The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-08-05
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON Kk-
WEiIEN GABLE,

70 the Hon. J. S. WALKER, Presi-
dent of the Legislative Assembly,
1890.
Sir:-Your committee to whom
was referred Bill No. So, TO extend
the time for the completion and
equipment of the Inter-lsland Sub.
marine Telegraph Cable to July
3lst, 1892, beg to report that it has
taken the subject of this bill into
careful consideration, and has held
several investigating meetings, at
some of which meetings Mr..
j. Sherman Bartholomew (,he
gentleman named in the aforesaid
bill) was present by request of your
committee.
Your committee have examined
sundry charts showing ocean sound
iDgs, nature and character of sea
beds, ETC., in the proposed line of
cable to be laid between, and con-
Meeting the Islands of Molokai,
Maui, Hawaii and Kauai with Oahu.
Your committee have examined
samples of cables and telegraph in
struments such as are used in other
important business parts of the world
and which have been in active and
continual use for great number Of
years doing complete service and
giving thorough satisfaction.
Your committee are informed that
the said J. Sherman Bartholomew
have already spent a sum approxi-
mating $4,000 in cables, and sun
dry material, labor, ETC., ETC., in
laying the same. The said j. Sher-
man Bartholomew acknowledges that
the cable, etc, now laid by him is
not what is really required for these
waters, that he has found by expen-
s;ve experience the natural resist
ances Of currents, ETC., greater than
he at first anticipated. He now
states that If an extension of time is
granted him, he is prepared TO and
will provide, lay and construed an
Inter-lsland Submarine Electric
Telegraph Cable with instruments
complete, such rs are being used in
other business parts of the world,
which he is positive will answer its
requirements, stand tue wear and
strains of the seas, and give full
satisfaction to the Hawaiian Govern.
ment.
He is prepared TO supply a SINH.
lar cable TO that now in use between
Halifax and Trinity Bay, Ireland, 9
distance of about eleven hundred
miles, or similar steel wire cable
10 that known as the Shore-end Tor
pedo Cable used in the New YORK
Bay and on the United States coas
defenses, the latter, If preferred, Il
be served with proper protectiv,
serving before laying in place, ant
shall possess d copper conductor o.
the size, quality and strength con
tanned the first cable herein above
named samples of both of which ca
bles accompany this report. He is alsc
prepared TO supply instruments
known as the Morse telegraph in
struments, adopted by the Interna
tonal Congress at Paris in 1872, ano
have been in use ever since.
lie further agrees to complete
what is known as "Section LIST, -
''that is from Oahu, to Wailuku,
Maui" within eight months, and
"Section 2" that is from Oahu via
Molokai and Maui, to Hawaii within
twelve months from and after thu
passage of the aforesaid bill, grant
ing him the desired extension o.
time, and further agrees to have the
"3rd Section" which is from Oahu
TO Kauai, completed within the time
specified in the said bill.
He further agrees that in case oi
failure on his part to complete +"
"Sections one and two," that is tc
say, connecting Hawaii with Oahu
via Maui and Molokai, within the
time above prescribed, that this
agreement shall become null and
void; and further that the Hawai-.
jan Government shall become pos.