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It would be a disgrace to us, who were the first to traverse the deep sea with the blue electric spark, big with the fate of nations, if we allowed news from the New World to come to us across the deserts of North America and Siberia and Russia, as it speedily will do, whilst we are hesitating about a paltry 2000 miles of ocean, where the cable once laid will never be disturbed. The pathway to the Yankees should not be allowed to pass the Czar’s doorway, or possibly he may refuse us a key at a moment when these loving friends may fraternise as they have done before in the hour of England’s difficulty. We see by the message of the President that he proposes to lend his countenance to the new scheme; we don’t know if this includes the loan of hard dollars or not, but we cannot conceive a scheme which may more legitimately appeal to government aid in the two countries than the Atlantic Telegraphic Cable. The piano comes with a game cartridge that includes eight Piano Wizard songs and two games. This includes the entire cost for the plant as it stands to-day, which, as far as the building is concerned, is complete for the entire capacity.

Here are located in the front part of the building, directly over the engine-room, twenty-four dynamos, what are electric cables each with a capacity of 750 ampères and 140 volts. From here are con- trolled the workings of all the dynamos and other apparatus, also all outside lines. Everything in connection with handling, generation, and furnishing of current is directly under the eye of one man in this gallery, and from which he has a general view of the dynamo-room floor and the workings of the dynamo, a second man being on the floor to see to the bearings and brushes. Our own government have already taken under their wing the cable now constructing to place our Eastern empire in communication with home; but surely the east is not more important than the west, and we should sail along the stream of events like a bird with but one wing, if we neglect to bridge the Atlantic Ocean.

Be this as it may, the advantages of connecting the new with the old world by such a line of communication are boundless to this country especially, whose possessions northward and southward of the United States, so constantly threatened, it would knit together and place within instant call of the mother country. The ampère meters are located on each feeder, so as to show the load in each part of the district. Each of the 48 steps, or pools, is about 5 feet (1.5 meters) wide and 6 to 10 feet (1.8 to 3 meters) long and has openings at the top and bottom. On the top floor we have the offices, supply rooms and workshops of the company. We have, therefore, here, in a building 75 × 100 feet, apparatus and all departments complete for the generation and supply of current and power for a capacity of 40,000 lights, or the equivalent in light and power, and so arranged as to secure, as far as can be foreseen, continuous working of the plant and entire reliability in the furnishing of its current.

From that period to the present time fifty-one lines of electric cables have been submerged, forty-four of which are at present in working order, and out of these Messrs. The Great Eastern, it is true, knows how to roll; but this motion is of little consequence compared with the fatal strain put upon a cable by the sudden lifting of the stern whilst great lengths of rope are being payed out in deep water. It is proposed to employ the Great Eastern to lay the new cable, and by this means to get rid of the dangers of laying it incident upon the pitching of a smaller vessel in bad weather. Neither is there wanting experience in cables of great length. Luckily, there are preventative measures we can take to make sure the electrical system won't fail us when we need it most. It is not our province to enter into details of the monetary part of the scheme, but we cannot help stating that, if all the promises of returns held out should be fulfilled, there is yet to be reaped a splendid harvest from this field of enterprise.