| Show GIRDLING THE GLOBE GLOB I 1 I New Pacific Cable C 1 Is Now Practically Com Corn Completed Completed I r I I On 01 July 1 I A Message n re rel rello t lo unU Mill hIl 1 to ent rolli The ihie Iho World In lii I i Special Correspondence San Francisco June 17 1 iI H Is confidently dently lent denti predicted by y tho the of the tIme Cable company that on 01 the tl Fourth of ot July messages wl be flashed over their new ness cable tram train San Ban Sai Fran Francisco l cisco chico to Manila Manlia Mania With Wih time the th completion of the th Pacific cable rable the time globe globo will wi be Je girdled girled with wire and one 01 feature of the ceremonies with vItIa tho the trans transpacific transpacifIc pacific service will wi be Inaugurated will willbe wi wIllbe be the transmission llon of a n message me age writ written wrItten ten tel by I President from hl ruin th Ih the multi main ml n of time the cable t company in inthe Inthe inthe the Postal Telegraph building In II New NewYork NewYork NewYork York city all ul tIme the way Wll round the time world back buck to Its Is starting point From New Nev York the tho tim message Will wi go overland overhand to San Ban In Francisco thence by bi b the new cable coble to Honolulu to Midway Island Guam and ami all Manila From Ma Manila II Cilia nila Ila it will be taken up by b the time cable and Ind lines of bf the tIme Eastern T U through Singapore And Madras MItla to 10 the Azores Azore train from which wInch point time the Commercial cable will wi bring brn It back to 10 New York It I Is l estimated that the message will wi bo be received In the tho Postal building within 40 minutes after It has hf been ticked l ked off oto It J Is well wel known that In going west WUl around the wot world Id a traveler r gains a day some ome somewhere somewhere where out In the time lacille and It will wi be been seen en that the message melago will wi actually be returned to New Now York ork 24 U hours before It I has bus hUl been gent s nt Time The section ot of the new ada n cable which connects Son Bun H n Francisco and amal an Honolulu hits has been working several months months and ami quite recently the time section between Ma Mn Manila nila and Guam GUal was completed Time The only link yet yetto to be laid haiti Is that between Guam Gaunt and Honolulu via via Midway Island Iland The cable steamers ot amers and Silver Silvertown Silvertown town are lre nt at w work ork on that now no Between Guam and Midway island are II some of time the deepest abysses of und anti the work vork there will wi necessarily be more than on time the th other sections but It Is 15 not expected that the steamers will wi encounter any serious obstacles There seems to be bo no Ito reason why shy tho the com corn puns patriotic desire d lr to 10 Join our own on country coultry with lh our far eastern ater posses possessions possessions on Independence day should not be bl consummated Manila can cnn now be reached by wire h through the European lines but Jut the expense of or messages sent that way is much greater than will wi bo be thuS th charges charel over ocr the tIme all al American line With the Ih heavy hla y business of or time the government be b teen treen Washington and the Insular IMUl l capital this saving will wi be a great con consideration consideration consideration Little Uto Guam captured from frol Spain some time tinto after the fall tal of ot Manila Mania had hadnot hd hadnot not heard heal that war had been declared The Th governor sent nt an envoy to the commander of ot the American vessel I which had fired fre on his tort fort with wih an In apology for tor not having answered the tha salUte because he wan vaa out of or powder ponder Henceforth time the natives of ot that far off oit ot Isle cm as f well vell wel as the can officers who tare ore marooned on sees serl Ice there will wi be as Q much In touch wIth the time doings doln of ot tIme the great Ilat Ild as nl v thu thuI people I or ot San Samm 81 Francisco antI NewYork The laying haying of or the tho Pacific cable ha ima hi been very ry expeditious It I Is less than two to years earll since the tho preliminary vork ork was begun However time the company had the time advantage of or the lie ute use of oft charts made by time the government Bf r cr er Nero when th the United States 1 M contemplating the time lalu of or a I cable under federal ownership und and Ild the tIme tedi tedious tel otis ous worl of ot survey Was wad obviated He lie sides th t great grent Improvements In the tho methods of cable laying have been In Introduced since sines tile the first Atlantic cables cable were put down The Angll mind and are model moel cable layers An Intricate system of oC wheels and anti rollers with wih tanks tanka In which continual tots tests for electrical con conditions rn can be made constitutes constitute their paying out Time The wheels wh elu l are arc ur areso so arranged arrne that they can be raised or lowered to give the cable more or tes bend as 11 It I passes between n them Pow low Powerful erful brakes control time the tle speed of 01 pay payIng paylag lag Ing out The length paid out and tho the speed of paying out ou ore orm ar obtained ap approximately proximately by b tho the number of turns made by b the ti drum over which th ti ca en cable his ble passes passos and this Ig is II checked checke by the mile mie marks the tho known position po llon or of the tho Joints etc ele as they the pass ass The he differ dUfer difference dIfference ence between the speed ped of time the vessel and the speed of ot paying out ce outI gives the slack which allows the cable coble to foi t l llo low lo time the uneven beL IL of or the ocean Oan The Time total length ot or the jimel he cable Is li a n lit little lt littie tie tle te under tinder 80 miles The distance from San Ran Francisea to Manila Is la Mil surface mullen miles but bUI the hilt hills his and amid nh al alIe leys Ie a under the water taRe take up UI over Oe h a 1 thousand miles oj slack Time The coat cott or ot orthe orthe the cable is approximately Q col |
