, 1874-06-09
new OCEAN TELEGRAPH.
ORGANIZATION Of tho American Atlantic
Cable Company.
How Capital Was Secured for the
Purposes Of the Company. :.
Description Of the Improved
Gable to Be Laid.
Preparations for Landing tho Shore End
at Straw's Point.

Preparations for Landing tho Shore End
at Straw's Point.
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spseial Dt.tmseh to TIE cateaqo Tribune.
p0n1smour,1, N. H., June 8.-Tho cable steam
or laraday arrived off Rye Beach this afternoon,
buoydd tlie now cablo, ,and wont into Portsmouth
Harbor, whore gho Ia tho contro Of attraction,
and Inns bcen visited by nundredB'to-day.
THE COMPANY FIRST ORGANIZED
for thr purpoAo Of laying tho nov OCEAN cable,
which is so soon to be landed, was chartered
alout 1866 under tho titlo Of tho "American
year following, an act OF Congre1a granted the
Company tho right to lay lind and aeh cables
AID operate them on tho coast for twenty years.
Tho Company then attempted IN vain e 70 raise
to tho United ;statos. Finally :. another
attempt was made :. to procure, the
necessary neans to lay a line from ireland to tho
Unitod States. OF courBo, In this attempt, as in
GREAT Aap sTnENuous OPPOSITION
WAS met from the Angle: o:AnoricRn Company, the
Western Union Company, and the French Com
pany. OF course. with such opposition. Col. A..
M. Eastman, who has bonn tho mhinatay Of tho
Company, was charged with most difficult Job
to procure tho whole amount Of the capital re-
CURED, f1s5,ooo, 1t being necessary to
have the whole amount raised before
\ 1A6Huuhlul6 NQutEHGLUT 'GUulA R0 t0-
almost two years, tho necessary money was
raiaed, and carly IN February, 1878, tho
oorrEAoT WAS AWARDED
to Measrs. Siolnons BrothorH, Of London, who
havo done their work In . bottor manner than
Ing; laying and delivering tho cable
IN working ordor thirty, days after conn CO.
psa essd tho De Un saa ia Gbe
pany was then organized under q Parliamentary
act, which has The matter in charge, and By
whom the capital waa raiaod, q portion OF
which came from Franco, Holland, and Belgium,
but mono from America, as but little faith was
hero ,manitestod' in tho enterprise. Tho con-.
tractors thon sot to work to procure tho nooss-
eary material in a aecrot manner, as tho stock Of
guttn-percha WAS not very large and the euc-
nfes Of the now Company were powerful. 1t
was. however, obtained, and tho work begun.
This cable -
pmFEna m BONE IMPORTANT RESPECTS
from tloso hitherto niade aud laid down, having
. conductor made Of strand Of twelve
belug tho centro. and eleven smaller oncH
around 1t, compounded like ono solid strand.
This weighs 48o pounds per nautical milo. This
tnee w coaa of eSo
percha, each put on eoparatc1y aud allowed to
cool before applying another. Aftor the whole
has been covered ID tho maunor described, 1t ia
g., BEwED WITH uuTE -,
creased diameter, and is then passed into closing
machines, where 1t ia closed by ton galvanized
iron wires, zach wound with five. strings
q MANILA hemp, to strengthen and protect
which ashphalt is the principal compound, is
then applied, aud, after being ancared by this,
the rubber-coating process iB repeated, italian
hGmp being used to hold tho strands in their
places until the neoeasary hardening is COM
: .,s- TIE RNT1nE LENGTH
OF the new cable is 8. 100 miles, the ahore ends
being ahout two and one-haif inches in diameter,
while tho deep Aea cab1e ia seVen-eighths Of an
inch In diameter.
TIE 1noN sTEka1sH1p rAnApAT
was built expressly for tho laying Of submarine
telegraph lineB. and Is IN eizo noxt to tho Great
Eastern. ghe ia 800 feet long by "a feet beam,
and 88 feot in depth. she rcgissers 5000 tons,
but her carrying capacity ia over $500 tons. 'Sho
ia doublo-onder, having two screws, each Of the
propelierH having separate set of engines. 10
Insure strength, -,
three In number, are covered with double arches
ofriron platos. Two Of tho tauks arc 45 feet In
diaroser, and tho othor 81 feet each,
OF cable can he stowod away in them. Tho pay
ing-out machine is ingenious and reliable.
- THE TE8T1Na-RoOA
Is aisuated between the two main tanks. and as
both euds Of the ship aro alike. aud eaoh fitted
with steering apparatus, the motion Of the VOC
anl can be reversed with slight delay In carrying
on the work, and By meana Of tue combustion
principle in the ma;ehinery, can pick up or pay
out with equal facility. -;
The amount Of the cable taken on board the
Faraday was about 1000 tons, being tho
Nova Scotia end, with the exception Of
nbout thirty miles Of tie Ryo Beach shore end,
which was prepared especially for shoa1 water,
and Of such heavy make, ,1,15.oo pounds to the
TIE INSTRUMENT HOUSE
ca this sIdo OF the Atlantic will be an ornarnan-
tai structurs on straw'a Point. A reinforce
Scotia. and the old world terminus will bc
at the extreme west ond Of ireland. The
Faraday will buoy her end about three
miles from straw's Point, thep, sailing
the arrival Of the Ambassador, the end will then
be sphced and the shore end landed, 1t Is hoped,
with public demonstration. Two OF the orig
lnal contractors come in tho Faraday.
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Tho Company possesses charter in New
Hampshire under tho tito Of the Now Hamp-
Blire Land and Ocean Telegraph Company, thus
allowing tho landing without any interference.
into betweoa the nav Company and the Frank
lin, Atlantic 4 Pacific, and Southern Atlantic
business to tho United States Direct Telegraph
Company.
ITO the Assoatattd Pr<s'.l .
PORTSMOUTH,, N. H., June 8.-The steamer
Faraday has successfully laid all her cable, and
bnoyed It of Jatfrey's Ledge. There are no
tidings rot OF tho cablo Hteamer Ambassador.
Adispatch to-day from London states that the
eteamer Ambassador. with tho ;Ilye end Of the
cable, did not leave England till June q, 30 sha
will arr1yo here about the 18th inst. Tue Fara-
aftor which she will proceed to lay the cable 70.
naming on board botweon Halfax and New
Foundland, and then roturn to England to load
again to lay tho cable botweou ireland and Hall
fax.
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