| Show H h LA i r Hi IllS rear and next will I i At lehst two I h great events for which t till the world hM has long lonE lien been waiting rime fhe first r ti le IN the laying of oC a 11 tele lele graph n nl yon Mn sod And AndI l Honolulu the two i I points to II be In communication b by n next I I the tho second the tho completion fit II a cable to the Philip limes l for Jul July 4 1903 1101 With Fright thousand miles or of cable are being woven 0 I Ien en in III i at the tale nIt or of i ia a week and nt at the prevent writing the thes good goOI ship Is on her he way wey to s San SlIn Francisco via In Cape Born with 10 AO J tons ton aboard abate for the see 1111 I within its 11 I I p tanks tank and all read ready for laying This cabin le Is wound around thrle litre im I mense meane a cols each Mch thirty r feet t it In eter eler and the th unwinding 1110 process I b n cx I p peeled ct d t to begin early arl In r In after th the or of the RII II III verton alSan ro where ron eon I I I Ir neo will be with the shore J ap I III r seven miles In length len lh Anti and nn M lobed withIn two to weeks thereafter Ow 01 II In hag to the tiro Improved machinery adopted and the Inventions for paying out and the ten tension lon on the cable ablo It la Is said that the tho stammer be beable able to at the rate ur of six or ore seven e n miles an hour The distance between tire the coast cont nt at or n near ar San Francisco and Honolulu Is ghen clen nil as about 2100 ml miles but some must be nude far slacks estimated lit at about lS 16 per Ir percent cent The entire distance is 18 estimated at about miles with nil all allowances for tor slacks and the two sections to corer coer the distance between the Hawaiian Islands And the Philip nr la MI l and Guam will wll willbe I be Ie taken out In the Ille cable oble ships Angla and Colonia which are arl nt at JIt present en engaged tn in laying the lire nil cable fahlE between Vancouver an and Australia The rallie which I is a r w miles longer than the will doubt douht doubtless less lesl be Jt the th first completed as 1111 It tl sl III to or island laland h II to a th the or of As A It Is to tn establish calf cable eta tR lions tin III belonging to 10 Britain the lust FI straightaway of It this Ihl exceeds 1011 muss the between Vancouver and fan fanIn sting In from which latter It la II 2000 mill miles more to the sad thence to New Zealand which Is miles mile from QU to No It will lie be beasen IlIf asen that the all 1 line hiss hAB a distinct In point of nr short re Ie relays lays Midway Island being Ine lint only 1300 miles from Haw II loam Jual UI 2040 farther sad 1370 frown the The he length h or of t the hI first nt section or of the theall theall all American I ha just JUI shout about the Ihl sA IN the thO shortest I n tic anti antia a no 1 problem pre 1111 present sent to be It u I not that thai Ih there will he be any 1111 to the Ihl progress or of Ih the wor work great NF as 1 It h hIt Is IsIt It was waN An QI as All the world know who conceived and brought ht to 0 A On tM the first cable and It Is on an Amer mer merlean scan lean company though with af r the Commercial car II has haa undertaken the task tak or of the Pacific gap Cap In the telegraphic hk b lt Around around globe AI though the cable is II constructed and laid b by a private compa company n at a total ex pease or of from 10 00 to 10 00 th the United Stales government has lilt all the bt benefits of th the service at Vow low rat rates and exclusive use Ulle and censorship or of die patches In time ot of war ar This Thill Is An sd vantage which can an l be t mated especIallY In view Iel of the fact that the British government Is laying its own cubic cable cross across the Pacific h ht order to secure nn an exclusive control of tele telegraphic graphic hlo communication all around the world 1111 tl The nil American cable able will cross the theall theall all at a point about this distance between San Francisco end and Honolulu Tire The average depth between fn these two points III hr said Mill to bo be about fathoms the deepest soundings s In the having been lIeen found near Quota of oC n nearly rl five miles To span the sub submarine m marine M and withstand the ter terrah rah tension n a cable or of great grent was necessary It will lie be ory orty an inch or so In thickness however In the deep sea lell portion and about two and inches thick In the Iho shore hore anti shallow water waler lit stretches More copper will lie be than In the th old ohl cables the weight fit of rapper Opper wire being 00 Pounds per knot lawt u as against 00 founds In the tho old styles tI Ity the relatively greater tree of f tide tn tal the of the cable Is also It its durability The or of however is 18 the SAme as I her heretofore the copper wires for forthe I the conductor being twisted together by i machinery covered with nn an material as gutta percha or India rub bet and this core oro lI withIn It a i iII wren II and all air proof envelope of oC jute yarn steel wl wire and bitumen Tie c om omI pieta I cable is 18 coiled on away In vast ut tanks tank In t tr h hold of the cable uble shIp and I is run ou out I vet er It a large pulley Julle R at t the stern On Its 1111 any uy ur overboard oard It passes over and under several retarding wheels then II a brake wheel h by mentis means of r winch tile the speed ted Is II regula regulated ted anti and th then n under a dynamometer which indicates the amount of Tire The cable must tie lit continually taut in III order to take u up the Ibe kinks nail anti slacks yet tt not subject U Ua tIt a strain approaching the breaking I It If It happens that a break 0 oc c 1 rl 1 t buoy ng ft from f ef the Steamer J i ill j ll rl l i if f i ri f l lc c c iA S SI I Parino the Cable r for Splicing Honolulu Deep Cal f J I I I t I Pro ale J bottom o the Pacific Ocean between ornta and Honolulu tr curs urs or aU ah cabio hll been laid lahl the end Is sealed and I after being attached to 10 n a rope is II care carefully tull fully lowered d to tine ocean bed n a buoy I being attached tl to indicate Its location l I Observations of latitude anti longitude constantly made enable the commander of oC the ship to relocate the submerged cable lable and ond b by means of electrical tests continually going on accurate locations of at any break CAn be mae made as well III as communication kept up with the shore It has been stated by Mr George Ora Gray War Part the vIce president and gen gentral general eral manager ot of the tho Commercial Cable company who has been connected with cable la laying for more macro than thirty years that the rite rate for tor messages to Honolulu will x Le be about W 60 cents per Iler word and Ir if there are people the tho United States State who wish swish to send ChrIstmas messages message to the Sandwich Islands next December r they will be enabled to do so at this tariff IAN I L ELTON RAVED HOW HE SAVED HIS MONEY A story comes from South AfrIca of ct how nn an elderly miner sawed Me iris his little fortune fortuM from the hands or of the Doers When the tho war nr was on the verge or of breakIng out ho he made up his 1115 mEnd to leAve the Transvaal for Natal He had to carry nil all his money lIh him and knew that the Boers nOer certainly take evert penny they coun find from hIm him So he hammered hn h gold Into clasps and anel clamps for Iii h box nailed them on and gave ave them a good coating coaling or of paint As lIe he expected lie ho tell fell Into the hands ot of the enemy anti and his box was thoroughlY searched hut the trick was never suspected and he be begot got hi his 1600 worth north or of gold old In safety addy to territory U UTILIZING CHIMNEY SMOKE In n and other rel gin ginn towns town L a novel method of not only getting rid of at make but of turning It to Good account has recently been em played d The smoke Is drIven by II a ven nn fan Into B a niter filter tilled filled with th po tous rous material over or which IL a continuous stream or of petroleum benzine bensine alcohol or some lame liquid hydrocarbon flows low The result is 15 that the smoke is II entirely sup suppressed suppressed pressed while the niter fluter yields a gas ral of great heating power which can be 18 used for domestic purposes lUll for The filtering material It en sInes self Belf alto aho mes 11 combustible during the process |
