The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-09-02
CABLE
COMING
DEC. 1ST.
Approximate Date
Has Been
Fixed.

=. $ Dickcnson. representative oi the
Pacific Gable Co. ls staying az the
Palace hotel. lie IL booked Co return
Go Honolulu on the Korea, leaving here
the 20th lie viii probably soon 30 on
70 Guam TO arrange FOR the cable land
ing there upon the same lines that ne
has been doing al Honolulu. Tine ca
BILE has been finished and during the
next few days the loading Of h aboard
the steamer will be- completed. There
have been some unexpected delays,
however. and the probability is that
the steamer will not get away from
England until the first or second week
In September. and the completion of the
laying of the cable viii accordingly b.
likewise postponed until approximate
~ December i. The terms proposed -
the cable company 10y President Roose-
Welt upon which he VIII allow them the
free use of the soundings between Hoo
nolulu and the Philippines. have not
yet been accepted by the cable com
pany. and IL il not likely that they Will
be unless modified. The principal
ground Of objection is that the prOpos-
ition requires the cable company to al
low the government to take possession
of the cable and operate IL free of
charge during war time The cable
ment taking possession during war
time, as the government has the right
to take possession OF any property un-
der such circumstances, necessary for
carrying on the war: but they do not
see the justice Of requiring them to
surrender their property for an indeh-
mite period without compensation. IL
would be- cheaper for the company To
make their own soundings.
mi M nj g. ha
ment that the operators shall all be
American citizens. 1t is a fact that In
the United States the Morse system is
used exclusively. whereas all foreign
telegraph and cable companies, as well
as all OF the American cable companies
across the Atlantic, use the Interna-
tional system of signals, which is en-
tirey different Very few Americans
have learned the International system,
and in case an American operator of
the cable on the Asiatic side should be
disabled or unobtainable a foreign op-
orator could readily be picked up. while
the restriction TO American citizens
would endanger the whole operation of
the cable. The company are still in
hopes that a modification Of the re-
quirements by the government will be
made. If not. there will probably be
an additional delay in laying the cable
beyond Honolulu, but this will not af-
feet the laying Of the san Francisco
Honolulu section.
PUNAHOU TEACHERS.
Mr. Grifiiths, the new president of
Oahu College, accompanied by his Wife,
is at the Occidental. They are booked
to go 20 Honolulu by the Korea, which
will land them i'm Honolulu on the 4th
or 9Th of September, in ample time for
the opening of the institution on the
ed by Mr.. Griffiths will follow him on
the Sonoma leaving September 4. Miss
Hassforth, who has been spending the
summer in and about San Francisco.
also returns on the Sonoma.
THE FULLERTON.
The Fullerton, the Union Oil Com
pany's first tank vessel, after number
of delays, finally sailed for Kihei ON
Tuesday last. carrying "A load of lit
tie less than 5000 barrels of fuel oil.
1t Is noteworthy that the Fullerton il
the largest and most expensive wooden
ship ever built on the Pacific coast
that she was built for "A California
company by n California shipbu lding
company, almost exclusively of Cali
fornia materials; was christened with
a California name, by a California Ma
tive Daughter, and Will handle only
California products; all OF which goes
10 show that with all it's modesty. Cali
fornia is getting there all the same.
FRUIT SHIPMENTS FROM HILO.
The steamer Enterprise arrived this
week from Hilo with a shipment of
several hundred punches of bananas
and quite a number of boxes of alliga-
tor pears. a few of the bananas were
sewed up in gunny sacks and these
We're all in bad condition. Those wrap
ped in banana leaves We're, almost |
without exception, IN good condition. |
The pears We're mostly packed In large
boxes which contained several hundred
pears each, and the pears We're not
wrapped. The result was that as the
pears ripened they We're crushed by
the weight of the others. so that scarce
any were in good condition. A few of
the packages were thin boxes contain
ing only two or three layers OF pears
and the fruit was wrapped in paper.
These,as rule, arrived in good shape.
although quite number We're so green
that they Were worthless. 1t cannot
be too strongly impressed upon the Hlo
people that they will be wasting their
money by sending alligator pears un-
wrapped and in large boxes They
should be packed so that If possible the
pears will not come in contact with
each other and will have no weight
resting upon them, This can be accom-
plished by wrapping each pear in
double layer of paper or grass or leaves
and having partition Of some kind be-
tween each layer of pears rigid enough
to keep the next layer from resting up
on the one beneath. Good pears bring
fancy price in the San Francisco mar
ket, as they retail all the way up to
15c apiece. Care in sending only fully
matured fruit and in packing will Sc
cure these prices, while failure so to do
will result in absolute loss. xxx.
(From Another Correspondent)
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 23-Think-
Ing a few items from this busy mart
might be of interest 10 YOUR ,nnnu