The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-31
TEST OF MARCON| SYSTEM
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS MADE
BIZ NAVAL VESSELS.
md New York Keep
Up Commun teation Over Twenty
nine Miles of Ocean. Messages

NEW YORK. OF 39-Oyer ,wen:y-nine
tops, church spires an. towering cfice
buildings. the Marco7ai electrical ripcles
successfully carried and dropped mes
saSes oe{ ~eer 40 moving a&Ts1ips -
Jay Inc naval test a. SCI proved that
Within a radius Of twenty-one miles mes
sA%;es an 10 transmitted by wireless lei
esfaD1y with a! The accuracy ana PIE
cislon x az ordinary ANA line TIE prov
el mat hills. high buildings and wires Do
Tot break me force ~ the electrical waves
and 20 not interfere IN the slightest g.
grse win the transmission OF messages
~ preaTrangerneni. operations on board
the New York were conducted t,y Mar
conf himself. one OF his assistants nam
- Br3ifeld, Operated the instrument on
the Massachusetts,. while TelegTQ. her
bo"aen. another Marconi expert vas
stationed II The lighthouse on the High
lands q NAveslnk From the Asrc0nl
fraazEnittev, on the lower f2or % The light
ao>isc annex. the wire was carried tAFuugn
The window up the tan Flagstaff and ~ a
SOL o. ivtnast. making is total height
above the ground tout 80 feet Through
tie ha'cANays IL the two waTsh!ps tge
wires were tx endf4 to the same height.
n message watch the Ny YORK, as
ST. passed down the North river. sent to
tae Massachusetts. wing at her anchor
ase a. Thirty afth street. was read plain
iF n dots and tasAcS at NaVesiuk Diue-
teen mites niles away. II was:
Follow US down at p n"
This message was the overture 70 the
ie.'srapa testing programme, which in
c.Lde1 about seventy-fve messages all If
winch had beer prepared BY the naval
board. ana were especially difficult Every
nEc minutes during her course down the
rV"r the New York teiegraphed over the
constantly Increasing distance 10 the Mass
tt4i.ss Is and - aafft-lnin Y-utleS % -
EaSS!iq without break Ali the messages
III the core spondence were caught at
NaFtSink and careful record Of ;aem
was kept II was during the voyage down
the T!N"r that Official test for inter
terence "aS made Without any warn
ing u Marconi. The operator at Navesiak.
AZ I'M direction Of Lieut.. Bl!sh sent ev-
eEHI messages IN quick succession 70 ne
IaRSi,ip. me result icing a message from
The Massachusetts 10 the New YORK:
NaVes.nk has successfully interferod."
but few minutes later The lighthouse
caAkh' Marcon!'s explanation that one of
n" ground wires on the New York had
not been secured properly. which allowed
me stray messages to break In on he
c5nNersafion between the two warships
II WAS long time after the tels graphing
cesar Lsfofe either Of the warships were
Visible from the lighthouse without a
WIZ without any apparent connection.
messages Kept dropping out VI space a.
u some supernatural power were hurting
thfm down from he clouds
The New York came in sight about II
. Clock. ana although messages from the
MASSACHUSETTS continued - rain down as
fast As the receiving instrument, could reel
them or. x ~aa fully two hours before
she could be made out creeping slowly t.
ward the flagship Then the New York
"iFvd The Massachusetts,.
Put ont 10 sea In a straight line. keep
tH- careful account AZ your distances
The black smoke OF me Mass. husefts
a few minutes later trailing back towards
the Highlands showed that she Was obey
Ing The teleEraQhinE continued for more
THAN an hour with jas; as much accuracy
As that with winch ,Tn telegraph orera-
tors convey between Ionkers and New
YORK
Then when about fourteen miles Of gray
ocean wer" between the two ships svi-
tables began tn drop out q words SEN
~. "a were received IN which articles and
prep s''io0s were missing. Later longer
words began - disappear until finally ina
Na~sH "A&~rtt~ messages became urlntrl-
ii-thle nj the lighthouse" although sh. vaS
evidently in communication with The New
TX stlil The 'tsf iute!lielbl~ message
fsum the Nassa hus.tts WIS sent al 9.l2
T. m "hen she Ras jwcnty-l0a miles fro9u
sH"re ANA eighteen miles from the New
l0rk