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Steaming Home, Golden Gate
Before the turn of the last century it news took at least five days to steam to America from Hawaii and the rest of the Pacific. But on December 28, 1902 the Commercial Pacific Cable Company wiped out that delay by completing the first undersea telegraph cable, connecting San Souci Beach in Waikiki with Ocean Beach in San Francisco. The cable was painstakingly laid by the cableship, 'Silvertown'. The connected cable was christened by Lucille Gage, the eleven-year-old daughter of then governor, Henry T. Gage, with the words, "I christen thee Pacific Cable. May it always carry messages of happiness."
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