Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1874 — How a Telegraph Operator Was Waked Up. [ARTICLE]

How a Telegraph Operator Was Waked Up.

The Troy Whig relates the following: “ We have heard much Of the winders of cable telegraphy in outrunning time and annihilating space, but an anecdote related to us last evening by Mr. W. P. Phillips, assistant agent of the State Associated Press in New York, who is on a visit to this city, surpasses anything we have ever heard. A gentleman of the Western Union Telegraph office at No. 145 Broadway, New York, was sitting in the cable-room when a telegram from Philadelphia, destined for Paris, came over the wires. This message, like all others for France, was to go over the cable via Duxbury, Mass. The operator called Duxbury a few times, and then said: ‘That fellow is asleep evidently; but the cable men are always awake —I’ll have to get one of them to go in and wake him up.’ So he stepped to another desk, called Plaister Cove, in Newfoundland, and sent the following message: ‘To Cable Operator, Duxbury—Please go in and wake up my own true love.’ This message Plaister Cove hastened to send across the ocean to Valencia, Ireland, who in turn ‘ rushed’ it to London; thence it was hurried to Paris, and still onward to the European end of the French cable at St. Pierre; the operator there Hashing it back to Duxbury. In less than two minutes bv the clock the message had accomplished its journey of some 8,000 miles, by land and sea, as was evidenced by the clicking of the instrument on the Duxbury desk, which ticked out in a manner a little more petulant;. ‘That is a*nice way to do: go ahead. Your own true love." —Two feeble Congregational churche near together in North Woburn and Burlington. Mass., have united in the support of the same pastor, whose services they will share jointly. —Gold arrows an inch long are sash ionable as ear-rings.