The Maryport Advertiser March 10, 1882 Telephonic Experiments & more..

Telephonic Experiments & more..

The Maryport Advertiser - March 10, 1882

TELEPHONIC EXPERIMENTS.    The telephonic experiments which were made at the  Maryport and Workington offices of Messrs. HINE, on Tuesday, afford a striking  proof of the wonderful changes which have taken place in this district during  the last half century.    Fifty years since there were no railways in  Cumberland; the land between this town and Workington was a waste; there were no  blast furnaces; and the telegraph was unknown. Now, the western division of the  county is intersected by a network of railways; the land between Maryport and  Workington has been brought into cultivation; blast furnaces dot the whole line  along our coast; and we are not only able to flash messages along the electric  wires, but to converse freely with persons six miles away as if they were  sitting opposite to us in the same room. The telephone is certainly one of the  most marvellous inventions of human genius. ****** LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.    The Local Government Board is evidently determined  not to sanction the proposal of the Guardians of the Cockermouth Union to try by  piecing and patching the Workhouse at Cockermouth suitable for the public  requirements. The Central Authority insists that a new workhouse should be  built. How Mr. PEARSON and his friends will deal with the letter which was read  at the meeting of the Guardians on Monday remains to be seen.    There is one very easy way out of the difficulty.  Let the local Government Board sanction the proposal of Mr. Arthur BENSON to  form Maryport and Workington into separate and independent Union. The workhouse  in it's present condition is large enough for the requirements of Cockermouth  and Keswick.

 

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