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The United Fruit Company's Radio Telegraph System
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GEORGE SCHLEY DAVIS
In charge of the United Fruit Company's Radio Activities. Mr. Davis is General Manager of the Radio Telegraph Department, General Manager of the Tropical Radio Telegraph Company, and President of the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company, and is a Director of the Radio Corporation of America and of the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company
Colon, was no sinecure; the noise from deck winches and the static made the work of these operators exceedingly difficult. However, during the period of the Nicaraguan revolution and for a considerable time thereafter, the ColonPort Limon radio route was one of the fastest and most accurate telegraphic routes in the world.
It was during this period that the Company made it a standard requirement of its service for all receiving operators to transcribe radio messages directly on the typewriter. Although used in wire telegraph offices for a long time previous, typewriters had not up to this time been considered essential as a time-saving factor in the receipt and delivery of radio messages. So far as is known, this is the earliest adoption of typewriters as standard equipment for a ship or shore radio station, and the United Fruit Company was the first to make compulsory the use of the typewriter by radio operators.
During the hurricane season of 1909, the Cape San Antonio station was partially blown away. It was rebuilt but again seriously damaged by a hurricane the following year. It was again rebuilt, but in August, 1915, an unusually severe hurricane swept the western end of Cuba, completely demolishing the station. It was not again restored because of the refusal of the Cuban Government to permit the Company to move the station about fifty miles inland, out of the centre of the hurricane zone.
Early in 1909, it had become obvious to the Company officials that radio communication was of such permanent importance and their radio-construction programme had assumed such ^proportions that it required additional trained radio personnel. Mr. Musgrave therefore invited Mr. George S. Davis to join the Company's organization as his assistant. Mr. Davis secured his release from the Navy Department, and joined the Company in Sep
CAPE SAN ANTONIO, CUBA The Radio Station, photographed after a hurricane in 191 5