The San Francisco call., 1905-02-16
SOON TO TALK
With PANAMA
Agents Are Preparing to
Effect Wireless Communi-
cation With the Isthmus
STATION AT THE PALACE
Abraham White Is Planning
to Connect With Hawaii,
Philippines and Orient

San Francisco VIII soon be in direct
communication with the Philippines,
the Orient and the Hawaiian Islands
by means Of wireless telegraph. Before
this innovation is enjoyed, however,
the city Will have a similar means OF
communication with Panama by di-
rect coast route and by way Of the East
via Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, New
York. Key West, Porto Rico and Cuba
It is for the purpose Of perfecting
these systems Of communication that
Abraham White. president OF the
American De Forest Wireless Tele-
graph Company, now registered at the
Palace Hotel has come to the coast
He arrived here two days ago and at
once leased a portion Of store on the
New Montgomery street side of the big
hosiery, where the company's first in
struments are 70 be installed and oper-
ated through the medium of temporary
stations on the roof of the Palace. The
first tests Of the machines will be made
at short ranges between Point Reyes
and Mare Island and this city.
For several months engineers Of the
company have been here looking for
suitable sites for five big stations,
which President White says Will soon
be erected in San Francisco and its
vicinity, for the purpose of receiving
and sending messages TO Hawaii, the
Philippines and other points in the
Orient Just where these stations will
be placed he is not yet prepared to
state. giving as q reason that leases for
the sites have not been secured. In dis
cussing his plans yesterday White said:
We expect 70 have our instruments in the
Palace Hotel operating for short range com
YEunication in about five weeks. The man
sgeInent Of the hotel has granted US permits
sion TO make our preparatory tests with the
sid OF the flag masts on top OF the hosiery.
BY Monday we hope 70 have communication
between the hotel and Point Reyes and Mare
Island test for our instruments. Fifty
six stations are now working perfectly on the
Atlantic seaboard and another series Of sta
lions has been installed between Chicago and
Kansas City. We have recently established
& small station in Denver that Will shortly
be replaced with larger one through which
communication VIII De EXTENDED westward from
Kansas City and finally to the Pacific sea-
board.
During the coming week President
White viii open negotiations with the
arrangements of the ocean steamship
companies with a view to having sew
eral of the vessels plying between here
and the Orient and the Antipodes fitted
out with wireless telegraph instru-
ments. the purpose being to extend the
modern method of communication,
which viii be rapidly perfected, as it
has been on the Atlantic Ocean. With
this work accomplished a, passenger on
an Atlantic steamer. should he so de-
sire. viii be able to communicate with
a traveller aboard an Oriental or Aus
tralian steamer. Continuing his discus
sion on wireless telegraphy, President
White said;
The value Of the new method Of telegraphy
has already been thoroughly exploited and the
greatest amount Of mental energy is now be-
ing employed TO perfect the service. Our
company is preparing TO ests blsh for the Gov
ernment 2 circuitous service 10 Panama by
way Of the Eastern seaboard, with stations
At Guantanamo 0Cubs), Key West, Pensacola
and Porto Rico, which will be in touch with
the stations in New York. through which the
isthmus viii communicate with the New Eng
land States, Boston. Washington. Philadelphia
Providence. New Haven. Springfield, Mass
and Bridgeport, Conn. Additional stations are
now nearing completion in Buffalo, along the
Great Lakes at points like Chicago and Port
Huron and ST. Louis. The establishing Of a
coast service 10 Panama will be hurried 10
completion and by. the time the Western slope
has been placed in communication with the
East we hope TO have extended the service to
naval bases in foreign countries