The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-06-10
IN NEED or
An OFFICE
Cable Men Look
for Something
Steady.

" connect ltuNaN ana the Ulhlu- d
land and this and the islands 90 I
the west progresses without any him
drance. The progress which Is being
made is such that the head officers Of
the pacinc cable Company have no
tined the acting agent here, Nj. :. ;.
piekenson. to await further instruc-
tions before returning 60 the main
land. This would seem Co indicate |
desire to rush work along here. and
that the office would be- fitted Tor It's
purposes as rapidly as possible and
despite the fact that the time for its
use would be late fall at the earliest
Although the landing place for the |
/ cable has not been arranged and may |
/ not be settled absolutely FOR some time,
and in spite of the fact that there are
several property owners who will even
! yet endeavor to secure the cable COM |
pany for tenants, there is little In the
business section of the city that Is not
being carefully investigated by the ca
bile authority. There have been NUM-
! ber Of sites looked into for use as Of
I fees, and more will bee investigated be-
. fore any decision is made as 70 the
| placing of this important part of the
I cable system. The fact is that the
/ Office here will be SO much more than
a local office i'm itself that the local
. ity, the convenience of the Office 10 the
business community may be of neces-
! sity subOTdinated for q solid and rOomy
! building. Contrary to the general idea
/ there is a deal of room needed for the
local office, owing I'm part To the fact
that il viii be- the room through which
will pass and in which will be repeat
ed all the messages which will pass
/ la. Of, All
be needed two rooms or more on the
ground floor and a basement of almost
the same size.
| The point involving the greatest care
! in the shore end of a cable is the
soldity with which the stands for the
instruments are placed. These must
be so carefully put down that there Is
the least possible jar owing To local
disturbances. The common course is 10
have the office on the ground floor of
the building and the batteries i'm the
cellar or basement. The settings for the
instruments are given foundation in the
solid rock below and the stand is built
up until II reaches the height above
the floor which is needed for the re-
/ Ccivng or sending apparatus. This
setting is of rock or concrete and often
Is 50 carefully guarded from influence
/
! from even putting a hand upon IT,
| 1t is TO make the instruments GER
tainly free from surface disturbances
that the ground floor is always used
ana the special settings made. The
basement rooms are used for the bat
/, teries, and these must be so placed
that there is always an opportunity for
the WOrkmen to get around the cells to
test them and replenish the supplies
of chemicals The batteries are not cx-
! tremely heavy, owing To the slight re-
sistance encountered in "A fine cable.
I The testing of the cable itself Is done
at low voltage, there being from two
to thirty-two volts Experiments have
shown, too, that the best results at
tend operation under low currents. This
is true in the using of the cable for
commercial business, and also i'm the
, location of disturbances along the line,
, breaks ana similar conditions
There may be seen in the office here,
once it gets into running order, an
, automatic sending machine which re-
ceives the message from the initial Of
p flee and transmits it over another line
2 wire with mechanical accuracy. This
Gn' was set up by Mr.. Dickinson
at NuEo Scotia just before coming west
/, and he Is of opinion that the machine
+ is still hard at work and doing better
) work, too, for 1t does not let the op-
. orator enter into the equation, but be-
ing unable to talk, he worries along.
. The corps of the company here will
include manager, clerks for the gem
e eral business office, something like
y eight operators and lads. The men
! will be brought from the East they
having made an agreement, and the
company will do anything in its power
to make them happy while here There
will be stationed either here or al
Guam cable ship for repair purposes
\ The fact that the location has not been
decided upon means that the ship viii
be placed where there seem the great
est number of breaks in the system
: Midway Island is too small and there
=, are no habitatons there. so the result
will be the holding of the large planta-
tiOn