The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-23
NAVY M0BILIzES COUNTRIES WIRES:
 SHIPS ARE PHONED 10 BY RADIO
Baeshp New Hampshire Gets Orders by Secret Process Pos sessed by the Navy of No Other Government-SeCreary Daniels. During Demonstration of Nations Forces of
 Communication, Is in Touch With Entire Country

Washington Aided by the tele- phone telegraph. printing telegraph, wireless telephone, and wireless tele- graph. the United States navy mo bilized the country's forces Of commu- nication recently
 By means Of the above methods Sec. retarv Daniels. sitting al his desk. talked with every navy yard in the country gave formal orders by tele- phone to all of them. found bulletins coming in from Brooklyn and else where over the writing telegraph, and then. hy means of the wireless, got into communication with the United States ships at sea as far away as Honolulu. 4.9o0 miles on one side. or the coast of Europe on the other.
 Direction of the movements of naval vessels al sen by wireless telephone became an accomplished fact when Secretary Daniels gave verbal instrue. tions to Capt Lloyd II. Chandler of the battleship New Hampshire lying in Hampton Roads.
 The instructions were 10 proceed to sea not later than ten o'clock the fol lowing morning and to report his posi-. tion hourly by wireless telephone to the navy department until noon of the next day. when he was to anchor on the mouth of the Potomac river and make a full report of his cruise by wireless telephone to the naval acad- emy at Annapolis.
 Attached to the telephone on the secretary's desk were a score or more receivers which permitted stan off cers of the navy department to listen to the conversation. Except for Occa- sional static Interruptions. Captain Chandler's voice was as plainly audible as though he had been talking over an ordinary telephone.
 A Unique Possession.
 In responding subsequently, to a speech by Secretary Daniels express ing appreciation of the cooperation given by the telephone company. J. J. Carty, chief engineer of the company declared that the United States navy was the only one fin the world that pos sesses the secret of wireless telephone communication with ships at sea.
 Following the demonstration of the wireless telephone experiment. Secre- tary Daniels talked by long.distance telephone with the New York navy yard, the Portsmouth (N. H) yard the Norfolk navy yard, and the naval aero plane training station at Pensacola, Fla. Efforts to get into telephone com munication with San Diego, Cal, failed because of local storms in southern California
 Owing to the fact that the depart ment had no funds available for the purpose, all expenses of the three-day experiments are being borne by the telephone company. In addition to the telephone conversations. there will be elaborate experiments with the transmission of telegraph orders By means of the printing telegraph ap. paratus eight messages will be trans mitted simultaneously over the same circuit between the navy department and the Brooklyn navy yard. four go. AAe NeiSh way, anu VIII pt ItNtlNGu III printed form.
 Secretary Daniels announced that the department in it's plans to mobilize all resources of the country for pos. sible use in time of war has nearly completed its inventory of the de. tailed resources of private manufac- turing establishments which would be able to turn out munitions and other equipment in case of war emer- gency.
 The following is the first order ever transmitted by wireless telephone to a United States naval vessel (secre- tary Daniels talking to Captain Chan dler of the New Hampshire):
 Get under way by ten o'clock to- morrow. l will be in the navy depart ment at ten o'clock. and we will have another conversation then. Stand by >~~~~~~~o~~~