Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-23
OCEAN CABLES IN 1908.
Owned in Twenty-Five Countries and
Have Length Of 252, 436 Miles.

From the New York Sun.
Denmark has a more prominent place
among countries whose capitalists have en-
gagged in laying ocean cable lines than
might be expected from her inferior COM
mercial Importance. She ranks fourth on
the list, even SURPRISING Germany. The
reason is that the Great Northern Tele-
graph Company, with its offices at Copen-
hagen. laid and operates one of the most
important cable systems in the orient-that
which connects Vladivostok with Nagasaki
Shanghai and Hong Kong There are in
operation today 252 436 miles of ocean ca
bles, of which only; 1871 miles, or about 10
per cent, are owned by governments the re-
mainder being in the hands of private own
erS. -
Englishmen opened the first cable line
across the narrow channel between Dover
and Calais on August %, 1SJ0-and English
men still control larger mileage than the
capitalists of any other! country, and more
than half the total length of the subma rine
lines. The British cables which connect Lon
don with all parts of the world have a
length of 154,099 miles, of which IA, 963 miles
are owned by the government. Of the $780,
1856 miles owned by private companies, the
longest mileage rs in the Australian and
oriental lines. The Eastern Extension
Australasia and China Telegraph Company
controls 27.f00 miles and the Western
Telegraph Company 1880 miles
Inc LiOSt important OF the British ca bic
lines are the five that stretch across the
North Atlantic and also the first line
stretched across the Pacific. which connects
Vancouver with the Fiji Islands, Norfolk
Island, Queensland and New Zealand, and
which was opened on December g. 1909
Among the many British lines also are ca
bles to South America and along both of its
coasts. Our country is second ON the list
with A 40 miles of cable, nearly all in pri-
yate hands, the government controlling ONLY
short mileage in Alaskan waters The
most important are the five lines across the
Atlantic and the second great Pacific cable
completed on July 25, 1903. by the CONNER
c1al PACING Gable Company, between San
Francisco, Honolulu, Midway Island. Guam
and the Philippines. Another great line laid
down by American capitalists is that on the
Pacific coast between the Isthmus of Te-
huantepec and Valparaiso, Chile
France has the third place with a total
length of 24,010 miles, of which 10 O92 are
the property of the state. The most i'm
portant of the submarine connections of
France are the two lines which connect
Brest with the United States. AS already
mentioned. Denmark is fourth on the Tst
with SASS miles. Germany lags behind with
9,22S miles of cable, of which more than
one-third is owned by the government. It's
most important cable service is that he
tween the Island of Borkum, Fayal and
New York city.
The seventeen other countries which +oLo
financial interest in cables have alto
gether only II, 131 miles of lines, nearly all
of them owned by the various governments
The country which figures to the smallest
extent in this list Is Bulgaria with an ocean
cable about three-fourths of a mile Iong
Roumania beats her neighbor with "a hIe
TOUR and one-third miles long.