The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-16
WIRELESS MESSAGES NOW
MAKE A RECORD FLIGHT
One Hundred and Seventy-two Miles Intervenes
From Oahu to hawai--Annual Meeting
and Election of Officers Held Yesterday.

Thousand Dollars $4,000 morsn.
! which provided that NJ silGltll make
certain changes and improvements in
n, y >tcm before am payments wo;:li
be made Accordingly we a. once
proct d.,d to make the stipulated cha'.-
! yes aI,d Improvements. and on III: 1<'h
| day of July successful communicati ton
was established between BARRIERS
Point, Oahu and our station at Nawili-
will Kauai. This communication was
effected just ten days within the time
| limit set IN subsidy bill. The station
at Kaena Point was moved to Barber s
Point with the addition of new lower
mast. At our Kauai station it was
necessary to increase the height of the
mast at least thirty feet, which was
done by putting in new lower section of
| the required extra length.
In the months of July and August
our Waialae station was moved to La
at once estab Iished between there and
BARRIERS Point, thereby cutting out, in
the transmission of MESA ges intended
for Maui, the two relay stations Of
Molokai and Lanai. 1t was hoped that
it would be possible, with the stations
so arranged to communicate with our
Mahukona station direct from Lahaina,
but owing to the interposition of Ma
l1ena Point, Maui, while it was possible
to work one way it was impossible to
work in return, which necessitated our
maintaining relay station at Keomu-
ku,. Lanai.
In November last it was decided to
erect station farther along the south
coast of Hawaii, in order to have a
clear range over sea to Lahaina, thus
enabling US to cut out the station on
Lanai. In order not to interrupt ser
vice our unused pole on Molokai was
taken down and after several unsuc-
cessful attempts at launching, owing
to rough weather, it was transferred to
Puako, to a site I had selected for the
new Hawaii station. On January goth,
this year, that station was in order and
communication was established be-
tween there and Lahaina and there and
BARRIERS Point, a distance of ninety
two and one hundred and seventy-two
miles, respectively On January 2Sth
the transfer was made from Mahukona
to Puako, since which time all traffic
from Hawaii has come via Puako, La
haina and BARRIERS Point, or Puako
and BARRIERS Point direct, cutting out
Lanai entirely. Ten days after the
opening of our Puako station the recent
continuous Kona storm came on, and
on Sunday a. m, the 9TH ult., our top
gallant mast at Lahaina was carried
away, thus throwing our stations to
windward out of commission, except
for the messages which were sent direct
from Puako to BARRIERS Point. On Sat
urday night, the 18th uIt, the same
kind of an accident happened to our
mast at Nawiliwili, Kauai, In order
to make the necessary repairs in the |
shortest time possible, 1 went to our |
old Lanai station with a force of men |
and lowered the mast there, and taking |
the top gallant section to Lahaina to |
replace the one which had been carried |
away by the storm at that place, we |
had the station in order and resumed |
business on Monday p. m, the 22d ult. |
At the same time force of men was |
at work at our Kauai station convert |
ing the old disused oNer mast into |
top gallant mast nd erecting it, and |
on the 25th ult. that station was again |
in order, since which, time it has been
working more or f.ss satisfactorily, |
though it will be necessary for me to |
visit it again before it will be O. K. |
Also about the same time men were
dispatched to our old MahulSona station |
to take down the mast, as we required |
the two upper sections, which were |
transferred to sKamalo |
and erected there.
In order to comply with the subsidy |
act, it is necessary to maintain a sta |
ton on the island of Molokai and as |
the old site at Ka Lac Ka Laau |
was remote firm any habitation, TWEEN |
ty miles, save the lighthouse keeper,
we obtained permission from the Supt |
of Public Works to erect a station at |
Kamalo, at which point we are on the |
telephone line recently constructed by |
the Government. Any messages fors
Molokai are sent across to Lahaina. a |
distance of seventeen and one-half |
miles, and from there forwarded to
their destinations. That station was |
opened for business on the 3rd day of |
March.
In further compliance with the sub
sidy act during the months of August !
and September last year, there was in
stalled. at our expense, by the various
telephone companies, on Island of Ha-
wall, telegraph or land line from our
Hilo, a distance of about ninety miles.
Up to the present time it has been used
as private telephone line instead of
telegraph, although telegraph instru-
ments were installed on either end of it,
think the fact of our success over
the long distances which we work, is
due in the first instance to the very
much increased sensitiveness of the re-
ceiving instruments we are now using.
over the ones installed by Marconi's
Company and which we have relegated |
to the rest pile. and to the modern |
sending plant L have installed at Pu-
ako. 1t consists of combined gasoline
engine and dynamo. in conjunction
with storage batteries, there always be-
ing an abundance of power. a very es-
sential factor for perfect working of
wireless.
I have ordered a duplicate set. on
my own credit, for BARRIERS Point.
which I believe will be installed in