The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-05

Let the United States navy be equip
| ped with the Cross coherers and it will
| probably have the most perfect naval
| wireless system extent. The tests
which have been carried on by the ma
| val transport Solace and the flagship
| New York with the local wireless sta
| ton at BARRIERS Point Oahu, have
| demonstrated that Manager f. ]. Cross
of the Hawaiian Wireless Company is
| in possession of a system which win
meet every demand placed upon it, and
that it even excels that employed by
| Uncle Sans navy. Lieut.. Sweet U.
S. N, who has been detailed by the
Navy Department to equip the naval
stations of Hawaii. Guam and the Phil
ippines with wireless systems. express
ed his surprise, during his visit in the
Solace, that Manager Cross should have
system which can send and receive
messages at an airline distance of 172
miles when the systems on the Solace
and New York can only cover, intel
ligibly, seventy-six miles.
The Solace and New York came to
Honolulu with the Slaby-Ar coherers.
Both warships departed from Honolulu
carrying the Cross coherers and with
these the fine tests in signalling have
been made with the Oahu system by
both vessels. The Solace departed for
Manila on Thursday, keeping UP COM
munication by signals for nearly 300
miles.
Yesterday the local office of the Wire
less company held communication with
the flagship New York from the mo-
ment the vessel left Honolulu harbor.
At o'clock last night the New York
was seventy-two miles away and was
sending messages to friends ashore. At
o'clock this morning the New York
will be about 1872 miles distant and
Manager Cross expects to be receiving
signals then, and even up to $50 miles
The signals from the New York reach
ed the wireless mast at Barber's Point
last night, but the signals of the island
system failed to get to the New York
after s o'clock last night This is ex-
planned by reason of the small power
used by Manager Cross, the New York
having ample power to send, but this
can be done in this instance for the 250
miles only because the Cross cohererS
are being used to make the tests.
The officers in charge of the electrical
plants both on the Solace and New
York expressed their thanks to Mana
ger CIOSS IcT tie
hem in demonstrating the qualities of
he naval system. Manager Cross on
he other hand modestly states that his
system has proved itself of great value.
The government selected the Slaby-
Arco invention out of eight systems ex-
Imined and authorized it's use. Mama
ser Cross says quietly, "And ours is
,etter than all of them"
At the conclusion of the League base
,ali games yesterday Mr.. Cross sent
10Th scores to the flagship and received
he thanks of all on board for his
At p. m. the flagship wired in that
he vessels had been overtaken by a
evere gale, the wind blowing hard and
be vessels rolling.
One of the officers aboard. whose wife
in Honolulu, was extremely anxious
, ascertain whether his wife could re-
urn to the mainland on the Korea,
sodations. The message was conveyed
} the lady, who at once looked up the
latter and wired back last evening
lat she had arranged everything all
ght for the Korea. The husband is
robably in a better frame of mind
ian before he sent the message.
a number of private dispatches were
mt in by Admiral Glass.
Just what Manager Cross's coherers
IN do in the islands is illustrated by
ie fact that messages are sent from
arber's Point, Oahu. to Puako. Ha-
ali, a distance of 172 miles.