The Huttig news., 1915-10-09
HUMAN VOICE IS TRANSMITTED FROM ATLANTIC SEAsOARp
 TO HONOLULU.
4 DISTANCE OF 4,690 MILES
Remarkable Demonstration of Ameri- can Telegraph dSTeIephone Com panr Engineers Regarded as Marvellous Triumph of
 Science.

wireless telephony rom the Allan tic seaboard to Hawaii-a distance of 4,600 mileo-is an accomplished fact. By the special wireless telephone de- velopments which have been made by the engineers of the American Tele- graph and Telephone Company and of the Western Electric Company speech was transmitted Septem Der 29th from Washington to wireless station iH Honolulu. If anything further was needed to show the wonderful capac- ity of these new discoveries by tho engineers of the Bell System, this last triumph coming but a few hours after Mir Vail, president of the company, had talked by wireless from Washing ton to MT, Carty, its chief engineer, located at Mare Island near San Fran cisco. Cal, Is conclusive.
 That transatlantic wireless tele- phone communication is assured as soon as the disturbed condition in Europe will permit of tests from this country is obvious when 1t is remem- hered that all scientists agree on the fact that it is more difficult to send wireless telephone communications across land than across water This wonderful wireless telephone message from Washington to Hawaii had to pass over the entire United States-a distance of 2,500 miles-before it en- countered the more simple wireless conditions which exist over large bodies of water
 For the purpose of this test the sending was done from the navy wire less station at Arlington, just outside of Washington, D. c. The message was received by small wireless ap- paratus at the United States naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
 Wireless telephony has been the goal of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company ever since 1t sue ceeded in establishing the transconti nental communication by wire last January. Prior to sending the wire less telephone message to Hawaii i President. Theo. N Vail, of the Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph Com pany. seated at his desk at 15 De,. street, New York, talked into a Bell telephone instrument and his voice carried by wire tc the radio station of the navy department at Arlington. D. C., and from there through the air to the radio station at Mare Island, Cal, where 1t was heard by John T. Carty. chief engineer of the American Tele- phone & Telegraph Company, and others.
 The following statement was made by MT. Vail after the successful de. monstrauon of wireless telephony te- tween Washington, D. C., and Hawaii:
 I do not think that I can better express my views in regard to wireless telephony than to quote the telegram which l have just sent to Mir. I,arty. the chief engineer of this company:
 'Carty: l want to congratulate you on yesterdays climax in the way of achievements, the greatest in Tn. ;ercommunication that the world has ever seen
 To you and the wonderful staff created by you. the world owes a debt
 I out the aid of wires from Washington to Hawaii, nearly 5000 miles, great CT distance from New York to Paris. Berlin, Vienna or Petrograd and great. CT than that between Seattle and Tokio and Yokohoma, was wonderful. but to send the recognized 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 amplifying and supplementing, not substituting, the wire system and bring into conversational communica- tion ships, islands and places which cannot otherwise be reached. Your work has indeed brought us one long step nearer our "ideal' Universal System"
 "As you will see from this. it is clear that wireless will never suhsti tute or suppant the wire systems but will greatly amplify chem and extend their usefulness. IL is humanitarian rather than commercial, but it Is use- ful in that fl makes conversation DOS s;ble between places and between places and moving objects, and be tween moving objects that could not be connected by wire. As with the wireless telegraph 1t probably never