The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-06-25
"HELLol" PARIS.
Unittpg France and America by Wire
less Phone.


less Phone.
"Hello, Paris! This is New York"
To start 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 busiest
city of the world, New York, such an
experiment will take place shortly,
with every assurance of success. On
this occasion, when science announces
its triumph to the world, society of the
nations will offer its congratulations in
unique and unrivaled amer, and
will feature on its social calendar a
luncheon at which. Frederick Townsend
Martin will preside, 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 Americas most prominent
society man reading a message of Pres
ident Taft to President Fallieres of
France. 1t will be transmitted to Mrs.
Nora Blatch DeForest in the Metropol-
itan tower, the talented pioneer of her
sex in this field and foremost woman
civil engineer in the world, who will
receive this message from the Plaza and
send it over radio wireless telephone
at the rate of 1856, 900 miles a second,
to fair daughter of France in the
Eiffel tower.
The salon will be decorated to re-
semble 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
Wireless association of which DR.. De-
Forest is president. The guests will
be leading society people and scientific
men of note. Mons. Etienne Lianel,
consul general of France, representing
the French government and one of its
guests of honor, has said that if wire
less telephony is brought to state of
perfection it will become political
and diplomatic time saver.
The table will represent the Atlantic
ocean. At one end will be the Metro
politan tower, architecturally raised in
candy; at the other end will be the
Eiffel tower. On this miniature ocean
will be small ships of various nations
sailing back and forth. The shore
landings of both France and America
will be appropriately represented.
The menus will be small telephone
directories, and the dishes will be list
ed 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 re-
ceived through wireless table phones
permitting the guests ct both tables to
converse with each other, although
separated by half 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 commem-
crate the latest gigantic feat of mod
ern science.
It will take just one fortieth of a
second for the message to travel across
the Atlantic and about one seventh of
second to go around the world. Fol-
lowing this, mutual toasts will be
given 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 scien-
tifc and mechanical feat, can hardly be
estimated, and will stand among the
first half dozen scientific wonders of
all time. Its effect upon the trans
mission of commercial business will be
revolutionary, and will mean that we
can communicate with Europe at the
cost now prevailing for domestic tel
egram.
The great station in the Metropoli-
tan tower is now being rushed to
stage of completion. This will be abb
solutely the finest wireless station in
the world. Its cost is not comparable
to that of other equipments, as the sta
tion comprises all sorts of experiment.
ing apparatus. 1t is thought that
$500, 900 would not cover the outlay if
structure as high as the Metropolitan
tower had to be erected especially for
tn work. AS long as the tower has
already been constructed, the cost, out
side of the apparatus, will be neglig-
ible.
The workings of the radio wireless
peone are wonderfully simple when
the complex problems involved and
overcome in its creation are consid-
cred.
In telephoning, the operator talks
into the mouthpiece exactly as with
the wire telephone and listens for a
reply through head phone instead of
a receiver. In order to get into COM
munication with a wireless telephone
station, it becomes necessary to get
the instrument to the known tune of
the other station and then press the
buzzer key which calls the person to
the phone at the other end. The con-
versation is then carried on as if the
two operators were face to face.