Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-07
EAVEsDROPPINGS.

about submarine cables. One of them
said:
swell, you say this Will be cheaper
line to keep up, from hers to Australia,
than any of the cables across the Allan
tic, while it will be nearly three times
as long. How doyou make that out ~
( Because" replied the other,s the
line is not continuous. 1t runs from
here to Honolulu, which is shout 1878
miles; from there to Apia, in the Sa-
moan islands, is about 212G' miles /;
thence to Auckland, 1880 miles, and
from Auckland te'Sydney is 1885 miles.
Any one of these sections is great deal
shorter than any one of the Atlantic
cables.
Now while am anxious to see sub-
marine cable laid between the land of
the kangaroo and this country; and
while l am also anxious to see the Amer
lean end 1of it laid at some point in
Santa Monica bay, yet there are tive
stages of this route-hence to Honolulus
and themes to the Samoan gropp-thas
are longer than any OF the cables across
the Atlantic. From the bay of Trinity
in Newfoundland to the little harbor Of
Valencia in Ireland is about 1850 miles.
The cable which crosses from Spain to
Brazil cannot be far from 1000 miles,
but do not believe the distance is as
great between Honolulu and Apia.
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I certainly think the South Pacific
ocean the loneliest part of Gods foot
stool. Night after night have
beheld the SUN sink into the
fiery sea and then seen the nights draw
on apace, with only waves and stars in
sight. In twenty-four days voyage /
only cav seven vessels, four of which
were between Auckland and Sydney !;
two between Auckland ands Cape Maria
Van Diemen. and the other two just
outside of Honolulu. Some of these
days-and it cannot be too far OFF to suit
me-there will be wreck or fire be-
tween Honolulu and Auckland, and a
story of privation and suffering under
those burning skies, that will go up to
the throne of God.
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All this loneliness and isolation will
be remedied by the construction of the
proposed ocean cable. 1t will be the
final link in the chain of the earth's
accord, the last button on the bridal
robe OF the worlds unity. To begin
with, it will require, two steamers to-
keep this line in perfect order, one OF
them plying between California and the
Samoan islands, while the other will
run from Apia to Sydney. The sub
marine volcanic action upon telegraphlc
cables In those tropical waters renders
the presence, of steamers continually
necessary Whom T. gt~-visited Mel
bourne in 1888 / was there seven
months, and during that time there
were three breaks between Australia
and the mainland of Asis, and in no
case'was the interruption less than Eve
days.
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The harboS of Pago.Pago, once
claimed by the United States as a coal
ing station, should never have been
relinquishea. It was first taken up in
1870 by Capt. Richard w. Meade, U. s.
N, brother of Gen. George Gordon
Meade, who commande5sthe federal
troops at the battle of Gettysbarg.
Pago-Pago sis more difficult harber
to enter than that of ApiR, but it 10
more landlocked and good deal safer
afssr you oace get in there. The Ger
man emperor ran big bluff on Seere-
tary Bayara, and we have probably lost
the best coaling station in the South
Pacific. AIS q harbor, it is vastly supe-
r5or to Honolulu.
asss7s 49,
Whenever the pool-boxs of Zion is
opened for the circuit, the Rev. SAMUEL
Fleming will sell in the field. Setting
aside all his cruel treatment of his wife,
his attempts to Americanize the Scan
sdinavian race without resorting to the
naturalization process of our state
courts, should condemn binf in the eyes
of every decent man. 1t is quite safe to
cay that this journeyman devildodger
will not tarry much longer in Southern
California. How he ever escaped lynch
ing, as it was, is something that tran
ecends nay comprehension. In some of
the Puget sound towns, where there is
large Swedish population, hislife would
not have been worth ten minutes pur-
chase.
The ''celebrated cass'' of the Ameri-
can bar--the suit OF Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines against the city Of New Orleans,
was terminated forever, one day last
week, by the payment OF 1928, ,728 to
William Whitney, as final settlement
of the claims of plaintiff in the case.
The. suit was originally begun in 1912.
1t is said that "wherever there's will,
there's way" but never heard of
any will that had the ways that this
Will did. / mean the will of Daniel
Clark, the father Of Mrs. Gaines. In
the winter of 1S46 my parents spent
three months in Washington, boarding
ct Willard's hoteA which was the Whig
headquarters as the National was of the
\ Democracy. The Ebbitt, the Alber-
marie, the Briggs and the Arlington
were not only not yet built, but not
even contemplated.
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Nearly opposite US sat small bat
sprightly looking woman, with her hair
curled in ringlets. She was even then
we'll along toward the middle OF life, and
her voice was quite shrill. Her conver-
cation was directed chiefly to Wiiiiam
HI. Seward, who was then private citi.
zen, having served two terms as Cover.
nor OF New York, and s. S. Phelps, oi
| Vermont, then a senator from that state
and father of E. j. Phelps, who wai
minister to England, under Mr.. Cleve.
land. She was then vowing vengeance
not only on Beverly Chew and Miltor
Relf, who had, as guardians under hel
fathers will, defrauded her OF large
sums Of money, but on the whole stat.
of Louisiana, whose courts had decided
that she was an Legitimate child. How
well she kept her word, is attested b,