The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-04-21
GREAT WIRELESS
PLANT PLANNED
CFrom Saturdays Advertiser.)

There was meeting yesterday
morning of the Wireless Telegraph
Company, at which it was unanimous
ly decided by the stockholders that the
plant and station at Kahuku should
at once be commenced. Arthur A. Is
bell, the expert who came down here
to make tests with a view to loca ting
the proper site for the station, AMI
who selected Kahuku. the site that
was originally selected by Captain
Niblack for the Navy. but abandoned
owing to the fact that there would be
no guns there to protect it, was
chosen as superintendent of con-
struction to take charge of the in
stallation of the plant and the erec-
ton of the station at Kahuku. When
he has put in the plant he will be gen.
eral superintendent of operation, su-
perintending the Kahuku station and
the station at Hilo, which will be in
stalled Immediately following the COM
pletion of the Kahuku plant.
1t was determined at the meeting
that Lahaina should be increased, as
station, in strength from less than
kilowat to five kilowat strength, and
that the station at Nawiliwili, Kauai,
should be strengthened to five kilo-
watts.
The necessary money for 1.-The Inn
provement of the service is forthcom-
ing readily enough without any re-
organization of the company, and it
is the intention of the Wireless Tele-
graph Company to spare no expense
to make this the worlds center for re-
liable wireless, and as soon as i'm
provements are forthcoming they will
be adopted by the local company.
President Clinton ]. Hutchins said
yesterday: IF, after we have in
stalled the long-distance plant at Ka-
huku, we should find that some dis
covery has been made whereby a bet
ter station can be operated from a
top, for example, we will
tear down the Kahuku plant and put
up a plant, according to the new
ideas, on the mountain-top."
The Wireless Telegraph Company
will generate it's own energy at Ka-
huku. starting by putting in a twenty
horse power gasoline alternating dy-
namo, and being ready to increase
the power of the plant from ten kilo,
watts to 100 kilowats, as the situation
demands.
1t was reported that the various
steamship companies would probably |
come in on arrangements to ]
get the service and Hutchins had al |
'eady had correspondence with the |
representatives of the Pacific Mail, |
Togo Kisen, Occidental & Oriental,
datson and Observation-Disclosures.
By July Is at the latest the Ka-
uku plant will be ready, and it is
that it will be in operation
'efore that. A pericon receiver is to
,e adopted, an instrument which will
accelerate and simplify
with such an instrument
honolulu can listen to the Coast sta
ions or the fleet anywhere from 1000
o 5000 miles away.
1t is arranged that work on the
station shall start at once,
nd the power at the start will be
UGH that in the daytime this station
an send 500 miles, or at least 1000
lilies under ordinary conditions at
light; which means, with favorable
conditions, that this is
Ind will reach the Coast and that,
18th the new Oahu and Hawaii sta
ions, with Maui and Kauai stations
Hawaii Territory will ,
each throughout the broad Pacific
18th her wireless sympathy and I
trength Ii