Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-03-02
LEARNWIRELESS TELEGRAPH
U. 5. MY Will Establish School
Of ln.tu lion.
Marconl System Desired Dul Appropriation Has
MI Ben Made Use by British
and French Navy.

The Navy Department is making ar
rangements to establish school of in
struction, at which officers and enlisted
men shall be taught the method of
operating the system of wireless teleg-
raphy. Rear Admiral II. w. Bradford,
Chief of the Naval Bureau of Equip
ment, who has charge of all matters re-
lating to signaling, would prefer that
the service adopt the Marconi system,
but this action cannot be taken without
an appropriation from Congress.
The department has found that It
Will be impossible to purchase Mar
conf instruments. The company which
has the right to sell the instruments
has informed Rear Admiral Bradford,
In response to his inquiry, that for
twenty sets of instruments the Govern
men. will have to pay $4,000 cash and
10000 for the use of the instruments
during the first year. This sum will
also have to be paid for the instru-
ments for every succeeding year they
are In use. This price seems exorbitant
to the officials, but they say that Signor
Marconi is the only inventor who has
gotten practical results from his in
vention, and If the department enters
into n contract with the company II
will be guaranteed the right to all i'm
provements that he may make.
The school, when established, will
be in charge of Lieutenant J. b. Blish.
There will be SIX officers and twelve
enlisted men in the first class, and they
will be taught to read the Morse alpha
bet, and to operate the system. II is
hat tu,n .h ,tn
be established and a naval tug attach
ed to the school. When a sufficient
number Of officers and men have been
trained and thoroughly understand the
system, II is proposed to install instru-
ments on board the various men of
war in service, and feet maneuvers
will be conducted in accordance with
instructions sent by them.
The value of wireless biography
for naval purposes Is appreciated in
Great Britain and Continental Europe.
Great Britain has adopted the system
for her navy, and Germany and France
have determined to follow her exam
pie.
There Is only one feature of the sys-
ten to which exception is taken by ma
val officers and determined effort will
be made to correct II. This consists
OF an inability of receivers to print in
tout. -'oss"~~s when two or more
within range are stimuli
sending. Before the trials
occurred Signor Marconi declared that
he could prevent such interference, but
he never explained how or made any
attempt to show that this could be
done.
While this is important naval officers
say 1t does not by any means destroy
the value Of the system for naval pur-
poses. It will necessarily prevent sny
attempt on the part of several vessels
to communicate at the same time with
the flagship, but, as courtesy to seniors
and obedience to orders are required
Of every subordinate, 1t will be possible
for the COMMUNICATIVE chief to regulate
the invisible conversation In his COM
mand
In order that each letter of n message
may be given proper impulse 1t has
been necessary to limit the rapidity OF
sending, and the best rate of transmits
sion Of skilled operators Is fixed at
twelve words per minute. But the Use
Of n system Of code words. however,
such as are now used to cipher mess
ages and in signal SYSTEMS. II will be
possible for COMMUNICATIVE to |
communicate his orders to
his subordinates.
The school to be established will be |
instructed to conduct expert
ments having as their object not only |
the training of officers and men, but |