Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1902 — ONLY CABLE ROUTE OPEN. [ARTICLE]

ONLY CABLE ROUTE OPEN.

thought as to the cost of it. When it is known that cable messages from Fort de France cost $2.15 a word and urgent messages $6.45 for every .word, some conception can be had of the cost of covering this calamity. But that is not all. There were the tugs, the special men and the photographers. All this mounts into the thousands, but all the big papers feel that it was worth it, and no expense was spared to get this immense story. Cable news from Martinique has had to travel over 10,000 miles before reaching New York. The cable lines between St. Croix and Martinique, Dominica and Martinique, St. Lucia and Martinique, Guadeloupe and Martinique have been interrupted. The only route open from Martinique to the world was from Martinique to Paramaribo, from Paramaribo to Cayenne, from Cayenne to Para, from Para to Pernambuco, from Pernambuco to Cape Verde Islands, from Cape Verde Islands to Madeira, from Madeira to Lisbon, then from Lisbon to Azores Islands, connecting with the Commercial Company’s system to New York and the United States of America, the route traveled being about 10,600 miles,.