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American Lancaster Gazette
Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio
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Update on the sub-marine telegraph project between Cape Breton and Newfoundland: recent August attempt failed, but organizers plan to retry next summer; land line from Cape Ray to St. Johns nearly complete.
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Since the disastrous termination of the recent attempt to lay the sub-marine telegraph wire between Cape Breton and the coast of Newfoundland, (made in the latter part of August) the impression has been that the project was abandoned. So far from this, the gentlemen engaged in the enterprise, the New York Journal of Commerce says, are sanguine of success, and only await the return of another warm season to repeat their endeavors, as the months of June and July are the only ones when the wires can be laid with safety. —
The land portion of the line extending from Cape Ray to St. Johns, a distance of 400 miles, is very near completion, so that the next steamer from that direction is expected to bring intelligence that it is done.
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Cape Breton And Newfoundland
Event Date
Latter Part Of August
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disastrous termination of recent attempt; project not abandoned, plans to retry in june or july; land line nearly complete
Event Details
Attempt to lay sub-marine telegraph wire between Cape Breton and Newfoundland failed in late August, leading to impression of abandonment, but organizers remain optimistic and plan to retry next warm season (June-July); land portion from Cape Ray to St. Johns (400 miles) nearly complete.