The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-02
HAWAII JOINED NOW

The completion of TIE cable between the Territory Hawaii
and the Mainland effected last night few seconds after
$3.50 o'clock Ten minutes later s. S. Dickinson
the waiting group of prominent citizens and newspaper the
following message from San Francisco the reading of which
greeted with even cheers and the instant interchange of
CALCULATIONS.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 1st-C Compliments Of the
Weather finer than California has ever known at this time
AT 1894 yesterday afternoon message received from the
cable ship Svertown then miles the eastward of Da
mond Head that she under close the gap of thirty
miles between the intermediate deep cables
complsh the final splice.
From the receipt of that message eight hours of anxious wait
ing INDUCED in The experts of the cable company varo
estimated the possible time which message could arrive At
O'Clock Superintendent Gaines announced Auditor Fisher,
Assistant Superintendent of Public Works Marston Campbell and
others who in waiting in connection with the possibility of
the ball being given last night that under the favorable cir
cumsances the connection would not be made until o'clock
The results justified Mr.. Gaines judgment
There many citizens however who did hear this an
and there hrong the cable
office through the dinner hour waiting that the
ucuon OF territory TO sister states was an accomplished fact
AS darkness fell the cable officials themselves showed signs
Of expectancy and all watched the steadily moving tape pass
ed the recorder with straight trail OF ink Under the recording
system the cable company the dots of the cable alphabet are
shown the tape by angular downward break line
record the tape while the dashe denoted by similar
upward turn As the dusk drew evening the evening
into night the moving watched in long Of
silence broken only by the entrance of Seven
o'clock passed and then eight without single deviation
trail Of the tape.
In the meantime between and o'clock another message
had arrived from the Sverown stating the buoy had been
picked up without any difficulty, that the long the cable
stretching two thousand miles of deep sea c TO
San francisco was aboard, that everything O. X
they could stand by for four hours after which time through
message might be momentarily expected.
1t was $50 in Hawaii and nearly San Francisco when the
operator the latter station had his long vigil broken
welcome It s. ~" S." that meant through communication the
strain at San francisco the has been
than in Honolulu reasons for the DELAYS
were known and conjecture Of accident disaster raised
In the big operating room OF the cable Office
caught the first wavering OF the thin recording Supern-
enden Gaines and Manager Dickinson watched the little
hills and valleys, Sanskt the unniated the men
who have grded the earth and read the messages all the world
There still possibility that the the ship and
not from San Francisco, and the onlooe with tense
the result
After few preliminary service calls sigh of relief passed
round as Mr. Dickinson stepped outside the operating at
SI and announced opened Secretary
Cooper led the cheering the New Years greeting from Cal
read
From that until midnight the news rapidly spread over
town and all excitement AS service instructions had
passed the wire Mr. Dickinson of the cable
to Secretary Cooper for the congraaory message was
to be sent the Pacific the towering Rockies through
the busy cities of the beyond
middle through the night with lightning speed across the
continent OF North America the Atlantic
until reached the Capital city and delivered greet
ing TO the Presidents operator in the White House.
The greeting follows:
THE PRESIDENT, Washington
Inc people OF the Territory of Hawaii greetings to
YOU and express their qualification the Inauguration of ee
graphic communication with the mainland
We all believe that the removal disadvantage of isolation
will prove strong factor in the upbuidng patriotic and
progressive American commonwealth in these Islands
HENRY E. COOPER,
Secretary of Hawaii.
Hawaiian time showed the message to have been flashed
through S8 This would bring to Washington over eighty
degrees away late for New greeting Allowing for
delays in transmission the message probably reached White
House about O'Clock on the morning of January The Pres
dent tired out with the fatigue of the New reception was
asleep wired back the operator Hawa greeting would
await him when he awakened Today everything is sderaced
awaiting the message which will be read to the public in the Cap