The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
DRUM CALLs TO PARIS.
From Highest Buildings MeeeaRes win n.
 Sent Across Ocean.

From Highest Buildings MessaRes win Ha
 Sent Across Ocean.
 Chicago Record Herald
 Within two years tbia ci., ,,,
 wireless tslephonio cornurica,to. ..l..x oe In IS, or such at least is the confident axnaet atlon or the De Forest Radio TAIenhor. Company. which. according to The nSs,' York Tribune, has entered into A cortrsrt with the Metropoiitan Life Insurance Corn pany for the use of its new 7O0-foot tov1nr at Madison Avenue, where inc ,v,ro,.s. apparatus Is to be installed In the EiffeI Tower in Paris, at a height of s30 feet an paratus differing slightly from that used tr the United States will receive the vfbrationa transmitted from New York and send mes sages from French soil to this countdy. if the plan succeeds.
 The Eiffel Tower. as the highest point in France practicable for the purpose was selected as the seat of the operations, which lasted for several weeks and gave those who were testing the new system a chance to show what 1t could actually accomplish At that time wireless telegraph messages flashed at the Glace Bay station. In Nova Scotia were received in Paris, 5000 miles distant. on the summit of the tower. At the same time wireless telephone messages sent from the tower were distinctly heard on the coast of the Mediterranean.
 The wires will not be put up until the middle of October at the earliest, when the building will be divested of part of its scaffoidings at that height. Even after the wires are erected they will be invisi- ble from the street, and 1t will be impossi- ble to detect the cause of the wonderful messages through space to a point 1000 miles off When the new tower Is finished an antenna consisting of six or eight small copper wirAa will be fastened through the topmost balcony on the fifty-second floor, just under the lantern. These wires will be insulated from the metal frame of the tower and will run down diagonally clear to the Fourth Avenue end of the roof of the main building. where. the wireless ap- paratus will be located in the penthouse. In, this way 1t will be arranged so that eoch wire will be more than 700 feet in length. and far as possible removed from the absorbing influence of the steel frame of the. tower. The power station will be 16o feet above the sidewalk.
 'It Is only a matter of two years or less before the te1erhoning between New York and Paris begins" said pr. De Forest. when seen at the Yale Club. "The Radio Telephone apparatus will be ten-kilowatt capacity and capable. 1t is estimated of covering 1000 miles with the present tyne of apparatus. This will mean that wire less telephone communication can be estah- lished at once between New York and Phil adelphia, Boston. MontrealA Chicago and Ha- vana, Cuba. With certain refinements of the art which am now working on 1t will be possible later on to telephone to the EiffeI Tower. Of course the telegraph is far simpler. and it will not be surprising if this city and Paris are in direct commu- nication within the next year. Apparatus for the tower has been under constructor | for some time and will be installed even before the antenna wires can be put in. The new station should be in operation on November 1.
 "one of the first duties of sthe new kind of telephone, however" said Dr. De Forest Twill be the sending of hourly news bulla- tins to ships equipped with radio telegraph or telephone apparatus. More than one hun dred vessels so equipped now enter the port of New York. Within radius of 300 miles they will be able at once to receive by word of mouth from a husky-voiced telephone op- orator all the latest news weather reports, stock quotations and other information. without being dependent upon the varying skill of Morse operators. To make 1t even more interesting to passengers, a powerful gramaphone will reproduce for them all the best records of operatio and popular music.