1889-05-01
Land telegraph line from Port-au-Prince due to start operating
Haitian
Telegraph. A land telegraph line connects Port-au-Prince with the telegraph station of the submarine cable of the Môle St. Nicolas and with the Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Port-de-Paix, St. Marc, Jacmel, Aquin, the Cayes, Jérémie and the Dominican frontier. It was to begin operating on 1 May 1889. See the rate under the word Haiti.
Rouzier tells this under the entry PORT-AU PRINCE [le].
Source · p. t. III, p. 467
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 467