The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-06
The Radio Telephone Company
is Now Ready for
Business.
EFFIEL TOWER To
METROPOLITAN LIFE
The Two Highest Structures in the
World viii Be Used To Talk
Through Thousands of Miles of
Space.

NEW YORK, July 6-Some four
thousand feet of copper wire forming
the antenna for the Radio Telephone
Company was strung from the fiftieth
story of the Metropolitan Life Building
this morning and within a short time
the newest de Forest system of wire
less telephony and telegraphy will be
opened commercially as a long dis
lance factor in wireless communica-
ton between the principal cities on the
Atlantic coast. The first message will
be sent between the Metropolitan tow
er station and the highest point in
Philadelphia which has been secured
for the central station in the Quaker
City. The installation of the station In
first definite step in the widely her.
aided talk-via wireless, New York to
Paris.
The station on the Metropolitan tow
er is on the fiftieth floor, 700 feet
above the sidewalk and the antenna
extends, umbrella shaped, to the
Fourth Avenue roof of the building,
from which the leading wires pass
into the office of the company on the
ninth floor. The work os erecting the
antenna, which is the largest in the
world except the one controlled by
the same company on the Eiffel tower
in Paris, was begun in the storm Fri
day night, when two wires were sent
aloft during the progress of the dis
turbed elements.
While the workmen were busy max
ing fast these two wires, and the wind
was whistling its most strident tune,
an interesting experiment was made
from the top of the swaying campanile
that showed the marvellous cutting up
of the air currents in the vicinity OF
the apex of the tall tower. A score
of toy balloons were liberated and at
once were borne away to leeward with
the speed of so many frightened gulls.
For probably a hundred yards they
remained together, after which one af-
lter <--Asxs Y NJ ,sssu is,rcaa
q I ganoinsr became separated, halted
| in flight, circled for moment aroune
1.-THE antenna wires and then, apparent
h. mill
ldrifted back to the tower around which
they were driven like so many swal
lows, for nearly half an hour. A
length, one by one, they were caugh
in an eddy which bore them far ava
from the disturbed air currents an
drifted down the wind to become los
in the smother to leeward.
Meanwhile, the lightning piaye
around the tower and the rain re
in torrents. but the lineman continue
their labors despite the frequei
> flashes of light, until the wires wei
Is secured and the swaying antenna wa
e. in Mace. Tonight the batteries al
II the paraphernalia will be connects
and communication will be begun D
W tween New York, Philadelphia and u
already perfected system on the Gre
Lakes.
he The story of wireless is like pa
from a fairytale. Scarcely more tn'
NJ a decade ha driftel into history SIN
wireless telegraphy was given 10
ir. waiting world. During that peri
many scientists have devoted tht
Iives 70 the work of developing L
mt art of wireless. That little has De
10. accomplished by the majority OF the
us workers is a patent fact. indeed WI
tho excention of Dr. Lee de Forest
,x a few co-workers in his iaporaeo
nothing of real value has been evoiV'
: DR. de Forest has invented Wireie
\ telephone, Radio" the scientist ca
II II and within the short space OF I
u wears, it has become a commerc
\ system on the Great Lakes, as wen
n factor in the navies of three gre
n nations.
Il Lieutenants Colin and Jaunce OF
French Navy, working in con1unctl
with DR. de Forest in the deveh
ment of Radio telephony have repo
ed most satisfactory results. and ha
\ talked distance of one hundred mi
H between the cruiser Condo and the
II senal at Toulon.
A Ultimate success in wireless t
phony by the radio system is assn
by the results already obtained. In