Evening star., 1921-11-20
Wires IN ONE ROOM
REACH ALL WORLD
News Can Be Sent Out to
Every Quarter of Globe
simultaneously.
SPEED UP TRANSMISSION
Radio Companies Also Arrange for
Direct Operation With London,
Berlin. Paris and Rome.

For the first time in the history or
the United States all the teiesrapnic
communication services are concen-
trated in one room. The room, which
is by no means large. is located at
the far end of the press section in
the wing of the Army-Navy building
set aside for the offices of the arma-
ment conference.
So remarkable is the focalization of
telegraph, wireless and cable service
that 1t would be possible for a single
newspaper correspondent to stand IN
the middle of the hall, dictate a piece
of news in loud voice to receivers
for all these services, and have 1t
transmitted simultaneously to every
quarter of the globe.
The room contains four receiving
desks-those of the Western Union,
Postal Telegraph-cable Company.
Radio Corporation of America and
All-American Cables. Incorporated.
These four concerns could do the job.
There are nearly 200 foreign corre-
spondents covering the conference.
and their average daily contribution
quarters of a million words. More
over, the day work must all be done
in about two hours time. in order to
catch the European morning papers.
Arranged by Experts.
Arrangements for this remarkable
assembling of the threads which link
the world together were made by
telegraphic experts for Basil Miles of
the Department of State. Those con-
suited showed their willingness to
oner the government every possible
facility on an occasion of such i'm
portance. both with the idea Of serv-
ing their own country and of Impress
ing the visitors from abroad. The
Western Union installed. for instance,
seventy-f1ve wires. 1t connected its
two direct cables running from North
Sydney, Nova Scotia. to London. with
the Navy building direct. A message
hled at the desk there goes to the
operating office in the sixth wing and
thence direct to North Sydney. where,
right in the same Office 1t is put on
the cable to England
A message for Japan is handled in
this way: The company has assigned
two Washington-San Francisco land
circuits to the conference. At the
latter city the message is transferred
to the Radio Corporation of America
office and is flashed thence through
the ether across the Pacific. If the
message is to China it goes from San
Francisco over the Commercial Pa
cif1c cable of the Postal Teiegraph-
Cable Company.
Direct Radio Established.
The Radio Corporation of America
has established direct operation be-
tween Washington and London, Berlin,
Paris and Rome. A message filed in
the central room can be in any of
these four great capitals within a re-
markably few minutes. Through what
Is called remote control this COM
pany has direct communication with
its main wireless station at Port Jer-
ferson, Long Island, the most power
full radio station in the world. This
corporation has arranged special
service to Italy for the benefit Of the
Italian delegation and the Italian press
representatives. The other night the
operators in Washington and Rome
were gossiping back and forth about
the outlook for the conference and the
respective weather enjoyed by the two
cities.
Stephen Lausanne. special corre-
spondent for LIE Matin, Paris, recent
ly filed a story and seventeen and
one-half minutes later it was in the
company's Office in Paris. This is
considered a remarkable record for
this sort of service.
Service to South America.
South America is tremendously in
terested in the conference. The ALL
American Cables. Inc. gives practi-
cally exclusive service to all the
and finds it's services in great de-
mand. Messages are sent from the
conference desk to the office on Con-
necticut avenue and are there han
died by the operating force.
The four companies have brought
to the conference the most expert
and efficient personnel possible.
Heading the Western Union contin-
gent is G. Manson Foote. manager of
the company. He is assisted by c.
A. Norris. supervising manager; +. A.
Simpson. in charge of the pressroom,
and c. E. Payne, in charge of deriv-
cry F.. H. Pfaf is chief of opera
tors. assisted by B. F. Rusk. W. L.
Burton. J. v. McCloskey. N. 4. Ross
and others.
Picked Workers Here.
The staff of the Postal Telegraph
and Cable Company for the confer
ence is headed by Thomas p. Dowd
manager; Lewis Bickerton. assistant
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