The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
PARIS HAS CHAT.
 WITH U. 5. VIA
 WIRELESS PHONE
Three Conversations That Span Atlantic Are Accomplished
 By New Invention.

New York, .Oet4 22-AnnoyIn cenae ent was made at the offices of the Ameri- can Telegraph and Telephone Go. last night that transatlantic wireless te1e- phoney is an accomplished fact IL was said that officials listening at the E:4fel Tower, in Paris. heard words spoken on Tuesday and Wednesday nights by engineers of the company by means of apparatus developed oy that company and the Western E4ec- trie Co and installed in the govern meHt wireless station at Arlington,
 It was declared that observers in the Eifea Tower, after receiving the ltelepAoa9e messages. cabled to the Of fic4als Of the company in this city a repetition of the words sent from Ariington> It was stated further that ithe antennaes employed in Arlington was that Of the United States Navy Department and had been placed at the disposal of the company through the courtesy of that department
 In the experiments of Wednesday night the signals and spoken words mot only reached Paris, but. travelling in an~oppostte direction, they were heard distinctly at the receiving sta tion in Honolulu by Lloyd Espen- chied, the company's. representative there Mr. Espenchied. cabied yes i terday. according to the statement made 1ast night, that he had not missed a word a signal sent from Arlington. l
 More Important Than Honolulu.
 Further verifcation of the test was received over the telephone last night from John J. Carty, Chief Engineer of the American Telegraph and Tele- phone Go. who is in Chicago He talked from there to a score of per i sons asSem bled in his office at No. 15 Dex street at o'clock last night. He was jubilant over the success of the tests and said it would be only mat ter of time, and that time would de- pend largely on the duration of the present war, when transatlantic communication by wireless would be commercial enterprise
 He said that had 1t not been for The present war the feat of Wednesday night would have preceded that of tel ephoning by wireless from Arlington to Honolulu, Mare Island, Panama and San Diego, which was announced on Sept 2S- He added that while the transmzssions to the spoken word to Paris by wireless involved the bridg- ing of the ether. for 5000 miles only as compared with 4,8OO miles separat- ing Arlington from Honolulu, it was more important from a practical etandpoint-
 The American Tefeg1 aph and TeIe- phoneN company. sent -wo if it's engi- ne&1Ss h. El SnI0eV0 ana A. M OuTI1S, < to Paris some weeks ago to prepare for the transatlantic tests They found the French government greatly interested in the experiment and not withstanding the importance of the Eifel Tower as a military station ar rangenen were made that the Americans would have limited facili- ties for listening. They were permit ted to install the receiving set they had brought and certain hours of the day and night were designated by the military authorities when they could have the station practically to them NeIyes.
 Ten-Word Message Heard
 For some time the neavy interfer- ence of high power wireless telegraph stations in the neighbornoods and un- favorable statjc conditions prevented the experts from getting the satisfac- tory results they had hoped for but according to the officials, they heare words and signals from Arlington more the French government announce rnent of this was made at the time.
 The messages sent on "Wednesday night from Arlington were short sen tencesN and words of a few sy11ables Hello and goodbye and message. up to ten were heard most plainly These signals and words were sent ou by R. A. Hessing and B. B Webbaan6 several other wireless engineers wht were manipulating the apparatus from the transmitting station
 It was stated by the company's off ciaIs last night that simultaneously with it's reception in Paris the mes on the wireless antennae at. the West ern Electric Companyss laboratory fl this city and at the Pearl Harbo1 Navy Yard in Honolulu. MT Espen criied heard the Arlington operator call, Hello, Shreeve' and "Goodby Shreeve' as plainly as if the .speake was block away.
 Mir. Espenchied cab1ed he ever recognized the peculiar intonation o MT. Webb's voice, with which he i Heisfng took his turn at the trans hitting instrument.
 Tn his talk over the te1eph one iron Chicago to this city MT Carty il answer to a question as to how Ioni it would be before trans-At1anti wireless telephony would be put on commercial basis, said he didn't wan to make prediction.
 Tolio Will Hear Next.
 However" he continued, "I hay no doubt we shall soon be able t telephone from New York to Toxic There is great amount of work { be done before we can realize tha ambition, despite the rapid adVanc that has been made in the last fel years.
 It must be understood that " have as yet installed no transmittfn apparatus in Paris or in Honolu4l That is the reason we had to ge verifcatfon of the success Of ou tests from those places by cable There are several obstacles in tn way of sending one of these sets t the Paris station. Perhaps the wa Is one of tffe1a.r
 Col. Samuel Reber. in charge of tn Aerial Signal Service of the Unite States army, said last night by tele phone from WaAInin gton: