Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-01
Journal Receives New Informa-
ton Disclosing Fact That
Communication Was Estab-
lished Wednesday with Ha-
waiian Station, as Well as Cal
ifOrnian
CABLE MESSAGE TELLS
OF GREATER SUCCESS
Distance One-Third More Than
from Boston to North Pole or
from New York to Petr0grad
President Wallis Statement

Boston, Mass, Sept. 30.-(SpeciaD.-
According to official information on
the authority of the New England Tel
ephone & Telegraph Co., communica-
ton by wireless telephone was estab-
lished yesterday between the naval ra-
do station at Arlington, Va, and a
wireless station at Pearl Harbor, Ha
waii, a distance of 1900 miles. The
message was received at Hawaii by
Lloyd f. Spenschied of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. engineer
ing department. This engineering oe-
partment in conjunction with the en-
eineers Of the Western Electric Co,
devised the equipment which made this
transmission possible.
The Distance Covered
This amazing fact impresses Itself
that the distance from Alexandria to
Hawaii is more than one-third greater
than the distance from Boston to the
North pole and also as Mr.. Vail points
out, in a congratulatory telegram to
]. j. Carly, chief engineer of the
American Telephone & Telegraph Co,
greater than the distance between New
York and such European points as
London, Paris, Berlin and Petrograd.
There was no sending apparatus at the
wireless station at Pearl Harbor, con-
sequently, the success of the effort to
talk by wireless from Alexandria to
Pearl Harbor had to be confirmed by a
cable message which was received to-
day.
Statement by Vail
The following statement from Pres.
Vail of the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. outlines in general way the
possible uses of this new discovery. Il
do not think that l can better express
my views in regard to wireless telephony
than to quote the telegram which l have
lust sent to Mr.. Carly, the chief engi-
neer of this company, with reference to
yesterdays wireless telephone talk: I
want to congratulate you on yesterdays
climax in the way of achievement, the
greatest in REORGANIZATION that the
world has ever seen. To you and the
wonderful staff created by you the world
owes a debt. To throw your voice direct
" without the aid of wires from Wash
ington to Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles, a
greater distance than from New York to
Paris, Berlin, Vienna or Petrograd, and
greater than that between Seattle and
Toxic and Yokohama. was wonderful,
hut to send the recognized voice part
way over wire and part through the air
was still more wonderful and was a dem
onstration of the chiefest use that will
nrobablv attach to the wireless as am
plifying and supplementing not duplicat-
ing the wire system and bringing into
conversational communication ships, ISL
ands and places which otherwise cannot
he reached. Your work has indeed
brought us one long step nearer our idea.
an UNIVERSAL system. (Signed) T. N.
Vail
"As YOU will see from this, it is clear
that wireless will never substitute or
sunplant the wire systems but will great
" 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 moving objects that could not
he connected by wire. As with the wire
less telegraph. it probably never will be
denendable enough except as outlined
above"