Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-30
DAILY KENNEBEc 1ouRNAL THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 80 1915.

Babcock. consulting electrical engineer OF
the Southern Pacific Co.: Chief Electric
elan Peterson Of the United States naval
radio station; Mr.. Arnold. Mr.. Griswold
and several other engineers Of the Amer
lean Telephone & Telegraph Co. -
L. n. Bethel. vice president of the
American Telephone & Telegraph CO..
John l. Waterbury. one of the COM
pany's directors. and B. Gherardi OK
Mr.. Carty's engineering staff also
spoke from Mr.. Wallis Office by wire-
less telephone to Mr.. Carly and to the
others present with him. Mr. Carly
recognized the voices of all of those
gentlemen and exchanged with them
numerous questions and answers
which were heard by all of those pres
emit
Prior to these wireless telephone
messages from New York large
number Of wireless telephone mes
sages were received from the Naval
Radio station at Arlington, Va.
Among those who talked to the par
ty at the Mare Island station from
the Arlington, Va. station were Capt
Billiard, chief of the radio service of
the U. S. navy, Col. Samuel Reber, U.
S. N. DR.. F.. b. Jewett and Prof. Mills
of Mr.. Carty's staff. Words. phrases
and sentences were heard from all OF
those by the listeners at Mare Island
notwithstanding the fact that the
, static disturbances were Of an un"
usually violent nature. Mr.. Carly stat
ed that the results achieved here out
distanced anything heretofore accom-
plished; Mr.. Carly states that this
! feat of talking across the country is
recognized by the experts as being
of greater difficulty than talking
across the Atlantic for transmission
over water is much easier than owe
land, particularly in view of the form
liable mountain ranges to be crossed
on the continent.
"Telephone messages Mr.. Carly
says, were transmitted by success
from Arlington. Va, to the isthmus OF
Panama where they were received at
the government radio station by one
of my engineers and by the naval Of
ficers in charge who telegraphed back
their contents. At San Diega, also
where one of the telephone engineers
was located at the Naval Radio sta
ton wireless telephone speech from
the telephone and naval and army Of
! ficials at washington was received.
Talking across the Atlantic by means
of this new system is not but a mat
ter of installing the necessary APP
paratus."
When the necessary apparatus is IN
stalled that it would be possible to
talk from New York to Toxic, Japan,
using the trans-continental lines from
! New York to San Francisco and wire
less across the Pacific.
Pres. Wallis Telegram
This evening Pres. Vail sent the fol-
lowing telegram to Secretary Daniels:
Hen. Josephus Daniels.
Secretary Of the Navy,
Washington, d. c.
Personally and as president of the
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
| wish to express to you my thanks for
the courtesy of the navy department
in extending to us the privilege of con-
Meeting special wireless telephone APP
paratus to the navy department wire
less telegraph towers By means OF
this special apparatus we have today
successfully carried on wireless tele-
phone communication from the At
lantic to the Pacific coast.
THEODORE NJ VAIL.