The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-06
CABLE BUSINESS
BY CHRISTMAS
THE COMPANY'S PLANS AS DE-
SCRIBED BY POSTAL TELE-
GRAPH COMPANY MANAGER.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25.-In cal
culating the length of the cable be-
tween San Francisco and Honolulu, the
cable company experts figure on an ad-
ditional 8 per cent on the known dis
lance between the two ports, to cover
inundation at the bottom of the sea.
The ocean bed over the course which
the cable will be laid is familiar to the
contractors, a survey of it having al
ready been made.
IF everything goes WELL as we ex-
pect it to- we will be in communication
with the islands by Christmas time"
said L. ID. Storror, manager of the
Postal Telegraph Company, in discuss
ing the subject yesterday.
"The big steamship Silverton hav-
ing on board the cable, left England on
September 20. The last we heard from
her she was at the port of Coronel, on
the South American coast, and at that
time she was one day ahead of sched-
ule time. On this reckoning the Silver
ton should be here by December 5. 1t
will not take long to coal her and
then we will be ready to take this end
of the cable from her, anchor it at the
clearinghouse and connect it up with
our land cable, which runs into our Of
flee. The landing at Honolulu will be
made at point opposite Kapiolani
Park, about three miles from the city
of Honolulu.
I'VE all figure that there will be no
hitch in the laying of the cable and if
nothing unforeseen happens we will be
ready to handle Christmas business be-
tween San Francisco and Honolulu.
Now for the rest of the cable to
Manila. AS soon as the first INSTALL
ment to Honolulu is successfully put in
operation, then the Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance
Company of England, which concern
has the contract for furnishing and
laying the cable between San Francis
co and Manila, will send out the sec
ond span of cable which will reach
from Honolulu to Midway Island, which
l believe, is in the neighborhood of 1900
miles more toward Manila. The next
section will be brought out soon after
and will be laid between Midway Island
and Guam and the last section to Ma
Mia will follow as soon as possible af-
ter.
81 believe that the cable connecting
Manila and San Francisco will be in
operati by next summer We have
made arrangements to push the job to
a successful and speedy completion.
The company is sparing no money or
CHUTE W give lne people WHAT lney
want, cable communication between
our country and our newly acquired
possessions. The land cable at this
end of the line is one of the best that
has even been put down by any com.
pany in the world. 1t is laid in lengths
of 1900 feet and it works like a charm.
The various details of the cable laying
should prove intensely interesting to
the people of this city.
when the Silverton starts on her
journey to Honolulu she will be the
first vessel that ever left this port
with line connecting her with the
land. None of the officials OF our COM
pany will go on the cable-Aying trip,
as the English company has the con-
tract in its own hands. 1t is my belief,
or rather 1t is my hope, that the Sill
verton will arrive here on time"
The Silverton is not a new steamship
to this port. Several years ago she
came here for a cargo after laying a
cable along the Central American
coast. At that time she took away the
largest cargo of grain ever shipped out
OF this port on any one steamship.