THE TELEGRAPH AT SEA.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1875, Page 7

THE TELEGRAPH AT SEA.

" Can it be done ? asks the ( ! «* delphia Ledger '—-that i«. can measures be devised to enable steamships at sea to keep -up -telegraph- dornthtiuicatioii / with the shore ? The rest of the civili-? sed and commercial world is within easy telegraphic communication bf each porfy but the large community which lives on our passenger steamships is totally cut off from the rest of the world themoment land disappears 1 and the question is — " Can anything be done for then ?" Two plans are suggested — one to pay out a small and comparatively inexpensive cable by the depart]u "g steamer, thus keeping up commu--nicaV' 011 w * tn tue soling port ; but this plan nifav° ts w^ r b so many objections, in the shape {./expenses, the loss of a cable on each trip,- # n d the uncertainty to keep- -up such" communication, that another is suggested; haying more of system and business principle as its •' basis — namely, the establishment of " cable stations on the high seas, built upon buoys.' at which a steamer may stop and communicate with if in distress, give hsi* time, and enable her passengers to communicate with the. .. shore. The object :vould without question be extremely desirable,., while the • plan, to snv the least, appeal's. no more impracticable than did the laying ofthe " cable between the United States of km rope before the fifcherto ineredi-bte _ task had been accomplished-.