The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-09
NEW B TO
SOUTH

The new Western Union $4,000, 900
trunk cable, which will establish di-
rect telegraphic communication be-
tween the United States and the prin-
cipal ports on the eastern coast of
South America, will be opened, bar
ring accidents, early in September, ac-
cording to w. w. Semingsen, local
manager.
Electrically and mechanically the
cable will be the most up to date ever
laid, being the most impervious to in
jury and having a capacity of $4,000
to 10000 words a day, or 200 to $50
letters a minute.
This modern cable, which will soon
be brought to America from England,
where it is now being manufactured,
will be laid from Miami, Fla, to the
Isle of Barbados in the West Indies.
At the same time the Western Tele-
graph Company of London will lay
a new cable 1900 miles in length from
the Isle of Barbados to Maranham
in Brazil, making connection with the
Western Telegraph Company's dupli-
cate and triplicate lines, which the
English have been operating from
Para along the eastern and northern
coasts of Brazil, touching at Rio de
Janeiro, Santos, Bahia and Pernam-
buco, and having it's terminus in Bue-
nos Aires.
Direct to Buenos Aires.
Direct cable communication will be
established from New York City to
Buenos Aires, a distance of 1000
miles, thus binding together at Bar
bados the two great cable systems.
Messages will be sent between these
ports in fifteen to twenty minutes.
The present rate of IS cents a word
will be undoubtedly reduced.
Not only will it be possible to cable
direct from New York to Buenos
Aires on the eastern coast of South
America, but by can of a trans
continental telegraph line across the
Andes, communication will be estab-
lished from the eastern coast with
the principal ports on the western
coast Of South America.
But the Western Union Company
does not propose to stop here in it's
program for increasing it's lines of
telegraphic communication, having a
cable 5000 miles in length, along the
western shore of South America, par
alleling that already being operated
in this region by the Central and
South American Telegraph Company
of the United States and the West
Coast of America Cable of Great Brit
ain.
At the present time, messages for
the eastern coast of South America
are sent by either one or the other
of two circuitous routes; one via the
Atlantic cables to London, and from
London back to Brazil via the Isle of
St. Vincent; the other route, that of
the Central and South American Com
pany, runs from New York by way
of Colon and the west coast of South
America to Valparaiso-thence across
the Andes to Buenos Aires and north
ward over the existing English cable
and the South American government
lines.
The Western Union Company's
route to South America will be d.
rect to the east coast through Barba-
dos, at which point it's own compre-
hensive North American and trans
atlantic system connects with the
South American system Of the West
ern Telegraph company of Great
Britain, whose cables touch at every
important coastal port in Brazil; also
at Montevideo and Buenos Aires. AL
ternate land lines between New York
and Miami and an alternate cable
route via the transatlantic systems
of the two American and British COM
panies insure reliable and adequate
service.
1uO SCIIIdl anu OOuCu AMERICAN
Company will compete with the West
ern Union by means of cables laid
from Buenos Aires to Santos and Rio.
The former company is therefore at
a disadvantage because of the length
and indirection of it's cable and trans
Andean route, and on account Of in
herent political objections of Brazil
ian CALLERS and their representatives
in the United States to transmitting
messages through Argentina and
Chile. Many intermediate cable on
nections to take care of local traffic
and an overland route across the
Andes, subject to interruption by snow
and sleet, are a further handicap,
since they reduce both reliability and
efficiency.
The Central and South American
system heinp ~inadeOuate to handle the