Reproduced by permission of the Commercial Cable Company. 



LAYING A SUBMARINE CABLE 



The illustration shows one of the shore ends of the New York-Newfoundland submarine cable. After being brought ashore a 

 cable is laid in trenches as far as the cable station, where it is connected up with the usual type of overhead telegraph lines. This illus- 

 tration shows the cable being carried up the cliffs at Cuckold Cove, Newfoundland, by a large number of men, each bearing the weight 

 of a few feet. The largest type of submarine cable yet made weighs 62 H tons per mile, and was designed to resist the crushing strain 

 of icebergs grounding in shallow water. 



