The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-29
SHORE END OF
PACIFIC CABLE
Continued from Page L.

CONTINUED from rage Ii
the vessel, in a graceful curve, the 50
balloons which fioated the fourteen
tons of conductor bobbed about in the
waves.
AS the cable came from the water
and score of workmen seized the
rope to ease it along through the
sheayes, there was a. shouting from
the people and the band struck up the
new Gable" march of Berger, the
cheering and music continuing until
the cable had been pulled some fifty
feet beyond the cable house, when
tri-color flag was sent aloft, meaning
Enough cable paid out"
The rains descended and the crowds
began to depart, but at the end of the
cable there gathered a little group of
friends, and Mrs. A. G. Halves placed
MALE and lima lei over the strand,
saying: Pacific Gable, we welcome
thee to Hawaii Mel" There We're
cheers for the event, and the partici-
pants and the crowds passing touched
the cable that they might have it to
say that they had been SO privileged.
But the rain kept them moving, and
soon the people had departed. The
cable will be put inside the house TO-
day and connected Immediately.
Everyone, Chief Engineer Benest,
his assistants who watched over oper-
ations ashore, Messrs. Daily. Crawford,
and Raymond Barker, Captain Patti
son, Mr.. Dickinson, Mr.. Gaines and all
those interested, expressed themselves
as most pleased with the days work,
and satisfied that the best possible had
been done.
At once the releasing of the balloon
buoys was begun. they being so ar
ranged that the cutting of cord freed
the cable from a special clutch, and
! before it had become too dark to watch
the progress that was made, there had
been dropped something close to half
| of the half mile length of cable, it
! finding its place on the bottom where
! it may never be disturbed The re-
mainder was permitted to remain
afioat during the night and will be low
! cred into place this morning The
! ships anchors are sufficient to hold
! whatever blow might come up, and it
!. was decided to stay out instead or
coming to dock.
If the seas seems to abate this morn
ing the Silvertown may at once pay out
! the three miles of rock cable and then
| splice onto the intermediate and run
! it through the Molokai channel and
out to the spot where the deep sea line
was buoyed. This is not settled, how
ever, for in the event that the buoy
! that marks the line already laid being
carried away there may be a graphing
job, which may take some time, and
this would mean that the intermediate
would have to be dropped over, MAX
ing two ends in the water at one time.
1t is believed therefore probable that
the rock cable will be buoyed, and
then the Silvertown will go on out for
deep sea line and pick it up before
returning to match the intermediate
and shore ends.
The landing place of the cable has "a
history full of interest. Kappa has
always been a spot full of memories.
Centuries back, perhaps, the warriors
and visitors, when the wind and sea
made it impossible to get by Diamond
Head, sought the refuge of Kappa.
Later, in the time of men of today,
there were small steamers which ran
to Kappa. The identical spot where
the cable came ashore was surveyed
and recommended many years ago BY
Curtis ]. Lyons, and it was considered
as the ideal place