The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-04
..,,ntIc seaboard tos Hawaii
~ 1850. Was Carried in Tests
Made by Telephone
Engineers. 1
|.r.rEMENT rs RECEIVED
y. ..dor. N. Vail Sends consratu'a-
lions believe That Il VIII
be Limited In
scope.

-. ,o,lowing message concerning
,.tast achievement in wireless
lno. -ss was received by Manager
H Ms,I;ams If the Iowa Telephone COM
pany here: - uy., -,
,h ,,Ip from the Atlantic seaboard 20
ur.raii a distance of 4.600 miles. IS
- = accomplished fact. BY the special
r;,a,ess telephone Developments
rh,ch have been made by the engi-
ss sr ~ the American Telephone and
rsIeeraph Co., and Of the Western
r h.cty Co, speech was transmitted
i,ost night from Washington to wire
iess station near Honolulu.
II ANYTHING further was needed to
show The wonderful capacity OF these
new discoveries by the engineers Of
ia Bell system, this last triumph
coming but few hours after Mr.. Vail.
M president OF the company. had
taiked BY wireless from Washington
toNr Carly. its chief engineer located
Il Mare Island near San Francisco,
IS conclusive.
The distance over which this wire
less communication was held, is great
Or than the distance from New York
IL London. New York to Paris, or from
New York to many other important
roirts. sueh as Rome. Vienna. and
Berlin. That transatlantic wireless
telephone communication Is assured
as soon az the disturbed conditions In
Europe will permit OF tests from this
country to there is obvious when 1t Is
remembered that all scientists agree
On the fact that 1t Is much more diff
cut to sem. wireless telephone com
mun.catinn across land than across
water. This wonderful wfEeless tele-
phone message from Washington 20
Hawaii had tn pass over the whole of
TIE United States. distance Of $500
miles. before It encountered the more
simple wireless conditions which exist
when sending over larSe bodies OF
vater. For the purpose Of this test
the sending was done from the navy
wireless station at Arlington. Just out
side of Washington. The receiving
was done on small wireless antennea
especially erected for the purpose by
the engineers OF the telephone conn
pnHf Will. ~ tUc pSfui1SSlOu OIL VQ0
naval authorities. was located at the
Tinted States nava, station at Pearl
parbor Hawaii The message at
Honolulu was received bv Llovd Es-
pensrhird. an engineer Of the Ameri-
can Teleohone and Telegrarh Co..
who had been sent there by Mr.. Y. J..
Carly its chief enpineer. to take
charge of the observatories, the suc-
cessful results OF which we are now
able to report.
It was learned from Mr.. Bancroft
Gherardi, the engineer Of plant OF the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co, who is one of Mr.. Carty's, stan,
who have been working on this prob
lem that the results obtained yester-
Gay in talking by wireless Telephone
from New York and Washington to
San Francisco and Hawaii were a cul.
mlnation of long and very important
investigations and discoveries which
nave been made by the engineers OF
the Rel system.
These Investigations have extended
over considerable period. During
me early spring Of this year, as a re-
SUIT OF the work already done. the
sngineers Of the telephone company
laiked over distance Of shout $50