New-York tribune., 1909-11-28
OPENING OF EUROPEAN SERVICE

The opening OF tins new transatlantic
wireless service viii be attended By great
Official cere mony-even more elaborate than
that which attended the opening of the
frs. Atlantic cable. According 10 proposed
plans. President Taft will touch gold key
in the Washington station; the click will
be heard I'm the Metropolitan Life station,
where Dr. DE Forest will be stationed at
the key. The apparatus will already be at
tuned with the Eiffel Tower apparatus. The
inventor will then start the electric waves
across the ocean at the rate Of lss.0e miles
a second. bearing the greetings Of the Pres
ident of the United States 10 the President
OF France, and declaring these two great
republics Joined together moro securely
than ever by this marvellous means. Then
will come the reply Of President FaIlieres,
transmitted by Dr. George Seibt, the Ger
man wireless expert. now assisting De For
est.
Wireless messages now travel daily from
the Metropolitan radio station a thousand
miles overland 90 the Chicago radio sta
tion. on the Majestic Theatre building. All
intermediate stations dOtting the great
lakes are now furnishing a wireless service
al d rate Of from % 10 20 per cent below
that 81 the wire lines. II Is said that the
transatlantic tolls of this system will be
approximately 80 per cent below the cable
rates now prevailing. This should result in
the wireless coming into more general use
Wires for the transmission OF telegraphic
and telephone messages will within the
present decade become obsolete. The city
OF the future Will know no such thing as
the unsightly overhead cable or the ex-
pensive string OF wires in underground con-
duits II is not more than ten years since
Marconi and De Forest announced the
wireless telegraph. and to-day every ocean
vessel OF any size Is able al all times TO
keep in touch with land. Three years ago
the latter inventor came forward with
the statement that he was prepared 10
provide the world with device for the
/ wireless transmission Of the human voice.
In this short space Of time the radiophone
has come into use in the nayies of the
United States, Great Britain, Italy and
France
II has been demonstrated beyond doubt
that wireless telephony Is as available over
land as over sea. Trains and boats on in
land waterways have been equipped and
communication has been established for
great distances Conversations have been
exchanged between widely separated cities.
Automobiles have been equipped as we'll as
airships, and the radiophone has been
found practical in either case
Some day. II is predicted. we shall see in
the pilot house Of every ship that floats
wireless apparatus for talking by word of
mouth with friends across oceans. A bust
ness man viii be- able TO sit in railway
train rushing along at sixty miles an hour
and talk 10 clerk I'm his office hundreds
OF miles away. Every day. from house 10
house. from land 10 land. friend may call
10 friend, not IN a noisy confusing babble
but in scientifically adjusted accents. each
call audible to him for whom K is intended
silent 20 him for whom il is not
II 50 much can be accomplished. why is il
not possible To provide a device for trans
mitting the image Of the speaker. bringing
him into the very presence of another thou
sands Of miles away? II ] can talk to my
friend FOR limited distance with the pres
ent wireless telephone. why should it not
b. possible for me 10 see him as well?
Perhaps the inventor Of the future will de-
wise way of bringing my friend into my
very presence by showing me his image al
the moment