The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-09-30
ALL RED
CABLE MAY
COME HERE
Assistant Superintendent
Of Tanning Station
Arrives.

Two British cable steamers will ar
| rive In Honolulu during the course Of
the next few days. one Is the Colonia
which left Victoria on Sept 10Th to lay
$3.50 miles OF cable TO near Tanning Is
| land and then return to Honolulu The
/ other Is the steamer Anglia which left
/ London on August third and after max
ing the long voyage around through the
Sucz canal is due here on October third.
The latter vessel is to lay the cable be-
tween Tanning Island and Suva, Fiji
The Colonia is laying the new Pacific
cable at a smart rate. She left Bam-
field Creek on the nineteenth and is
putting the cable on the sea bottom at
the rate of seven and a half miles an
hour. Her cable only reaches to with
IN "A hundred and seventy-five miles OF
Tanning Island and when she gets to
that point she will attach the cable end
to buoy and leave it there for the
Anglia to connect and lay II in to Fan
ming Island and thence to Suva. The
Anglia comes here to meet the Colonia
so that the engineers who are laying
the cable may be transferred to her
from the Colonia and also some of the
cable laying machinery. Both are large
!
interest while they remain in port as
1t is seldom that a cable vessel Is seen
in Pacific waters.
WILL THE CABLE COME HERE?
]. +. Dicketts, of Halifax. Nova SEQ
| tia, arrived on the ALFRED" liner 40
rangi yesterday from Victoria Mr..
Dicketts is on his way to Tanning Is
land where he is to be assistant super
intendent of the Pacific cable station.
! Mr.. Dcketts is now at the Moana Ho-
tel and will remain here until the ar
rival of the Anglia from London as he
is to go to Tanning Island By that
steamer. Mr.. Dicketts states that the
cable from Bamfield creek, Vancouver
Island, to Tanning Island will be laid
very near the Hawaiian Islands but
could not state definitely whether the
cable would be laid into Honolulu. IL
the Pacific Gable Board could make ar
rangements with the Commercial Gable
Company, which is to lay the American
cable to Honolulu, it is likely that the
cable which passes by the islands to
Tanning Island will be taken UP, cut,
the two ends laid into Honolulu. and
transmitting station established here.
IL this Is done Honolulu would always
! be sure of a cable service for IL one line
broke the other could be used by both
companies until repairs could be ERECT
ed to the broken one.
Mr., Dicketts thinks that the new
"aIl-rcd" cable will get tremendous
amount of business. He says that there
is a great deal of sentiment behind the
cable and that Britishers will give 1t
great support. Australia has for years
been In the hands Of the Eastern Gable
Company and now that an all British
! line is being put through Australian
and English merchants will use 1t In
preference to the old one.
1.-THE cable" says Mr.. Dicketts. will
be completed before the end Of Novem-
Der. Already the line has been laid and
is being used between Queensland and
Norfolk Island. distance of 1886 miles.
and between Norfolk Island and Fill,
9sl miles, and between Norfolk and
New Zealand, SIS miles, or 1884 miles In
all, which is now in working order. In
two weeks tins the section as far as
Tanning Island will be nearly complete
and a few weeks more will see 1t con-
structcd to Fiji. completing the work
and forming one of the finest cable
services in existence"
Mr.. Dicketts is going to Tanning for
a two years stay. He expects his wife
to follow him in a few weeks time. He
has with him his nephew, f. Z. Chap-
man, q young cable operator.
Although the cable that is being laid
between Bamfield creek and Tanning
constitutes the longest section or caple
in the world it can be laid very quickly
tat,
remarkably even bottom. 1t was sur
veyed by II. NJ. S. Egeria and the deep
est hole found was about 5000 fathoms
or nearly three miles. At the rate that
, the Colonia steams she will hold the big
cable in suspension behind her LOT III
teen miles before it can touch the DOT
tom of the sea at this deep point
Every precaution has been taken u
prevent a long delay in case the capie
should break while being laid. situated
near the stern of the vessel is large
buoy, which, in case of preak' Is
heaved overheard to mark the spot
Attached TO the buoy is a peculiar
, mushroom anchor of about three nun
drei pounds weight. the head OK the
mushroom being down, and the concaNe
surface up, so that this cup ike ahchof
l is speedily filled with silt and mors
firmly held in position day by day III
, this way it is comparatively easy ioi
the cable ship to go back and PICK ul
the wire again, after which the caple IL
e spliced by special machinery carried OF
board.
A magnificent structure has beer
. erected at Bamfield creek for the capie
terminus. The buildings would grace
: a big city as they are of the latest style
= of architecture and we'll constructed
throughout. At Tanning Island II IL
!, said that the Pacific Gable station Is t'
be 4 very fine one. Although the puiio
ings there are to be constructed o.
coral rock and cement their total cos
will amount to nearly sl6o,oco' quite
n large staff will live on the station as al
: ...-.... n .r,,r Il va To ha tranAmitted there