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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
361
Such
a
triumph
of
commercial
enterprise
was
enough
to
satisfy
the
pride
and
ambition
of
any
man;
but
it
was
not
in
Mr.
Field's
nature
to
rest
content
with
any
success,
however
great,
and
he
was
always
reaching
out
for
some
new
undertaking
to
give
scope
to
his
restless
activity.
Such
an
opportunity
he
found
in
giving
rapid
transit
to
New
York,
a
city
which,
though
it
has
one
of
the
finest
harbors
in
the
world,
with
approaches
from
the
sea
that
afford
every
possible
advantage
for
commerce,
is
not
so
favorably
situated
landward,
as
it
is
built
on
a
long
and
narrow
island,
between
two
broad
rivers,
which
confine
it
on
either
side,
so
that
it
is
stretched
out
to
such
distances
that
it
is
no
easy
matter
to
pass
from
one
end
to
the
other.
From
the
Battery
to
the
Harlem
river
is
ten
miles,
so
that
working
men,
who
lived
so
far
away,
were
an
hour
or
more
in
getting
from
their
homes
to
their
place
of
work,
and
as
long
in
getting
back
again,
a
large
inroad
upon
their
hours
of
rest
or
domestic
comfort.
The
only
means
of
transportation
was
by
street
cars,
which
moved
slowly,
and
in
winter,
whenever
the
streets
were
blocked
with
snow,
were
crowded
to
suffocation,
and
dragged
at
a
snail's
pace
to
the
upper
end
of
the
island.
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