The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-24
(Associsted Press Special TO the Advertiser.)
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,
Dec. l6th.--.At l:5S o'clock the
following message was received
from the SilvertoWn:
Noon---240 knots off the
coast in a heavy sea. Rain
during night but clear today.
Speed seven knots. Everything
going we'll.
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urday and it was not until Sunday
morning that the second and successful
attempt to land the cable was made.
Early in the morning the two ships
went out to a. point opposite the Cliff
house and before nine o'clock the work
of landing the tow cable was begun.
This was successfully accomplished, the
life boat and teams of horses assist
ing. Finally at 9:16 o'clock the first
section of the deep sea conductor was
sent off the Newsboy and toward the
shore The cable was puoyed here
and there with afr-filled balloons and
it took only thirty-nine minutes to
cover the quarter of a mile from the
schooner to the beach.
1t was a few minutes after the end
had reached a point where it should
emerge from the water that President
Mackay arrived, the ceremony OF re-
ceiving the wires being delayed until
his presence had been secured. Mr..
Mackay was accompanied by Gov.
Gage, Mrs Gage and Miss Lucille
Gage, who was to christen the cable,
Mayor Schmitz and other notable men
Of the city and state.
The invited guests ranged about the
youthful head Of the enterprise, and
the maid, and as the wire bound end
of the conductor came from the waves,
Miss Gage dashed a bottle of cham
pagne against the mass and christened
the cable. The ten-year-old child had
composed the speech with which she
performed the ceremony and President
Mackay was much impressed by its
sincerity. Immediately the crowd
began to cheer and the bands to play
and the great work was about its end.
for the two lengths were quickly join
ed and then the Newsboy was seen
proceeding to sea to join the Silver
town, which at once took aboard the
cable and again a splice was made
and the preparations for the journey
to Hawaii were undertaken, the smoke
streaming from the tunnels being the
sign for renewed cheering by the peo-
pie ashore.
AS the splicing was going on the
visitors gathered about and speeches
were made by Mayor Schitz, Mr..
Mackay and Governor Gage and the
crowds cheered and afterward spent
the day in looking over the stretch of
cable and watching the ship which was
still in the distance waiting for the
completion of the splicing aboard ship
before beginning the eventful voyage
President Mackay sent the following
message to President Roosevelt:
San Francisco, December IA, 1902.
To Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Presi-
dent of the United States, Wash
ington, D. C.
I have the honor to inform you that
the end OF the Honolulu cable was sue
cessfully brought to shore this morn
ing, Governor Gage being present.
c. NJ. MACKAY.
Pres. Commercial Pacific Gable Co.
1t was about midnight on Sunday
when the Silvertown began the jour
ney and the first news received was
that on Monday, when at O'Clock p.
m. the vessel had paid out II miles.
and was proceeding at a regular rate
of speed to the west.
President Mackay after witnessing
the successful laying of the shore end,
left at once for New York, leaving Vice
President Ward to overlook the work
at San Francisco and keep in touch
with the ship during the voyage.
When the Silvertown cleared for Ho-
nolulu duties were paid to the amount
of $500 on instruments to be used at
that end of the line and $500 on one
league of the cable.