Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1930, Page 136

= Z v 7/7//// ittt GH LIGHTS OF HI g N‘\'HE AUTUMN OF 1832 SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE , DISTINGLIISHER AMERICAN ARTIST, WAS RETURNING TO THE UNITED STATES FRoM FRANCE ABOARD THE SHIP"SuLLY. OME EVENING AT DINNER. SOME oF THE PASSENGERS WERE DS - CUSSING RECENT ELECTRICAL DISCONERIES IN EUROPE". OnE MAN SAID THAT IT HAD BEEMN PROVEN THAT ELECTRICITY TRANVELLED INSTANTANEOUSLY THROUGH A WIRE OF ANY LENGTH AND THAT THE ELECTRIC CHARGE coulLD BE DETECTED AT ANY PART OF THE CIRCINT. —— * JusST BEFORE THE SHIP ARRIVED IN NEW YORK MORSE SHOWED HIS SKETCHES TOHIS F-ELLOVJ-PASSENGERS, BUT THEY ONLY LALGHED AT MtM, ~ © 1 DusnuG THESE LEAN YEARS MORSE WEPT BODY AND Soul TOGETHER BY OCLASIONALLY GINING DRAWING LESSONS OR PAINTING A PORTRAIT. MORE THAN ONCE HE CAME NEAR. STARNING TO DEATH. a PBUCCANEER. 5 -4 EARLY FRENCH SETTLERS IN HAITI MADE A E— BUSINESS OF HUNTING AND SLAUGNTERING THE = WILD> HOGS THAT ROAMED THE ISLAND AND SALTING AND SMOKING THE MEAT 10 BE SoLp 1o VESSELS REVICTUALING FOR THE HOMEWARD . VOYAGE To EUROPE . THE PROCESS OF CURING THE PORIK WAS CALLED “"BLCCANNING ™ AND THE MEN ENGAGED IN THIS TRADE BuccAN- L EERS. LATER,WHEN THEIR BUSINESS FELL OFF, ' THE BUCCANEERS TURNED To PIRACY. 1w THE NAME “BUCCANEER “ CAME To BE The Story of the Telegraph—Part V Morse’s Struggles WHEN MORSE SUGGESTED THAT A CURRENT OF ELECTRICITY MIGHT PER- HAPS BE USED TO CONVEY MESSAGES, ALL THE REST LAUGHED, WHAT ?! CARRY A MESSAGE ON A STREAK OF LIGHT~ NING 7 -IMPOSSIBLE | NONSENSE ! FRroM THAT CHANCE CONVERSATION MORSE CONCEINED A GREAT IDEA. ME WOULP> INVENT AN ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ! HASTENING TO HIS CABIN HE FEVERISHLY LAUNCHED INTO THE PRELIMINARY WORK . — ¢ MorsE, VER, HAD SLCH FAITH IN IS IDEA THAT AFTER REACHING NEW YORK ME GAVE UP EVERYTHING TO TRY TO PUTHMIS PLAN INTO PRACTICAL FORM. HE SACRIFNCED HIS ART SPENT ALL HIS SAVINGS AND BEFORE LONG HE wouLD ACCEPT NO FURTHER AP FROM HIS TWO BROTHERS,WHO WERE ALREADY CARING FOR HIS THREE MOTHERLESS CHILDREN, BUT THE USE OF THE BARE GARRET OF THE BUILDING IN NEW YORK IN WHICH THEY PuB- LISHED A NEWSPAPER. MoRSES FRIENDS SADLY SHOOK THEIR HEADS AT HIS POVERTY. 1T GRIEVED THEM TO SEE THE GREAY ARTIST “THROW AWAY A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AS A PAINTER “TO WASTE HIS TIME TINKERING WITH SOME CRAZY IN— BuT MORSE IKEPT ON WITH PATIENCE AND> GRIM DETERMINATION . BY 1836 HE HAD COMPLETED AN ELECTRO — MAGNETIC APPARATULS THAT COULD> TRANSMIT AND RECORD TELEGRAPH- IC MESSAGES FOR A SHORT DISTANCE OVER A WIRE., Tue ‘CHRISTMAS TREE — o THE EARLY GERMANIC TRIBES USED AN EVERGREEN TREE IN THEIR PAGAN WINTER. ) CELEBRATIONS, BUT THE HISTORY OF THE- LONG BEFORE THECHRISTIAN ERA THE EGYPTIANS USEP A SPRAY OF PALM WITH 12 SHOOTS ON IT YO CELEBRATE THE WINTER SOLSTICE (TIME WHEN THE SUN 1S FAR- THEST FROM THE EQUATOR). THE PALM TREE PUTS OUT A NEW SHOOT EACH MONTH AND THE SPRAY WITH 12 SHOOTS WAS USEP AS A SYMBOL OF THE YEAR COMPLETE]D. —— DEeP In THOoUGHT MoRSE REMAINED> IN HIS CABIN FOR THE REST OF THE VOYAGE . MAKING DRAWINGS OF AN ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT WHICH HE WAS CONFIDENT WouLD BE ABLE To SEND> AND RECEWE TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES . SEVERAL YEARS PASSED. MORSE WORKED ALONE 1N HIS GARRET WORKSHOP, LIVING CHIEFLY ON CRACKERS AND TEA. HE HAD 10 MAKE MODELS AND PARTS BY HAND OUT OF WHATEVER CRUDE MATERIALS ME HAPPENED TO HAVE . “IHIS INSTRUMENT vaAS CRUDE 1IN THE EXTREME . THE FRAME WAS MADE FROM AN ARTISTS CANVAS STRETCHER, AND THE WHEELS AND SOME OF THE MECHANISM WERE PARTS OF AN OLD CLOCK. . —— TO BE CONTINUED: