FIELD, CYRUS WEST

(1819-1892), an American capitalist, 6. in Stock bridge, Ma . His schooling ceased at the age of fifteen, when he went to work, eventually becoming a paper merchant. Before reaching the age of forty he had made a fortune in busine . He then elvailaayegr hd retired, but had meanwhile come interested in ocean telegraphy. In 1854 he procured from the Newfoundland Government, a legislative enactment which gave him the exclusive right of laying a cable acro the ocean that should be landed there and continued on to the United States, this privilege to endure for fifty years. He next set about the financial promotic of his scheme and org a: @ Corpor: tion to back him in his venture. At tl first attempt to lay the cable, from tl Great Eastern, the cable broke, ar was only recovered after a second attem] was made. Cable communication bi tween England and the United State was finally effected in 1866. After havin achieved this great enterprise, M Field became interested in promotin the building of the elevated railroads | New York.