The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-12-23
CABLE IS
MORE THAN
HALF LAID
SiIvertown Began
Work Upon
Time.

With fair fortune and average wealth
er the cable ship Silvertown is now
more than half way through with the
task of laying the cable which, before
the end of the week, should be carrying
messages between Hawaii and the
mainland. News by the Aorangi on Sat-
urday tells that the ship moved out of
San Francisco harbor on Friday, De-
cember 12th, and at once went al the
work of putting ashore the end of the
line which will extend to this city. That
work should occupy only a few hours
as the arrangements We're all complete
and the start for Hawaii should have
been made that day or early the next
at the very latest.
Heavy rains to the contrary notwith
standing, the task of making the nee
essary spices along the underground
line to the cable hut at Waikiki went
on yesterday. At the manholes and
boxes where the cable ends were to be
connected, tents were erected and under
these the expert splicers, the two Came
ron brothers from Boston, brought out
for the purpose of connecting up the
underground wires carried on their
work. The rainfall was SO heavy that
the work did not progress as rapidly as
when the weather is fine, but the splic-
ers have now passed into Kapiolani
Park and the end of their labors is in
sight.
The work of arranging for carrying
on corresp ondence by wire is progress
sing among business men and study of
codes is a feature of every counting
house in the city. Mr.. S. s. Dickinson,
the representative of the Pacific Com
mercial Company, in its work in this
ocean, has for many years been con-
nected with cable management and has
a wide acquaintance with cable sub
jeCts. Speaking of the methods of
handling messages yesterday he said:
1.-THE management of messages is con-
trolled by a convention to which the
powers of Europe subscribe, there be-
ing maintained at Berne, Switzerland,
an International Telegraph bureau.
Through this there passes all business
respecting the use of words in mes
sages, and of course cable companies
which do business with the world must
be governed by the rules laid down by
the conventions which are held each
five years or their messages will be re-
fused and great delay caused.
"There has been issued from the bu-
reau a list of the words of all modern
languages which are to be used in send
ing messages over Telegraph lines ana
TINS Is an ELABORATE work. Ihere are
five volumes, each of large size, and the
NUMBER Oh Worus mus co4iecleu Is srea''
"heh tme "hole Is coilipieleu no iilee-
sage VIII De receiVeu "hicn contains d
Word not III thaI iisI' except as cipher
message.
IheEe are really thFee hiius VI mes
-. 1o, lad
saSes Whlch are commonly haluIeu'
Inc clpher messages are those Wilch
CONSIST Oh ilsures VI leltels Vi coiiloliia-
lions OF poth. Wheh the message Is
made up OF hgures ploch Oh hNe' OF
any traction Vi 'ha' huiiioei' 10 Ioui.eu
as one word II there Is combination
OF hsures ana letters OF II letters are
used alone theh coiilpiiialioli VI liiree
is counted as Word.
CODE messages are most commonly
used. In the codes arbitrary meanings
are given TO certain WORDS ana THESE
are sent at the ordinary rates. any
WORD III modern LANGUAGE peihs TAX
en-, the words having IN them ten let
ters or IN the event OF their peing
great number, the charge Is made Tor
TWO words. a PLAIN message where
the words nave no hlddeh meaning, Is
the form generally USED IN lahu me
kilograms ana IN such messages words
are taken UP TO htteeh letters IN lehgth'
Ihere Is no way III Which Worus
which have no place IN modern IAN
guage can be sent except as clpher mes
sases' l nave never hearo Oh any pan
whereby combinations OF syllapies
which do not make legitimate words
are accepted as code messages ana we
VIII certainly refuse TO take such mes
sages other imam as c'pher' Ihera Is
|how proposal that the rates Tor Trans
mission De by letter ana th's Appears
to me as the proper way as tne letter
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