New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-23
BY CABLE AROUND WORLD.
MESSAGE SENT BY AMERICAN THE
NEW BRITISH TRANSPACIFIC LINE.

Although the English Government has now COM
pleted its all red cable" the Pacific link
ing with the mother country the colonies Of Can
ada, New-Zealand and Australia by an electric
wire which does not emerge from the water except
British land. it remained for an American to
send the first Geographic message around the
world. The Pacific cable finished o'clock
the morning Of October 81, when TWO duplicate
messages were dispatched from Suva. Fiji Islands.
70 King Edward at Buckingham Palace. One
cable dispatch went eastward by the new route,
The other westward by the old line by way Of the
East Indies. India. the Red Sea and Gibraltar.
The message by the new cable took hour to
reach its destination.
The next day after this feat OF sending mes
sage half around the world Charles J. Glidden,
n Boston, conceived the iCea OF sending a cable
dispatch 10 himself which would belt the globe.
Accordingly, November / at 9:15 a m. he adj
dressed this dispatch to himself:
Boston. Nov. l-Giidden. Boston, Mass via
Vancouver British cable to Australia. around the
world"
This went ordinary telegram. taking its
place with the regular business Of the Geographic
and cable companies by which IL had TO be
handled. and it was received in Boston by the
Western Union Telegraph Company 1886 a. m.
November g. having made the circummundane trip
in thirty mine hours and twenty minutes.
The British cable across the floor Of the
Pacific has it's Australian terminus at Southport
81 Queensland. with branch across to NeW-Zea-
land. From Southport the cable makes toward
America by the way OF Norfolk Island the Fiji
Islands and flaming Island The American ter
minus is al Vancouver British Columbia The
cable was laid by two ships the Anglia and the
Coonia. The Anglia carried the coils which were
unWound between Southport ard flaming Island
and the Colonia completed the section between
Tanning Island and Vancouver.
The distances covered by this stretch Of wire are
enormous and exceed anything that has yet been
attempted in cable laying The total length OF the
cable from America to Australia is s.272 miles.
three times the distance between this city and San
Francisco. The actual distance between the ter.
mini OF Southport and Vancouver is only 7267 miles
but the bottom OF the Pacific is so deep the cable
Deing three and onehaif miles beneath the surface
~ one point, and Is traVersed by such high ridges
ard PERCEPTIONS valleys that zoos miles OF slack
wire had be paid out 70 prevent il piping
from TOO great tension. In reeling OF the cable
he steamer had to graduate its speed with great
dellcaey to insure freedom from tautness. The
stretch OF cable between Vancouver and Tanning
Island comprises the longest section, and Is 257
miles In length.
The Pacific cable cost the home government OF
Great Britain and the colonial governments OF
Canada Australia and New-Zealan6 the sum Of
si0,e0009e- Although much has been said about the
enormous expense of the enterprise, il Is less than
one-third that II the subway IN this city and on ~
Onetenih Of what ii 10 run this city one year
~ the present time England has electric com