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Wakeman as the central figure. The ship's powerful 10 kilowatt transmitter was started and the entire ritual of the marriage ceremony was repeated slowly by first the three individuals on board — the minister, the sailor, and the operator — then through an etheric stretch of nearly 3,000 miles to the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit, Michigan, where were assembled the bride, her friends, and the minister. While Miss Ebert and her friends were grouped about the minister, the latter telephoned the bride's side of the ceremony to a near-by telegraph office from which it was wired to the powerful radio station at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near Chicago. From there, the ritual messages were flashed to and from the ship in mid-Pacific.
While it is true that the messages had to pass through several intermediaries before reaching their respective destinations, not much more time was consumed than would
ordinarily occur at a conventional wedding. The above unique event required the combined use of the radio, the land line telegraph, and the land line telephone.
Since this incident, there have been all manner of radio weddings, short and long distance, by land, by sea, and by air. Some of our readers may recall the aerial wedding of Lieutenant Burgess and Miss Jones during the annual New York City Police Games of 1919. While this was a real honest-to-goodness wedding, it was more of a spectacular event than one of necessity. The bride and bridegroom flew in an army airplane over the huge crowds gathered below. Behind them in another airplane was the "flying parson" who performed the ceremony.
Below, near the grand stand, several loud speakers had been installed so that the crowd could hear the entire ceremony as carried on above by radio telephone between the two planes.
Here is how Uncle Sam keeps track of every ship in the United States Navy. Captain E. C. Kalbfus is on the ladder, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt (left), and Rear Admiral W. C. Cole, assistant chief of naval operations, are below. Each of the four walls of this room at the Navy Department is covered with a large blackboard devoted to a different fleet, and the ships' movements are reported by wireless
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