Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-05-07
NEW YORK TO PARIS BY WIRE
LESS PHONE.
Rapid Strides Of Science outrivaling
the Dreams Of Jules Verne.
"HellO, Paris! This is Now York. y


"Hello, Parish This is New York. -
To start a conversation like this
across the universe seems like an
achievement beyond the dream of
Jules Verne or the imaginative picture
of Bellamy Storer, yet in the bust
est city of the world, New York, such
an experiment will take place shortly,
with every assurance Of success.
On this occasion, when science an
nounces it's triumph to the world,
society of the nations win offer it's
congratulations in a unique and un-
rivaled manner, and will feature on its
social calendar a luncheon at which
Frederick Townsend Martin will pre-
side, that for interest and charm will
make all past society events seem
commonplace, when the first wireless
luncheon will take place in the Salon
of the Hotel Plaza.
While this luncheon is being served
voice will speak uniting two of the
greatest nations of history. 1t will be
the voice of America g most prominent
sociey man reading a message of
President Taft to President Fallieres
of France. 1t will be transmitted to
Mrs. Nora Blatch DeForest in the
Metropolitan towner, the talented pic.
neer of her sex in this field and fore.
most women civil engineer in the world,
who will receive this message from the
Plaza and send it over a radio wire
less telephone at the rate of 10000
miles a second, to fair daughter of
France in the Eiffel tower.
The salon will be decorated to re-
semble a forest. Trees will be in full
bloom and birds singing from their
branches. Presiding at this table will
be Mr.. Frederick Townsend Martin,
who will be the guest Of the American
Forest is president. The guests will be
leading society people and scientific men
of note. Mons. Etienne Lanel, Consul
General of France, representing the
French government, and one of the
guests of honor, has said that if wire
less telephony is brought to state of
perfection that it will become a politi-
cal and diplomatic time saver.
The table will represent the Atlantic
ocean. At one end will be the Metro
politan tower, INTELLECTUALLY raised in
candy; at the other end will be the
Eiffel tower. On this miniature ocean
will be small ships of various nations.
The shore landings Of both France and
America will be appropriately repre-
sented.
The menus will be small telephone
directories, and the dishes will be listed
as telephone numbers. The place cards
will be wireless messages sent from the
Ritz Carleton in France to the guests
assembled at the Plaza in America
These messages will be received through
radio wireless table phones permitting
the guests at both tables to converse
by half a world.
The walters will be summoned by
wireless telephone, and, at the end, car
riages will be called by this means
The favors will be small radio spark
less, wireless telephone outfits of very
light weight, and will be utilized by the
guests in the ceremonies attending the
luncheon and carried away to com
memorate the latest gigantic feat Of
modern science.
1t will take just one-fortieth of {
second for the message to travel across
the Atlantic, and about one-seventh Of
second to 60 around the world. Fol
lowing this, mutual toasts will be give1
by the guests of this wireless luncheon
who will be separated by an ocean, yet
able to converse as if face to face.
The value of this marvellous scienti
fc mechanical feat can hardly be est
mated, and will stand among the frs
half a dozen scientific wonders of al
time. It's effect upon the transmission
of commercial business will be revolu
tlonary, and will mean that we can com
municate with Europe at the cost nov
prevailing for domestic telegram.
The greatest station in the Metropoli
tan tower is being rushed to a stag,
of completion. This will be absOlutel!
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Its cost is not comparable to othe
equipments, as the station comprises al
sorts of experimenting apparatus. 1
is though that 100000 would not cove
the outlay if structure as high as tn
Metropolitan tower had to be erected
; especially for the work. AS long as tn
tower has already been constructed, tn
cost, outside of the apparatus, will b.
negligible.
The working of the radio wireless
} phone are wonderfully simple when tn
: complex problems involved and over
come in its ornation are considered.
In telephoning, the operator talk
into the mouthpiece exactly as with tn
wire telephone and listens for a rep!,
through a head phone instead of a re
ceiver. In order to get into communica
ton with a wireless telephone station
it becomes necessary to get the instru
ment to the known tune of the othe
station, and then press the buzzer Ike.
which calls the person to the phone a
the other end. The conversation i