The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-12-30
MORE OF
SHORE END
IS LAID

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shore end occupied the attention of the
silvertown's force early yesterday
morning. Not more than half the bal
( loon buoys were loosed Sunday night
/ and the morning found the remainder
of the great line floating To the LuIys
which bore II in line toward the prov
of the ship. At : O'Clock the work be-
gan of sending out the boats Of the
ship to release the rest of the buoys so
that the cable might find its bed on
the level of the oceans floor.
! While this was going on off shore
the men engaged for the completion If
| the shore work We're busy getting the
end of the line out of sight. The line
| marked out for the burying of the
/ heavy cable was followed with a trench
some three feet deep and in compare
| lively short time the cable had been
placed and put into the basement of the
cable hut through the conduit prepared
when the little house was erected. AS
soon as this was done the line was pre-
pared for the tests of the experts on
+, the ship and even before this was com-
pleted the vessel was seen to be pre-
/ pairing for the undertaking of the next
step of the labor
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and the Silvertown stood out to sea
! paying out the cable over the prov.
/ The course was straight off shore until
little more than mile had been COW
/ cred and then the ships head was
/ turned toward the channel. This
/ showed also that the rock cable had
| bee, tut down, the dangerous .hOal
water passed and with from twelve to
( fifteen fathoms under the vessel the
laying of the intermediate line, which
! will extend to the connection with the
deep sea conductor, was going on.
The Silvertown began to work toward
the middle of the channel aal was soon
seen to be making fair weather Of it
Though the trip was not in any way
! pleasant one, for the sea was rough
and the wind blowing through the
channel a biting breeze, which display
&c tendency to shift 10 the east. The
! SilVertown b licked into this fer some
thing like five miles when the watchers
on shore saw that the intention was to
cut it and run for the buOys which
mark the spot where the end of the sea
| line was dropped.
The ship was brought into the wind
and laid so that a lee was formed for
/ the easy placing of the buoy which was
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ship was rolling heavily, dipping rails
Gnuer in the heavy swell which was
| running IL the channel.
GETS AWAY FOR THE DEEP SEA.
1t was within five minutes If the
noon hour that this work was c)mplet"
and at once the Silvertown headed for
! the open sea, going almost northeast
! The wind and sea were directly ahead
and the ship did not make great head
way against the combined forces. 1t
was figured that at the rate of speed
shown by the vessel in the two hours
| that it was visible off the Diamond
Head light, that ii would take four
hours to get to the spot marked by the
buoys indicating the resting place Of
! the deep sea end.
The engineers on board the vessel
said before they got under way that
they would make the trip, owing to the
fact that the buoys put out on Friday
morning last were arranged with lights
which would burn only ninety hours
and it was deemed best to make re-
newal of these. In the event that the
! sea was too rough to permit of the
picking up of the sea end of the cable,
and there was the slightest danger that
there might be carrying away of the
line of the conductor buoys marking the
spot, the ship would run back along
! the line of the cable and drop another
! buoy with the heaviest of storm an
chors. which would make it impossible
that the line would be lost through the
Washing off of the buoys.
TESTS AND CONNECTIONS.
The connection between the rock ca
BILE which constitutes the shore end of
the system and the underground line
was made yesterday afternoon shortly
before six o'clock and after tests and
speaking over the underground the two
conductors were twisted together and
wrapped, after which the recorder in
the Office in the Young Building was set
going, and kept so for the purpose of
being in readiness for the speaking Of
the ship, II the end in the channel was
picked up during the night.
The conductor which is in the center
of the rock cable is of the same size as
that which Is in the deep sea cable OF
about one-third the size and one-twelfth
the weight 1t is made OF seven
strands of small copper wire and when
the great cable sheathing had been cut
away and the slender core exposed, 1t
was the work Of but few seconds to
make the connection. The under
ground wires had been carefully tested
and "A telephone had been worked over
them, but the regular instruments for
the receiving OF messages over the ca
BILE had not been rlaced until yesterday
and these were then used for the first
I, time. Superintendent Gaines IN person
made the connection and using two dry
cells connected his sending key with
the underground system.
Calling the down town onice he made
the FIRST record which was PIT on the
tape by the instruments VIII p are 10
serve for the recording II tUe mani-
fold business communication which
win como from the mainland This
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