Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-10-04
Talks Through Air
New York to Hawaii

Wireless telephony from the Allan
tic seaboard to Hawaii, distance o.
1900 miles, is an accomplished fact
By the special wireless telephone de.
velopments which have been made by
the engineers of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company and
of the Western Electric Company
speech was transmitted Friday from
Washington to a wireless station near
Honolulu. If anything further was
needed to show the wonderful capac.
ity Of this new discovery by the en-
gineers of the Bell System, this last
triumph, coming but few hours af-
ter Mr.. Vail, the president of the
company, had talked BY wireless from
Washington to Mr.. Carly, chief en-
gineer, located at Mare Island, near
San Francisco, is conclusive. The
distance over which this wireless
communication was held is greater
than the distance from New York to
London, New York to Paris, or from
New York to many other important
points, such as Rome, Vienna and
Berlin.
That transatlantic wireless tele-
phone communication is assured as
soon as the disturbed condition in
Europe will permit of tests from this
country to there, is obvious when il
is remembered that all scientists
agree on the fact that it is much more
difficult to send wireless communica-
tions across land than across water
This wonderful wireless telephone
from Washington 20 Hawaii had TO
pass over the whole of the United
States-a distance of $500 miles
before il encountered the more sim
pie wireless conditions which exist
when sending over large bodies of wa
ter. For the purpose of this test the
sending was done from the navy wire
less station at Arlington, just outside
OF Washington. The receiving was
done on a small wireless antennae
specially equipped for the purpose by
the engineers OF the telephone COM
pany which by permission OF the
naval authorities was located at the
United States nava, station.
The message at Honolulu was re-
ceived by Lloyd Espenschied, an en-
gineer of the American Telephone |
and Telegraph Company, who had
been sent there by ]. j. Carly, its
chief engineer, to take charge of the |
the successful results OF
which we are now able to report.
1t was learned from Bancroft Cher
ardi, the engineer of the plant of the |
Telephone and Telegraph |
Company, who is one OF Mr.. Carty's
staff who have been working on this |
problem, that the results obtained
Friday in talking by wireless tele-
phone from New York and Washing |
.on to San Francisco and Hawaii were |
a elimination of long and very i'm
portant investigations and discover
les which have been made by the
engineers OF the Bell System. These
have extended over
period. During the
early spring of this year, as result
Of the work already done, the en-
gineers of the telephone company
Ialked over distance of about ESQ
miles, using for the purpose an ex-
perimental tower which they had
erected near Montauk Point, L. l.,
and small tower borrowed for the
purpose from private owners at Will
nington, Del. Soon after that they
alked over 1000 miles, in this case
Using the experimental tower at Mon
aux Point and an experimental tower
erected for the purpose at st. Simons
sland, Georgia. The results of these
ests conclusively demonstrated the
orrectness of their work and its pos
Utilities and steps were Immediately
AIKEN to try distances comparable
With those involved in transatlantic
and, indeed, even looking
o trans-Pacific telephony. What the
esults of these further tests have
een is shown by the talks to San
francisco and Hawaii. Another in
eresting feature of the tests Friday
; that in a practical way the ability
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