OUR ISLAND STORY 83 Brunswick by means of a marine cable across the Straits of North¬ umberland." The incorporators of this company were Daniel Hastings Craig, of York , Alexander Craig , of St. John's, Newfoundland , and John Hunter —afterwards known as John Hunter Duvar—of Prince Edward Island . These gentlemen failed to obtain the capital required for the development of their enterprise. But the Anglo-American Telegraph Company ac¬ quired the rights granted the Newfoundland , York and Cable Company, and Mr. Thomas C. James succeeded Mr. Charles A. Hyndman as superintendent of telegraphy in this Island. In 1873 a new submarine cable—part of the Cable of 1866—was, under Mr. James ' direction, laid between Cape Tormentine and Carleton Point, the original cable having been several times broken in the meantime. It was a piece of the shore end of the cable that was laid in the year 1866, and it was the heaviest and best kind of telegraph cable laid up to that time. This cable was submerged in the month of November, 1873, by the cable ship "Robert Lowe/' Captain Tidmarsh . It was laid over the reef of Cape Tormentine, and was crushed by the ice in the following winter. In the summer of 1875 it was carried clear of the reef and placed in deep water. After that communication was not again inter¬ rupted until the winter of 1910. In December of that year it was broken; and it was not repaired until April of the following year. Again, in the year 1912, the cable was broken by the winter steamer Stanley. But in the summer of 1913, it was practically renewed. Since then telegraphic communication has been continuously maintained between Prince Edward Island and the world at large, as well as throughout the Province. The Western Union Telegraph Company of York took charge of the P. E. Island lines in 1913; and Mr. James , after many years of attentive and careful service, retired from the office of superintendent. He was succeeded by Mr. A. E. Mor ¬ rison, long a prominent and active member of the telegraph staff, familiar with every department of telegraphic work in the pro¬ vince. Under his superintendence, at the instance of Hon. John