The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-10-08
1900 MILES BY
WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Speech Flashed From Virginia
to HOnuIuIu, on the Pacific
Ocean.
American Telephone and Telegraph
c. Engineers, Working With Repre-
sentatiyes OF United States Navy
Accomplish Wonderful Feat.

Accomplish Wonderful Feat.
Following close on tn heels of the
news w w 2,5O0-mile talk by wireless
telephone, on September 20, came an
I announcement few hours later which
has set the public TO thinking and the
" scientific world to rejoicing. The an
nouncement contained the news that
the human voice had been flashed by
wireless telephone from Washington
D.. c.. to Honolulu, in the Pacific
\ Ocean, 1900 miles away.
The human voice wa transmitted
by wireless telephone On September
29 from Arlington, va, to the Mare
Island Navy Yard, near San Francisco,
California. a distance Of about 1880
miles, creating "A new worlds record
in wireless telephony.
This remarkable feat was brought
about by the engineers of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany working in conjunction with the
officials of thu United States Navy.
The first message was sent BY Theo-
dore n Vail. President of the Com
pany, by wire to Arlington and from
Arlington to Mare Island by wireless
This makes the demonstration Still
more wonderful. The message jumped
from wire to wireless without break.
Seated In his Office at IS Dey street,
New York, Mr. Vail lifted the receiver
of his telephone and spoke in an even
tone of voice tO John ". Carly, Chief
Engineer NJ the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, who was Il
Mare Island.
Hello, Carly This III Mr. Vail"
Almost instantly ca me back Mr.
CGrty'= voice over the line
This III. tine. This is wonderful
Owing 10 the fact that the equip
ment at Mare Island az present con-
sists OF "a receiving station only, Mr.
Cartyrs reply came across the cont
nent by way OF the ans-continental
telephone line.
Listeners at the naval stations at
San Diego, California, and Panama
aI=o caught Nh. Wallis words and their
confederation VI the success of tn *
pertinent was wired later. Following
Mr. Vail came Union n. Bethel,
senior vice-president of the Company,
John III Waterbury, one Of the direct
or, Bancroft Gherardi engineer az
plant, and each OF them talked across
the $500 miles of space-unbridge
save by the wireless flashes-and each
Of them was plainly heard on the other
Side Of tha continent Ex-senator
Murray Crane was present at the time
OF the trial.
For several months the engineers of
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, The Western Electric
Company ana the United States Navy
have been quietly working on this new
and startling wire-and-wireless Idea
and they were out in force to see 1t
given public try-out.
On thu evening OF the same day, Mr.
Carly, to whom most OF the credit be
longs, in the offices of the telephone
company at San Francisco granted
trans-continental telephone interview
to several newspaper men in New
York.
cit Is hard to say precisely" said
Mr.. Carly over the long line, what
will be the commercial value Of the de-
veIopment The wireless telephone
will never be relied upon to 10 the
work Of the wire. 1T Will be chiefly
useful in extending telephone COM
muncation to out-of-the-way places
deserts, great heights and on the sea"
NH Carly was asked over the wire
by one Ut the reporters i'm New York
IL It would be possible to talk over
wire, then a gap Of wireless, and then
a WIRE at the other end.
"Oh, yes," he replied. iii might a.
well have sat here III the san Fran
cisco offices today and received the
message by wire from Mare Island.
You will. for instance. be able to call
London from your New York Office
and be connected with your London
correspondent, VINO Will slt ia hi Of-
fice att his regular wire there"
The same evening, Mr.. Vail sent
the following telegram to Secretary
of the Navy Daniels:
Personally, and a. President of
the American Telephone ana Tele-
graph Company, A wish to express To
you my thanks for the courtesy of the
Navy Department in extending to US
the privilege of connecting special
wireless telephone apparatus to the
Navy Department wireless telegraph
towers By means of this special ID
paratus we have today successfully
carried on wireless telephone COM
munication from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast"
Secretary Daniels Eave out IA state
ment in which ha stated that he was
pleased TO announce the successful
outcome of the experiments and that
the feat was successfully accomplished
in the presence IA officials and engi-
neers Mi thu telephone company ana
the electric company IA representative
of the Signal Corps Of the Army, and
representatives of the Navy. He fur
Their stated that every official taking
part was enthusiastic about the re-
suits
Tha wireless can to Honolulu On tn
night w September 2q was made by
John Mills. an electrical engineer,
from the United States radio tower at
Arlington, Va.
Far away, out in the Pacific Ocean,
at Pearl Island, near Honolulu. Hawaii,
1900 miles iii W straight line, w.
lloyd Espenschied. an engineer OF
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, waiting with recciv-
erg at hi ears for the message
A cabIeEram from Honolulu arrived
ely the company's offices in New York
the next day announcing that Espen-
schied had heard Mills counting: "One,
two. three. four" and then from one
to seven, and from one to nine These
were tn exact figures Mills had
spoken.
When Mr. Vail and other officials
of the Company received the glad It'd
ings they pointed out that in the near
future wireless telephone conversation
may H. expected with Paris, Londsn,
Berlin and taer European cities
The distance covered by the mes
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