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Work of Cable to Be Completed Tomorrow.
LANDING OF CABLE LAST FEATURE
Staff May Get Away for Home Next Week—Station Ship Now Under Discussion.
When, tomorrow morning, the cable ship Silvertown completes coaling and hauls over from the Hackfeld wharf to the Railroad slip for the purpose of finishing the transfer of the cable from the tanks of the vessel to the tanks ashore, the last portion of the business of the great steamer will be on.
The transferring of the 100 miles of cable which still remains in the ship will be a matter of interest, and will occupy the greater portion of the day. The ship will be laid alongside the Railroad wharf and the cable led across to the tanks which have been carefully constructed for the purpose of keeping the cable intact until it may be needed for the purpose of repairs on the line, should there be a break. The cable must be kept under water, and the tank is arranged specially for the purpose of keeping the materials in the best shape until a call for a length comes.
Meagre Details of Rescue of Com. Rodgers and Crew of Four Lost for 11 Days in Pacific
Crippled Plane PN9-One Found Floating in Late Afternoon by Sub R-4—All Safe and Well—Hopped Off Aug 31 in Non-Stop Flight to Honolulu—Last Message Told of Exhausted Gas Supply—Ends Search of Great Array of Craft Over Wide Area of Pacific
Honolulu, Sept. 10—(By the Associated Press) Com. John Rodgers, commander of the missing naval seaplane PN-9 Number One, and his crew of four men, were found alive tonight 15 miles east of Kauai, by the submarine R-4.
Rodgers and his crew left San Francisco in an attempted non-stop flight to Honolulu on August 31. The following afternoon, 32 hours after his seaplane, the PN-9 Number One, hopped off, the plane and crew disappeared about 300 miles from its destination. Last messages from the PN-9 Number One stated that its gasoline supply was about exhausted and a forced landing was expected.
We are requested to call attention to the following regulation of the Board of Managers, in regard to the Fair to be had on the 14th inst. The Society will meet on Tuesday; the annual address will be delivered on the evening of that day, at the Supreme Court Room, at half past seven o’clock; the Fair will be held on Wednesday, the 14th, opening at 12 o’clock noon, in the Court room.
HAMAKUAPOKO, Maui, May 4. — Haiku Sugar Co. are putting in a wire trolley to transport their cane from the upper fields to the mill, and expect to have the same in working order within a month. This has been found necessary owing to the scarcity of water, coming just when most needed, and will leave them a greater supply for irrigation on the maufka fields.