The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-31
SILVERTONN
WILL LEAVE
To Start on the
Long Run to
London.
Contract Time Will Be
Finished With
Today.
Cable Will Now Be Turned Over
to the Company, Which
Will Accept It.

When at Sal o'clock this evening the
recorder in the Commercial Pacific Ca
Bile office completes a record and begins
anew its march over the tape, the I'M
der seas copper line will have passed il
ownership. At that moment the ca
bic will become the property of the
Cable company, which has operated
it since it was laid. Up to that time
it will continue to be the cable of the
India Rubber, Gutta Percha ST. Tele-
graph company, which made the line
and placed it en- the floor of the ocean
Under the contract between the con-
structing company and the purchasers
the first thirty days of the life of the
cable was to be passed with daily tests
of the wire and constant supervision
on the part OF the experts of the cleo
trical department of the making COM
pany's staff. During that time, ex-
cepting for the hour that the cable is
being used for the purpose of those
tests, the purchasing company used the
line and right we'll has it used it too.
The operation of the cable commenced
as soon as it was pronounced ready
by the cable laying folk, and from
early morning until late at night ever
since the wires have been kept at work
carrying the impressions of a host of
people.
There will be no break today in
the routine which has been followed.
The electricians, under Mr.. Raymond
Barker, who was second on board ship
to the distinguished electrician, Mr.
Rymer Jones, who was at the head of
that portion of the staff of Chief En-
gineer Benest, will put their galvano-
meter into the line and will scan the
scale for the spot which will establish
the conductive power of the copper
line. They will go no further nor be
content with less than has been the
rule each day for the thirty days past,
and once they have finished their work
they will notify their London Office
that the time of contract has been ac-
complished, and they are ready for
home
There will be no delay in getting the
ship under way. The Silvertown is
now under sailing orders and will leave
port tomorrow on the tide. In the
bunkers and tanks of the great ship
are nearly 1900 tons of coal and this
is enough and more to carry the vessel
to the next stopping point, which is
Coronel, Chile, where the bunkers will
be ref1lled. At that point the ship will
be Joined by Mrs. Henry Benest, who
will make the journey back to London
with her husband, she having spent
some time in the South American city
as the guest of her daughter.
The course of the ship will be laid
from Coronel to Teneriffe, though a
stop may be made at the Cape de Verde
islands, if more coal or fresh provisions
are desired. At least the mail for the
ship will be awaiting at Teneriffe. and
that will be the last mail before max
ing the home port. 1t is expected by
those in the expedition that the run
back to London will consume some
thing like ninety days, as the ship is
not the fastest one of the company's
feet and win hardly make more than
nine or ten knots on the return trip.
This would make the expedition
about eight months in length. The
ship left London with the cable in |
September, and has been at work or |
Icing contract ever since. The men,
oers of the staff not sent home by mail |
BOAT early in the month, Will have the
added vacation, though there is not |
'ne perhaps who would not bave been
delighted 20 make the quickest time
Jack TO London.
In the meantime the work upon the
able which is to connect the Philip
lines and Hawaii. goes on and the
Anglia is now coiling the long length
# wire in the tanks ready for the trip
nat. 1t is understood that the trip
viii commence during the next month.
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