A home geography of New York city . tomed to the con-venience of steamboats, railroads, and the electric telegraph theywished for something else to help them in business. People couldcross the Atlantic ocean in a steamboat. They could travel milesand miles in our country on the railroad. Business men could sendtelegrams to tlie business centers in the United States, but theyhad still to depend on letters and steamboats in doing businesswith Europe. Cyrus W. Field and Peter Cooper began to think of some wayof sending telegraph messages to Europe. These messages could besent only along wires lai
A home geography of New York city . tomed to the con-venience of steamboats, railroads, and the electric telegraph theywished for something else to help them in business. People couldcross the Atlantic ocean in a steamboat. They could travel milesand miles in our country on the railroad. Business men could sendtelegrams to tlie business centers in the United States, but theyhad still to depend on letters and steamboats in doing businesswith Europe. Cyrus W. Field and Peter Cooper began to think of some wayof sending telegraph messages to Europe. These messages could besent only along wires laid under water. A great many new inven-tions were necessary before men succeeded in laying a successfulcable across the Atlantic ocean. They called the wire ropes they PETER COOPER 217 used cables, and the messages they sent were called first Atlantic cable was laid between Ireland and America. Mr. Cooper helped Mr. Field to make a success of his undertak-ing by investing money in the company, and by his friendly help. Section oh Ailamic Caulk lai:i;ied by Adams & CompanysExpress Wagon and advice. When the Atlantic cable proved to be a success, andmen in Europe and America could send messages across the ocean,many people of those days thought nothing more wonderful couldever be invented. A Model Citizen. Peter Cooper was a model citizen. He servedhis city as an alderman, as a member of many important committees,as a trustee of the Public School Society, and as a commissioner of 218 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY the Board of Education. He gave money for patriotic purposes,and he founded Cooper Union. He was a successful man, but,above all, he was a good man. We shall finish our story with aquotation from a speech he made at a reception given in honorof his eighty-third birthday: * If our lives be such that we shall one day receive the gladwelcome of Well done, good and faithful servant, we shall thenknow that we have not lived in vain. ...
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