Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — HANLAN’S DEFEAT [ARTICLE]

HANLAN’S DEFEAT

Coatofthe Hinpacch Apnnuiiciiijrthe Result and the Route l< Came. : Philadelphia Press. lhe dispatch from New South Wal> s (announcing the victory in the (culling match there of Mr. Beach came over 12,000 miles and cost, $2 47 a word to send. It passed through several cholera-infected districts without being quarantined, and after being “relaid. ’ or given a fresh start, h ilf a dozen times, arrived in Philadelphia a few minutes after it (iad been'sent. The dispatch originated at Sidney, then it went to Adelaide, from there struck north, directly across Australia to Port Darwin, there it divided into the ocean and took in Singapore, Penang, Madras and Bombay, passing through telegraph stations run by operators'of every degree of black and shade of yellow, many of whom do not know who Beach is. Id some places the wires are strung on palm trees, then againlhey go through sandy deserts and under the feet of caravans. Some of the people among whom the message passed were baking in a sun as hot as Philadelphia’s hottest August, and others were shivering in November ulsters. The news did not stop to spread itself among the worshipers of Buddha, over whose templesit passed, but dashed northward to the more hardy and athletic believers ih Christ. From Bombay the electric fluid went to Aden, through the Red “sea, skirted the Suez canal to Port Said, back to Alexandria, through to Bona, in A ;■ to Marseilles v and then on to. London. Its route thereafter became more commonplace, for an every-day-sub-Atlantic '’cable,brought it to the United States.