Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-10-03
WEDNESDAY,
ALSOOBSERVED
ON THE COAST


other prominent IEonolulans were en-.
joying the hospitality of the Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Co. at Kahuku last
week in celebration of bridging the
ocean gap between Hawaii and the Pa
zcifie coast, similar ceremony was
being enacted at the Bolinas station
on the California cliffs. At both ends
of the lineiess line the wonders OF
wireless were demonstrated AID not
only space. but time itself was ami
hilaaed.
The following is from the San Fran
cisco Examiners account of the open
ing function:
Yesterday the Marcpni Wireless
Telegraph Company talked back and
forth across 2000 miles of tumbled
ocean to and from Hawaii opened its
new service that, la time, is to reach
the farther islands and the shores OF
dim Cathay.
The mayor and some notables went
over to little, sleepy, wind-blown b.
linas to see and hear the miracle per-
formed-to ask about this black magic
of the air that is yet only half known,
half guessed.
It certainly does seem black magic
when Time itself can be toyed with;
for when Mayor Rolph sent at 2:2Q p.
m. a message to Mayor Fern Of Ho-
nolulu it was only II o'clock high
noon when Mayor Fern received it
and ii took less than one two-thou-
sandths of second from the time the
key was heard in Honolulu 1000 miles
away. That's practically instantane-
ous-practfcally the velocity of light.
as it an electricai waye?" | asked
c. III. Taylor, the company's English
expert engineer.
He shrugged his shoulders before he
replied: Some disturbance of the
ether caused by the electrical wave
May Propel Electricity.
DO you think electricity will be sc
mastered that it can be propelled tc
great distances with destructive, dis
integrating force?"
Il don't see why not when you con,
slider the progress recently made"
So who can say that in the mex
great war battleships and submarines,
Notifications and emplacements may
not be at the mercy of a young man
in his shirtsleeves: sitting at key.
board thousands of miles away! And
may 1t not be that the villain OF the
future will pink his rival with an cleo.
trie dart or deep red ray half way
across the word! Black magic, in.
deed!
But over there at Bolinas there fs
no hint of magic or deep designing.
Nine tall masts spindle into the sky
300 feet. From them depend 81 an.
tennae, each $500 feet long. And
there are electrical contrivances that
throb with feryor like young love and
shrink with the intensity Of last de:
spair. : r.
The place IS a gentle vale that dips
to a sharp bluff. and the bluff plunges
to the ocean. There is no effort for
great and commanding height The
bay where Drake careened the Golden
Hind dimpIes to the northward; the
Farallones sleep upon the westering
horizon.
Ceremonies are Simple.
sD5CJ Oalu SIllp -tuSIS dtS CUIblOI llllS
places to eat and sleep-that is all.
And yesterday, though a President
talked to a Governor and Mayors chat
ted back and forth as If at a telephone.
the ceremonies of installation were as
simple as the dedication of fireplace.
r. P. Schwerin rose after filling
luncheon, and introduced Mayor Rolph.
The mayor recalled the event of a
fGw years ago when he saw the Ha.
waiian cable dragged a}tore at San
Franciseo's beach: and then he com.
plimented the Mareoni company en- its
enterprise. and toasted its success. For
the company, General Superintendent
A. E. Gilman responded in a single
sentence the deed was done.
In far Honolulu, brought so near, q
gay company had assembled, headed
by Governor L. E. Pinkham and Gen
eral W. H. Carter