Show j THE TH PACIFIC CABLE I I I Special Correspondence San I Nov W Mackay head of at the l Commer Cable company recently Incorporated Incorporated nt at Albany Alban announces that within nine months his company In operation a cable between San Fran FranCisco Francisco Cisco and Honolulu and that Iha two years ears the United States and the Philippine Islands will be b In communication Congress however has still something to say Bay on the subject It Is by b no means certain that the tho new company wilt will be given glnn the necessary franchise Mr fr Mackay Macka pays that ho asks no gov government government aid In the form torm of ot subsidy or guarantee which he thinks Is III good reason for tor trusting that he ho will meet with little opposition from Congress He lie has already applied to the authorities ties tiel In Washington for Cor landing right In California the Hawaiian and andl Philippine l Island The cable If It laid will be mile long IonA running from San Francisco to Honolulu from Crom there to the Midway Islands thence to Guam amI from Guam to the coast of or Luzon Luton It Is estimated that Its Ita cost cOSI will be bo almost AA AA Two years ears ago ngo the United states ship Nero surveyed a It route from the thc United States Stalls to the Philippines which will no doubt douht bo adopted whether the cable Is laid by a n private company or by h the government In prosecuting this work the Nero found the tho greatest depth Jepth known In the ocean At one place there Is n deep abyss of or over Oer fath fathoms oms which will make It to considerably deflect the course of or the cable Several mountain ranges necessitate other deflections from n direct line Tho ocean bed Is for tor the most part soft mull mud which as assures assures long Ion life to the be cable The process of at laying a cable hits has been greatly greally simplified by b the results of constant A coble ship especially constructed for tor the purpose Is It Is a Do huge storehouse and anda a 11 great traveling workshop as ns well wellIn wellIn In the hold are three Immense Iron tanks to hold the tho coiled colled cable each having a conical core for tor thu cable when It Is paid out The splice space within these ores cores Is utilized for lor stor ator storing ing In fresh tresh water The capacity of ot tho tanks In Inn a regular cable ship phlp Is about miles of ln hore cable or of or deep sea aea cable the latter weighing weigh Ins much less leu than the former The Tho cable A A tanks are nil connected by II troughs hOuch sn SI hat a transfer may ma be bo made mad from one tank to another anthor or from any tank tunk to of ot the great paying out ma machines machines chines As tho cn lc Is brought from the th tanks by means of ot a small engine at attached to a n drum It passes passel over an lion tron sheave fastened In the framework of ot the hatchway It then Ihen parses over oer an nn another other larger deeply grooved and from to the drums of ot a dynamometer over several pulleys on the deck and out over the sheave heave of or orthe the stern to Its resting place on the bottom of the Ibe sea The dynamometer Indicate the amount of ot strain to the cable Is II subjected at any moment and also enables the man at atthe atthe the brake wheel to regulate the strain put m n by b the brake to suit the varied conditions condition of ot laying When all the available cable has hns been laid thc end Is sealed up anu lowered to t tho bed of ot the thc ocean b J moans of ot n rope rOlle The other end of ot the Is tied tlell to n buoy which marks G the thc position of ot the cable so po that thai when o the ship shill returns with u now new cargo It Itcan Tl cnn can easily casU find the place Illace at which It Ire rt left oft off work tl c Sometimes n a break occurs when the cable Is I being laid but scientific ap for tor measuring the tha Jem hh of ot the cable makes It II an easy ens matter to and mend the break suh sulD The exact resistance per par nautical loC mile which the conductor of ot a n given ca 1 ble offers to the of the electric I current Is to the electrician In hi ore fOl charge The unit of ot resistance Is thu th e i ohm practically ceases Iho where the cable makes considerable twe contact with the water waler Therefore be supposing the Iho known resistance to be Df t t 1 two per mile and the measuring tho apparatus Indicating a n total he of 01 ohms the break brenk will be found OO miles from shore or the cabla rim I Iship ship as ns the case may be gb gt ft |