Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-11-10
some central transmitting station.
Valuable for Naval Purposes.

some central transmitting station.
Valuable for Naval Purposes.
"The use of such long-distance wire
less telephone communication in naval
or military operations is still in an
undevelOped state, but it is expected
valuable use can be made of this won
derful demonstration, but aside from
such consideration the department and
it's officials may well feel proud that
they have been interested co-operators
in the first practical development of
this last march in the wonderful
science of radio communication"
During the evening President Vail
sent the following telegram to Secre-
tary Daniels
Honorable Josephus Daniels, Secre-
tary of the Navy, Washington, d. G.
Personally and as president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company I wish to express to you my
thanks for the courtesy of the navy
department in extending to us the priv
ilege of connecting special wireless
telephone apparatus to the Navy De-
partment wireless telegraph towers.
By means of this special apparatus
we have to-day successfully carried
on wireless telephone communication
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
THEODORE N. VAIL.
U. N. Bethel, senior vice president
of the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, who was among
those who talked from New York to
Mare Island over the wireless tele-
phone, afterward said:
Over Desert and Sea.
'"This romantic incident-this talk
ing by wireless across the continent,
means another epoch in the develop
ment of the art of transmitting intel
ligence by electricity. The talk was
very satisfactory, words and sentences
uttered from New York were repeated
back from San Francisco with absO-
lutte accuracy, and even my voice was
recognized Immediately when l spoke
into the transmitter. Another wonder
full achievement is to be credited to the
Bell organization and for the second
time within year it's engineers have
presented this country with marve-
lous triumph of science and magnifi-
cent aid to civilization, commerce and
society.
"The exhaustive studies of our en-
gineers concerning the matter of wire
less telephony have given clear lndl-
cations of both it's possibilities and its
limitations.
"The possibilities of wireless tele-
phony, great as they are, will be main
ly in the direction of extending the use
of the wire systems, and its greatest
utility will probably always be as aux
iliary, tributary and supplementary
to the older system. For emergency
and special use the new invention Of
fers thrilling suggestions and its prac-
teal and economic value should not
be underestimated, but much of this
is in it's connection with the wire sys-
TENS. It's great value will be to sup
plement and extend the telephone SER
vice wire system in those situations
where it is impossible to string wires,
and it's use over wide eXpanses of wa
ter, desert, etc., opens up attractive
fields to the Imagination, especially
when some way is found to overcome
the well-known disturbances which
interfere so much with all wireless
communications, whether telephone or
telegraph. In spite of this, however,
the value of wireless telephony can
hardly be estimated and it is sure to be
helpful beyond expression in making