The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-01
Human Voice Crosses Conti- nent and Continues Over Waters of the Pacific, a Distance of 46OO Miles
ACHIEVEMENT IS MARVELLOUS CLIMAX
 TO EXPERIMENTS
Invention Makes Possible Telephonic Communica- tiOn Between New York and European Capitals

New York, September 30-That wireless telephone communication from the Atlan- tic seaboard to Hawaii, distance of 4s0O miles, is now an accomplished fact was announced today at the offices of the American Telephone and Telegraph com pany.
 Exceeding even in success the transmits sion of the human voice from Arlington to Mare Island, California. distance of 2500 miles, accomplished last night. 1t was stated that subsequent experiments had resulted in successful telephone converse tion between Arlington and the naval ra- dio station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 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 transat- lantic wireless telephone communication is assured as soon as the disturbed con- dition in Europe will permit of tests from this country is obvious when it Is re- membered that all scientists agree on the fact that it is much more difficult to send wireless telephone communication across land than across water. This wonderful wireless telephone message from Wash ington to Hawaii had to pass over the whole of the United States. distance of 2500 miles, before it encountered a more simple wireless condition which ex- ists when sending over large bodies of water.
 From Navy Station
 For the purpose of this test, the sending was done from the navy wireless station at Arlington, just outside of Washington. The receiving was done on small wireless antenna specially erected for the purpose by the engineers of the Telegraph com pany which by permission of naval au- thorities was located at the United States naval station at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The message at Honolulu was received by Lloyd Esponsehied, an engineer of the American Telegraph and Telephone com pany, who had been sent there by J. j. Carty, it's chief engineer, to take charge of the observations.
 The following statement by President Vail was made tonight:
 T do not think can better express my views in regard to wireless than to quote the telegram which I have just sent to MT. Carty, the chief engineer of this com pany, with reference to yesterdays wire less telephone talks: 'Carty, 1 want to congratulate you on yesterdays climax in the way of achievements, the greatest in intercommunication that the world has ever seen. To you and the wonderful sta E created by you. the world owes a debt.
 Marvellous Achievement
 ITO throw your voice directly without the aid of wires from Washington 10 Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles, a greater dis tanee than from New York to Paris. Der lin, Vienna or Petrograd, and greater than that to Seattle and Tokio and Yoko- hama, was wonderful, but to send the rec ognized voice part way over wire and part through the air was still more wonderful and was the demonstration of the chiefest use that will probably attach to the wire less as simplifying and supplementing, not substituting, the wire system and bring into conversational communication ships. islands and places which cannot other wise be reached. Your work has. indeed brought us one long step nearer our ideal" universal system"
 "THEO. N. VAIL.
 "As you will see from this it is clear that wireless will never substitute or SUD- plant the wire systems, but will greatly amplify them and extend their useful ness. It is humanitarian rather than commercial. but it is useful in that it makes conversation possible between places, and between places and moving objects that could not be connected by wire, as with the wireless telegraph, it probably never will be dependable enough except as outlined above.''