Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-12-23
MARCONI SIGNALS BY WIRELESS
TELEGRAPH ACROSS
ATLANTIC.
cableerams Of Comprehension.
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Cablesrams Of congratuIation.
Cablegrams from all the world con.
tinued to pour in on MarcOni today.
So all the world Is bonoring him and
he Is universally publishing the news
OF his triumph. But the belief grows
that this was not mis- original purpose.
He had laid his plans most carefully to
keep secret his success, did he sue.
coed. He says now: Il am at liberty
to inform the press what I have &C.
complished." II IL now understood
that the secret Of his accomplishment
was betrayed by an operator In his en-.
ploy.
Marconi will hurry back to England
probably Friday on the Allan line
steamer Sardinia. But .efore he goes
tomorrow. he and his assistants,
Kemp and Paget, will go to Cape
Spear, three miles southeas, OF ",
Johns harbor, the most easterly point
Of New Foundland, and 80 nearest to
the British Isles and Central Europe.
There is a lighthouse and steam siren
at Cape Spear, high above the sea
leevl. and Marconi hopes there to find
a fine location for a station. lie and
his assistants will also hurriedly visit
Cape Race, the most southeasterly
point of New Foundiand He will there
install a station, where he expects to
daily report steamers as they ply no.
tween the continents. He will take
with HIM to Cape Race metal mast
about $50 feet tall re seems to have
had enough of unstable balloons.
On Tuesday next the inventor pro.
poses to have Governor Boyle, Premier
Bonds aud other Colonial dignitaries
examine his tests, 40 they may salts.
fy themselves of the genuineness OF
proceedings. Marconi tOuay' made a
further explanation o. his trans-ocean
ic signals. He liz sure he would receive
them. He attributes ibeir former
faintness to midoceau wind currents
and imperfcction In ais kite apparatus.
Expects Better Results Today.
He expects better tests tomorrow II
the weather enables his balloon to as
cend. There Is some fog ON the coast
today. Foggy conditions will give bet.
ter signals than will clear atmosphere.
There IL much speculation here AZ to
the practical possibilities of this sys.
TEN OF wireless telcgraphy. Local te.
| legra pliers, while admitting the theo.
rctical value Of the experiment, think
a number of years must clapse before
1t can be put into practical use.
Marconi, however, now optimistic. Is
satisfied from his previous expert
ments that great surprises are In
store for the world In this matter. He
has the warmest support In this col.
ony, where he is generally admired
owing TO his youth and his achieve,
ments. Steps are being projected to
give him some substantial recognition
of the cOlony's appreciation of his
work. The belief that Marconi's 30.
cret was betrayed IL strengthened by
the details of his preparations for the
experiments.
! Above all things. he wished to keen
the knowledge Of his success from the
cable companies. when he LETT Eng
land Marconi was far from hopeful
On the one hand was that the electric
engine at the Lizard was more power
FIJI than any he had used and the up
broken eXpanse Of water to New
Foundland offered the best chance Il
learn the very most his system coult
do. On the other hand the distance
4 1900 miles, was six times greater thar
any he had attempted to traverse. Il
II known now that before he left Eng
land, MarcOni arranged. but only with
his must intimate friends, men HI
could trust. the signals that should b,
sent from the Lizard to Signal Hill.
How the Message Was Received.
So intense was. his desire to keeI
from the cable companies all informa
ton about his experiments that h,
even arranged cipher code with In,
friends. In spite OF the difficulties IL
experienced, including the loss OF hii
balloon, all Marconis preparations II
his station on Signal Hill were com
plete at 1880 y. IN. last Wednesday
The weather was favorable and hi
kite. carrying the aerial vertical wir,
ON which the signals are received, wal
dying favorably at the proper altitude
Marconi cabled in cipher to M
friends at the Lizard to send the pre-
arranged signal, the morse letter IS
, three dots, repeated twenty times.
, Very soon. perfectly, but family, h
received the letter IS" twenty times
; He heard them distinctly through tn
sensitive telephone attached to hi
apparatus, which can eaten signals ~
faint that the instrument cannot RI
cord them. The test was conclusive
. though not practically effective. Th
time Of sending the signal was quickl
established and verified by a cable
gram In cipher from the Lizard. Agai
on Thursday Marconi cabled to sen
I the So at 1880 p. m, 1:lO y. m. IN
2 $3.50 p. M, and at those precise mi
: ments he got the signals
/, Every precaution had been take
{ to Keep secret the result OF the exper
0 ment yet the news quickly becam
n known. 1t IL said here that Marcor
!, has received a telegram from a ma