Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-03-04
Up 500
MILES Of CABLE
FROM OCEAN
HUGE ENTERPRISE OF
COMMERCIAL COMPANY
New Service Under the Atlantic
from New York to ireland
Will Be Wonderful TeIe-
graphic Achievement.

ST. Johns. n. T., March 3.-Sir
Robert Bond, premier of New Found
land, announces that his government
has agreed upon a contract with the
Commercial Gable company by
which the latter will extend one Of its
cables into New Foundland and
thence direct into New York city.
MIR. Clarence II. Mackay, president
Of the Commercial Cable company
and Of the Mackay companies upon
being shown the above telegram said
'"The report is correct. We have
agreed to cut one of our five Trans
atlantic cables at a point in the At
lantic known as the Flemish cap
which is about three hundred miles
west Of New Foundland ana thereto
attach to the European end OF the
cable an entirely new cable which will
extend from the Flemish Cap into
st. Johns, New Foundland, and
thence direct from st. Johns to New
York city. That is the ideal route
for a cable between Europe and
America because it divides into two
sections more equally than any other
route. the entire distance from Ire
land to New YORK CITY.
This will enable us TO operate the
cable direct between New York City
and ireland with much greater ac-
curacy and speed. the speed alone be
ing increased over 35 per cent. We
shall then have the only cable in the
Atlantic running from Europe to
Few Foundland and hence direct to
New York. We probably would have
laid our cables by that route in the
beginning If the Anglo-American
Gable company had not had exclusive
landing rights in New Foundland
Those rights which have existed for
fifty years have expired and so we
are now making his change. 1t
means the purchase II laying of
seventeen hundred miles Of new ca
Bile. After ii is finished we shall then
have lying unuse ON the bottom of
the sea about nine hundred miles of
cable running from the Flemish Cap
direct to Canso, Canada. that being
that portion of the cable now in use
and which viii bc put out Of use by
this new plan. Our cable ship will
pick up as much as it can use Of this
nine hundred miles Of cable and il
will then be reheated and Will be
available for use elsewhere. For two
years we have been studying this
question ana carefully considering
the change from every point of view
1t involves a large expenditure OF
money but we shall eNpend it.
"The Commercial Gable company is
the premier company in the Atlantic
ocean and we propose to keep it So.
We shall spare no expense To give tho
fastest and best service that submarin,
cables are capable of, with all the ad-
vantages Of the most direct routes.
Never before in the history Of cables
has nine hundred miles Of regularly
working cable been picked up from
the bottom Of the sea and the route
changed simply for the SAX of a~cclcr-
ating the speed and increasing the
continuity and reliability Of the SER
vice. But that is what we propose to
and | wish to remark that | do
not believe any government would
ever make n such change at such
enormous expense, simply for the
Of giving the public an inn
proved service"
The Postal Telegraph and Com
merciul Gable companies are and
the same and the change will thus be
Of bcneft to all patrons Of the Pos
tai.