The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-10-14

worlds news than ever before IN
its history Tanning Island, the
British cable station southeast of the
| Hawaiian Islands, four days distant
| by steamer, is connected by cable with
Victoria, British Columbia, and when
| the British cable steamer Colonia
steamed into Honolulu yesterday fore
noon she brought news of the world up
to October 6. Even the Alameda which
came in yesterday evening, had she ar
| rived at the same time as the Colonia
had news only up to the afternoon OF
October 4.
The cable news which the Colonia
brought from the Tanning Island sta
| ton to Honolulu yesterday was brief.
There were but four messages and these
| related largely to affairs in which the
British people would naturally be in
| terested. One was to the effect That
| King Edward would have a Thanksgiv-
| ing service in Westminster Abbey on
the 18TH Another told of the death of
Sir Frederick Abel a third related
to two new Cunarders built on the
Clyde and the last said that President
IRoosevelts efforts to end the coal strike
were futile. All were dated at Van
couver, October ).
Thus month by month the outlying
islands of the great Pacific Ocean are
being linked to the rest of the world
by cable. The cable news which the
Honolulans read this morning in the
Advertiser came over the longest single
Stretch of cable laid in any ocean on the
globe-a length of 3i55 knots. AS yet
the cable is not directly on Tanning
Island, but the end is within mile of
the station held up by monster buoy
which will be secured by the Anglia
which is to leave for Tanning Island
tomorrow. on the Anglia is the re-
lmainder of the cable which Will connect
this buoyedup end with the cable sta
ton. The Anglia will then commence
laying the cable between Tanning and
Suva which will complete the great ALI
British cable from Vancouver to sgd
ney
To now receive news that is only
four and a half days old is a novelty
to islanders. To the British cable com
lpany goes the credit of giving to Amer
lican-Hawaii her first actual news by
lcable, but it will be an American cable
within seventy days which will give
Hawaii news that is only old by few
minutes.
on October the Colonia completed
the laying OF the cable from Victoria,
which port she left on September is
at 2 p. IN. At II a. m. Gable Engineer
Lucas made the following entry in his
log:
Monday, 9th October, II a. m, sound
ed 400 fms. sent following Telcon, Lon
don: October 9th, IL a. M, about to
buoy end one mile from Tanning Id.
cable house. Have had fine weather
Ian the way and the whole of this long
section has been laid out without a
,check of any kind, everything and ev-
lery one has worked splendidly, length
1856 knots. Colonia proceeds to Ho-
nolulu this afternoon. All well.
LUCAS"
Other dispatches would have been
taken on that day had it not been that
the station at Vancouver got out OF
order.
Upon arrival yesterday at Honolulu
the fine cable ship was moored along
side the Pacific Mail wharf. The An
lglia, which has aboard the cable for the
stretch between Tanning and Suva
steamed alongside and arrangements
We're at once begun to transfer $500
knots of cable remaining aboard the
Colonia to the Anglia. The Colonia
looks huge alongside the Anglia which
is much lower but this apparent diff
ference in size comes from the fact
that the Colonia is light at present and
the Anglia is loaded down with cable
and coal. The four big cable tanks on
the Colonia have been emptied of cable
and water while those of the Anglia are
filled. There was an air of business
yesterday aboard the Anglia where spe-
cial drums We're being riggea to sliI
the cable over to be lowered into hei
tanks. When this is completed the An
glia will depart for Tanning to pick vi
the last thread in the chain which will
connect all British possessions in al
unendng circle.
The Colonia will remain i'm port about
week taking in about 1900 tons OF
coal and her tanks will be filed witt
: water for ballast. This will bring hei
; down to about the size of the Anglia
, When the Colonia leaves Honolulu sh,
I Will take aboard : 5. Dickinson, specia
representative Of the Mackay Cabl,
Company. The cable route between
Hawaii and Midway Island will be sur
Neyed ana thence To the point wher'
the Nero left off between Guam anC
| -''NN"N' - VIII ne MT DICKINSON
duty TO select cable landing places ant
stations at Midway, Guam and L.uzon.
The work NJ laying the Victoria Fan
ming Island cable was done under tn
direction of f. r, Lucas, chief enginee
for the Telegraph Construction an,
Maintenance Company, and he is assist
ed by II, Clark, chief electrician; 7
London, NJ. r. Bond, Mr. Suddert. Nj
Berners, cable engineer stan w. Tod
hunter, j, Downs, w, Hintzie, electrical
stan H. T.. Peak, representing the Pa
cine Gable Board r. Sayers 4. Hardin
! Mr. vinegar, assistants tc Mr. Peak
Mr. Lucas and MI Clark are pioneer
In the cable business both having as
sisted In the experiment of laying IN
Atlantic cable In 1865. and since hay
!, followed cahle-layiug AN over tho worlt
The colonlR is now vessel, the yea
y on the ships bell being "l9O2 and sh