Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-07-13
FINDING A CABLE.
} Shaping of a Submarine Line Entails Hard Work.
EATING THE BREAK IS EASY

|. Accomplished by the Use o1 n.itive instruments, and Ther
 n.. tho Difficult Task of GrappIine Id Raising the Severed Ends.
 FOO mile cable that connected o,lton. Bermuda. with Halifax scotia, had snapped. Somewhere er many fathoms of water lay the
 broken ends, perhaps only few oa apart-more likely half a mile from each other-carried from
 accustomed bed by the wash oi waves Until the two ends were a,.ted the thousands and thousands ollars invested In the cable were ging no income
 the result of the accident Hamil was practically isolated from the
 of the world. for the only other
 went to Jamaica. By sending g age to Jamaica and having it re d to Newfoundland and thence by Erapb to New York it was possible ii 4 few words through In a fairl.
 time. But the tolls were enor ply high.
 e moment the operator at Halifax d that the key on the BerlnndH
 did not respond to his touch h. rted the fact to his superior in the lax office. Orders flew back and telephone bells rang. messengers
 lied in and out of the office, and few hours the cable repair steam las on it's way to Bermuda.
 e operators at Halifax and Hamil had located the break It wa. It six miles from the Hamilton enc khe cable This they calculated
 sensitive instruments used to re the resistance"
 |e writer was in Hamilton whei biackay- Bennett steamed into the or and through the courtesy 0; captain was on board when tn, ner went out and grappled for tn.
 of the cable and restored it tt hlness
 Zen when the captain of q cable re ship knows that the break is bout miles from one end it's no easy to pick up the big wire ropes floor of the ocean Is uneven. and bust allow for slack. crew was ready when the shiT bed With splash the big grap went overheard. and yard after
 of line was paid out until the
 touched bottom. The water was fathoms a720 feet, deep ut that ck was with the cable ship St
 had the captain calculated thai tery first cast of the hook brought he end of the broken cable. IL hauled on board. The electricians fhed their instruments and called llton. Tue station answered i'm lately.
 huge buoy was attached to the y wire rope and lowered into the T. Then we set out to find the
 end.
 't after cast of the grappling hook not even u uibble from the missing Of the cable Farther and far the cable ship worked away from buoy. At last. after three hours
 the grapnel resisted the pull dsh had been caught There was ger from the crew as 1t was pull
 board. about U quarter of q mile ] the other end.
 8 end was connected with a tele
 instrument. and the operator at ax. about 700 miles away. an Fl. There was nothing more to do Pt to join the broken ends. pew section of cable was carefull, fd to the cable thut had just been d up. The cable was paid ou, the stern as we steamed back to fuoy. This was hauled on board ne broken end spliced to the new or cable, an operation consuming fhan half an hour. The repaired
 us good us new. was dropped Poard to resume It's place ou the h's bed. rely does a cable repair ship have sood luck. Often storms arise 2 drive the ship from her course tne Duoys from the ends they hold Eompel the work to be done over |uo1nern waters these conditions |et at their worst The ship be
 crusted with ice, 1t Is ditficnli |aneover and donbly so to dea. U cable on bow or stern when the the seas threatens to fracture i,
 ana the launching of boats with .n them to buoy a loose end is (dous |m these causes occasionally cable ket snort of coal and have to fon work temporarily at critica, s' or they are enmeshed among
 noes or bergs and have to let auu retreat-Karl K. Kitchen in York World. \. A star Idea.