The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1905-11-18
Observation-Disclosures
-. lines BECOMING LIKE
eAIL WAYS ON LAND.

ds If TIE Sea, When They Ar
,..d :, Cable Landing F'aces {
,,,.,.;o, points-Yap, JaIuit, an
x;.t, as Exam21cs-The Las
Named to Become Future Navi
s.s.-slsniflcance Of Cables
wo,,d PoIitics-The Cable in Wa
,,o,oved Methods Of Making an
Laying.
Ear the meeting place OF railroa'
limos 10 become an important town 2
creation of their own rap-naNia'
,,s long been common. Similarly 'ii'
oce,n cables in this age are asaunlih;
an importance that permits them e
1--WE world prominent % any distant
:.,,nd of the sea which lends itself e
.hoir uses as a junction poi2t, Wills
,he Washington correspondent pf IN
New York Evening Foot. Today Nttle
Van east of the Caroline islands, but
MI of them, and about nine .dc6:cc
ror,h OF the equator. has become tie
most interesting point on the face o.
,he globe in this respect. Three greet
able companies have already put
wires into Yap, and a fourth one IS
IN Satemplation. There they VIII
uchange their messages-transAlp
them 80 to speak. Its harbor viii be
deyesped into a considerable pert OF
ull since information is coE,modit;;
IN the modern world. influencing the
course OF navigation almost as much
Is any article which contributes to the
cargo. The completion OF or trans
Pacific cable, via Honolulu and Guam
ndically affected the ocean lanes OF
the Pacific. So the developments now
b progress at Yap promise to make !.
! famous town of the future, although
It's present reputation is chiefly asso~
GATED With the strange performances
Of Cen OKeefe, one-time king"
Yap has cable commune ltion with
the island OF Jaluit in the Marshall
group, connecting it with great a.:u
rapidly growing German system. 1t
has been connected wl,n the America
cable line at Guam, which is rot far
away. II has also been connected with
the Dutch East India Company at
AeahAdo, which is at the northern
the island Of Celebes. It
will soon be connected with the Brit
!sh cables at Shanghai The snip that
louches at Yap can thus secure direct
through the great cable
'ystems with every port il the world.
This Development at this Germin
sland Is Of considerable significance
. world politics. The Germans viii
nus flank out connections with the
ependencies of the East, paraile'iny
cr route to the Philippines by way OF
honolulu and Guam for over thuus-
10 miles, by a cable connecting a
nam OF islands under the German
as. Many of these are indented by |
plendld harbors. The laying Of the
'ole through the Caroline and .Iar-
lall groups from YapF will be of in.-
'rtance commercially. certainly to
ermany, but chiefly valuable in off
Jung any advantage which we might
! IN naval warfare from the con-
ol OF a trans-Pacific line.
For similar reasons our naval au-
orities have been working out a
val base in the Aleutian chain of ISL
nus Their studies have long been
nducted secretly, but the Evening
sts correspondent may now an
unce that the department has set
= upon kiska harbor, in the island
'ne future. The first object OF those
9 were charged with the problem
tne avoidance of fogs. To be of
s'est use In time of war, a naval
Ilon must be approached with rea-
soie certainty. A vessel should al
oe aoie to come or go almost any
u pleases. All parts Of the Aleu-
cnaln were examined with this
.'ueFation IN view, as well as the
lous necessity OF a good harbor,
'slano which has been selected
!. tne requirements to a surpris-
oesree. and congress will be urged
appropriate for it.
as chain is on the shortest route
, our Pacific coast to the Orient
ne great-circle navigation. The
showed by our cable is sew
hundred miles longer. Kiska har-
uesds little improvement, and
u the expenditures would be in
srection OF docks and storehouses,
slicn the department has now
'ie'ed plans. Great misapprehen- II,
PREVAILS as to the climate. Peo-
a'nk tAat on the Aleutian islands
usrk all winter and stormy most
!esr, when,. in fact, its latitude {
y nigher than Edinburgh, and
ct upon its climate Of the cir
~ system of the, North Pacific
Is the same as that experienced
British Islands. 1t is no cold
summer. nor hotter in winter.
Scotland. and it has no more :
certainly, at Kiska, whose clim- !
have been carefully
ted. Who can say that the Aleu- {
Hands will not some day send a .
pntative to congress? Still. the .
apes not expect this port to OBJ !
Numerical Importance, in the
<ture, Il ever. It will be con-
By cable With the mainland q
ry necessity. T