New Pacific Wireless.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 3, 1912:
Regular Service Started Between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Special to The New York Times.
    SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 2.— The Federal Telegraph Company has opened a regular wireless commercial service between San Francisco and Honolulu, a distance of 2,350 miles. The company is sending 1,800 words of newspaper special matter daily, and says that any amount of business can be sent over its system, which is remarkably free from interruptions and is operated by a method enabling greater speed than at present attained in wireless transmission. The company operates up and down the coast and as far east as Chicago and Kansas City. Soon a big repeating station will be erected on one of the midway islands to make transmission more sure.
    The Honolulu Station has just been finished and is located twelve miles outside the city. The station at Sanbruno Point, ten miles from San Francisco, consists of two 440-foot towers. They are 600 feet apart, and between them is suspended a total of 35,000 feet of antenna, or wires, used to discharge and receive the electric currents bearing the messages.