NEW CABLING RECORDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11620, 6 April 1901, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEW CABLING RECORDS.

TELEGRAMS ON THE FUNERAL 16,000 WORDS LONG.

All records for ocean telegraphing were broken after the Queen's funeral, when the correspondents of the great American newspapers and Press Associations filed with Lin cable companies solid newspaper pages of telegrams for transmission to New York.

At the time of the Jubilee cable records were made that the companies deemed unbreakable, but on Saturday night and Sunday morning, following the Queen's funeral, there came as the finale of two weeks of unprecedented transmission a-'veritable flood of words from the newspaper agencies. The commercial cable alone carried 25,000 words in description of the funeral to American newspapers. Its best previous record was 13,000, made during the Jubilee. The French cable carried close to 20,000 words, while the Western Union Telegraph Company transmitted 15,000. The operators ut both ends of the long wires worked as they have never worked before. The slim strands lying in the ooze of the Atlantic worked beautifully without a hitch or break, and the mournful story of rhe Queen's last ride through London, as told by brilliant descriptive writers, poured into New York in a steady flow. The messages were put in type as they came in, and extra editions of. the evening newspapers were printed at short.intervals. The . New York Journal alone received 16,000 words from London. Since the first days of the Queen's illness each wire leading to the United States has been a conductor for a stream of words. They followed one another ceaselessly in thousands, and each word cost the newspaper receiving it sd. ! • A moment's computation will show what a windfall the past two weeks have been to the cable companies, for each day of that time the wires were" choked,"- to use Uk ooerafcors' rjhrase.' with Words. >' ' . ' :