New Britain herald., 1915-10-01
WIRELESS CARRIES
 VOICE TO HAWAII
John Mills Sends Oral Message a
 Distance Of 4,9OO Miles

New York, Oct. 1.-To the an- nouncement that Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, had talked by wireless telephone from Arlington, Va, to Mare Island Cal, a distance of 2.500 miles was added yesterday the still more remarkable announce ment that late Wednesday evening the voice of John Mills, an engineer on the New York staff of the company, speaking into the receiver of the ap- paratus at Arlington, had been heard at the Pearl Island naval station in Hawaii, 4,900 miles away
 This experiment. had been carefully planned previously. by cable. At an ap- pointed hour MT. Mills began to count into the transm1tter at Airing ton. His numbers and a few simple words which followed them were caught by Lloyd Espenschied, another engineer of the company, stationed at the receiver in Hawaii, and were returned with confirmation of the time when they were received by ca- ble. The Arlington station is only one equipped with a sending apparatus.
 This latest feat means that within talking distance of New York-when conditions abroad are such as to per- init experimenting-wi be the lead ing capitals of Europe, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Petrograd and Rome and probably Rio de Jan- eric, in South America. It >@urther means that by use of qu'pment at Seattle such as that employed at Arlington conversation may be car ried on with Yokohama, Japan, a distance of, -4,a5o miles. This state ment was niade unqualifiedly by Ban- croft Gherardi, engineer of plant of the company.
 May Talk Around World.
 The further remarkable possibility of speaking around the world was brought forward by MT. Gherardi.
 This would be accomplished he said, by series of Wire and wire less connections, wire wherever DOS s1ble and wireless across the gaps. In spite of the rapidity of the trans mission of electrical waves the de- lay for such a distance would be very appreciable, so that the speak CT voice would return to him lag glpg, like an echo. We have made tests of this phenomenon. At one time MT. Vail talked to himself over the wire to Denver and return and the delay was found very noticeable"
 The Pearl Island station is one erected by the company by courtesy of the auth critics of the naval reser- vation there. It consists merely of antennae strung between a water tower and tall smokestack and the new receiving apparatus which has been developed by the staff of the :. American Telephone and Telegraph and the Western Electric companies. With the assistance of the navy. Chief credit for the work is attributed to John J. Carty, chief engineer of the company and engineer of the trans continental wire line, though the number of men who have participa+- ed in the development runs into the hundreds.
 Career Interesting
 MT. Carty's career has been an in- teresting- one. He was born in Cam bridge in 1861 and entered the tele- phone business in 1879. In Boston he installed the largest multiple switchboard then in use. He built up the underground cable systems and the switchboards of New York He laid the longest underground tel ephone cable in the wofld, connecting Boston with New York and Washing ton, and after his appointment as chief engineer of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph company In 1907 he gradually extended a trans continental line until oni January 25 last the first formal communication was held between New York and San Francisco. In 1909 and 1912 the