Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-02
UNCLE SAM RECEIVES
 REVIEW OF SPLENDID
 GROWTH OF WIRELESS
Since First Trial of New TeIegra- phy in 1899 Navy Has Been
 Completely Equipped.


 who has his headquarters under the ! shadow of the three great steel masts which form the center of Che naval wireless system at Arlington, Va, seven miles from Washington. has just l presented to the Naval Institute an interesting review of the development of naval wireless teleghaphy.
 The leaps and bounds of this devel- lopment are brought to pointed notice when it is recalled that during the spanish-American War such a thing as wireless telegraphy was untried in the United States Mayor any oth- ! CT navy It was during 1899, the year after the Spanish-American conflict that the British navy became the first of an the naval powers to try the new means of communication upon the three warships Alexander, European and June These ships succeeded in communicating up to distance of @ miles
 Today practically every vessel in the United States Navy is equipped with apparatus for this aerial com munication and it is SO successfully operated that there is scarcely point in the seven seas at which the bigger battleship would be out of touch through relay with the three great masts towering over Captain Bullards headquarters at Arlington.
 The first trial of wireless on Ameri- can warships was made late in 1899, directly after the British ships had proved its possibilities The armored ! cruiser New York Cuow the Saratoga). !. the battleship Massachusetts and the Torpedo boat Porter were the first to be equipped At about the same time the Highlands Light Station in New York harbor was established at the first shore station of the naval ratio system.
 Within six years more than 80 more ships were equipped and some fifty jected About every other vessel in the navy was then placed on the list for wireless equipment and the work went Forward just as fast as possible. The scheme included both the Att lantic and Pacific seaboards, Alaska, the Midway Islands and remote points.
 Meanwhile, in the spring of 10S5. the naval system inaugurated what have proved valuable daily features of its service flashing the noon time signal, storm warnings and other meteorolog- icai observations.
 5 In 1907-OS the development of the p wireless seemed to warrant the erec- ton of high powered stations at Wash ington, on the Pacific coast, at Hawaii. , Guam. Samoa. and the Philippines. SO that wherever it might be. the United States fleet would at all times be in communication with Washington The - success of long distance communica- ton was established during 1908, when the Hawaiian Islands exchanged messages with Farallou Islands, Cal, l and later during the cruise of that At. lantic fleet around the world. when messages were received across Cen. tral America by Pensacola and Wash b inton By a system of relays the fleet , was in touch with Washington prac ucally every minute during the trip across the Pacific until after New Zealand was reached
 Some of the later extensions of wire , less were the establishment of the sta
 ton on the ground of the American D Legation at Pekin, China, for commu }, nicauon between officials of the l. United States Legation and vessels oi the Aslauc Fleet and that Panama
 Canal station The latter is to be un !. usually powerful with three 600foot n steel towers for the support of the :, antennae It is erected half way across Ithe Isthmus near San Pablo. The name given to it. Darien, is the name of on'
 of the early explorers of that region "a The Mexican trouble led to further
 extension to take the place of inter i- rupted land lines aud for exchanges Il ith Che ships. Isabel, Texas, near tht
 mouth of the Rio Grande was choser
 as the central point of operation or
 the Atlantic side and San Diego or the Pacific side
 There are now 48 naval shore sta l- uons. those at outside points bein' p three along the Panama Canal on' . at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; one at Sar p Juan, Porto Rico; seven in Alask'
 and outlying islands. two In the Phil
 ippines, one at Hawaii, one at Guan ,and one at Pekin, China, with other d projected in Samoa and elsewhere rap idly nearing completion.
 The daily weather reports, ap. D. storm warnings. are sent from Arline
 ton and Key West a few minutes atte
 the ten o'clock time signal at night
 but important storm warnings are sen .. whenever necessary Warnings of ice
 bergs and rerelicts. are sent to SCI ie from Che Arlington station followinl d. the time signal and weather reports
 At such times ships are listening o
 fhe long wave of Arlington 250
 meters and their receiving sircuit
 are tuned to receive the ice of der' to llct report Incoming ships arc con
 pened, under the London Safety Con lvention. to report information conceu
 ing ice and derellcts; this goes throug 1- the Hydrosraphic Offices to Che A sd lington station and then seaward am