Evening journal., 1915-10-22
Chat across THE
ATLANTICBY Wireless
For First Time Message Is
Sent TO Paris Through
the Air
HAWAII ALSO
OVERHEARS 1T


WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.-For the
first time, a wireless telephone mes
sage has been sent across the Atlantic
ocean. Bell operators at the wireless
station at Arlington, Va. yesterday.
talked without wires with Paris
France; and Honolulu. Hawaii Is
lands, in the Pacific. also heard the
operator talking from Arlington.
This first authentic instance of the
transmission of audible speech took
place through the equipment used two
weeks ago in talking by wireless tele-
phony to San Francisco and Homo
lulu. The apparatus was developed
by the American Telephone & Tele-
graph. Company and the Western
Electric Company and installed at Ar
lingtOn. The antenna employed at
Arlington was that Of the United
States Navy Department, placed at the
disposal of the American Telephone &
Telegraph engineers.
Observers listening at the Einol
Tower, Paris, heard the speech of the
phone company engineers at Ar
lington, the achievement thus mark
ing the end of another chapter in the
experiments undertaken by the COM
pany.
B. B. Webb, the engineer at Ar
lington, had a transmitting instru-
ment but no receiving apparatus. He
had to rely upon the cable to confirm
the success OF the experiment
Hello, Shreeve!' he shouted into
the mouthpiece 10 two men in Paris
Hello, Shreevel"
He then began to count "One,
two, three four; one. two, three. four.
Good-bye!"
Late yesterday the expected cable
message came. II was addressed 10
the company in New York and said
Webb's "Hellos" and "good-byes" had
been distinctly heard by the eHgi-
neers and French army officers in
Paris and that portions OF his test
figures had also been picked up.
At about the same time there came
a message from Honolulu. saying
Webb's talk had been understood in
full by the receiving engineer there
ana that even the voice had been rec
ognized as Webb's.
AT the time of the successful wire
less telephony from Arlington to Mare
Island. Panama. Santiago and Homo
lulu on September 20. Chief Engineer
John J. Carty Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company. an
nounced the achievement demon
strated the possibility OF transatlantic
wireless telephony from Washington
to New York TO London. Paris and
other European metropolises. He
said that we're it not for the conditions
of war in Europe the accomplishment
of the transatlantic wireless tele
phony would undoubtedly have pre-
ceded the much more difficult feat o.
transmission TO Honolulu.
II. E. Shreeve and A. NJ. Curtis. en-
gineers, we're sent to Paris through
the courtesy of the French govern
ment and limited facilities for listen
ing at the Eiffel Tower Station were
placed at their disposal Apprecia
tion of the interest and extreme court
esy of the French government will be
understood when the great value ol
the Einel Tower station for militar,
purposes is remembered. Owing &c
military necessities, the amount o
time available for the wireless tele
phone experiments were so limited as
to constitute a serious handicap to Z
speedy completion of the work.
Navy Department officials look upon
the success as the natural culmina.
ton of the first experiments on Sep
tember 20.
Colonel Samuel Reber. in charge OF
{ e aerial signal service of the United
States Army, said:-
"The successful transatlantic radio
telephone experiment last night
while possessing historical interes
as the first authentic instance OF th,
transmission OF audible speech acros:
the Atlantic Ocean has less scientif,
significance than the recent radit
telephone transmission from Arling
ton to San Francisco and Honolulu
The distance covered was much lesl
than from Arlington to Honolulu
and the transmission almost entirel.
over water, a much easier condition.
at is true we have succeeded II
/ transmitting speech across the At
lantic Ocean from the Navy Tower a
Arlington. Va. to the Eiffel Tower il
Paris. using the same apparatus tina
we have previously employed in talk
ing to Panama. Mare Island in Homo
lulu" said j. J. Carly.
, "The trial made from Arlington
last night and reported in the news
papers today employed the ney
American Telephone and Telegraph
wireless system and was conducts
by our engineers. Carl A. Heising. {
B. Webb and others Of our staff a
. Arlington. Va. and II. E. Shreeve an
A. H. Curtis, two of our engineers a
) Eiffel Tower. Paris.
e "In a cable message received fror
Mr.. Shreeve. he reports the successful
e transmission Of speech across the Al
i lantic; he heard Arlington say Hell;
e and number of other words. and h
= heard Arlington say Goodbye
t Shreeve repeated a number Of timel
}, "The most striking feature of thi
test is that our engineer in Honolul
] distinctly heard his associates, Nj
] Webb at Washington talk TO Nj
e Shreeve at Paris. and recognized the
e voices.
This l learned from cable mes
S sage which / have just received frol
S Mr.. Espenshied at Honolulu, Stain