The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-01-03
CABLE IS
IN SHAPE
Opens for Business
on Monday
Next.
FINAL TESTS
ARE ALL MADE
Operation of the Line Delayed
for Five Hours During the
Making OF Trials.

The Commercial Pacific Gable will be
opened for business on Monday and
there will be plenty Of business for it.
if the many offers of messages made
yesterday are kept alive.
The final tests of the line were made
by the officials of the constructing COM
pany last evening, and when the line
was again opened shortly after nine
o'clock, after being closed for the tech
meal operations for little more than
five hours, it was to find that every
thing was in good shape, and the work
of clearing up the work which had &C
cumulated was going on with rapidity.
The electrical staff of the Silvertown
with the inspectors of the company
came ashore early in the afternoon and
at once proceeded to the cable hut at
Waikiki, and promptly at 4 o'clock cut
with the underground system so that
their own testing instruments could be
cut in. At once the work of making
the various peculiar tests of the re-
sistance OF the line, which show the
perfection not only of manufacture but
as well of laying, were carried on These
are purely technical, having for their
aim the finding out of the quality of
the line as a conductor, and when COM
pleted showed that there was now ready
e., 80 ~, a i,o ioI1
is second to none OF the many lines
of ocean cable which have been made
and laid by the company and under the
eyes of the inspecting engineers of the
Commercial concern. The results of the
tests were tabulated and when they had
been completed the final message of
Chief Engineer Henry Benest, of the
expedition, was sent to the offices of the
India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Tele-
gram company, at Silvertown, London,
telling the contractors of the success Of
the work and apprising them of it's
completion.
This work done the line was at once
turned over to the company and its
operators began the clearing up of the
messages which had accumulated, for
the number received during the day
was in excess of the capacity of the
wire and men as well. There were mes
sages from both ends to be handled
and there was no way in which to tell
just how many congratulatory and ser
vice wires were to be sent, and it was
not until late in the night that the
work was cleared up.
There will be no paid business ac-
copied by the company as yet as the
work of getting the various branches
of the service into shape will occupy
the full attention of the local officials
of the operating company for the two
days. and there will be plenty of work
to do at that. There will be some hard
work too in the way of getting the local
office into complete touch with the
mainland headquarters, and when this
is done there will be such a system
that Honolulu will find it working with
ing all that could be expected of it.
While it is true that the line will be in
charge of the contractors for a month
before it is to be accepted by the Com
mercial company, it will continue to be
operated by their officials here, and viii
be used only for the purposes of tests
by the electricians of the constructing
company, those being carried on in such
a way as to give complete data as to
the character of the system.
Dat-oaa3o Eucam rmant Installation