Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-16
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

gives an account of the splicing of the
shore end with the main cable and the
starting of the Great Eastern, and will be
read with great interest just at this
time
Refore this reaches the public the Great
Eastern. if all 60 we'll, will already have
laid some 800 miles of the Atlantic cable,
will have passed over the shoal known on
submarine maps as the Irish Bank, and
have steadily settled down to her work in
some 1000 fathoms of water. Nothing
could possibly have been more auspicious
than all the circumstances attending her
departure, both as regards weather and
mechanical fitness of submerging. Dur-
ing her stay at Beerhaven all the mach
inery for paying out, undermining, let
ting go the buoy rope, &c, had been test
ed and found to answer on board the ship
as we'll as in the factory at Woolwich.
The circular guards, called crinolines to
be suspended over the cable tanks, and
through the center of which the cable
will be paid out, have been fixed. and the
contents of the three tanks, which have
hitherto been only temporarily Joined,
carefully spliced together as they are to
rest at the bottom of the Atlantic.
AS the cable is to be paid out first
from the after tank, and next from the
forward, the end of that in the tank
astern has to be joined with the first part
,, of that ahead. For this purpose it has to
be taken along the whole length of the
Great Eastern's deck under wooden case,
: which is firmly screwed down to protect it
alike from accidental or malicious injury,
the latter strange to say, being the most
formidable of the two risks. When it
is paid out from the aftermost tank, the
long 'lead," as it is termed, to the for
ward coil will make this part of the trans
!; mission comparatively easy and safe, but
6 passing from the forward to the midship
9 section is only short distance, and this
o will be the greatest danger Of the under.
taking With stiff wire rope passing
r. out at six knots or nearly seven miles ar
- hour, its liability to kink in running one
;, coil to another is something unplcasantly
easy, while stopping the speed of the yes
, is almost even more dangerous, as it sud
'f denly checks some four or five miles o
= heavy iron rope in its downward course
, to the bottom. Almost every accident
d that has occurred in laying cables has
4. arisen either in passing from coil to col
Is at speed, or slowing the vessel too mucl
to reduce this danger. The composit
,r order of the machinery of the Great East
y ern, wich enables her. with her paddle
Il wheel engins, to turn at once asten re
t. duces this dauger, however, to as low
risk as possible During all the time tina
t. the vessel has been at Beerhaven, the ca
n. BILE has been regularly tested through a
y least twice day, and in every instance tn
at the signals have been singularly clea
" and perfect.
o. Beyond all question the condition 0
&c the wire is certain to improve, if success
fully laid, under the great compression
a. and uniform temperature which the depth
IS. of the Atlantic will afford it, Thus, 70
n n. instance, with the shore end, which wa
'e laid on Saturday, the testing on boar
- the Caroline gave only 100000 unet'
= yet yesterday, when it had scarcel
been down some 80 hours, this rate ha
at risen from 100000 to $4,000, 900 unit'
on on She average rate Of perfection sof the Al
's' is lantic cable for the deep sea portion ha
on been Il 100000 units, so that on bein
submerged 100000 units may be saf
ar. ly looked for an improvement whic
n, Ss ought to make differeube Of at least on
one and half words minute in th
T. z rate Of telegraphing, or in other words
gain Of el5o,eOO year in the receipt
,e u. of the company.
o. The Great Eastern was warned on So
I@ aIs urday to keep her self in readiness tor
by early start at daybreak yesterday to jo
pr. the Caroline. which had the shore CT
or Of the cable, which commenced und
- the cliffs with what seems pondero'
Q bar ofiron, gradually tapers into Q smal