Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 118

NTEQES‘TING Bits OF HISTORY — How e WHITE HousE GOT 1S NAME-, HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY i e FIVENEARS OF BITTER STRUGGLES, BOVEQTY AND DISAPPOINTMENTS, BATENTED IS ELECTROMAGNETIC TELEGRAPH INSTRUMENT, — o In 1842 MoRrsE succeepep 1N MAVING A BILL INTRODUCE] M CONGRESS FOR THE APPROPRIA- TION OF #30,000 FOR THE BUILDING OF AN EXPERIMENTAL TELEGRAPH LINE. ® / THE SENATE SESSION WAS TO CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT ON MARCH 3.-AS THE CLOSING HOUR DREW NEAR MORSE'S HOPES FADED. — CRUSHED WITH DISAPPOINTMENT, HE LEFT THE CAPITOL AND RETURNED TO HIS HOTEL, RESOL! . T0-ABANDON HIS \ FIGNT FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE LINITED STATES, UNIVERSALLY KNOWN AS THE WHITE HOUSE , WAS ORIGINALLY A RED BRICK BullPING. —° FIRST MORSE FINGER KEY. MoRSE MADE A NUMBER OPF IMPROVEMENTS ON HIS TELEGRAPH AND DEVISEP A SIGNALLING COoDE OF “DOTS "AND "DASHES. — o B “ WHEN PRESENTED 1N THE HOUSE THE BILL CAUSED MUCH MERRIMENT, MANY MEMBERS RIDICLLED THE PRO- JECT AS A FANTASTIC SCHEME, BUT THE PPROPRIATION WAS FINALLY VOTED S ¥ THE NEXT MORNING ANNIE ELLSWORTH ,DAUGHTER OF MORSE'S OLD FRIEND THE CoMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, MET THE DISCOURAGED> IN- NVENTOR IN THE HOTEL LOBBY. IN 1814 WHEN THE BRITISH CAPTUREP WASHINGTON THEY FIRED THE PRESIDENTS RESIDENCE,WHICH THOUGH NOT DESTROYED WAS BADLY DAMAGED. - The Story of The Telegraph—Part VI The Telegraph Bill of 1843 IN 1837 YounG ALFRED VAIL BECAME MORSE'S PARTNER AND A8SISTANT. VAIL'S FATHER GAVE MORSE #2,000 wWITH WHICH TO BUY MATERIALS AND MAKE A REALLY SATISFACTORY MODEL . MORSE AND VAIL WORIKED IN A LITTLE ROOM IN THE VAIL MILL AT MORRISTOWN ,NEW TERSEY. — © ONE oF Morsg's EARLY TELEGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS, — & TrHen THE TeLEGRAPH BiLL WENT TO THE SENATE . FOR MONTHS MORSE 4 WAS ON THE "ANXIOUS / BENCH. THE SENATE /A HAD A GREAT PLE OF OTHER BILLS TO DSEOSE OF, AND IT SEEMED THAT MORSES BILL WouLD BE CARRIED OVER AS “LUNFINISHE) BUSINESS” FOR THE NEXT SESStON oF CON- GRESS. ONE SENATOR ADVISED MORSE To "Go » ConaraTu- LATIONS ! EXCLAMED MISS ELLS- WAS PASSED LAST NIGHT AT FOUR MINUTES oF TWELVE / (Copyright, 1930, by J. Carroll Mansfield) LATER , WHEN IT WAS FOUND THAT THE SMOKE STAINS COULD NOT BE- REMOVED,THE BUILDING WAS PAINTED WHITE, AND HENCEFORTH (JAS BEEN CALLED THE WHITE House., — "IN 1838 MORSE GAVE THE FIRST puBLIC DEMONSTRATION OF THE TELEGRAPH, THE PUBLIC WAS INTERESTED;, BT NOBODY WAS WILLING TO INVEST. MORSE LOOKED HOPEFULLY TO THE GONERNMENT FOR FINANCIAL AID: - DAY AFTER DAY MoRSE, N AN AGONY OF SUSPENSE,SAT IN THE SENATE BALCONY WAITING FOR. HiS BILL TO COME UP FOR DISCUSSION AND SILENTLY PRAYING THAT \T wWouLp FPASS. TELEGRAPH, HE Saip, “AND You, ANNIE, SHALL SEND> THE FIRST MESSAGE!" ConTinuED