The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-25

shown. The channel was foggy and ordi-
nary signals could not have been seen a
nile. on the strength Of the news re-
ceived on the ship paper was printed
and sold on board, $50 being thus raised
for the benefit of the seemens fund The
first number of the TRANSATLANTIC Times
Probably represents the beginning of a
new feature of ocean travel at any rate,
the invention which makes possible a real
newspaper at sea has far greater posi-
bilities In reserve.
The land station in Germany for the
North German Lloyd ships is located on
the Island of Borkum, near Bremen; the
American station, of course, will be near
New York, while the Italian station will
ne near Genoa. As soon as the ships are
fully equipped they will be able 10 keep
in touch with the ports they are leaving
until more than one hundred miles out;
they can communicate with each other at
sea within the range of influence, and
they can announce their approach to land
several hours in advance.
wireless TeIegraphy in stormy
weather.
In the use of the system on a single
ightship i'll the English channel there
have been five calls for assistance, none
Of which could have been accomplished
in the ordinary way. In one case sutfi-
Gent property was saved to have equipped
all the hghtships around England and
along the United States coast with the
apparatus.
on the high seas its use in war has
been so thoroughly tested that naval ex-
perts foresee in the near future the whole
sale rejection OF all present methods Of
signaling by semaphore or siren. BY
wireless Biography the effective range
Of signalling has been increased ten fo,d
and under ell conditions of weather the
effect is the same. Once the system is
generally introduced the sea captain viii
be far better prepared to combat the e!e-
mentS in time of storm than he now is
Then he will practically be in touch with
everything af1oat in a surrounding area
of something over thirty-one thousand
square miles of ocean surface. If he is
in danger and there is a ship equipped
with the system within one hundred
miles he can get help.
The operations of sending and receiv-
ing messages at sea have already been
described In general articles about Marco
MIS- system. There is no great apparent
difference between telegraphing by this
system and telegraphing at an ordinary
land wire station. a telegraph key clicks
out the dots and dashes in sending, the
message speeds through the ether, no mat
ter what may be the condition of weather
and the dots and dashes are faithfully re
corded on a tape at the receiving station
The captain of one ship may talk with the
captain of another ship, though a hill of
water over LOCO feet high comes in be-
tween them, for that Is what the curva-
ture of the earth amounts to in one hun
bred miles
In a lecture delivered in London a few
.daysNago Mr.. Marconi showed how he had
increased the range of effective signal
ing ten fold at sea by one device on his
receiving instrument Doubtless the
young inventor has other plans to develop
whereby his range will be still further
multiplied, and If so our calculations for
ether influence will, have to be made all
over again. In fact, it is better not TO
prescribe limits TO the system, since he
has never failed to do more than he has
promised. When he was approached by
the managers of the channel steamers
with an inquiry as to whether he could
make the passage safer for the thousands
who cross from London to Paris or from
Paris to London every month, there was
no hesitancy in his reply, 81 can" And as
soon as the matter can be arranged with
the English and French governments the
system will be put into working order.
French and English Complications.
Owing to the monopoly of telegrap pms in
the hands OF the government in England
and France there has been some difficulty
Under the present arrangement no one
outside OF the governments Is allowed 10
operate commercially any telegraph in
France or England, or within three miles
of their coasts. But as France is adopt
Ing wireless biography for her navy she
will doubtless yield the point of con-
test England herself has the system in
use in South Africa and plans to work
with it in her navy, so 1t would seem
that the channel steamers should
be allowed to use the system in Eng
fish waters Furthermore the use of