The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume], October 22, 1915, Page 16, Image 16

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PARIS HAS GHAT.
WITH U. S. VIA
WIRELESS PHONE
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Three Conversations That Span
. Atlantic Are Accomplished
By New Invention.
New York, -Oct 22 Announcement.
r.. I. rTlVno lrv last
auv t x ......
night that transatlantic wireless tele
phoney is an accomplished fact. It
was said that officials listening at the
E4f el Tower; in ' Farts, heard words
spoken on Tuesday- and Wednesday
nights by engineers of .the company,
iiay means of apparatus developed by
J that company and the Western E4ec
tri Co. and installed In the govern
. mnt wireless station at Arlington,
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It W declared that obsenrers in
the Elfel Toer, after receiving the
tcMeptaonfe meeeaeea. cab-led to the of-
! fidals of the company in - this city
la' repetition..- of the words sent from
4 i Arlington. It was stated further that
jthe antennae' employed in Arlington
was that of the United States Navy
: iwpamneji( ana jiau v-t-h cu.
the disposal of the company through
;the courtesy of . that department. v
In the experiments of Wednjesday
jnight the signals and spoken words
not only reached Pari but, traveling
' 'in antpposKe direction, .they were
t heard distinctly at the receiving sta
i tion in Honolulu by Lloyd Espen
ohied, the company's- representative
! there.. Mr, Espenchied, cabled yes-
: j tfyrday. according to the statement
made last night, that he had not
missed- a- word or a signal sent from
I Arlington. . s' ' '; i ' ' '
" More Important Than HxraoJuIn.
: Further verification of , the test -was
'received over thai telephone last night
from John J. Carty, Chief Engineer
of the American Telegraph and. Tele
phone Co., " who" is in Chicago. He
talked from there to a score of per
sons assembled in his office at No, 15
Uey street at "7 o'clock last -night. He
was Jubilant over the success of the
tests and said it would "be only a mat
ter of time, and that time would de
pend largely on the duration of the
present, war, when trans-Atlantic
communication by wireless would be
T a commercial enterprise..
He said that had it pot been for rhe
J present "war , the feat of Wednesday
i night would have preceded that of tei
J ephontng by,wireless from Arlington
I to Honolulu, Mare Island, Panama and
Ban Diego, which was announced on
Sept 2. . 'He added that while the
j transmission' to the spoken word to
S Paris by. wireless Involved the brldg
'lng of the ether, for j 3,008 miles only,
as. compared with 4,800 miles separat-
ing Arlington from Honolulu, it was
' inore Important from a practical
' standpoint. V
" The American Teiegaph and Tel e-
phoneN company-, sent "wo if it3 engi
' neers, H. E. Shr'eeve and A. M. Curtis,
' to Paris some, weeks ago to prepare
for the . trans-Atlantic 'tests. They
found the French government greatly
interested in the experiment and not
withstanding , the importance" of - the
Eifel Tower as a military station ar
rangements were . mde that tne
Americans' would have limited facili
: ties for listening. . They were permit -i'ted
to install the receiving set, they
.- had brought and certain hours of th
' day and. night were designated by the
military authorities when they could
- tiave the station practically to them-.-
lelves. - ' ' " , V"
- Ten-Word Message " Heard
For some time the neavy interfer
ence' of high power wireless telegraph
I stations in the neighbornoods and un
i favorable statjc conditions prevented
- the experts from getting the satisfac
j tory results they had hoped for but,
( according to the ofricials, they heard
j words- and signals from Arlington more
j than a week ago. At the request of
( the French government no announce
i, merit of this was made at the time.
The messages sent on Wednesday
' night from Arlington were short sen
- tencesv and words of a few syllables.
; '"Hello" -and "goodbye and messages
m to - ten -, were- heard most plainly.
vThese signals and words were sent out
! y R. A. TTe'sing and B. E Webb and
j several other wireless engineers who
j were manipulating the apparatus from
j the transmitting station. J
: ItT was stated by the company's ofH
. -. clals last night that simultaneously
'with its feception in Paris the mes-
sages sent from Arlington were heard
on the wireless antennae at. the west
i ern Electric , Company's laboratory in
I this city ani at the Pearl Harbor
, Nary Tard in Honolulu. . Mr. Espen
: ; chied heard the Arlington operator
'.call, "Hello, Shreeve" and "Goodby,
i Shreeve." as plainly as if the. speaker
was, a block away. -, .
Mri Espenchied cabled he even
' recognized the peculiar intonation of
iMr. "Webb's voice, with which he is
'familiar. . He also knew when Mr.
Helsing took his turn at the - trans
mitting instrument. '" . ' ,
In his talk over the telephone from
Chicago to this city Mr. Carty in
. answer to at question as to how long
it wonld be .before trans-Atlantic
wireless telephony would be put on a
commercial basis, said he didn't want
to make a prediction.'
