Cyrus WField, his life and work [1819-1892] . ommonplace book of history. It hasbecome one of those familiar things which we forget allabout because they are familiar, but whicli are also indis-pensable, as we would be sharply reminded if we should losethem for a day, or an hour—things which are of the highestvalue, but of whicli it is hard to speak without talking plati-tudes. With this great event tiie names of Mr. Field and othermen of business whose intelligence, liberality, and energymake the work of ^Morse and other men of science a practi-cal triumph Avill be alwajs and honorably associ
Cyrus WField, his life and work [1819-1892] . ommonplace book of history. It hasbecome one of those familiar things which we forget allabout because they are familiar, but whicli are also indis-pensable, as we would be sharply reminded if we should losethem for a day, or an hour—things which are of the highestvalue, but of whicli it is hard to speak without talking plati-tudes. With this great event tiie names of Mr. Field and othermen of business whose intelligence, liberality, and energymake the work of ^Morse and other men of science a practi-cal triumph Avill be alwajs and honorably associated. A short extract is given from the speech of William Adams : I have no intention of saying a word in laudation of theAtlantic cable. The time for that has passed. He is ofage: ask him : he shall speak for himself. Though the earcatches no articulate words passing along its quiveringstrands, yet this polyglot interpreter is speaking now, withtongue of fire, beneath the astonished sea, in all thj languagesof the civilized THE ANDRE MONUMENT, TAPPAN. NEW YORK CHAPTER XV THE PACIFIC CABLE—THE GOLDEN WEDDING (1880-1891) The winter and early spring of 1880 were passedin the South of France and in Algiers. Mr. Field was back in New York in April; andon the 8th in a letter says: I have already written to London in regard to the esti-mated cost of manufacturing and laying a telegraphic cableacross the Pacific. The route I have suggested is as follows :One cable from San Francisco to the Hawaiian Islands ; onecable from the Hawaiian Islands to Japan ; one cable from theHawaiian Islands to Australia, touching at the Fiji Islandsand New Caledonia. In a letter to England on the 9th, he writes that hehad received a letter from Washington in Avhich thehope was expressed that he would give some atten-tion to the transpacific cable before he left Amer-ica. He answered the question as to the expenseof manufacturing a cable briefly: A submarinecable, like a watch, can be
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