The Telegraph, at Sea.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 269, 5 January 1875, Page 7

The Telegraph, at Sea.

"Can it be done?" asks the Phlhuldphia Ledger —-thnt. is, can measures be devised to enable steamships at sea to keep up telegraph communication with the shore? The vest of the civilised and commercial world is within.) easy telegraphic communication of each port,,but; the large community which lives oh our passerigor steamships is totally cut off from the rest of the world the moment land disapnears ; and the ou :> shon is—"Can anything bei done for them ?" Two nlans are suggest 6 d —one to pay out a small and comparatively inexpensive cable by the departing steamer. ■ thus keeping up communication with the. sailing; port ; but this plan..meets with so imanv objections, in the shape of expenses, i the loss of a cable on each trip, and the uncertainty to keep up such communicar tion, that another is sugge.ted, having I more of system and business principle as jits basis—-namely, the establishment of cable stations on the high seas, built upon j buoys, at which a steamer may stop and I communicate with if in distress, give her j time, and enable her passengers to eom- | mnuioate with the shore. The object j would without question be extremely drjsirahlo, while the plan, to say the least, apneani.no more imnraeficahle than did I laving of the cable between the United ! States and Europe before the hitherto incredible task had been accomplished.