Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-09-28
navy Mobiles COUNTRY'S WIRES
SHIPS ARE PHONED TO BY RADIO
Batteshp New Hampshire Gets Orders by Secret Process Pos.
sessed by the Navy Of No Other Government-secretary
Daniels, During Demonstration Of Nations Forces Of
Communication, Is in Touch With Entire Country.

and keep in touch. We can near as
well as If you were in Washington. 1t
Will not be very long before the secre-
tary OF the navy can sit in his Office In
the department and communicate yer.
bally with ships all over the world"
Hears Orders Perfectly.
Admiral Benson then talked with the
captain of the New Hampshire. He
ordered him to keep in touch with the
department by radio telephone and re-
port his position every hour.
Admiral Badger next talked with
Captain Chandler.
"Hello!" said he. rs that you,
Chandler? You got your orders all
right, did you? Hope you will have a
very pleasant trip outside. 1t is very
wonderful that we understand you so
well. You hear me perfectly"
1t required $4,000 miles of the 81
600, 600 miles Of telephone wires in the
country to effect the mobilization and
called for the service of 900 specially
trained employees Of the company CO.
opSiotlA6 Will navy h1CAs ~ SdllCu
for the installation of three special
rooms in the navy department and
the placing of special instruments at
all points.
The telephone people in cooperation
with the navy department have been
working on the scheme for more than
a year. With Capt. w. H. G. Billiard.
chief of the bureau of communications.
in charge of the navy, and John J.
Carly, chief engineer of the telephone
company. and his aids, the system
was worked out.
The system is divided into four gen.
eral groups, telephone, telegraph,
wireless telephone and printer tele-
graph. Head of No. 1, for the navy,
are L%ieutenants Noyes, Smith. Nc
Candless, Percy and Train. and
Messr1. Blackwell and Robinson for
the company. No. 2 was in charge of
Messrs. Pannill, Drake and Friedland.
err; No. 3 in charge of Lieutenants
Hopper. Bastado, Messrs. Clark, Hill,
Colpitts and Arnold, and No. 4 in
charge of Lieutenants McCandless,
Butler, MIR. Pannill and Messrs. Moore
house and Parker.
Leading Participants.
Participating in the maneuvers
were, in addition to the secretary of
the navy, the assistant secretary, the
chief of naval operations, the presi-
dent Of the general board. the chief
of the bureau of steam engineering,
the director of naval intelligence and
the head of the bureau of communica.
tions, Captain Billiard.
The company a represented by
U. N. Bethel, senior vice-president;
N. G. Kingsbury, vice-president in
charge Of long distance lines; Ban.
croft Gherardi. engineer of plant;
c. H. Wilson. general manager Of the
long distance lines; F. A. Stevenson,
general superintendent of plant; F.
N. Bethel, president of the Washing
ton Bell company, and H. B. Thayer,
president Of the Western Electric
company, which makes all the appa-
ratus.
Everything was done as If the coun.
try actually were at a The spe-
cial rooms were all guarded by ma.
rine sentries and no one was permit
ted to enter without a special pass Is
sued by the department. A censor
was in charge of all communications
sent, with power to cut off any CORE
spondence that might be made pub
lie.
The opening ceremonies were brief.
Secretary Daniels took his place at
the desk and the word went forth that
he must talk Immediately with his
navy yards. Almost before he had
| given his preliminary order the yards
were reporting.