The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-05
RUSHING
TO SEND CABLES
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The company opened for business this
morning and at once there was a rush
that was quite surprising to dispatch
messages. The various business people
were naturally expected to send cable
grams but they were not the only in
terests patronizing the company. Pri-
waite parties seemed DESTROYS of letting
the people on the Mainland of the Anne
rican continent as well as in Europe
know that Hawaii was awake too, that
we were up and about
Business has been very lively with
us this morning" said J. d. Gaines the
local manager but this is not of
course, any indication of the amount of
business that will be done regularly.
Many people are still sending cable
grams on account of the novelty of the
institution. Business will soon reach
it's regular volume however and then
we will be able to determine just how
much business Honolulu will yield"
Mr.. Gaines estimates that between
LOO and 1.20O cablegrams were re-
ceived or dispatched during the two
days that the company so generously
permitted messages to be transmitted
over its wires free of charge. OF this
number fully two thirds were sent from
Honolulu. They went to all quarters,
No record however was kept of them or
of those received.
The difficulty experienced by the ca
bic people today is in finding the people
in. Mr.. Gaines has been too long in
the service of the cable people to ever
consent to conducting business in any
but the most efficient way. 1t is de-
sired to find the people to whom the
dispatches are addressed, for receipts
have to be taken for the cablegrams.
The business will for the present be
rather unsettled as there will be nu-
merous persons receiving and dispatch
ing messages who win not again re-
ceive cables except at very infrequent
intervals The run of the business
will therefore soon be secured.
The office hours of the local Office
have not yet been determined. The
opening hour will be a. m but the
closing hour has not been decided. This
matter will not be determined for a
day or so however until after Mr..
Gaines will have had the opportunity
of determining upon the amount and
| character of business. The office open
ed at $50 a. m. today.
The rate from Honolulu to San Fran
cisco is fifty cents a word and the press
rate 20 cents a word. The maximum
length of a chargable word is fixed at
fifteen characters. Messages written
wholly or partly in code are granted a
maximum length of ten characters.
Combinations or alterations of words
contrary to the usage of the language
are not permitted. Figures are charged
( for at the rate of one word for each
group of not more than five In the
address, the names of the delivery Of
flee and territorial division are each
counted as one word only.
The rate of so cents a word applies
to messages going only over the Com
mercial Pacific Gable Company's line.
Additional telegraph charges have to
be added when the message is intended
for any place outside of the delivery
| limits of the cable office at San Fran
cisco. Should it be desired to send a
message to some place in California not
included in the delivery limits of the
cable people, 4 cents a word should be
added. A similar rate is charged on
messages going to Oregon and WASH
ingtOn, so any people having business
or personal matters to transmit in
| Portle,nd, Seattle or Tacoma would
have to figure on paying "a cents a
word. A 4 cent rate applies to Salt
Lake, so if any of the local MOrmons
should desire TO announce any i'm
pOrtant increase in the number of pro-
selytes, they too would have to figure
on paying for the information at the
rate of "a cents a word. Gables going
to Illinois which includes Chicago, de-
mand SO cents a word while those to
New York and Boston demand 81 cents
a word.
Through cable rates from Honolulu
to Hong Kong, Shanghai and Annoy
demand 1922 a word; those to Yoko-
hama, Nagasaki, Kobe via Northern
are $2.3S cents a word and by Eastern
$2.77 a word To the island of Luzon
which includes Manila, the rate is
S22S and to all other Philippine ISL
ands $2.3S a word. To Australia and
Tasmania by the Atlantic cable is $16l
word and via Bamfield creek which
is the Alfred line via Tanning island
$l0S a word. To Tanning island the
rate is SO cents a word and to Fill New
Zealand and Norfolk Islands $1.0S a
word. The company has issued a cir
Cular giving rates to various places.
Rates to additional points can be Sc
cured by applying to General Manager
Gaines at the local office.