Toklo Will Hear IVext.
""However," he continued, "I have
no- doubt we snail soon be able to
' -telephone from . New York to Tokio.
I There Is a great amount of work to
I "be done before we can realize that
f ambition, - despite the rapid advance
'- that 'has been made in the last few
years. ' ' . ',
It. roust 1 fee understood that we
have as yet installed no transmitting
apparatus in Parts or in Honolulu.
That is the reason, we had to get
verification of th success of our
tests from those places by cable.
There are several obstacles in thA
way ef sending one of these sets to
. the Paris station. Perhaps the war
Is one of tltem."
Col, Samuel Reher. in charge of the
'.' Aerial Signal Service of the United
States, army, said last night by tele
phone frtom Washington:
"The successful transatlantic radio
telephonic experiments last night,
awhile possessing great historic inter-
-. est as the first authentic instance of
."the transmission of audible, speech
, across the Atlantic Ocean, have less
scientific significance than the recent
radio telephonie transmission '- from
Arlington to San Francisco and Hono
lulu. "
"The distance Covered was much
lees than that front Arlington to
.. Honolulu and the transmission almost
entirely ever water, a much easier
Tcondition. Had it not been for war
conditions the engineers of the Amer
ican Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany would have talked to Paris from
Arlington before they did to San
Francisco and Honolulu."
Vfsed Same Apparatus,
F. B. Jewett, assistant chief engineer
of the Western Electric Co., said thj
itpparatu used ajt Arlington was the
same as that employed by the com
pany in the experiments on Sept. 29,
when Mr. Vail, the president of the
company in , New York .talked to
John J. Carty at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, San Francisco, by an or
dinary telephone circuit from New I
York to Washington, and thence by
wireless telephone to Mare Island. He
stated further, that the apparatus em
ployed by Mr. Shreeve and Mr. Curtis,
the company's' engineers in Paris, was
the same as that used by Mr. Carty,
and by Mr. Espenchied at Honolulu.
Another record for wireless tele
phony was made last night when the i
first tune ever sent through the air ,
from coast to coast was transmitted ;
from Thomas A. Edison's laboratory
at West Orange, N. J., to-San Francis
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-co, where it was listened to by Mr.
Edison, who is visiting the Panama
Pacific Exposition. r, -
Further than this tha strange fact
was disclosed toy Mr. Edison himself (
it hat night when he talked t.o a gath- i
ering of .. friends in his laboratory,;
from San Francisco, last night it was
the" first time he ever had ' carried on
a conversation over a telephone eith-1
I. er wire" or wireless. Mr. Edison, who, -
as is well known, is very deaf, uses a..:
device for intensifying sound, but he 1
dislikes to use it except on occasions
when it is necessary for him to hear
plainly.-
As it was Edison night at the Pan
ama Expositionl about 200 friends of
, V. I .! . t t 1 .. V. . .
utc utrcuiw j i j v. m Alia, iduwauuy 1
ceieorate xae event ana inciaentaiiy
have a. talk with him over the wire
less phone.. Attached to each of 162
chairs arranged for them were as
many ' sensitive telephone receivers
which at half past eight o'clock were
connected up with 'the through wire
and wireless- telephone system be
tween New York and San Francisco,
v Mr. Edison was called up in -"the
usual way 'and the conversation from
this end was transmitted by means
of a diamond disk record prepared for
the occasion. . The inycjitor was con
gratulated on the fact that' it Was
the 36th anniversary of his invention
of the incandescent lamp. Mr. Edi
son had to have his little joke, and
asked for a moment in which to find
nis glasses. He had a short conver
sation with his Chief Engineer, Mill-'
er 11. Hutchinson, and then said to all
his friends ,
World's Most Wonderful .
Woman Is Three- x
Score-and-Ten, Today
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The world's most wonderful woman
will be the recipient of congratula
tions today on the occasion; of her
seventieth birthday. She is a Jewess,
and her name is Risina Sara Damala.
She ' is a great-grandmother. , And
she has but one leg. And she has
died 50,000 times. Yet at three-score-and-ten
she holds in thrall the ardent
affections of a vast multitude of men.
Cleopatra herself never made so many
so many conquests of masculine
hearts. , . ' . ,
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, widow of
Jacques Damala," is yiis most Wonder
ful woman a title -'conferred Upon
her unanimously by the Latin -and
Anglo-Saxon worlds. She .was born
on.-Oct. 22, 1845, in Paris. ' Some bi
ographers have sought to ..make her
year for -more older, and have said
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While terms' on this remarkable suite are . cash or credit,
we would much prefer.' to sell it on credit; We say this be-:
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tlmt she was a native of Havre, but
the Divine Sarah admits to only 70
years, and rejects with scorn the al
legations 7 that she could possibly
have been born elsewhere than In: that
dear Paris. For half a century she
has played upon the ' stage, aand for
half that period she has been the
acknowledged queen of the footlights,
the greatest tragedienne of her time,
perhaps of all time. She has "died"
upon the stage not less than 50,000
times. : Early this year, after months
of suffering, she submitted to an op
eration for the . amputation of her
right leg. She had no sooner recov
ered than she began to accustom her
self to- the use Tf an artificial limb,
and , to plan another "farewell tour"
of America. . -
It ' was , 3 5 years ago that Mme.
