The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-03-05

ROUTES OF STEAMSHIPS TO 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 q ca
BILE crossing the entire Pacific. a distance
Of $40 miles from Vancouver to Ha-
waii, and from Hawaii to Auckland.
connecting ut Auckland with the cable
that runs to Australia. or from Hawaii
direct to Australia.
Not long ago the United States senate
tackled to tho diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill an item Of $500, 600
for preliminary work OH a cable to Ha-
wall, 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 .
mile, and the estimated cost Of a cable
2, 1O7 miles long, from San Francisco
to Honolulu, Is $3, 600, 600.
When Cyrus w. Field immortalized
himself on July 81, 1866, by complet-
ing the first successful oceanic cable ut
enormous expense. the wondering world
little thought that in 2S 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-
suits. OF the Is now in use the Anglo
American Telegraph company operates
fve-four from Valentia. ireland, to
Hearts Content, Newfoundland, and an
other from Minou, neal Brest, FRANCE.
to the island Of st. Pierre, south, Of
| Newfoundland. The Commercial Cable
company has three transatlantic cables
two from Waterville, Ireland, to Canso,
Nova Scotia, and one from Ballinskel-
ligs bay, Ireland, to Canso.
The direct United States Cable 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-from Semen cove, near Pen
xance, England, to Canso; the Brazilian
Submarine Telegraph company also has
two between C~aravellos, near Lisbon,
Portugal. to Pernambuco, Brazil, via
Madeira and Cape Verde islands, while
still another transatlantic cable stretches
from Senegal, on the west coast of Africa,
to Pernambuco.
England owns and operates at home
1O2 separate official cables, aggregating
( $50 miles in length. In her information
al system she operates IA more, OF which
nine belong to her exclusively, measur
ing 767Imiles, and in her Indian adj
ministration she has 80 more, measuring
together 1889, making in all 8, 582
miles of official ocean cable owned x
clusively by her, not counting the five
in which she is a part owner. In Canada
she has % more official cables; in
Queensland she has Is; in South Aus.
tralia, 5; in New Zealand, g.; in Tas.
mania, /; and in Victoria, l. Norway
has 255 short length Off cial cables; Den
mark, so; Greece, Al; Germany, As;
Italy, 3S; Austria, 81: Japan, 81;
Holland, 90; Turkey, 10; Sweden. 10;
Spain. 3; Russia, 8; Belgium, 2, and
Cochin China, 2. France possesses ne
less than SO separate oficial ocean Ca
bles. The young republic Of Brazil hal
22, and the Argentine Republic has 3.
Despite this great showing the cable
system Of the world is very defective
70 long as the mighty Pacific remain,
u%nspanned. When San Francisco bust
ness men desire to talk with Aucklanl
at 81. SO per word, the shortest natura
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 t
| Australia, and from Australia continues
. on to its destination in New Zealand, /,
distance OF over 90, 900 miles, although
San Francisco and Auckland are onl,
about 6, 900 miles apart.