The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-30
CABLE BY
sept. 1ST
J.W. Mackay Talks
About His Great
Line.
HAWAII AND
THE MAINLAND
influence of the Cable Upon Sugar
Stocks and the Hotel Tourist
Trade.
Especial to the Advertlser.l

- AN FRANCISCO, Nov. H.-lf ca
bic makers keep their contracts
and the Pacific Ocean allows the
laying of the giant wire on its bottom.
Hawaii will have a cable ready for use
between Honolulu and San Francisco
on the first day of September, next
year. John w. Mackay says So
Mackay is the associate of Bennett In
the ownership Of Atlantic cables, and
is. of course. known to all Hawaiians
as the muiti-millionaire miner Of San
Francisco. He lives most of his time
now in the East, but arrived here on
November 19, to spend two months on
the Coast. He is living at the Palace
Hotel and chatted there freely--as
freely as a nome communicative man
can talk-of the cable project.
THE Commercial Pacific Gable Com
pany. which VIII own the cable to Ha-
wall has nothing more to do now"
said Mr.. AIackay, until the cable is
ready for use. We have let contract
to Gray silvertown Works, near Lon
don. England, for the nanufacture OF
the first section of this transrPaeEhc
cable. The price, which is 100000
sterling, or about $3.OO0,0O includes
the entire work of making the cable,
laying 1t, and building the landing sta
tions. The first section viii be 1880
miles long, The distance infa direct
line from point to point is but 2.1S0
miles, but 120 miles are allowed for
the slack. The Silvertown Works will
have to hustle hard to keep it's con-
tract, as it will take about two and a
half months to bring the cable around
Cape Horn, and they have only about
ten months to do all the work.
"As soon as we have finished the lay
ing of this section to Honolulu, we will
then go straight ahead for Manila, and
hope to have our cable In the Philip
pines within two years and a half. The
distance will be $500 miles l believe
that San Francisco will be the leading
cable station for the East, and that
the possession of a cable by Hawaii
viii be the strongest factor yet in it's
upbuilding. We have got
ten no subsidy, nor sought any. and
are spending all the money ourselves
for the work OF course, we make GER
tain conditions to the government.
such as giving precedence TO govern
ment messages, and charging half the
ordinary rates for government mes
sakes. In case of war. the United
States government will have entire con-
troll of this cable"
The fact that the contract for the
cable to Hawaii has been actually let
is a matter OF. sincere rejoicing among
it will mean millions 20
the Islands in the next few years. It
will mean that Hawaiian sugar stocks
will be listed on the New York Stock
Exchange. and probably IN the prin-
;ipal European centers. All efforts hith-
erto TO have these stocks listed in the
east have come to naught on account
IF the objection that Hawaii. being
without cable connection, there was no
of eastern investors dealing
heavily in them. The big spectator
and investor wants 10 have his hand
always on the markets pulse. and to
know a any hour what the stocks he
holds are worth in their homes, and
what the physical condition Of the
property Is.
With a cable. 1t is safe 10 predict
hat there viii be an interest taken IN
Hawaiian stocks that will aid the ISL
lnds immensely, and assure the large
,apital needed for the enIarging and
improving OF the plantations.
The United States government viii
undoubtedly make Honolulu rendez
'oUs for the ships Of the navy and the
transports Of the army. With cable
'aciIities Honolulu will become a place
,or merchant ships from Europe and
Australia to stop at for orders as TO
where to land their cargoes or to seek
others.
A leading hotel man here. speaking
IN the influence Of a cable TO Hawaii
n the tourist business to the Islands.