New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-18
NAVY WIRELESS SCHOOL,
Hen Trained for SerDice in Nezp
Telegraph System.

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less biography and is destined to lead the world
IN the extensive made of this system NJ
communication series of elaborate expert
Inenis has been in progress recentlv which bs.
terminated in satisfactory results far surpass-
ing the expectations OF the experts Already
N"ihe mas oeen put in touch with the rest OF
our country and & link which will complete the
cream Of half a century. that of telegraphi-
caly uniting America and Asia. by way of Beh-
ring Strait, is scheduled for the near future bv
some highly sanguine persons. who declare that
an Arctic trading company now holding a CON-
cesslon from the Russian government will buiId
an overland telegraph spanning Northeastern
Siberla, connecting with the line extending along
the Trans Siberian hallway from Vladiyostok to
St Petersburg.
In order TO meet the increasing demand for
trained men necessary for duty at wireless shore
stations and on ships already established and
shortly TO be equipped. the United States NAVY
has established the most thorough wireless
school in the world. This the latest depart-
hlent OF service instruction. is quartered in the
second story Of the Bureau of Equipment Build
ing, Brooklyn Navy Yard. Lieutenant w A
EoSar u > N. is executive officer of the cleo
uical and wireless school. Chief Ele. rrician
Bean, who has charge of the navy yam wire
less station. and Chief ElectriciA an Delany are,
Instructors The class is housed on board the
perimental work from to II and 1 to e.
Saturday until Monday is liberty time, when
they have shore leave
AT present corps OF twenty-five sailors is
being daily instructed in the mysteries of this
new system Of communication. After complet-
ing three months Of systematic work their term
is ended The curriculum of thirty days seems
short. but. owing to the scientific and sys tenn
ATTIC drilling OF Chief Electricians Bean and
Deiany the class of wireless aspirants is quail
fed in that time to graduate and the graduates
are competent to enter any ship or shore
uoh OF the navy and are able to fash a mes
sage through space at the rate of 10000 miles
second one or two hundred miles distance
and accurately receive an answer to the same
On graduation they are at once sent aboard
ships and TO various stations far and near to be-
gin real work their salary increasing as promot-
ed With hammock snugly rolled up. containing
his regulation bad. bag and grip with various
neceSsaries. the graduate off cit her for some
uopc point or possibly the bleak Arctic coast
Of Alaska In order TO get fine body of oper-
ators Uncle Sam offers liberal pay irlducements
including board etc, far in of, in fact al
most double, those of the ordinary seamen re-
cTCits- The latter receive only SIC a month
while the electrical boy who enlissts and passes
preliminary examination in that branch is rated
al once as thir6-cass electrician at $50 a month
Advancement is certain. if accompanied by con-
scientious labor. Up to second class. bringing
$50 and the first class. $50. and so on to the
highest rating Of chief. with pay of so.
The Bureau Of Equipment is preparing to es-
tablish network of wireless stations covering
the entire coast Of the United States from Key
West and other Southern points to Stka
Alaska and the Aleutian Islands on the north
likewise on the insular possessions. Honolulu
Midway Islands, Guam. the Philippines and the
east and west ends of the Panama Canal A spe-
cally powerful set of apparatus is be sup
piled 70 the station the Farallone Islands
off San Francisco. and il is predicted that il Is
within possibility TO communicate from that
point with the alton at Honolulu, Zoo miles
away. Special sets Of long distance instruments
ar to be Installed at Guantanamo, Cuba:
San Juan. Porto Rico; Key West and Pensa-
cola, Fla. Colon and Panama, perfecting the
greatest long range intercommunication In the
navy, over one thousand miles intervening be-
tween SOM; of these points The combined sta
ticns proposed and established shore and
afoat for rhe United States Navy make a grand
total Of 222 At present there about thirty
Some r1oted records have already been accom-
plished The Minneapolis. while passing Cape
Henry recently. read the government weather
report which being sent out from the sta
ton there ninety-fve miles distant from the
ship. The same vessel read the message from
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