Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-10

| proposition was, that we withdraw our
boat and let Marconi's boat alone re.
| port, because they had permission to
| 90 inside the racing lines. while ours
| could not, that they had the finest and
| fastest boat and that we could receive
/ the dispatches on our receiving appara-
tus, I answered, Eve are here to re-
| port the races and are doing It to the
best Of our ability, WE HAVE NOT
! ASKED YOU FOR ANYTHING and
| don't know you or the Associated Press.
| Why don't you throw up Marconis
! service and accept ours?" He stated
they had contracted with Marconi
people in England for the news service
| at a good price, and the HERALD
would be opposed to it because they are
interested in Marconi's company, and
you know If all our papers and the
! Herald, which exploited Marconf.
should print things detrimental to your
company you would have no show
whatever. Now If you agree and work
in harmony with Marconi and us. we
will give you due credit in all our
| papersj Jointly with Marconi s company. -
| said, well, If Marconi will furnish
| us his code so we can read Us dis.
| patches, | would not mind trying Il for
one race He is to close HIS receiving
station, and receive all dispatches sent
| on our receiving instruments at our
| station" He then said. "Marconi
would hardly give us his private code"
and said, Now, Doctor, be more reason
able and try IL as l want you for one
race" | answered, "Well, we will talk
over It, providing, however that under
no circumstances will we take our dis
patch boat off, we might send fewer
messages and which would be only con-
tirmatory dispatches, to prove you are
not trying to trick us, for / do not
trust you or our Italian competitor
and believe you're up to some scheme
to get me mot a trap" He said, mo.
Doctor, you wrong me, all we want is
the news service Of the yacht race and
without you, we cannot get good and
complete wireless telegraphic bullet
from the race unless you withdraw en-
hrely Would you take 81 900 to with
draw entirely?" I said "No. not for
| $4,000 would / withdraw" He said.
| "All your people heard me give the
Marconi people fits over the phone this
morning. Well, its warm here-so
Doctor you and Lockwood walk over
with me towards the station and agree
on some plan" Captain Lockwood ex-
cused himself and Mr.. Upperman and
myself walked over to the station and
sat in the waiting room and then out
side on a truck and talked for nearly
| three-quarters Of an hour.
He then made several propositions
for harmony between MarcOnis Com
pany, the Associated Press and the
American Wireless Telephone and Tele-
graph Company. He said, Doctor,
now we must have the yacht news for
our $500 papers; we contracted for the
Marconi service and here you come on
Tie ground AND STOP Marconi from
getting his bulletins through" / said,
why did you not come to our Com
pany and make a contract and you
would have gotten all the yacht news"
/ Upperman replied, I'VE never heard OF
your company, however let us agree on
the next race; 1 will make this prop
osition to you; only let's get together,
you know If we start into fight you
with our $500 papers, you could not
sell a share Of stock, and your COM
pany will BURST" I told him. This
Company will not burst while in my
| charge" He said Doctor, you only
report for a few papers, why can we
not report for you and save you the
| trouble;' l said, yes, if you withdraw
your Marconi boat, we will report for
all your papers, or dismantle the Mar
conf station at the Highlands Il is
no good to you anyhow, and we win
then receive on our instruments and
| furnish you and Marconi the news, or
let our Company report one race and
we will furnish all the news, and we
will then let Marconi report the next
race or vice versa. for the last race we
will toss up a penny; all we want is
/ fair play with no favors TO either.
Upperman said How would this do,
| you withdraw your boat entirely and
| let Marconi's boat send bulletins which
| you can receive on your own instru-
ments, and send them to your papers,
and we will give you credit alike with
MarConi because Marconi has the best
and fastest boat; we also have a per-
NIT from the Government to 90 inside
! the racing lines while you have to sail
on the outside / answered, But in
spite of your fine boat and permis-
sion, we stopped you from reporting"
My answer to this proposition was, IF
Marconi will give us his CODE and take
out his receiving instruments and use
ours. we will allow him to report one
race Proposal No. g. Upperman then
said cor will you agree to send dis
patches from your boat, only every half
hour, so as to give Marconi a chance;
and as we receive and publish your bull
letins, we win send you in return those
which we receive in the interim. in
other ords, we w.sn to reclprocate and
exchange bulletins so that your COM
pany and Marconi's will not interfere
with each other; we want the news
and must have IL, Remember. you are
the under dog, the Herald is booming
Marconi, and OTHER PAPERS Re-
PRINT FROM THE HERALD and
they might pitch into your company
and ruin you so it is best to compro-
mise, and come off your high horse.
| know that your system works better
than Marconfs, but still Marconi h9s
the name; and by our publishing the
notice in our papers that we receive
the news from the American Wireless
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