Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-03-21
ROUTES OF STEAMSHIPS 10 HAWAII

lands and the consent of congress must
be obtained before the present Hawaiian
government may permit Great Britain
to land her proposed cable
The Hawaiian republic, it is said.
prefers to have the proposed cable built
by the United States. but will naturally
hail with joy any cable that comes its
way The British project includes ca.
BILE crossing the entire Pacific. distance
Of Z, 3A0 rn'ler f-c-n Vanc--gor = II
wall, and from Hawaii to Auckland,
connecting at Auckland with the cable
that runs to Australia or from Hawaii
direct to Australia.
Not long ago the United States senate
tackled &c the diplomatic ana consular
appropriation bill an item of 5000, 900
for preliminary work on a cable to Ha.
waii, but this item was rejected by the
house of representatives. and for the
present at least the cable is deferred
Ocean cable laying costs about 81, 200 a
mile, and the estimated cost of a cable
?, l07 miles long, from San Francisco
TO Honolulu. is $4,000, 600.
When Cyrus w Field immortalized
himself ON July 81, 1866, by complet-
ing the first successful oceanic cable al
enormous expense, the wondering world
little thought that in % years there
would be 10 cables laid across the At
lantic. -Four of them were failures and
some of the others are little used, the
companies owning them having laid du-
plicate lines with more satisfactory re.
re- 40 in, fl,a AM Ia
American Telegraph company operates
five-four from Ealentia. Ireland 10
Heart Content. Newfoundland. and an
other from Minou, near Brest, France,
to the island of st. Pierre. south of
Newfoundland. The Commercial Cable
company has three transatlantic cables
two from Wateryille. Ireland, to Canso.
Nova Scotia. and one from Ballinskel-
ligs bay. Ireland. to Canso
The direct United States Gable com.
pany operates another from Ballinskel.
ligs bay to Halifax; the French Tele.
graph company another from Brest TO
st. Pierre; the Western Union Tele.
graph company two--a northern and a
southern--trom Semen cove, near Pen
zance. England. to Canso; the Brazilian
Submarine Telegraph company also has
two between Caravellos, near Lisbon,
Portugal. TO Pernambuco, Brazil, via
Madeira and Cape Verde islands, while
still another transatlantic cable stretches
TO Pernambuco.
England owns and operates at home
102 separate official cables, aggregating
$50 miles in length In her information
al system she operates II more of which
nine belong 70 her exclusively. measur-
ing 767 miles, and in her Indian ad-
ministration she has 90 more. measuring
together 1852, making in all 3, $50
miles of official ocean cable owned ex.
clusively by her. not counting the five
in which she is part owner. In Canada
she has - more official cables; in
Queensland she has 10; in South Aus
tralia, 5; i'll New Zealand, 8; in Tas-
mania. !; and iii Victoria. l. Norway
has 800 short length Off cial cables; Den
mark, so; Greece, Al; Germany. As;
Italy, 80: Austria. 81; Japan. ST.;
Holland, 90; Turkey. 10; Sweden 10;
Spain. 8; Russia. s; Belgium, g. and
Cochin China, 2 France possesses no
less than 80 separate official ocean ca
bles. The young republic Of Brazil has
%, and the Argentine Republic has 3.
Despite this great showing the cable
system of the world is very defective
so long as the mighty Pacific remains
unspanned. When San Francisco bust
ness men desire to talk with Auckland
at 81. So per word, the shortest natural
route between the two points is across
the Pacific As there is no cable the mes.
sage instead of going west, goes east,
crossing North America. the Atlantic
ocean. Europe, Asia and Oceanica to
Australia, and from Australia continues
on to its destination in New Zealand, a
distance of over 90, 600 miles, although
San Francisco and Auckland are only
about 5, 600 miles apart