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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
87
CHAPTER
VII.
SEEKING
AID
FROM
CONGRESS.
When
Mr.
Field
reached
home
from
abroad,
he
hoped
for
a
brief
respite.
He
had
had
a
pretty
hard
campaign
during
the
summer
and
autumn
in
England,
and
needed
at
least
a
few
weeks
of
rest;
but
that
was
denied
him.
He
landed
in
New
York
on
Christmas
Day,
and
was
not
allowed
even
to
spend
the
New
Year
with
his
family.
There
were
interests
of
the
Company
in
Newfoundland
which
required
immediate
attention,
and
it
was
important
that
one
of
the
Directors
should
go
there
without
delay.
As
usual,
it
devolved
upon
him.
He
left
at
once
for
Boston,
where
he
took
the
steamer
to
Halifax,
and
thence
to
St.
John's.
Such
a
voyage
may
be
very
agreeable
in
summer,
but
in
mid-winter
it
is
not
a
pleasant
thing
to
face
the
storms
of
those
northern
latitudes.
The
passage
was
unusually
tempestuous.
At
St.
John's
he
broke
down,
and
was
put
under
the
care
of
a
physician.
But
he
did
not
stop
to
think
of
himself.
The
work
for
which
he
came
was
done;
and
though
the
physician
warned
him
that
it
was
a
great
risk
to
leave
his
bed,
he
took
the
steamer
on
her
return,
and
was
again
in
New
York
after
a
month's
absence--a
month
of
hardship,
of
exposure,
and
of
suffering,
such
as
he
had
long
occasion
to
remember.
The
mention
of
this
voyage
came
up
a
year
afterward
at
a
meeting
of
the
Atlantic
Telegraph
Company
in
London,
when
a
resolution
was
offered,
tendering
Mr.
Field
a
vote
of
thanks
for
"the
great
services
he
had
rendered
to
the
Company
by
his
untiring
zeal,
energy,
and
devotion."
Mr.
Brooking,
the
Vice-Chairman,
had
spent
a
large
part
of
his
life
in
Newfoundland,
and
knew
the
dangers
of
that
inhospitable
coast,
and
in
seconding
the
resolution
he
said:
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