Weekly journal-miner., 1915-10-06
Tdlk To Hawaii
 By Wireless Phone

to Hawaii, distance of 4,6O0 miles Is an accomplished fact. By special wireless telephone development which has been made by the engineers of the American Tel. & Tel. Co.,, and West ern Electric Co.,, speech was trans n,itted last night from Washington to wireless station near Honolulu.
 If anything further was need to show the wonderful capacity of these new discoveries by the engineers oi the Bell System, this last triumph coming but a few hours after Mir Vail, the president of the company had talked by wireless from Wash ington to MT. Carty, its chief en- gineer, located at Mare Island, near San Francisco, is conclusive.
 The distance over which this wire 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 transatlantic wireless tele- phone communition is assured as soon as the disturbed conditions in Europe will permit of test from this coun- try to there, is obvious when 1t is remembered 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 Washington to Hawaii had to pass over the whole of the United States, a distance of 2,50O miles, before it encountered the more simple wireless conditions which exist in sending over large bodies of water
 For the purpose of this test the sending was done from the navy wireless station at Arlington. The re- ceiving was done on small wireless antenna especially erected for the en- gineers of the telephone company, which by permission of the naval authorities was located at the U. s. naval station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 The message at Honolulu was re- ceived by Lloyd Extenschied, an en- gineer of the A. T. & T. Co.,, who had been sent there by J. J. Carty, chief engineer, to take charge of the ob- servations.
 It was learned from MT. Bancroft Gheradi, the engineer of the plantI of the A. T. and T. Company, who is ono of MT Carty's staff. who has been working on this problem, that inc result obtained yesterday in talk ing by wireless telephone from New' York and Washington to San Fran cisco and Hawaii was the culmina- lion of long and very important in vestigations and discoveries, which have been made by the engineers of the Bell system. These investiga- lions have extended over a consider able period during the early spring of this year and as a result of the work already done the engineers of the telephone company talked over a distance of about 250 miles-using for the purpose all experimental tow CT which they had erected near Mon tauk Point, Long Island, and a small tower borrowed for the purpose from private owners at Washington. Soon after they talked over 1000 miles, in this case using the experimental tow CT at Montauk Point and an expert mental tower erected for the purpose at St. Firman's Island, Ga.
 The result of these tests showed so conclusively and demonstrated the correctness of their work and its pos abilities, that steps were immediate ly taken to try distances comparable NItll lHOoG lllF OlfSu III u -ltAaAlAS telephony, and indeed were looking to trans-Pacific telephony. What the result of these further tests has been is shown by the talk yesterday tol San Francisco and Hawaii.
 Another interesting feature of the test yesterday was that in practical way the ability to connect wireless telephone systems with wire telephone systems was shown.
 Mir. Vail, in his talk, used wire from New York to Washington and at Washington, by special means in vented and developed by the en- gineers of this company, the wires were connected to the companys spec ial wireless apparatus and to the navy wireless tower where the mes sage went wirelessly to its destina- tion
 Mir. Ghcradi, when asked what was inc place of wireless telephony in the general scheme of communica- ton, stated that he expected that it