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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
88
"It
is
now
about
a
year
and
a
half
ago
since
I
had
the
pleasure
of
making
the
acquaintance
of
my
friend
Mr.
Field.
It
was
he
who
initiated
me
into
this
Company,
and
induced
me
to
take
an
interest
in
it
from
its
earliest
stage.
From
that
period
to
the
present
I
have
observed
in
Mr.
Field
the
most
determined
perseverance,
and
the
exercise
of
great
talent,
extraordinary
assiduity
and
diligence,
coupled
with
an
amount
of
fortitude
which
has
seldom
been
equalled.
I
have
known
him
cross
the
Atlantic
in
the
depth
of
winter,
and,
within
twenty-four
hours
after
his
arrival
in
New
York,
having
ascertained
that
his
presence
was
necessary
in
a
distant
British
colony,
he
has
not
hesitated
at
once
to
direct
his
course
thitherward.
That
colony
is
one
with
which
I
am
intimately
acquainted,
having
resided
in
it
for
upward
of
twenty
years,
and
am
enabled
to
speak
of
the
hazards
and
danger
which
attend
a
voyage
to
it
in
winter.
Mr.
Field
no
sooner
arrived
at
New
York,
in
the
latter
part
of
December,
than
he
got
aboard
a
steamer
for
Halifax,
and
proceeded
to
St.
John's,
Newfoundland.
In
three
weeks
he
accomplished
there
a
very
great
object
for
this
Company.
He
procured
the
passage
of
an
Act
of
the
Legislature
which
has
given
to
our
Company
the
right
of
establishing
a
footing
on
those
shores.
[The
rights
before
conferred,
it
would
seem,
applied
only
to
the
Newfoundland
Company.]
That
is
only
one
of
the
acts
which
he
has
performed
with
a
desire
to
promote
the
interests
of
this
great
enterprise."
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