The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-02
THE BEGINNING
OF CABLE DAY

This Is Gable Day.
Congratuatory messages have been
sent and received. The Presidents
message came to hand at 10 o'clock and
will be made public this afternoon for |
the first time at the celebration exer-
cises in the Capitol grounds. The ca
BILE is in first class working order and
hundreds of messages have been sent
along ITS seven strands of copper wire
to the mainland and into Europe. This
afternoon at o'clock the town in holi-
day attire will gather in the tropical
gardens of the Capitol, which even in
the palmieSt of monarchical times,
never saw an event of such importance
to the community as the exercises of
today.
The program runs as follows: The
public reading of the messages eX-
changed between Secretary Cooper and
President Roosevelt, Immediately after
which salute of one hundred shots
from the Nordenfeldts of the National
Guard will be fired. IAN address Of well
come from Secretary Cooper will be re-
piled to by S. S. Dickinson. General
Hartwell will make an historical adj
dress, Commissioner Eustis a congratu
latory one and H. T.. Highton a retros-
pective one Incidental music will be
furnished by the Territorial Band un-
der Captain Berger In the evening
from $3.50 until 8 the band will play
while a play of fireworks is being
| shown.
At s O'clock the big ball at the Cap
! ital to which invitations have been is
sued, Will commence This is given in
behalf of the representatives of the
| Commercial Pacific Gable Company and
the officers of the Silvertown. The han
of the building and the throne room in
! which the dancing will take place is
| effectively decorated with bunting of
all nations, and the international sig
nal code while the floor has been pre-
pared for dancing. Secretary and Mrs.
Cooper win receive,
The town was thoroughly excited this
| morning. Tradesmen were anxious to
know whether the Presidents message
had been received so that they could
close their stores for the day, if this
| should prove to be the case. Some sur
prise was shown that the promised
whistles had been omitted, but the or
der had been given and the electric
| power house only needed sufficient
steam to give the required continuity
of signals,
The whistles were sounded soon after
! ! o'clock.
Most of the stores closed up at noon
and the majority of the balance follow
ed suit as soon as assured that the
message was received. Manager Dick
enSon remained urbane and courteous
! to the hundreds of inquiries which be-
! sieged him, attending to all details de-
| spite the fact that he had had no sleep
and no breakfast.
! The Silvertown arrived before noon
and many went down to the waterfront
to see what news there was aboard of
her.
] ls,,r-
a return would come back once in a
while from the other end, after the
Presidents seventy odd words had
cleared the way. Several newspaper
| men received word from old time asso-
! ciates prominent in the profession L.
/ d. Moore receiving instructions from
I the Associated Press to return on the
next steamer.
Colonel Parker laughingly explained
how ten years ago when his family
was in Europe and he at the Grand
Pacific Hotel in Chicago, he used to
get the best of the rate, which limited
the length of a word to fourteen letters
by running together several smaller
words in Hawaiian and sending the
whole message in that language. He
had no occasion to use his plan this
morning, however, as Mr.. Dickinson
gave him carte blance over the wire.
/ MI. DlCheuSOH, Jlle OUDeT evening,
| reminiscing over earlier experiences
and spinning tales of cables crushed in
| ice with all the hardships that cable
laying in icy res ions is heir to; stated
| that he came to America in 1874, in the
| eXpec tation of being very shortly Gallo
! ed upon to lay the Pacific cable. 1T
! took twenty mine years to make up
! that short while" he said, but it has
come at last, or rather we are half way
across and will be all the way before
| July Closes"
! Captain Berger is arranging a special
program for today of patriotic airs in
which British tunes will not be want
ing in compliment to the general ma
tionality. of the cable folk. The new
cable march and America" will be
much in evidence.
The sending of the first message from
| Secretary Cooper to the President oc
cupied thirteen minutes from it's start
here to its final receipt at the White
| House.
British Consul Hoare sent a consular
message through to Washington and to
London this morning under the eOur-
tesy of the cable people.
| A message was sent to President
Roosevelt from the Hawaiian native
citizens in congratulation of the unity
now existing between Hawaii in the
| sea and the mainland The message
was signed by Delegate Jonah Kalani-
| anaole. David Kawananakoa, Clarence
NJ. Crabbe NJ. Z. Robinson and Treas
urer Kepoikai. c. NJ. Cooke for the
| Chamber of Commerce sent a message
TO the sister institution in San Fran
cisco.