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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Atlantic Telegraph. (search)
and Europe by means of an insulated metallic cable under the sea. Cyrus W. Field, a New York merchant, was applied to for aid in completing a land line of telegraph on the Morse plan, then in the course of construction across Newfoundland--about 400 miles. The question occurred to him, Why not carry the line across the ocean? and with his usual pluck and energy he proceeded to the accomplishment of such an enterprise. On March 10, 1854, five gentlemen met at the house of Mr. Field, on Gramercy Park, New York, and signed an agreement for an association called The New York, Newfoundland. and London Telegraph Company. They obtained from the legislature of Newfoundland a charter guaranteeing an exclusive right, for fifty years, to establish a telegraph from the American continent to that island. and thence to Europe. These gentlemen were Peter Cooper, Moses Taylor, Marshall O. Roberts. Chandler White, and Cyrus W. Field. Twenty-five years afterwards. all but one (Mr. White) were
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ign corporations could buy and sell real estate in New York......Jan. 16, 1894 [This decision affected $25,000,000 worth of property.] John Y. McKane, of Gravesend, L. I., found guilty of election frauds and intimidation, and sentenced at Brooklyn to six years in Sing Sing prison......Feb. 19, 1894 Greater New York bill, after repeated defeats, passes the Assembly, Feb. 8, Senate, Feb. 27, and is signed by the governor......Feb. 28, 1894 David Dudley Field, born 1805, dies at Gramercy Park, New York City......April 13, 1894 Constitutional convention meets at Albany......May 8, 1894 Brooklyn Tabernacle (Dr. Talmage's) and adjoining buildings burned......May 13, 1894 Governor Flower vetoes school-teacher's pension bill......May 14, 1894 President Cleveland signs the New York and New Jersey Bridge bill......June 8, 1894 Senate committee begins investigation of the New York police department......June 14, 1894 Torpedo-boat Ericsson, first United States war-ve