The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-30
TRANSPORTS MAY FOLLOW
PACIFIC CABLE ROUTE
United States Army Quartermaster Department
Is Mapping Out Lanes of Travel in Pacific,
and Honolulu is on Favorte Line.


Midway, Guam and Manila has last brought about
official recognition department OF the United
States Army which has practically adopted the route OF the cable as
the This will be generally known
the Pacific cable In fact the cable likely change the
Pacific Ocean lanes
When the recent American movement Asia began Capt McCaa
the navy conceived the idea of plotting the Pacific
which should be adopted all transports and which the merchant
ships should be invited The object OF this plan twofod
For thing accident bee ship could by being on
beaten track be picked by the vessel that along When
is recalled that it exception wenty-sx days
journey Pacific Ocean, sight solitary ship
recognized lane Importance getting range
of possible companionstp becomes very manifest.
The other advantage to be gained by the OF uniform course
Each stpmae keeps Of winds the
snd % OF o amd M We'll as al bas n W ,Fe
available to every through the publications OF the Hydro
Capt Mccaa projected two direct lines Asia out Of San
Francisco one to Manila and the other Nagasak third route
e s surface from s5 eHam Bo to Man By line 1 @
prove practicable they
for of the mysteries of circle navigation
ing the sa2 win find as S our
west coast and Japan swinging far north actually invade
When transport from the Golden Gate the shortest
She PROV boldly west She lao
north OF San all tod in going Guam on the great circle
1t does begin dip southwark much before the second week
OF the journey Thus south vessel actually sails north
southern between Guam Manila little diff
ference between the circle and that the parallels because
every ocean that the differences are most marked
Capt Mcalas circle lanes would have worked WE'LL had
nvads and convalescens from Manila the officers found perous
expose them to tbs cold OF the Aeuian Island region With the
toward far enough insist remaining
great threw ships region OF
and heavy n the acting
routes OF his based on more survey OF pc
Francisco and Guam This the most souery Of the three Asc
which transports have other being Maya
saki and Manila.
Gua great circle already described get
north of San Francisco This line accordingly made
of Pacific navigation with branches
point in mdocean the other This makes something
like three-pronged of
Transports bound for these three Aac all the
them all the great circle advantage modified the avoiding
the pes OF the far north with the exception of the Guam which
is the unmodihed direct line
three Aaic branches long employed by commercial
resulting from such modification OF the great circle as will escape
third the great circle between San Francisco
lulu used alike by steam merchantmen commercial liners
and the transports
These about twenty miles wide require
@ o o e mhema to nerve e n m om an "
No attempt has been made, the Atlantic separate the
Transport shippers who have been the Pacific times than
s can nasnad De say A that Gse in great while they sailing
Islands but with such exception they anything
twenty -four hours from in the whole journey.
There is lighthouse gtshp between
lone Islands Just out OF San Francisco and the San Bernadno Straits
kind Evidence Of human life be the ship all
The Pacific cable has made landings Honolulu Midway
Guam islands, which like natural telegraph
distances the Pacific and all of which belong United States.
Ocean steamers by following essentially the cable
might receive and exchange wireless telegraph signals
points they do
This information could be cabled arrangement
of considerable commercial liners,
to friends of officers soldiers the Government
This may be known the Pacific cable route.
An advantage this that the
regularly sailing vessels going
Hawaiian Although new route will be $50 miles longer
than the followed its adoption by everything
predicted
Eabound transports will present route taking
the Nagasak prong the fork they get japanese for
the Currents cables factors
modifying actual the
The tramp the Pacific elsewhere pursue own
making Commonly makes auxiliary power directing
advantage