The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-09
Wiring the Philippines
All the Important Points on the Island Now Con-
nected by Gable

but subsequently contracts were let for
the entire work, laying as well as FUR
uiShes the cable ship. the necessary mil
itary protection and AN officer as director
and Inspector More than 1900 miles have
now Deeh lald, almost enough 70 reacl
from San Francisco to Honolulu All
the principal cities and every island OF
any size are connected. TO be more eN-
phcit, cables connect Manila and Cavite,
Taguig and CaIamba. Taguig and Binaug,
Calamba and Los Banos. Los Banos and
Idloan. Leyte and TacI0bau and Samar.
Naic and Corregidor. Cuinayaugan and
PASSAGE, and other points from the islands
of Cebu to BahnI. Neeros to Cebu. Cebu
10 MlndanaO, JolO TO Mlndanao, ana also
danao, where land wires cannot vet be
maintained Most OF the work has been
aceonap tlsneu nm the past twelve months.
from Intentional interruption, a striking
evidence of American progress.
Very often ships weighing anchor in
the harbors find the hukeS entangIed with
the cables. and TO save a few minutes
time, cut the cable Instea q Of diSengaE iug
10 this
A curious protest was offered when the
/ urSL mllJarN cable was lalC-tnat from
Cavite TO Manila. The Eastern Extension
from Spain just before the war. with the
sole right OF cables in the Philippines.
This franchise lasts until 1870, and
clause IN the contract provides pay
nent OF $500 for each year before that
]
company has now put in a claim upon
the United States Tor that amount but
the claim win be ignored for reasons con
nected with the disposition OF the cable
at the beginning of The war
A few days prior to the opening of the
war, under an emergency contract with
( the approach of hOsuluJles, the company
/ extended its H0ngk0ng cable, which land
/ ed on Luzon, at BalinaO, to Manila Adj
/ Inlral DeWey 6ldeaV0red IN vain to obtain
Z q REHABILITATION or this cable the Span
ISM OucerS refused TO permit him 10
use IT,. lie, therefore, cut IL rive days
after Manila fell he dispatched a. vessel
TO the point ot1rlpture. about two miles
/ of CaVlte, where the cable lay in about
/ ten fathoms. The wave action had car
ried the ends about 200 feet apart, to the
/ full length Of a stout rope that had
! Joined them TO facilitate recovery. There
I was no regular cable to be had, and the
/ repair was accomplished by splicing in a
I piece OF insulated field wire with such an
{ aItQWaIce or slack that the stay rope,
/ which was left on, should bear the strain.
! hongKong was called, only to find that
/ 20 SV0l9 complications the company had
sealed the cable, and after an the Crap
/ ping and tmprovising, the dispatch boat
\ had TO be continued II was some time
I after the protocol was signed that the
SpanlardS and the company S officers de
J cided to break the seal The use of a
cable for exchange OF messages in place
4 OF the slow service of the dispatch boat
/ AZ TINS time would have been Of ines
/ the British company took no note of that
and now IL VIII probably cost them dear.
/ IL IS now Just a matter of time before
. an American cable viii span from tine
/ Philippines to some point on the coast of
{ CHINA and Japan. The same Eastern Elk
/ tension company now charges 20 cents
/ per word for messages from Manila to
/ 1Ongkong, about three times the rate
from the United States to Europe.
This government is not in the Inter
national Telegraph union, which praC-
ttcally eliminates our voice from the con-
duct of the great cables. and in case of
[ emergency gives other cOuutries-thOse in
Z the uniOn-priOr right to the use of them.
The Philippine system Is America first
3 sep IN cables II is q good big stride,
fact, this country win be abreast of the
others.