The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-23

and keep in touch. We can hear as well as if you were in Washington. It 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 10 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. "Is that you, Chandler? You got your orders all right, did you? Hope you will have very pleasant trip outside It is very wonderful that we understand you so we'll You hear me perfectly?" It required 53.000 miles of the 21,- | o00. GOO miles of telephone wires in the country to effect the mobilization and called for the service of 600 specially trained employees of the company CO., operating with navy men. It called 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. II. G. Bullard, chief of the bureau of communications, in charge of the navy and John J. Carty. 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 Lieutenants Moves, Smith, Me candless, Percy and Train, and Messr5. Blacknell and Robinson for the company. No was in charge of Messrs. Pannill Drake and Friedland- CT, No. 8 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 Bullard.
 The company was represented by Y. N. Bethell. senior vice-president; N. C. kingsbury. vicepresident in charge of long distance lines Ban. croft Gherardi. engineer of plant; C. H. Wilson, general manager of the long distance lines r. A Stevenson, general superintendent of plant: F. N. Bethell, president of the Washing ton Bell company. and II. 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 war. 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 on any corre- 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