Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-18

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 Sensitive nsteeneota5 and TAsa
 Comes the pjHeolt Task ot Gr5pping
 and Raising the Severed Ends
 The roo mie cable tHat connected Hamilton Begmuda, with laHlay, Nova Scotia, had snapped. Somewhere under many fqthoms of water lag tbe two broken ends. perhaps only | few inches apart-more likely haif mile or SD from eacb other carried from their accustomed he'd bg tha wash oe tAe waves Uatfl the two ends were connected the thaazaut and thousauda of dollars invested in tHe cahie were bringing no income
 As the result of the accident uaHjl ton was practically Isolated ft9H gbe rest of the world for tho 0uly 0ther eabie went to Jamaica fT seHaaG message to Jamaica and having re laYed to Newfoundland aad thence hg telegraph to New York t was possible to get t few words through ln T fairly short time Buf the tolls We're eaor mously nigh
 The moment the operator ar iiaHfaX found that the key oo the Bermuda cable did not respond to his touch ne reported the fact to his superior tn cha Halifaz odice Orders flew b0eb agd forth, telephone bells rang. mes4engerR scurried in and oat of the office and in a few hours the cable repair ateau CT was on iCs way 10 Bermuda
 The operators oe Tlalfax and lIabl ton had located the break It was about six miles from the Hamilton end of the cable This they caleeatod with sensitive instruments used fo le cord the resistance"
 Tie writer was in Hamilton when the Mackay Bennett steamed Into tbe harbor and through the courtesy oi the captain was CT board when the steamer wenk out and Srappled for tbe ends of the cable and restored f. to usefulness.
 Even when the captain of catie re pair ship knows that the break k abnui six miles from one end ft's 10 easy affair 10 pick up the biz wire 9ap The floor of the oeean Is uneven Ead he must allow for slack
 The crew was ready when the shtp stepped With , splush the tte aaQ nel weat averboard. and Faa yard of sHle was paid ouf aHt ge book touched bottom The wafa TO fathnus t72o feet deep ii lat spot
 { | well had the captain calculated tuat the gery first cast of the hook brought up one end of the broifen cable lt was hauled on boafd Fhe electtf lans attached thefr instruments and ealled Hamilton The station answered i'm mediateiy
 ! huge huog was attached t6 tne heavy wire rope aud lowered iato too water Then we eet out 10 Aad tAe other end
 Cass after cast of The gE8pphne hook and not even a uibble from the missing pars of the cable farther on1 fur ther tlle cable aldp worked away grsn the buoy Al iast, after three honrs work. the grapel resisted tbe pun Tie fish had beea eaueht There Was cheer from the crew as If, was poll ed on board. about Quartet of i mie from the other end
 1'his end was connected with tele graph instrument and the operator at Halifax, about roo miles away. an swered There was notiune morg to do except 10 toiu the broken ends
 X new section Of cable was carefHly spiced to Che cable that had just been picked up The cable vas pald ouu over tbe stern as We steamed baek to the btloF This was huuled on hoard and the broken end spltced fo she new piece o@ cable, an operation consnmins less Gflan half an hosar Ghe repaired cable, ss eoed as new. Was d4oWad oyerhoaFd 10 resume is place n tbe ocean's bed
 Rarely does cable repair shin have which drive the ship from her course, tear the luoys from the ends thel hold and compel the work to he done over Hgain.
 In northern waters these conditions are felt at their worst The shiQ he comes crusted with ice, 1t is dlhcut to maneuyer and doubly SD to deal with cable ou DOW or stern when tJle roll Of the seas threatens to fracture 1t again, and the launching Of boats With men in them to buoy loose end s hazardous
 From these causes occasionally cabla ships get short Of coat and have 10 abandon work temporarily at c1tieG periods, or they are enmeshed among the ice foes or bergs and have ta .et 20 all and retreat-Karl K HitcAeA In New York World
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