Part 21 (1/2)

A e was at once sent from the room to Newfoundland, and a reply received back that Mr Field had left for New York In continuing his speech, Sir Stafford Northcote said: ”I think there can be no doubt in the minds of those who have carefully examined the history of these transactions, that it is to Mr Cyrus Field that e the practical carrying out of the idea which has borne such glorious fruit I am sure there is none to e reat undertaking, than the naht to reply, who detailed so in 1856, when ”Mr

Cyrus Field, to whom the world was more indebted than to any other person for the establishland upon the coraph between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland”

To the sauished writer, W H

Russell, LLD, as on board of the Great Eastern in 1865, as the correspondent of The Tiraphic History of the Expedition (p 10):

”It has been said that the greatest boons conferred onof the Atlantic cable be a those benefits, its consu entle force and patient vigor which converted opposition and overcame indifference

Mr Field may be likened either to the core, or the external protection, of the cable itself At tiain he has been its iron-bound guardian Let ill clai first said the Atlantic cable was possible; to Mr Field is due the inalienableto an abortive conception all the attributes of healthy existence”

Sir William Thomson, on the final triumph, wrote:

”My dear Field, I cannot refrain froratulations on your great success Fe better than I do hoell you deserve it”

Eight months after he wrote from Scotland:

”I a in public how h the great enterprise, and how clearly you stand out in its history as its originator and itsto end”

Next to Sir William Thomson was Mr C F Varley, as associated in the work from an early day, and did raphy, and rote to Mr Field, speaking froe: ”You did le-handed saved the whole scheme from collapse more than once”

Captain Sir James Anderson repeated the same conviction in numberless forms He had seen how the presence of Mr Field in London instantly revived the languid enthusiasy into the enterprise, and declared again and again that but for these heroic and incessant efforts the whole scheme would have broken down, and been delayed for lish associates in the great work er than any language used by the author of this volume, who has purposely kept back such testimonies, lest it should seeht to do justice to all, on both sides of the Atlantic

Nor was such recognition confined to England The King of Italy conferred on Mr Field the cross of the order of St Mauritius, as an acknowledgment from the country of Columbus to one who had done so much to unite to the Old World that New World which Coluher honor was paid by the Great Exposition in Paris, in 1867, which, gathering the products of the genius and skill and industry of all nations, recognized the labors of reat enterprises, had rendered eminent services to the cause of civilization It awarded the GRAND PRIZE, the highest distinction it had to bestow, to Mr Field by naraph Co, as was most due, the splendid exhibition of the science and the capital of England, which were never more directly e of the two Hen to its American leader

But to an American no praise is so dear as that which comes from his own countrymen First of all to Mr Field, was that which came from the faithful feho had stood by hi years At the first annualof the stockholders of the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Co resolution was, on motion of Mr Moses Taylor, seconded by Mr Wilson G

Hunt, unanimously adopted:

Whereas, This Company was the first ever forraph; an enterprise upon which it started in the beginning of 1854, at the instance of Mr Cyrus W Field, and which, through his wise and unwearied energy, acting upon this Company, and others afterwards formed in connection with it, has been successfully accomplished: Therefore the stockholders of this Co since the co to testify their sense of Mr Field's services:

Resolve: First--That to hinificent instruood; and but for him it would not, in all probability, be now in existence;

Second--That the thanks of the stockholders of this Coiven to Mr Field for these services, which, though so great in themselves, and so valuable to this Company, were rendered without any remuneration; and

Third--That a copy of this resolution, certified by the Chair, be delivered to Mr

Field as a recognition, by those who best know, of his just right to be always regarded as the first projector, and raph

Peter Cooper, _Chairman_

Wilson G Hunt, _Secretary_

To testify the public appreciation of this great achievement, and of his part in it, the Chamber of Commerce of New York invited Mr Field to a public banquet, which was given on the fifteenth of Noveentlemen--not only merchants and bankers, but yes, n ministers, and officers of the army and navy The President of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr A A Low, presided, and, at the close of his opening speech, said: