Both cables are still working,
and bid fair to be serviceable for many years to come.
Many persons had contributed to this great success, but to Cyrus W.
Field must be assigned the chief praise. His energy and perseverance
kept the subject constantly before the public. His courage inspired
others, and his faith in its ultimate success alone kept its best
friends from abandoning it in its darkest hours. In its behalf he spent
twelve years of constant toil, and made over fifty voyages, more than
thirty of which were across the Atlantic. He devoted his entire fortune
to the undertaking, of which he was the projector and cheerfully
incurred the risk of poverty rather than abandon it. Therefore, it is
but just that he, who was the chief instrument in obtaining for the
world this great benefit, should receive the chief measure of the praise
which it has brought to all connected with it.
[Illustration: ROBERT FULTON.]
III.
INVENTORS
CHAPTER XIII.
ROBERT FULTON.
One of the pleasantest as well as one of the most prominent places in
the city of New York is the grave-yard of old Trinity Church.
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