Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-07
STORM AT HONOLULU PREVENTS
LANDING NEW CABLE
IN TIME.
is NEA R'LY FINISHED
Will Be Sent Some Time This
Afternoon According to Announce
ment Made This Mornins-Presi.
dent Talks at Huntington, L. Ia .

opening cable from San Francisco to
Manila has been deferred owing to a
furious storm, which ragged near Homo
lulu yesterday and prevented the ca
bic ship from taking UP the terminus
cable there and making connections
with the main line. All arrangements
for transmitting the Presidents mes
sage have bene completed and it was
intended to start it on it's globe-encir-
cling journey at o'clock this morning.
The officials of the cable company
hope to have the line connected in time
to start the message at o'clock this
afternoon.
1t was announced by Secretary Loeb
that the President was disappointed at
the delay as he was particularly anx-
ious that the opening or the direct ca
BILE between the United States and it's
possessions in-;the Philippines should
occur on the Fourth of July as the
completion of the line would mark a
distinct epoch in the history of this
country.
To Send Message Today.
Assurance has been given that no
further delay will occur and that the
messages will be sent surely this after
noon.
Will Talk at Huntington.
AT 1 o'clock this afternoon the Pres
ident will start for Huntington, L. L.,
to participate in the celebration of the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of that town. The trip
will be made from Sycamore Hill to
Huntington Bay in the naval yacht
Sylph. The President will deliver an
address about 4 o'clock and will return
to Sycamore Hill in ample time for the
fireworks party tonight.
Where 1t Will Go.
The course of President Roosevelts
message around the world will be by
Postal Telegraph company's land line,
from Oyster Bay to San Francisco,
thence by the Commercial Pacific ca
bles, to Honolulu; to Midway, to
Guam, to Manila. From Manila to
Hong Kong the message passed by the
cable which was lifted and cut by Adj
miral Dewey in 1898. From Hong
Kong it went to Saigon; to Singapore
to Ponang; to Madras; to Bombay; to
Alden; to Suez; to Alexandria; to Nal
W dllcl w lLl0DOH anu w tlS
Azores. Between Hong Kong and the
Azores it had passed by foreign ca
bles. At the Azores it was taken up
again by the Commercial cables and
sent to Canso; to New York and to
Oyster Bay.
This is Brain Racking.
A message starting around the world
at 5 a. m. today would arrive in Hon
olulu at IL p. m. yesterday; at Midway
at 10 p. m. yesterday at Guam at p.
m. today and at Manila at 6 p. m. to.
day. and would return to New York
before 6 a. M. Thus it would have
made an excursion from today into yes.
terday and arrived back at New York
| within an hour of the time it started
Historic Journey.
Another message leaving New York
at p. m. today would arrive at Guam
at Z a. m. tomorrow, apparently Ia
| hours after it started Continuing its
journey around the world, it would ar
| rive at Suez at midnight of today and
back at New York this morning. Two
such transmisisons are shown on the
attached schedule. In their course
| they would pass through historic ca
bles and waters. The cable which
would carry them from Manila tc
| Hong Kong is the one which was lifted
and cut by Admiral Dewey on april 25
1898, to cut off the Spanish means OF
communication with Spain. The ca
BILE which would carry them from Alden
to Suez rests with Pharaohs army il
the waters of the Red Sea.