Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-29
THE PACIFIC CABLE.
An opinion that the British scheme
VIII sidetrack All Others.


mercial journal, whose editor is
in a position to be we'll informed
on this subject:
There are perhaps few people
in Hawaii who are aware of the
exact position of the Pacific cable
question in the United States and
Canada. In former issues we took
the position that the cable from
Canada to Australia would be laid
and controlled by the Canadian
Pacific Telegraph Company, sub
ject to certain government res
trictions, and from the meagre in.
formation at hand as to what has
been agreed upon by the Colonial
and Imperial cable commissioners
our information has been confirm
ed by the representatives of the
governments interested.
At first thought it may be asked
by some: What has Canada or
the Canadian Pacific Telegraph
Company to do with cable bust
ness in the United Safes {? The
reply to this question is that
while Canada has perhaps no in
huence over cable matters in
America, the Canadian Pacific
Telegraph Company has from the
fact that many of its largest
stockholders are Americans and
also from its close business re a.
tons with the Postal Telegraph
Company. AS a matter of fact it
may be said that the proprietor
ship and management of the Ca
madam Telegraph Company, the
Postal Telegraph Company, the
Commercial Cable Company, the
United States and Hayti Tele-
graph and Cable Company, are
practically one and the same ex-
cept as regards heads of working
departments. Mr.. w. @. Van
Horn, the president of the G. P.
Ry. Co. and @. P. Ry. S. s. Co. is
the president of the G. L. r. Tele
graph Company, operating in
Canada and vice president of the
Postal Telegraph Company of the
United States. MIR. John w.
Mackay is president of the latter
Company and heavily interested
financially in both. These men
with their associates control the
Commercial Gable Company and
the United States and Hayti Com.
pany. They without doubt form
the strongest telegraphic combina
ton in the United States and
their manipulation of the cable
scheme from New York to South
American points and the success
full Inauguration of the latter ser
vice inthe face of what was intended
as an exclusive franchise from the
United States Congress to the
Western Union Company goes to
prove what they can accomplish
when they undertake proposition.
These are the men whom Mr..
Spalding and all others seeking
aid from the American Congress
for Pacific Cable schemes from
America in opposition to the
British line have to contend
against. These men realize the
necessity for the Canadian-Aus
tralian line, and also realize that
it will be many years before more
than one cable enterprise can be
successfully operated across the
Pacific. When the Canadian
Australian line is open for bust
ness it will undoubtedly be oper-
ated in connection with the COM
bination of companies enumerated
above. The British Ii ne will be
completed within year to
Norfolk Island, from which
point branch lines will be laid to
the Australian colonies and also
to Japan and China. We under
stand a proposition will be sub.
mitted to the Hawaiian Govern
ment by the British promoters to
lease a small island for cable pur-
poses, which we sincerely hope
may be satisfactorily arranged, as
it will be the only opportunity
this country will have to secure
cable connection for many years
to come. Mr.. Spalding and his
friends have absolutely no posi-,