The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-25
POLICE CALL
BY WIRELESS
A Novel Application to a Good
Use of the Wireless
System.

A novel and exceedingly practical
application of wireless telegrapby has
been devised by Charles n. Parmenter.
assistant city electrician of Berkeley,
according to the Berkeley Reporter
which publishes the following regarding
him and his invention:
Call up office for instructions at once.
CHIEF.
The above viii be the form of salu-
tation policemen and fremen may re-
ceive while walking along the street
in the near future if Assistant City
Electrician Charles n. Parmenter IS in
vention does all that he claims it will
do. The message will be sent by wire
less and received upon an invisible re-
ceiver attached to the top of the of
icer's helmet. This viii conduct the
message to an instrument in his
pocket, which will record the dots and
dashes and can be read at leisure.
The warning that a message is in the
air will be given by the ringing of a
tiny bell in the head gear and whether
the message is recorded or not, the
warning will have been received and
the officer can step to the nearest box
and call up the police station.
During the spare moments Mr.. Par
menter has had he has worked out his
scheme and put it to some practical
tests and in every trial the apparatus
has worked out as he had planned.
His experiments have not been con-
fined, however, to this one line, and
by way of diversion he has made
Berkeley the first city to receive time
taps by wireless telegraphy. Twice
each day the residents can set their
time pieces by the taps of the wire
less system he has inaugurated at the
Berkeley fire alarm central station at
the corner of Grove and Allston way.
While the spare moments have not
been devoted to study and building
for the wealth that awaits the success
full inventor, the bright young genius
has toiled long by the glare of the
electric lights, chiefly because he loves
the work, and the fruits of his 'labors
promise to bring him fortune as we'll
as revolutionize the present police and
fire communication systems in vogue
in this country 1t is nothing more
nor less than an apparatus weighing
only few ounces. which can be car
ried conveniently in the pocket of a
policeman or fireman by which he can
receive orders from his chief or head
of department. Under such a scheme
as this the sergeant can signal his
men wherever they may chance to be, in
the street, in their houses, distance
and remoteness from town being no
limit upon the usefulness of the wire |
less apparatus Thus the fire chief can
readily be- communicated with under
this regime, although he is out of ear
shot of the frebell, and the chief of |
police can signal his officers in all |
parts of the city, night or day, with a |
single message or tap of the instru-
ment. They will find their orders, ac- |
cording to the plans of the instrument |
designed by Mr.. Parmenter, written
On a tape in the pocket apparatus.
Each apparatus will be equipped |
With small aerial, which will be worn
N the hat by which the messages are
received. If the orders are not then
perfectly understood he may reach
he chief by phone, but the special adj
of the system is the ability of
he chief to attract the attention of
he officers by ringing the bell of the
instrument in their pockets.
Mr.. Parmenter has received much
Encouragement from eminent elec-
ricians in all parts of the country, who
ave learned of his efforts in this
Erection. He is also experimenting
With wireless telephony and thinks
here is a great future in store for
hese two methods of communicating :
Intelligence. Like ell inventors, the
Dung man was very reticent about
is plans and it was only with great
ifficulty that he could be drawn to
ak about the strange instruments
hat are now towering heavenward near
he cold Bell Tower" beside which
tand the offices of the city electrician. :