The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-29
DE FOREST WIRELESS
READY TO CARRY OUT CONTRACT
WITH THE GOVERNMENT.
General H. n. G. Dunwoody, u. s. A.
Retired, Will BE in Charge Of the
Washington OfYice-EIis
Splendid Record
Advertiser Bureau,
Colorado Building,

Washington, July 81.
DR.. Lee De Forest and Abraham
White of New York, President of the
American De Forest Wireless Tele-
graph Company. were In Washington
today arranging with the Navy De-
partment officials the details of the
contract recently awarded to the De
Forest Company for the erection and
maintenance of an extensive system
of stations embracing Cuba, Key West.
Porto Rico and Panama. 1t was an
nounced by Mr.. White that General H.
H. C. Dunwoody. L. S. A., retired,
would be in charge of the Washington
office as Vice-President and director
of the company, and be the personal
representative of the company In its
future dealings with the government.
Washington offices will be opened with
In the next two or three days and
station will be established for the
transmission of messages to Baltimore
and adjacent cities.
General Dunwoody was retired from
the army only few weeks ago after
long and honorable career, covering a
period of nearly forty years. He was
graduated from West Point in 1866 and
served as captain of artillery prior to
his promotion, as the result of a COM
petitive examination, to the position
of major in the signal corps. with the
history of which his name has since
been so prominently identified. In the
Spanish war the volunteer signal corps
was organized under his direction and
was equipped and placed in service
within thirty days after authorized by
act of Congress. General Dunwoody
was made colonel in this corps and the
thoroughness with which the corps was
organized was officially recognized as
| contributing largely to the uninter-
| rupted success of the corps in active
service.
In December 1898 he was ordered to
| Cuba to reorganize and reconstruct the
| telegraph service of that Island, and
| when the Spanish turned the govern
ment over to the United States on jan
| uary LIST. he was designated to receive
| the surrender of ,he Department of
| Public Works. Gen. Dunwoody re-
manned in charge of this department
| until relieved by the secretary of Pub
! lie Works of Gen. Brookes cabinet.
| He remained in Cuba two and one half
years in charge of the military tele-
| graph service and under his direction
six hundred miles of telegraph line, ex-
tending from West to East across the
Island. was constructed within ninety
days and every garrison on the island
was placed in telegraphic communica-
tion with Havana. The Importance of
this work and the efficiency with which
it was performed, was officially recog-
nized by the Secretary of War in tel
egram to the President and was COM
mended by the Chief Signal officer of
| the army
General Dunwoody was one of the
| first army officers to take up the study
of wireless telegraphy and to recognize
the superiority for military purposes
| of the De Forest system since then
adopted by the United States govern
ment 1t was under his direction that
| the tests in New York Harbor and dur
| ing the army and navy maneuvers last
| year at Portland, Me-. were made.
For a number of years Gen. Dun
woody was connected with the Wealth
err Bureau when 1t was part of the
| army, and in recognitions of his SER
vices in this Bureau, received from the
Colombian Exposition n diploma and
medal for exhaustive scientific inves-
| tigation resulting in valuable contri-
buttons to human knowledge"