Evening star., 1932-12-28
A. 7. & T.EXECUTVE
T0bE BURIED HERE
Remains of John F. Carly to
Be Inferred in Arling-
ton Cemetery.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, December 28.-Distin-
guished for his services in the engineer
ing profession John F. Carly, II, vice
president and retired chief engineer OF
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., who died at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital here yesterday, will be buried in
Arlington Cemetery. Washington. to-
morrow.
The telephone company executive,
whose death resulted from cardiac COM
plications following an operation Fri
day, is credited with having performed
researches. the result Of which played
an important part in the development
Of modern long distance telephone
He also was the director Of the Amer
lean Army's wire communication in
France during the World War.
The engineer was native OF Cam
bridge, Mass. and. with a boyhood
dream Of transcontinental telephone
communication. obtained his first en-
plovment with the Bell Telephone Co.
in Boston at the age Of lS years.
Goes to New York in 1887.
Transferred to New York in 1887, the
young engineer was placed in charge
of cable manufacturing for the West
ern Electric Co. in the East. and later
OF switchboard development and manu-
facture. In 1907 he bacame chief en-
gineer Of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. He remained at that
post until 1919. when he was elected
vice president in charge OF the COM
pany's department of development and
research In 1923 he was elected chair
man of the board of the Bell Telephone
Laboratories. He retired in 1880
Almost every step in telephonic inn
provements at that time involved in
vention and engineering along new lines.
Mr.. Carty's bridging bell' invention
solved a perplexing problem. Tele-
phonic conversations could be held be-
tween stations only with great difliculty
Between distant stations there could be
no talking whatever The sending and
receiving Of call signals was unsatis-
factory Mr.. Carly wound many more
turns than ever before of the finest
insulating wire on the spools of the
electromagnets, and the telephone had
grown out of its swaddling clothes.
Transcontinental Development.
Outstanding among the early devel-
opments was the transcontinental line
All through the Summer of 1914 men
had toiled in the Nevada desert. across
the Sierras and down the tree. lined
valleys Of California, planting poles and
stringing wires. while Mr. Csrty and
his aides worked in their laboratories.
All work had been completed ON jan
uary 25. 1915. and the engineers were
ready for the test. Mr.. Carly recalled
ho 1ata
mitted over the telephone. It was
Mr.. Watson come here; want you. I"
spoken by DR.. Alexander Graham Bell
inventor of the telephone. He spoke
in the Office Of the American Tele-
phone d Telegraph Co. then at Is Dey
street, and was answered in San Fran
cisco by Thomas A. Watson.
Soon after this achievement, enGi-
neers directed by Mr.. Carly trans
mitted speech by radiotelephone from
New York to San Francisco, the Ha-
waiian Islands and the Canal Zone
On May l8, 1915. Mr.. Carly, sitting
in his Manhattan office. talked by wire
to Montauk Point, Long Island. where
the telephone currents, controlled by
his voice, were automatically trans
ferred to the wireless. transmitted 1000
miles to ST. Simons Island. of Georgia.
and thence by telephone back to New
York
Transatlantic Development.
The Atlantic. however. had not yet
been conquered. Mr.. Carly ard his en-
gineers waited patiently for night of
free static. It came on October 25,
1915. Listeners in the Eiffel Tower, in
Paris. heard a voice from the air call
ing. Hello Shreeve, Hello. Shreeve."
The voice was from Arlington. whence
B. B. Webb was calling H. E. Shreeve,
the engineer. Because of the war and
the fact that the United States was
neutral at the time. veil Of secrecy
was drawn about the transatlantic ex-
periments. Not word leaked out
When the United States entered the
war in 1917. Mr.. Carly was a major in
the Signal Corps Reserve. having been
Reserve, organized in 1915. He left the
service at the close Of the war with the
rank Of colonel. In 1921 he was pro-
NOTED to the rank Of brigadier general
in the Reserve Corps. He organized
IL battallions of Signal Corps troops
and in France served on the staff of
the chief signal officer He designed
a telephone and telegraph system for
the American Army in France and after
the armiStice he was signal officer in
charge Of communications of the Amer
ican Commission to Promote Peace.
Plans Emergency Chain.
While he was a colonel, Mr.. Carly
worked out a plan whereby, In case of
necessity, q chain Of receiving stations
extending from Newfoundland to the
Pacific Coast of the United States could
be used. The plan was for these radio
stations to be connected by wire with
Washington. Each station was equipped
to receive the same transatlantic mes
sage and each Of them was to telegraph
to Washington the massage it received.
BY this means the missing part of
message that might have been lost by
one station would be recovered. It also
was Col. Carty,s task to see that none
Of the cable lines was broken.
At Chaumont, on March %, 1918. he
received the Distinguished Service
Medal from Gen. John j. Pershing.
He was . trustee of the Carnegie In
stitution. past chairman of the Ma
tional Research Council and . member
Of many scientific societies.
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