Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-09-10
lily y. T.. Magic,

Communication Expert. Department
49, or Commerce
Communication systems through
out the world were so generally at
rected by the war that the traffic
handled on every route in operation
after the arIuist!Ce was greatly in
excess OF any previous record. This
Increased traffic was partly due to
the suspension OF service on such
important communication routes as
the 1ndo- European Telegraph Com
paIy. The Great Northern Telegraph
Company. and the various German
and Germanputcn cables. and the
officials OF American companies were
generally OF the opinion that With
the restoration Of service on the
routes mentioned there would lie Il
noticeable falling OF in the volume
of messages handled by American
companies.
Events. however, did no, bear out
this view, and at the present DAFT
American cable and radio companies
arc handling NOR. traffic than they
ever did except during the war and
the two years Immediately follow
ing the armisticc.
The result; OF this steady growth
in traffic has been to keep up the
interest in plans for new cables ana
new radio stations, and every Amer
actively engaged in the construction
of additional facilities and in plans
for new routes and methods for the
Improvement of operation conditions.
STATIONS e" in Pairs.
IN the ticld o: radio teleSrap!y
the provision OF Alucr.cau facilities
Tor communication with foreign
countries Is dependent TO n large cx-
tent on the erection OF the CORES
ponding stations abroad and since
with the possible exception OF Latin
America, radio biography is Il gov
erDment monopoly in foreign Coun-
tries, or at least "A monopoly of
domestic enterprise, the development
of the art in foreign countries ana
tho provision OF the requisite funds
is.9 preliminary to any progress in
the United States.
Most OF the Latin American rcpub-
lies permit the erection, in their ter
ritoSy, OF foreign-owncd radio sta
tons for intercontincntal work, and
at the present date construction
work is in progress at Buenos Aires
on high power transmitting sta
lion and it's spending rcceiv-
ing station. and on similar units at
Rio de Janeiro. In the case OF these
Two countries. the foreign countrlcs
involved, American, British. French
ana German, have united 10 build one
high power central station with the
units necessary for direct conmuni-
cation with the countries OF Europe
and North America;
u Is said that the BucnoS Aires
station VIII he completed within .he
next year and the one at RIO de
Janeiro within two years from this
GATE. This service, when established.
will form the first direct comiuunica-
ton by radio from South America 10
other continents, although at the
present time a wireless press service
is-teing received At Buenos Aires
from France.
More Atlantic Coast Plants.
The consolidation and co-ordina-
tinn OF the system of high power
radio stations on the Atlantic Coast
is going steadily on, and is Keeping
PAGE with the development abroad.
Regular radio service from the
United States is row maintained by
commercial companies with the Ha-
waiian Islands, Japan, Norway, the
United Kingdom, Germany and
France, and by land-wire distrihu-
lion from many of these countries
to- points beyond In addition the
United States naval communication
service is handling commercial ;raf-
f9+ TO the Philippine Islands China,
Siberia. Siam, Dutch East Indies.
rfirtions OF Australasia, and to
Italy and Belgium. Many OF these
foreign centcrs recc!N&, RADIO mos
sages from the II,vy. and dis
tribute 10 points beyond.
The Belgian circuit, IL should be
noted, is a one-way route only. as
Belgium has no, yet high power
seation capable of transatlantic
communicate This commercial
service Via naval radio is tenn
porary. however, since the navy is
authorized 10 handle commercial
radio traffic only where no private