After congress had decided against a government cable and an amicable understanding had been Sings across the Patific Ocean, that some years previous had been taken] ty the United" States navy, were handed over to the cable company for their information.
'When it is remembered: that the greater the depth the greater the pressure and strain upon the cable and that the average depth by the route selected was about's miles. the magnitude' of the task marked out by the soundings becomes suff ciently impressive.
The route selected had four great] oceati stretches of 2,276, 1,254, 2,59: and 1,490 miles. On the' first, be tween' San Francisco and Hawai, jthe mean depth is 2,500 fathoms, Jwith a maximum of over 3,000. On the second between Hawaii and Midway Island the wean depth is 2,000 fathoms and the maximum Jover 3,000; on the third, from. Midway Island to Guam, the mean dept is 2600 fathoms, with _the maximum 4,000, and with sudd=n and \great Muetuations Oh the fourth, from Guam to Manila, the average depth is 2,200 fathoms the maximum being 3,400, To bring home the significance Jof these immense depths in' cable laying, it may be explained" that the amount of cable in suspension necessarily varies accorditig to the depth and rate of paying out. For} instance, in 2,000 fathoms, with the ship steaming at eight knots per hour, Ino Jess than 25 miles of cable are] jin suspension in the water. Two Jand a half hours are occupied in such case by any particular point, jin the cable from the time of leaving. the ship to touching the bottom! lof the ocean.
On December 4, 1902; the cable-ship "Silvertown" with the first. section of the All-American-Pacific-
[Cable on board, consisting of 2413 nautical miles and weighing 4807 tons, arrived at San Francisco. [The shore-end of the cable having been laid with appropriate cere-Jmonies, the cable ship left for Hono-Joh on Decamber 15, arriving off the Islands on Christmas Da:
Jon the morning of December' 28, the cable was buoyed during a heavy gale at a point about 35 miles from Honolulu. During the trip from San Francisco to Honolulu, 200 rales of cable, were laid per lay. from San Francisco, was suecessfully landed-at Honolulu, thus con-' section Honolgin, with, the outside The landing of the cable I. under stand was Red-Letter day in Hojnolulu, and everyone. celebrated, Ceremony at Waikiki When the cable was landed. on the beach. at Waikiki, Mrs.. Hawes, wife of Captain Alexander. Hawes, then aide to the laté"Gover: Mor Dole, placed a lei on the cable, land in very.impressive manner said:
Salute Thee O Pacific Cable." [Tremendous cheering then took place, and the cable was pulled up to the cable house by many promnent citizens, including Rotarians others. [Tenney Peck, Ben Marx, and many]
On Joly 4, 1908, the cable be-[tween Honolulu and the Philippines twas successfully completed, 'To commemorate this great event, Clarence' H., Mackay, president of the Commercial Pacific Cable Ca, sent the first message that ever travelled around the world. The message was addressed to the late Mr, Theodore Roosevelt, then Presi-Jdent of the United States, inform ting him that the cable across, the Pacific Ocean was successfully Laid. The message around the world took' nine minutes in transmission.
The message in question travel-lied by a direct wire from Oyster: Bay, N.Y, to San Rrancisco, thence by direct cable across the: Facific to Manila, Tt was then sent: by the Eastern' Extension Telegraph Ca, to London vid Hongkong, Singapore, and through the Mediterranean Sea to London, From London to America by our own lines. This rapid transmission was only made possible by the courtesy extended to jus by the connecting telegraph administration:
Mr. Roosevelt sent his reply of congratulations fo Mr, Mackay Jaround the other way, and reached Mr. Mackay in 12 minutes from ime of filing.
You will therefore see that we Jwere first to establish telegraphic! service between Honolulu' and JAmerica and the Far Enst.' Our faun always has been to give the best possible service at reasonable rates.
Needed A Smoke Those of you who smoke can imme my position, on duty all night without a smoke. We had no mes-"senger on duty at our office after 8 p.m. and no telephone in those days, and it wag impossible for me to Leave the office to get_my pipe And tobacco, The Anglo Ca, however, had a night messenger on duty, and I was wondering how T was to get in touch with my friend George Butt, when an idea came to me, and I immediately carried it
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