The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-04
Communication Between United
States and Orient Will Be Estab-
lished Across Pacific To-Day.
ROOSEVELT TO SEND MESSAGE.
Presidents Greeting Will Travel
Through Historic Wires Around
the World to Clarence II.
Mackay in New York.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

| ff-fI Bi.Ic SBEtiAls-
New York. July 3.-Independence Day. 1903
will go down in history as the date upon
which direct Geographic communication was
| established between the United States and
| her island possessions in the Orient
| Announcement was made tonight that
the cable ship Anglia had arrived at Homo
lulu and that the last link in the trans
| pacific cable would be completed by to-
| morrow morning.
Unless some unlocked for accident should
happen President Roosevelt will tomorrow
| celebrate the event by sending Fourth OF
| July message around the world.
The President viii first send a message to
| Governor Taft at Manila and on receiving
an answer to that. he will send another
message to Clarence H. AIackay. president
| of the Pacific Commercial Cable Company
in this city. which will reach Mr.. Mackay
after circling the globe. The course Of this
| second message will be from Oyster Bay
to San Francisco. to Manila. Hong Kong,
Saigon, Penang. Madras, Bombay. Aden.
Suez. Alexandria, Malta. Gibraltar. Lisbon,
the Azores, Canso, New York and Oyster
Gay.
LINE BEGUN IN DECEMBER
The new cable line was begun on Decen-
| Der IS 1902, when the steamship Silvertown.
with 2,i13 nautical miles OF cable on board.
sailed from San Francisco for Honolulu.
The steamship Anglia, with $3.50 miles Of
cable. started on May "a from Manila for
Guam, where she arrived on June .. Mean
time. the steamer Colonia was laying cable
between Guam ana midway. She arrived at
Midway June -. TIE MiuwayHawaii
cable, which, II is expected. Will be com
p!eted to-day, was the last stretch OF the
ltnS course.
1nere are four long ocean stretches in
the new route. They are: From san Fran
cisco to Hawaii. 2,Zi6 miles. with a mean
depth Of $50 fathons and maximum OF B.
0.5; from Hawai- to Midway Island, 1.2o4
miles. with mean depth OF 49, fathUIus anu
maximum OF 3-o26; from Midway Isiard 10
Guam, with mean depth OF $50 fathUmS
and maximum OF 4,@@S: from Guam TO Luz
ION, /. $50 miles. with mean depth Of $50
fathoms and maximum of $40
OWING TO the difference in time the send
ing OF a message around the world III few
minutes brings about curious apparent
paracox.
Surprising the cable line to be complete,
message Starting around the world III )
O'Clock this morning would arrive at Homo
lulu at IL o'clock at night yesterday. at
Midway at 10 o'clock at night yesterday. at
Guam at O'Clock ut night to-day and Ut
Manila at O'clock at night to-day.
1t would pass through India at J o'clock
this afternoon and would return to New
York before . O'Clock this morning. Thus
IL would have made an excursion from to-
day into yesterday and have arrived back
at New York witn!n an hour of the time 1t
started.
Another message leaving New York at 5
O'Clock Tonight would arrive at Guam at
o'clock Tomorrow morning, apparently
fourteen hours after it started. Continuing
its journey around the world, 1t would ar
rive at SueZ at midnight of To-day and back
at New York this morning.
In their course the messages would pass
through historic cables ana waters. The
CO bic which would carry them from Manila
TO Hong-kOng il the one which was lifted
and cut by Admiral Dewey on April - l>9S.
to cut off the SpaniardS means of COM
munication with spain. The cables when
would carry them from Alden to Suez rests
with Pharaoh's army in the waters of the
Red Sea.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The message which President Roosevelt
will send will pass through wires made Up
of the following historical circuits:
Section of the wire over which Professor
Sampel F. B. Morse sent the first message
by means of the Morse telegraph; section OF
the wire over which audible speech was for
the first time transmitted by means of the
Bell telephone by Professor Alexander Ora
ham Bell: section of the Atlantic cable
through which the first cable message was
set across the ocean by cyrus w. Field:
Edison plug and section of wire through
which was lighted the first incandescent
lamp ever lit from an electric lighting GEN.
trial station; section of the first trolley cir
cult put Up at the historic Richmond Va)
electric railroad by +. J. Sprasue: section
OF the wire through which the current OF
electricity was sent by President Cleveland
when he opened the worlds Fair at Chi
cago: section of the wire through which
the electricity was sent to illuminate the
electrical engineers by NIoore's system of
vacuum tube lighting. this being the first
room in the world 50 lighted: section of the
cable through which the first current of
electricity was transmitted from the Nj
agara Falls electric plant. April 10. 1895