The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-08

SEVENTY MEN
HER COMPLEMENT
The Big Electric Rope win Be
in Working Order About
Christmas Time.

All the cable for the line between San
francisco and Honolulu has been made
and loaded upon the cable ship Silver
town, which when the Kofea sailed
from San Francisco. was still in the
Thames, but was expected to sail for
the Coast port about the middle of the
month. The iron pipe, in which is to be
laid the underground cable to connect
the Waikiki landing place of the cable
with the downtown Office in the Young
building, has been purchased, and 1t
was expected that the shipment would
leave Pittsburg the first of the month";
The pipe will come by rail and steamer
and should arrive here within some
three weeks, under those conditions.
Delays caused by the death of John
w. Mackay have caused the setting
back of the date fixed for the opening
of the cable. Whereas it was the belief
at first that the cable would be finished
by November 20, it is now thought 1t
viii be nearer that date in December
when the line is opened for business.
The cable should reach San Francisco
/, by the middle of October, and it's laying
will follow with all speed. BY the time
the end of the line has reached here the
cable downtown will be finished, and
there will be no delay in working the
line on commercial business after its
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spliced
Negotiations were opened in San
Francisco by Manager Dickinson with
Mr.. Dillingham; which assured a cable
station here of the first Importance.
According to the plans this VIII be
made the point of station for the repair
ship. This means the securing of
ground for the storing of not less than
200 miles of deep-sea cable and the
keeping here on call all the time, ex-
cept of course when out on duty, of a
repair ship. This vessel viii be con-
structed in America for the purpose,
and will be of the most modern type.
The station will mean that there Will
be attached to it and the ship a force
of some 20 men, including the experts
and the crew, which will make this ad-
dition to the population of the city. 1t
is the expectation that a berth for the
ship, which must be kept in commits
sion all the time, will be arranged in
the Eva end of the harbor, close to the
Railway wharves, and that there will
be given space for the warehouses on
the reef, by the railroad interests. Mr..
Dillingham; said yesterday that he has
assured Mr. Dickinson that every effort
would be made to give the company all
the accommodation that it desires, as
the company realizes the amount of
benefit that will accrue to the COM
munity from the presence here of the
vessel, and the great good that must
come from the speedy repairing of any
break in the line.
The contract for the pipe was secured
in San Francisco by Mr.. Mason Of the
Hilo Mercantile Company, whose bid
was the lowest put in. There were bids
from local firms or agencies. The
amount contemplated in the contract is
something more than 1900 feet, or
above five miles. The company has Sc
cured the right to open the streets fcv
the purpose of putting down its mains,
and this work will be put under con-
tract as soon as Mr.. Dickinson returns,
which is now expected by the Sonoma,
leaving San Francisco on September T.
Mr.. Dickenson did not know of the
death of john w. Mackay until his ar
rival in San Francisco, and he found
then that there would De some delay IN
getting together details which had been
arranged before. These have all been
adjusted and the outlook Is that there
will be no delays once the cable is sent
around the Horn.