Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-02

DEMONSTRATION AT HONOLULU
Shore and Sea Ends Brought Together
Last Night and Message Sent to
President Roosevelt-New Impetus
to Industry and Commerce of the Is
4 lands Expected to Follow.

s, 1anQS Expected TO foIioW.
Honolulu, Jan. BY courtesy of the
Commercial Pacific Cable Company the
Associated Press is permitted to tender
congratulations on the completion of
the first section of the submarine cable
with its insular possessions in this Pa
c.fic and eventually with the continent
OF Asia. The cable was completed at
$40 last night when the two ends were
brought together in the Molokai chan
mel, thirty-five miles from Honolulu.
where the San Francisco end had been
buoyed since Dec. rs. Shortly after
communication was established, the
fact was announced to the crowd in
waiting and was greeted with applause.
Judge Cooper, representing Governor
Dole, who was absent from the island.
sent message to President Roosevelt
announcing the opening and extending
greeting from the citizens of Hawaii.
The public celebration which had been
held In allegiance until the completion
os the cable will be held in the capitol
grounds today. Thus has been finished,
after q memorable struggle against
wind and wave, an enterprise which
brings the Hawaiian Islands 1000 miles
nearer the parsnt continent and puts an
important but hitherto isolated commu-
nifty In communication with the entire
world and susceptible to all the indus
tria, impetus which follows ready ac-
feasibility.
The final splicing of the ends in the
waters. which for days had rendered
cable work impossible. marked the first
stage OF an undertaking to span the
]. yastest ocean with line of electric
5,,,,,nunication, need of which has long
beer acknowledged by the entire world
and advocacy Of which often claimed
the attention Of the highest councils,
political and financial. OF America.
Since the conception of the Idea nfty
years ago OF connecting the continents
OF Eorth America by telegraph via Ber-
Ing straits the impracticability OF "a
cific cable had many periods OF buoy-
ancy and expression.
The history of the project, ike tnat
{ Of all great achievements, was one
open to opposition and patient perse-
yerence Its advent in Honolulu was
hailed by all classes as boon 70 her
commercial interests and stimulus 10
her material and social progress. Even
the quaint Hawaiians, whose spiendid
Isolation has .ent romantic interest TO
their island homes, forgot for the liihe
being the sacrifice OF romance ana po-
esy to utiIitarianism and greeted the
landing of the cable upon their SOIL
with an enthusiasm second only to that
which marked the departure of the Sill
yertown from Californias shores. IN
keeping with the precedent established
at San Francisco a fortnight before, the
end Of the 2.000-mile strand was hauled
+ upon the coral beach of Oahu Island, on
4 Dec. 2s. The point of landing was at a
beautiful private park of San Sousle
/ beach, five miles east of the city OF
4 Honolulu. With the shore end landed,
there still remained span OF almost
two score Of miles to be closed between
I the buoyed deep sea end in Molokai
channel and the heavy beach line laid
Z half mile out from shore. The closing
OF this gap proved a task that taxed
the patience as we'll as ingenuity of the
4 SiIvertown's staff. Five days elapsed.
most OF which was spent in awaiting
the favor of wind and sea. before their
labors We're completed and the first
signal flashed along the entire length
of 1000 and more miles.
San Francisco, jar. 2.-The first mes
Z sage from Honolulu over the Pacific ca
BILE was received here at 1903 last
night. The signals were perfect at both
ends. The speed was fast, but the op-
orators did not figure the rate al which
the earliest messages We're exchanged.
The first message was from Governor
Dole to President Roosevelt.
Washington, Jan. "A cable mes
sage from Honolulu via the new Pacific
cable was received at the white house
shortly before 3 O'Clock this morning.
President Roosevelt had retired early,
and the contents of the message We're
not communicated to him. The message
was brief, merely announcing the COM
] pletion of the cable.
s San Francisco, Jan. 2.-San Francis
co and Honolulu exchanged their first
word by cable at 11:03 p. IN. last night
The signals were good
San Francisco, Jan. 2.-The patience
of the watchers of the Postal Telegraph
Company was rewarded at 11:01 O'Clock
last night, when the instrument at the
San Francisco end OF the Pacific cable
indicated that connection with Homo
3 lulu had at last been made, and mes
sage was coming thru.
The first words of the ticker denoted
on the tape were. ''You are reversed
meaning the Honolulu operator was
getting San Francisco signals back
wards.
The local difficulty was quickly ad,
1usted, and then came the first forma
communication from Uncle Sans new
possessions, across the Pacific cable.
1t was fitting that such message
should be from the chief of the fail
Pacific isles to the head of the United
States, and so the ticker read mes
sage of congratulation and good vii
from Governor Dole to President Roose.
Welt.
Then came cablegram from the