The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-30
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OF
SHORE END
IS LAID

The completion of the work on the
shore end occupied the attention of the
Silvertown's force early yesterday
morning Not more than half the bal
loon buoys were loosed Sunday night
and the morning found the remainder
which bore it in line toward the prov
of the ship. At I o'clock the work be-
gan of sending out the boats af the
ship to release the rest of the buoys SO
that the cable might find its bed on
the level of the oceans floor.
While this was going on off shore
the men engaged for the completion of
the shore work were busy getting the
end of the line out of sight. The line
marked out for the burying of the
heavy cable was followed with a trench
some three feet deep and in compara-
lively short time the cable had been
placed and put into the basement of the
cable hut through the conduit prepared
when the little house was erected. AS
soon as this was done the line was pre-
pared for the tests of the experts on
the ship and even before this was COM
p1eted the vessel was seen to be pre-
pairing for the undertaking of the next
step of the labor.
Before 10 o'clock anchor was holsted
and the Silvertown stood out to sea
paying out the cable over the PROV
The course was straight off shore until
a little more than mile had been COW
cred, and then the ships head was
turned toward the channel. This
showed also that the rock cable hal
bee:i nut down. the dangerous shoai
water passed and with from twelve to
fifteen fathoms under the vessel the
laying of the intermediate line, which
will extend to the connection with the
deep sea conductor, was going on.
The Silvertown began to work toward
the middle of the channel and was soon
seen to be making fair weather of it
though the trip was not in any way
pleasant one, for the sea was rough
and the wind blowing through the
channel a biting breeze, which display
&c a tendency TO shift TO the east. The
Silvertown backed into this fer s,ne-
thing like five miles, when the watchers
on shore saw that the intention was to
cut it and run for the buoys which
mark the spot where the end of the sea
Eline was dropped.
The ship was brought into the wind
and laid so that a lee was formed for
the easy placing of the buoy which was
attached to the end of the cable. The
ship was rolling heavily, dipping rails
ruaer in the heavy swell which was
running IL the channel.
GETS AWAY FOR THE DEEP SEA.
1t was within five minutes IF the
noon hour that this work was complste
and at once the Silvertown headed for
the open sea, going almost northeast
The wind and sea were directly ahead
and the ship did not make great head
way against the combined forces. 1t
was figured that at the rate of speed
shown by the vessel in the two hours
that it was visible off the Diamond
Head light, that it would take four
hours to get to the spot marked by the
bueys indicating the resting place of
the deep sea end.
The engineers on board the vessel
said before they got under way that
they would make the trip, owing to the
fact. that the buoys put out on Friday
morning last were arranged with lights
which would burn only ninety hours
and it was deemed best to make re-
newal of these. In the event that the
sea was too rough to permit of the
picking UP of the sea end of the cable,
and there was the slightest danger. that
there might be carrying away of the
line of the conductor buoys marking the
spot, the ship would run back along
the line of the cable and drop another
buoy with the heaviest of storm an
chors. which would make it impossible
that the line would be lost through the
vaslnEg off of the buoys.
TESTS AND CONNECTIONS.
The connection between the roak ca
BILE which constitutes the shore end Of
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