Bernhardt achieved her first, triumph
on this side of the Atalantic. Since
then 'she has made innumerable
"farewell - tours"- of .England and
America. ' ) ' " , 1 . -
Although her" mother was a Jewess, I
and her father, a petty official, is also
said to have had Jewish blood in his
veins, they had their' daughter bap
tized and educated in a Catholic con-
vent. . . '
Only the Germans -who will cele
brate today thg birthday of the Em
press deny the"1 supremacy of Mme.
Bernhardt among the world's women.
Ever since the' Franco-Prussian war
the great actress has cordially hated
the "Boches," and that they return
the feeling is evidenced by. the hor
rible cartoons, in which the divine
Sarah has been pictured in 'the most
ridiculous and immodest poses, pub.
lished in the German papers in the
last year. '
Mme. Bernhardt has never played
in Berlin, although offered fabulous
prices, and solicited to do so in he-
half of the Kaiser. It is said that the
German Emperor made repeated
overtures to the actress, but that she
steadfastly refused to visit the coun
try which had defeated her beloved
patrie." ;
The great actress played the part
of a heroine in real life during the
siege of Paris, during the Franco-
Prussian conflict, and ever since she
had been a devoted friend of peace,
knowing as she does from personal
knowledge the terrors, "the infanmy
of war." :
Young as she Is at 70, Mme. Bern- :
hardt does not expect to live forever, i
and in preparation for the inevitable
day she has btiilt with her own hands
a tomb at Belle lie en Mer, and al- i
ways she takes with her on her trav-
els a wonderful silken shroud.
"But the thing which 'shall keep
me young." she says, "and give a
glow of life, is the hope of becom
ing a great-great-grandmother."
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Raymond Hittchcock, the come
dian, will be 44 years old today, hav
ing been born Oct. 22, 1871, at Au
burn, N. Y., famed for its prisons.
Like many other stage favorites, Mr.
IBitchcock Ivs disployed . his his
trionic talent before the camera, and
has thus achieved a vastly wider fol
lowing than he could otherwise hope
to achieve. It is to be hoped, how
ever, that the patrons of the "movies"
will not share his own opinion of
himself as an actor. After seeing
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. Jim jumwijmjww
himself in the "fillums," he was ac
costed by a friend, and, according to
the New York Evening World, the
following dialogue ensued:
.i "Listen, Hitchie!" said the friend.
"You saw your films, didn't you?"
"I did."
"It was the: first time you ever saw
yourself act, wasn't it?" "
"It was."
"Well, frankly now, what do you
think of yourself as an actor?" ,
"Honestly," came from the come
dian, "Iwouldn't pay myself $3 per
week."- :
Mr. Hitchcock didn't have an easy
time in climbing the theatrical lad
der. As a boy in Auburn he - was af
flicted with the amateur theatrical
mania, and everybody told him he
just ought to go on the professional
stage and show up the. cheap skates
then performing before the footlights.
With $26 and a large stock of con
fidence he set out for New York, and
when down to his last penny he suc
ceeded in getting a position with a
"ten-twent-thirt" road company. He
lasted , about ; three days, and then
found himself stranded in PhiladeU
phia. He found work in.Joohn Wana
maker's store, and remained there
abut a year, when he was again
stage struck. He secured an'engage
ment with an operatic roadicortipany
producing "The Brigand,"; and played
the banjo and sang, songs for $lft per
week. At Montreal Charles Bigelow
the comedian, became ill, and Mr.
Hitchcock was given a chance to phow
what he could do in that line. He
managed to "pjet over," and became a
fixture.. .Later, he was engaged for
"The Golden Wedding," and since
then he has. never- had to hunt for a
job. And, despite his own - modest
estimate of his ability, he gets con
siderably more than the $.3 per.. week
he earned when he started his career
as a clerk in a shoe store.. . .. ,.
. The Hotel Royal at New Orleans,
which served as the Capitol of
Louisiana torn 1874 to 1882, will be
torn down to make room for a mod
ern structure.
SERBIAN ARMY SHUTED.
Paris, Oct. 22. The Serbian army
at Valandovo has been ordered tc
leave for the north to reinforce thf
troops there, according to a despatc!
received by the Journal from Athen
under Wednesday's date. - It is statei
that yalandovo will be guarded b:
forces of 'the entente allies.
General "Villa has
vasion of. Sor-cwia.
started the in