The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-20
Electric Wires in
Shape for
Work.
Recording Instruments
Alone Needed to
Complete End.

Within three hours time electrical
connection between the Young building
and the shore end of the cable could be
made so that the instruments might
record the messages which would come
under the sea. The last length of the
underground cable was pulled into the
conduits yesterday afternoon and
though there will be three days splicing
by the immediate connection of the line.
There will be no delay at this end, and
the Silvertown cannot arrive too soon
for the men here.
The laying of the underground system
has been most successful piece of
work, the pulling of the two cables into
their places taking up fifteen days time
exactly. Each of the two cables which
have been threaded into the pipes is
5O4S miles long. In putting this cable
underground there were forty sections
made and the average length of pull
was 6S2 feet. The lengths are short
and long, running from eighty feet to
above 1000 feet. In each Of the cables
there are thirty-nine spices and of the
entire distance last evening there had
been spliced 4.077 miles. There are still
some seten spices to make in each ca
BILE and this will mean at least three
days work.
The tests which have been made of
the cable have proven very satisfactory.
These tests are made each evening and
are to cover the joints which have been
perfected during the day. They are the
regular galvanometer tests and show
the resistance of the cable by the same
method which is used in locating de-
fects in the system of underground
work as well as in sea cables. The
delays which were caused by the bad
weather of last week did not affect the
thoroughness of the work of the splic-
ers and each evening there was shown
perfect cable system. The cable which
has been thus successfully put down is
the same as was laid at the other end
of the line in San Francisco and is
made by an American corporation, the
Okonite Company, Ltd, of New York,
being laid by that corporation as rep
resented here by it's underground en-
gineer, Lewis G.. Martin.
The only drawback in the completion
Of the work of the installation of the
lines and system, occurs in the failure
to arrive of the instruments. OF these
there are a number of delicately ad-
justed electrical appliances which came
out from England in the Silvertown,
and which it now appears arS coming
down in the same ship. If this is the
case there may be a delay of inconsid-
cradle time in getting into shape for the
receiving of messages In the office here.
This will be very short, however, for
the Iallufe 10 set UP lne regular TSSAS-
ters will be met by the installation of
the old style mirror instruments, which
were brought down by Superintendent
Gaines for an emergency.
1t is understood that Governor Dole
may not be here TO receive the mes
sage of the President of the United
States, in congratulation over the es-
tablishing of cable communication, but
instead viii! keep in communication
with the Wireless Telegraph Company's
station at Mahukona, so that he will
have no difficulty in getting the mes
sage and sending mis- response imme-
diately. This will be the form in case
the Governor does not return III time
for the celebration.
Arrangements are being made for the
exchange of business between the Wire
less and Pacific Gable. It is likely that
there may be further bringing togeth-
er Of the concerns by the installation
of the Wireless office in the Gable COM
pany's place. In this event it may be