The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-08
Gable Line From Manila,


News of the fighting in Manila, on the
other side of the earth. travels more than
1900 miles, over a dozen or more cables
and three or more overland wires. before
ii gets 10 New York City. Very few per-
sons. among the thousands who watch the
bulletin boards these days, stop 10 think.
when a Manila dispatch is posted, that the
message was repeated over and over
again, as IL was sent from cable office 10
cable office, in the long journey from the
Philippine port to the American shore.
II travelled across seas, CULTS. bays and
straits, mountains. valleys and plains. But
on Monday the news that Commodore
Dewey was ready 10 lombard Manila was
known in New York City IS minutes in
actual time after the British operator at
Manila opened his key. The cables were
rushing things
The eastern cables are owned by British
companies, the Eastern Telegraph compa-
ny and the Eastern Extension. Australia
and China Telegraph company. The two
companies are controlled by the same
men. Across the China Sea. from Hong
Kong to Cape Bolinao. on Luzon Island,
in the Philippines. q cable was laid in
1880. The cable is 52s II miles long From
Cape Bolinao across the island TO Manila
is a telegraph line about 100 miles long.
All the news we have received from Ma
Mia has been first telegraphed from Ma
Mia to the cable station at Cape Bolinao.
and from there sent on by cable to Hong
Kong.
From Hong Kong TO New York a mes
sage has an interesting course. From the
Chinese port it is first sent down the
China Sea over a 46o-mile cable 10 Saigon
ri.
long, conveys It to Singapore. on the
Straits, or II may be sent to the island
of Labuan. Borneo. and then TO Singa-
pore.
From Singapore 1t runs around the Ma
lay Peninsula to the island of Penang. on
the western coast Of Lower Siam, dis
lance Of 3SS miles. Across the Bay of
Bengal from Penang 10 Madras the mes
sage is repeated on a cable LASS miles
long.
In India the message reaches the first
land telegraph line after leaving the is
land of Luzon. Across India 20 Bombay
the message runs over 500 miles OF wire.
Then IL is put on a cable again to cross
the Arabian Sea to Alden, on the Gulf OF
Alden. a distance of ISL miles. Up
through the Red Sea TO Suez is another
long cable. 1903 miles. Again, the mes
sage goes overland the 200 miles of wire
from Suez to Alexandria.
The Mediterranean has no direct cable
from Alexandria to Gibraltar. The mes
sage must be sent over a 9l3 mile cable
TO the island of Malta. and then repeated
over the Gibraltar cable, LIPS miles fur
Their. From Gibraltar to Carcavellos. near
Lisbon. is a short cable. 337 miles long
connecting the Mediterranean port with
the S56-mile ocean cable from Lisbon 10
Porthcurno, the cable station at Land 8
End, Eng.
Eleven ocean cables connect the English.
Irish and French cable stations with
America, and the message from Manila.
upon reaching Lands End, may be sent
over any of these cables. The Western
Unions messages are sent from Sermon
Cove near Lands End. direct 10 Dover
Bay, near Canso. Nova Scotia, 1851 miles;
from there they are repeated over the
coast cable to New York SIS miles more.
Coming by this route the message from
Manila 10 New York travels over twelve
cables, having a total length OF l3, al
miles, and three land telegraph lines with
total length of about 500 miles-a total
distance OF 14.311 miles.