Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-22
Engineer in Naval Station
Near Washington Talks
10 Operator in E.fel
oucr.

NEW YORK. October 2t-Wire-
less telephone communication between
Washington. -. G.. and Paris was
established by the American Telephone
and telegraph Company this morning
between midnight and l o'clock The
words. uttered by Il. u. Webb. an enGi-
nccr for the company. in the naval
wireless station in Arlington, just out
side the capital, were heard distinctly
by II. T.. Shreevc I'm the Eincl Tower.
$500 miles away.
AS Shreeve listened Lloyd Espen-
schid in Honolulu. 1900 miles from
Washington. heard Webb speak Thus
by Il few simple words Paris and Homo
lulu, 500 miles apart. were linked for
about fifteen minutes.
Tonight score of reporters with
telephone receivers clampcd TO their
ears sat around :: long green table In
the office OF Theodore y. Vail. prrsi-
dent of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company. John j. Carty.
chief engineer for the great corpora
ton, was in Chicago. over special
wire Mr.. Carty told the reporters about
Wcbb's message to Shreeve and Espcn-
schid And when he had finished the
absorbing narrative he predicted com
mumication with Tokyo ;s the ruA, step
and then the words that would travel
around the globe.
CARTY TELLS REPORTERS
OF WIRELESS TELEPHONY
Hello. hello. Can you hear dis
tinctly?" asked Carly. Yes? Well
1t happened between midnight and 1
O'Clock in the morning. There was only
one trapsmitter. Webb our engineer
in the naval wireless tower in Airing
ton. used 1t. Shreeve. another engi-
neer. was in the EiHel Tower in Paris
Espenschid was in the tower at Homo
lulu.
You know. on the morning OF Sep
tember 80. an hour or so after Mr.. Vail
tclephoned by wireless from where YOU
are sitting to san Francisco. San Diego
ana down to Panama, VIC got into com
munication by wireless telephone with
our man in Honolulu. For a fortnight
we have been trying to establish radio
telephone communication between AR
lington and Paris Static disturbances
hindered us. Our only chance was to
reach tho Einel Tower. Eu, he French
government is using the .owcr almost
constantly for military services. De-
spite this the French officials. ever on
the alert for the most modern achieve
OF the tower for a few minutes each
day. Tremendous elrc':lcal disturb
ances were encountered. Last lucs-
day our men in WIS 'inSton seemed
10 have the impression t.aI they
reached l'aris. Again, on Wednesday,
they touched the receiver on Shreeyes
head.
"For some reason we could not ;;et
the connection we wanted. Ii should
be easier 10 telephone to Paris than
10 san Francisco. Shrccve and 4. NJ
Curtis our second man in Paris. had
arranged with us to set up series OF
wireless signals when he would be
listening and waiting. lie agreed 20
cable us the results OF his vigil
Last night Webb and r. a. Heising,
who was working with him in Arling-
ton, were poking out over the ATTAIN
tic for several hours. Once they seemed
to reach Shreeve. but the signals told
US that he did not hear. During the
early night the static interfcrences
were tremendous. but toward midnight
the atmosphere cleared. Webb had the
only trRnsmitter. Shreeve was merely
listening.
Finally. soon after midnight. the
radio struck the tower hard and fast.
Hello, hello. hello. hallo.' sang
Webb: hello. Shreevr. Hello. Shreevc:
FIVE. six. seven. eight. nine. ten. Hello
Shr"evc; hello. Shreevc Good-by
Shreeve; Good-by. Shrecve: good by
Shreeve'
''Espenschid was listening In Homo
lulu. We figured that there was II
chance that he would hear. but
Shrccyc the man ~, 10
reach. We were certain of Honolulu.
II was Paris we wanted
Radio traffic in the Pacific was very
light. But the air over Paris was sur
charged with electricity. II seemed
that all the high power stations in Eu-
rope We're roaring.
WEDR TALKS IN ORDINAR,
SINGSONG TONE TO PARIS
webb talked in an ordinary sing
song tone. He repeated his words
many times. lie used number Of
words that We use In testing He made
no attempt to hold actual converea-
tion with Shreeve. because Shreuve
coula not answer. We picked out
words easily distinguishahle because il
was the basic fact OF ability to COM
municate that we were after. Actual
prepared to predict when. When Webb
had finished he rose and shook HeiS-
inG's hand. He declared that he was
sure he had reached Shreeve and that
Shrecve had heard.
EARLY this afternoon we received n
cable from Shreeve. In II he sal id he
heard perfectly. We were elntad ma
turally. Somehow or other we seemed
to have forgotten about Espenshld
away over the Pacific. Iiut Espcnshid
had heard. An hour later we received
his cable:
He too had heard. But. most re-
markable, he told MS that he recognized
Webb's voice-i.900 miles away. He
did not know who was to do the talk
Ing. lie listened and was able TO iden-
tify his friend, Webb. b" tho voice
Rather encouraging. what?
~ guess that's ALL Gcntlemen-un-
less you'd like to ask questions. You
know. Pm arranging Tonight to e.
tablish the telephone communication
between Thomas A. Edison in San
Francisco. and his home in Orange,