A MESSAGE TO MANILA by Ainslee's Magazine

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Apr 25, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 17.

A MESSAGE TO MANILA.

By Ainslee's Magazine

Travels Three-fifths the Circuit of the Globe.

TO PAY practically twenty-five dollars for a brief ten-word message to the Philippines may seem extravagant, but when one reflects that it travels three-fifths of the distance around the globe in completing the journey, passing under the direction of half a dozen different companies, the cost seems far from exorbitant.

The ordinary course of such a message would be from New York to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, thence to Heart's Content, Newfoundland, where it dives under the Atlantic, to reappear on the coast of Ireland. From here it is forwarded to London, which is the great center and clearing-house for the cable business of the whole world. From London the message will be forwarded either across the English Channel and overland to Marseilles, or by the Eastern Telegraph Company's line around the Spanish peninsula, stopping at Lisbon. Through the Mediterranean the route leads to Alexandria, across Egypt by land, down the Red Sea to Aden, through the Arabian Sea to Bombay, over India by land, across the Bay of Bengal to Singapore, along the coast to Hongkong, and across the China Sea to Manila. Notwithstanding the many lands and many hands through which it passes, the message is forwarded with reasonable promptness, with perfect secrecy, and all the way in English.

—Ainslee's Magazine.