Show MR FIELDS DIARY GREAT itic itie itic ona ora ocean cean north lat west ion lone 89 S bix bis friday evening aug 11 W iwa 1 IE the steamship great eastern sailed from the tho nore afi sheerness Sh cerness july 15 at 1230 1330 12 30 pm at half past two 0 monday afternoon overhauled the steamer caroline that left ft london on the ath dinst with the tho shore ends on board she had lad been delayed by bad weather wo we took her in tow and arrived off valentia Valentin at am wednesday the last dinst As ag the weather was unfavorable the caroline went into Val vai valentia entla entin harbor and the great eastern to bantry banary bay followed the next day by H M S terrible and sphinx the twenty seven milea of the heavy shore dhore end were successfully laid from the caroline towed by the steamer hawk on saturday the at q quarter aar te past t 5 the next afternoon t the ruas splice between the main cable and the shore end was completed and the great eastern terrible and sphinx x steamed toward newfoundland w while ile lle the caroline and hawk returned to valentia all AU went on in the most satisfactory manner until 20 am on monday the when a partial loss of insulation suddenly showed itself shortly after th this S the he speed of the ships was reduced and the cable paid out more slowly while tests were applied to locate the fault I 1 which was found to bo be in the tile water some miles astern of the great eastern at am the cable was transferred to the picking up apparatus at the bows and we began to haul in the cable this operation was frequently sus suspended p ended by want of steam in the boiler attached to the picking up apparatus and during the day a portable boiler was ivas connected with the former minutes past 8 tho the next morning the fault was brought on board and found to have been caused by a piece ece of iron wire similar to that used in the manufacture of the cable about two inches ion lon long iong having been forced between the outer lutei wires and through the gutta glitta percha into the copper wires ten and a quarter miles of cable were recovered the fault cut out and a new now splice made tho the cable was then transferred to tile tilo pay out machine at tho the stern and at amt ami tuesday the allawas all ail was again in perfect order and the telegraph fleet on its way to america having been detained detal ned thirty seven hours an and fifty minutes at noon on wednesday the the great eastern was miles from valentia and there had bad been luald paid out including the shore end log miles odthe of the cable depth of water 1760 1750 fathoms tests very good THURSDAY JULY ship ran last iasi 24 hours miles and out miles of cable water 2160 fathoms tests very good A FRIDAY 1 0 distance made 1551 miles nilles cable cabie cable cabie out miles water 1950 fathoms tests very good SATURDAY Di distance stanco run miles cable out miles water 1900 fathoms tests very good at 1116 pm it was discovered that there was a serious fault in the cable k which entirely cut off communication s j with ith the shore the ship was stopped and the cable transferred to the picking up gear and commenced hauling in at pm after picking up two and a half bles niiles of cable the tive fault came on board and on examination proved to have been caused by a stout piece of wire having been driven entirely through the cable the tile 21 21 2 miles ot of cable were recovered from the depth of c 1900 fathoms the operation of picking up from this great depth was frequently interrupted by want of steam the tonight night being very dark and foggy the operation oje ration of lowering tile the splice and transferring the cable to the paying out machinery at the stern was postponed until next morning the great eastern was by the able management of capt anderson kept all night up to the cable and so pre pro vented any strain beyond the cables awn own weight coming upon it awid arid injuring kii III it at sio am the splice hadt hadi been een successfully cess fully lowered and the ship awas was again on her course the detention by this thia fault was 18 hours and 44 41 minutes and ana ms anxious hours and minutes they were wem SUNDAY BOTH distance made 24 miles and out 37 miles cable depth of water 1960 fathoms s tests very good MONDAY alst distance run miles cable out miles water 1770 fathoms tests very good TUESDAY AUG 1 1 distance made miles paved out 19 miles of cable water 1709 fathoms tests very good WEDNESDAY ad at am on resuming the insulation tests it was discovered that there was a partial apartian loss of insulation the ship was soon afterwards wards IS stopped and the cable transferred to the picking up gear at the boom the operation of haulin hauling g in n commenced by noon the engine u used ed for picking up stopped for want of water for a considerable sid erable time two miles had been recovered and the cable was cut to see whether the fault had come on board at about 1230 pm the cable caught and chafee chafed in the mouth of the hawser pipe and was with considerable difficulty removed and at 1235 parted on board where it was injured and just behind the stoppers andina and in a moment the end disappeared in the water distance run last 24 hours miles cabio played out miles recovered two miles depth dept water 1950 fathoms total distance from Wi valentia entla 1063 miles total di stanco distance to hearts content miles total cable played out 1312 miles equal to 14 per cent of slack steamed back toward valentia abut about 12 miles and commenced dragging for t he tho cable thursday at 4 am it being evident from the strain the grapnel had caught the cable began to haul in and at 1150 am when 1100 fathoms of grapnel rope had been got on board a shackle broke near tile the ship and 1400 fathoms of rope saull sank with the cable to the bottom of the atlantic A buoy was lowered with 2400 fathoms of cable and a mushroom mus hroon to hold it and mark the spot during the operation of picking up the machinery gave way it is supposed that a tooth broke off by the strain and this getting in between the tho spur wheel smashed the latter this accident happened twice and the operation of hauling in had tc to be performed by the capstan friday saturday and sunday weather unfavorable av ora kle ble for recovering cable MONDAY ath lowered another grapnel at 1210 pm commenced dragging for cable at 8 in the evening began to haul in and continued to do so slowly all night TUESDAY STIL at am 1000 fathoms of grapnel rope hauled in when shackles broke just inside the ship lost in this attempt 1500 fathoms of rope A second buoy was lowered to mark the spot tho the balance of this day and all of the next was fully occupied in having new shackles made for the hauling in of the rope altering the capstan and makins mailing preparations for another attempt to recover the cable had the apparatus been ready the weather on wednesday was much too rough to attempt any operations tile two buoys rode out the gales in this depth perfectly THURSDAY loth lorn at 7 am began to lower grapnel and at had out 2460 fathoms all that was left on board the vessels and commenced dragging for the tho cable and continued to do so until the evening when we began to haul in slowly FRIDAY at 6 am finished hauling in the 2460 fathoms of rope when the grapnel came up foul with its ow own n chain at 11 am began to lower grapnel again and as soon as all the 2460 ngo fathoms were out commenced dragging until pm when we began g a n to haul in slowly it was soon ev evident by the great strain that the grapnel had caught the cable at 7 pm when fathoms had been recovered the rope ropo parted As there was not sufficient rope on board the great eastern to resume grapnel ing it was decided that the great eastern should return at once to england DR PRITCHARD who poisoned his wife and mother in law was executed at glasgow on the of july in i the presence of an immense crowd estimated by some at nearly one hundred thousand people e 0 pic pie the wretched man when on iio lio the scaffold briefly acknowledged the justice of his sentence and met his fate fato in a calm and stoical manner THE tile friends of dr colenso bishop of natal had presented him with aasum of raised by about six hundred subscribers partly to make up for the loss of his episcopal income and partly to testify to tonis his services to the cause of free expression of opinion within the church of england the bishop was bout about to proceed to natal ABDEL EL KADIR tb the e illustrious arab chief whose arrival in england was recently announced having received the cold shoulder from the official and aristocratic classes of london has shaken the dust of the city from his feet and departed from the tile country in high dudgeon With the ethe exception of one public body to quote his own words he ic only saw tile the people in the streets |