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Show Laying of Atlantic Cable Is Started KEW TORK, Aug. 15. Tba that stsp in the laying of tha elghteeuta cable across the Atlantic was be-gua be-gua today, 'ten daya altsr" trie m-ty-flfth anniversary of tha laying of the world's flrat eabla. Clarenoe H. Maekay, prealdent of the Postal Telegraph-Commercial Cable company, and a group of dla-tlngulahed dla-tlngulahed englneera directed tha landing of tha first, seven mllea of the new eabla from the cable ehlp Faraday, anchored off Far Rock away, a nearby seashore resort. The new cable will run under the At-lantlo At-lantlo a total distance of 4eM mllea, by way of Nova JBootla and tha Asorea to Havre, Franca. It will be completed October J. Thousands of bathers gathered about tha little group of officiate and roosloa picture man oa the beach and helped tha aallora haul on tha hawser to which tha heavy cable waa attached. Tha new cable will have a capacity ca-pacity of 120 letters a minute, 0e In either direction and at the earns time. Incorporating tha latest eel. entitle devices. It will be tha longest and fastest subterranean connection connec-tion la tha world and tha flrat trana-Atlantio cable te be put down elnce ltle. Tha eabla ahlp wffl leave tomorrow tomor-row for Canso, Nova BcoUa. paying pay-ing tha eabla behind her- while steaming at eight miles an hour. Another cable ahlp, the Colonla. the largest eabla ahlp In tha world, la an route to Ceneo, whence she will lay tha Nova Bcotia-Asoree and the A so res-Havre sect I one Because of a heavy eurf tha work of Joining the cable to a inland in-land etatlon waa alow and will bava to be completed tomorrow. |