The San Francisco call., 1899-10-05

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day upon Signor Marconi as a
result of the splendid results achieved
on Tuesday in reporting by wireless
teIegraphy the first contest between
the Columbia and the Shamrock for
the Herald and The Call.
In San Francisco the terest in Sig
nor Marconi's work was greater than
that in the yacht race From that city
came a request that the Herald 'tele-
graph whether Marconi met all expec-
tations." From Atlanta, Ga, and from
New Orleans. La, came similar re-
quests for information. To all of these
there could be made only one reply.
Signor Marconi had exceeded every
reasonable expectation.
One result OF wireless telegraphy
with stations aboard the Grande
Duchesse and the Ponce is the greatly
increased demand for tickets for these
ships. Excursionists desire to have the
double satisfaction of witnessing the
contest between the two greatest
yachts ever constructed and at the
same time watching the operations of
the latest marvel in the field Of prac-
tical science. Each of the two ex-
cursion boats thus favored will to-
morrow carry the limit in the matter
of passenger list.
The work of sending bulletins will
tomorrow be divided between the
Ponce and the Grande Duchesse.
Signor Marconi, as usual, will be on
the Ponce. guiding from the chart
room Of that steamship the operations
Of the four stations From the Ponce
he will bulletin the start of the race
and describe the contest until 1870
O'Clock, when the operators on the
Grande Duchesse will take up the work
and follow the challenger and cup de-
fender around the first stake boat
There Signor Marconi will again open
communication from the Ponce, the
work on the run home being divided
the same as in the run for the first
mark. A red flag flying from the tall
spar above the mast of the Ponce will
indicate that Signor Marconi is flash
ing bulletins to the shore. If no flag
flies at the masthead of the Ponce the
operators on the Grande Duchesse will
fash bulletins by those mysterious cur
rents which have just been controlled
for the service of man. Bulletins will
be sent from that ship to the receiving
stations at Navesink Highlands and on
the cable ship Mackay- Bennett.
In addition TO four representatives of
the United States Government, who
have been detailed to give a careful
study to the Marconi system, there will
be on the Ponce a lieutenant attached
to the German embassy in Washington
and a Japanese naval officer. These
gentlemen have been detailed by their
governments to profit by the work be-
ing done by Signor Marconi They will
report upon the results accomplished.
The work done Tuesday. important
as it was, viii no doubt be far sur
passed tomorrow.
A Call representative in the Herald's
telegraph room forwards Marconi's
bulletins by special overland wire di-
rect to The Calls business office. He
is seated between two operators. On
his left the Marconi reports are re-
ceived from the Navesink Highlands
wireless telegraph station and at his
right hand is an operator working the
San Francisco wire.
BY reading copy" over the shoulder
of operator No. 1 and debating orally
TO No. 2, the messages reach The Calls
bulletin board on Market street only
a word or two behind their receipt in
the Herald office. and only one or two
minutes after they are filed by Signor
Marconi on the steamer Ponce, which
follows the racers.