The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-27
AFRAID OF
MARC0NI
Gable People Seek
to Stop His
Work.
ORDERED OFF
NEW FOUNOLAND
The Old Company Will Sue it he
Does Its Business Any
Damage.

NEW YORK. Dec. 19.-Solicitors OF
the Anglo-American Telegraph Com
pany have made public the following
statement;
There seems to be some misappre-
hension as to the action of our clients.
the Anglo-American Telegraph Com
Ipany (Limited), with respect to the ex-
periments in wireless telegraphy re-
Gently carried out at st. Johns, n. f..
by Mr. Marconi In a letter addressed
TO Mr.. Marconi by the company's legal
advisers in Newfoundland, after stating
the company's intention to take the
necessary steps to secure a recognition
of their rights in the colony. the letter
proceeds:
However they (the company in
struct us TO inform you that they are
not averse to giving the most careful
consideration to any proposals which
may be put forward by you with a
view to the further continuance of your
work.
LAS to the statement said to have
been telegraphed from st. Johns by
Mr.. Marconi on the 18th inst, ta the
effect that in consequence of the throat
ened legal proceedings of the cOmpan~
he was compelled to discontinue wire
less telegraph tests between England
and st. John, we give the following
from a letter from Mr. Marconi dated
the previous day (the 16th) to the COM
pany's advisers:
- may mention that prior to the
receipt of your letter l had decided to
discontinue the test and TO remove the
instruments tomorrow
ST. JOHNS. N. F.. Dec 19.-Regard-
ing the published statement of solicitors
of the Anglo-American Telegraph Com !
pany, Mr.. Marconi explains that the
letter from the Anglo American Com
pany TO him, which is referred to there /
in. was only it's second letter to him. !
and was written after the substance Of
its first letter to him had been given 10
the world from here. He said further
the outside world was under no misap-
prehension as to it's purp1't IT was
served on him last Monday. 1t stated
that unless the Anglo-American Com
pany received an intimation from him
(MarconD that same day that he would
abandon his work and remove his APP Ii
paratus forthwith, the Anglo American
Company would institute legal proceed /
ings to restrain him from further work
and would hold him responsible for any
damages the Anglo-American Company K
might sustain.
Upon receipt of this letter Mr.. Mar
conf wrote the Anglo-American Con-
pany saying he did not wish - inter
fere with it's rights, remarking al the
same time that he was about to remove
his apparatus. Mr.. Marconi meant, al
though he did not so specify, that he
was going to Cape Spear to erect q pole
there. The Anglo-American Company /
then rejoined with it's second letter. !
which is the one quoted in the state ,
ment in question. This letter was serv- ]
ed on Marconi after the press of Great $
Britain and the United States had COM |
mented upon the attitude of the An {
glo- American Company as disclosed by ,
it's first letter. In it's second letter this
offered to consider proposals
from Marconi for a compromise This ,
ed To the opening of negotiations which I
are now in progress in London between
the Anglo-American and the Marconi
Marconi thinks it strange
that the Anglo-American Company in
giving to the world what is intended for
1 fair statement of it's position, fails t
refer TO or explain its first letter. which
ne says virtually amounted to an at
tempt to compel him to abandon all
'clenIlHc research IN Newfoundland.
Other than those here set forth. there
are few developments in the situation.
The status of the London negotiations
s not known. Marconi has decided to
cave here next Sunday. All of the
condemn the Anglo-Ameri-
AN Company, and some of their criti-
'isms in the premises are extremely Sc
we're. while all are very vigorous Pub
ic feeling in this matter is now at its
height.