The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-22

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! NSPecial 10 me Advertiser.
| ~ AN FRANCISCO. April 15.-Hawaii
| v is to have a wireless telegraph
~ communication with San Francisco
in all probability in the near future. ].
Pierpont Morgan ana other distin-
guished flnanciers closely identified
| with him are backing the great enter
prise which will connect the United
States With Hawaii, the Philippines.
Cuba, Porto Eieo. Danish West Indies.
Alaska. the Aleutian Islands and other
distant lands
The company is known an the Wire
less Telegraph Company of America,
and has been Incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey Contracts to con-
troll the American rights will soon be
signed by it, and the parent company
formed by Marconi in London. The
capitalization of the Wireless Telegraph
Company Of America is to be SC, $50, 600.
The company has been financed by
E. Rollins Morse. 1t will begin opera
tions in June, and stations are now
and Tampa, Florida. The stations on
the Pacific Coast are to be built very
soon. and by means of these @conrnp-
nications will be opened with the Phil
ippines, the Orient and Russia, by way
of Hawaii and Guam. The cost of sta
tions is estimated at about s1OO0,Oo0.
In addition to its land stations the
Wireless Telegraph Company of Amer
lea Will control the rights on all vessels
sailing under the American flag. These
vessels win have to purchase their
wireless apparatus from the American
Marconi is to receive $25000O cash,
and SO per cent of the stock of the new
company. for his deciding them the
American rights on his Inventions
E. Rollins Morse is a member of the
firm of Morse Brothers. brokers of New
York and Boston, and is closely identi-
led with ]. Pierpont Morgan in many
financial affairs.
According to statements made by
hose close to the heads of the company,
Hawaii may expect wireless messages
'efore the cable to Honolulu is in work
ng order.
THE MACKAY CABLE.
A landing place near the Cliff House
las been selected for the cable which
Ohm w. Mackay's Commercial Gable
Company will lay between here and
laval. George w. Ward general man
haS
est place to land the cable viii be
lose to the life-saving station, just
orth of Golden Gate Park, Fulton
treet, if extended, would strike the
each at this point.
The Commercial Cable Company's %
ces in the Hobart Building. on Market
treet, near Montgomery, viii be the
srminus of the cable here. rhe great
ope will be buried in a trench OF con-
uit between the Hobart Building and
lie beach landing place, and the city
authorities viii shortly be asked for
4rm1ssion TO lay this underground ca
e. its route will be from the point
7 the beach mentioned, east to Forty
,venth avenue, north - Cliff avenue,
lence east to Forty-second avenue,
Ience east along Point Lobos avenue
Id Geary street to Market.
The route from san Francisco to
onolulu win be about southwesteIly,
I'd the total length Of the cable Will
about 21O0 miles. The cable is now
ing made at the mills at the rate Of
-enty miles a day, or over coo miles
month, and a steamship is already
ing gotten ready to lay it. The act
Il work will begin some time next
cober.
The cable viii be brought around
pc Horn from the factories in Great
itain on the same vessel which will
: ii. It is expected that the line will
completed by Thanksgiving cay, as
can be put upon the bottom OF the
4 at the rate of about five or six
les an hour.
General Manager Ward says. The
npauy does not expect the san Fran
co-HonOlulu cable to pay interest
the investment It viii continue
cable across the Pacific BY way OF
dway Island and GUam TO Manila
/ Japan. we are now waiting for
report Of the Government steam
o Nero's soundings between Homo
] and the Far East"
FREDERICK O'BRIEN- q