At 3 a.m. on May 19, (11 a.m. San Francisco), the formal opening of the C.G.R.A.—Mackay Radio Telegraph circuit took place, the event being preceded with a dinner the pre-Vious night in the Metropole Hotel, attended by representatives ut bot organisations and press representa tives Chinese.and foreign This new service opens a second radio communication system with San Francisco and by means of radio delays messages may be des. patched to the Atlantic Coast and South American cities. The local (Sassoon House) of the will receive messages for All messages, in China, will be handled by the Government orga ation, while the Mackay offices in San Francisco will despatch radiograms to Shanghai.
dinner last night, Mr. C. Chapman," Vice-President of the Mackay radio and Telegraph Con, Presided, and outlined, as_ follows, the progress, develepnient and yrineiplcs of his company.—
With the opening of this, new radio service, China is brought into closer contact with the Western Hemisphere, he said. The agreement. between the Ministry of Communica. tions and the Mackay Radio and 'Telegraph Company of California provides for an exchange of radio trafic between the stations of the Ministry in Shanghai and those of the Mackay Company in California. 'The Mackay Company is one of the subsidiaries of, the' International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, which also owns and operates and line telegraphs, cables and radio telegraphs and radio. telephones in many parts of the world.
'The I-T-P. owns and operates the commercial Atlantic cables between the United States and Europe, the All-Americn enables between' the United States and the West Indies, Central, "and South America, 2 Postal Telegraph Company in the United States and the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company.
To 1910 there was formed the first radio communications company in the world that, succeeded in competing successfully with Iand telegraphs,. This was the Federal Tele raph Company of California which Opened stations in Washington, jrogon, California, Arizona, Texas, Kansas' and Chicago, Later the activities of the company were restricted to the Pacific Const of the United States where there was built 'a highly efficient point to point radio service, In 1917 the stations of the Federal Company wore taken over the U.S. Government and retained for the duration of the War.
'The Federal C itself obliged to carry' on its vice by means of land was. found, iven ines was not as good that given by radio and in 1920 reopened its radio service with new and more efficient equipment and rapidly increased its traffic, until in 1927 the volume of business handied by the federal Company attracted the attention of the Postal interests, In October the postal me terests headed by Mr. "Clarence Burchased the operating department of the Federal Telegraph Company Which was thereafter known as. the Mackay' Radio and Telegraph Come pany. Plans. were ro morea! the scope of its activities, and. 4928 construction of a high power station was begun in San Francisco for, communication, with Honolala flo erected radio stations for tans la where the Company has Pacific service, Early in 1999 the Mackay inter-gets were taken over by the ITT. Corporation. "Tt has expanded. its Jines of communication until at pre-gent it carries on direct trans Atlantic service between New York and Budapest, "Vierna City Europe, with Cuba inthe West Indies, Colombia, Peru and the Mackay" Company with its conte Honolulu and inauguration of the C. service, a second tre established.
fossages from Shanghai destined to the East Coast of the United States reach their destination in 4wo jumps; from Shanghai to San Francisco, where the message 'Actually received in the central office of the Mackay Company, and immediately re-transmitted' direct to ere it arrives up in, the central the Mackay station in New York,
joe of the Mackay Company a Broad Street. Te is conddent expected that in the fature it will be possible to transmit and receive rect between Shanghai and New York, thus eliminating a delay in
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