
to
Newfoundland--bore
on
its
very
front
the
declaration
that
the
plans
of
the
new
Company
were
much
broader
than
those
of
the
old.
In
the
former
charter,
the
design
was
thus
set
forth:
"The
telegraph
line
of
this
company
is
designed
to
be
strictly
an
'Inter-Continental
Telegraph.'
Its
termini
will
be
New
York,
in
the
United
States,
and
London,
in
the
kingdom
of
Great
Britain;
these
points
are
to
be
connected
by
a
line
of
electric
telegraph
from
New
York
to
St.
John's,
Newfoundland,
partly
on
poles,
partly
laid
in
the
ground,
and
partly
through
the
water,
and
a
line
of
the
swiftest
steamships
ever
built
from
that
point
to
Ireland.
The
trips
of
these
steamships,
it
is
expected,
will
not
exceed
five
days,
and
as
very
little
time
will
be
occupied
in
transmitting
messages
between
St.
John's
and
New
York,
the
communication
between
the
latter
city
and
London
or
Liverpool,
will
be
effected
in
six
days,
or
less.
The
company
will
have
likewise
stationed
at
St.
John's
a
steam
yacht,
for
the
purpose
of
intercepting
the
European
and
American
steamships,
so
that
no
opportunity
may
be
lost
in
forwarding
intelligence
in
advance
of
the
ordinary
channels
of
communication."
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