Evening star., 1901-12-28
MARCONI's WORK ROOM.
that he could not come that afternoon, but
would arrive the following morning.
Let the wedding Wait.

that he could not come that afternoon, but
would arrive the following morning.
Let the wedding Wait.
Those who know him best We're not sur
prised at the news of what the world re-
CARDS as his greatest success, but only those
who were closest to him understood what
the accomplishment of transoceanic teleg-
raphy meant to him. Over year ago he
became engaged to an American girl, Miss
Josephine B. Holman, and when an inti-
mate friend asked him when he expected to
get married he replied:
Not until / have done the big thing.
The big thing was the electric brldg-
ing of the Atlantic, and now that he has
shown that it can be done it is not at all
unlikely that the wedding will occur next
spring. Miss Holman is an Indianapolis
girl.
Marconis Wooing and winning is interest
Ing. The two young people met on the st.
Paul in October 1899, the way to Eng
land, and the acquaintance, romantically
begun, ripened to a close friendship before
the girl returned to New York that winter.
After that Marconfs zeal to carry out his
transatlantic plans increased tremendously,
and year ago last summer he found 1t
possible to take a vacation in the Adiron-
dackS, where Miss Holman was then stay
ing. 1t is said that the young lady was not
at all dazzled by his fame, and that Mar
conf found it difficult to propose in the
American fashion, until one afternoon the
two wandered away from their chaperon,
and while they were lost in the woods the
important question was settled.
Naturally enough, Marconi likes the
praise of men, but he says it has been their
adverse criticism which spurred him on
through all of his early work.
'1n the beginning" he says, II had the
whole scientific world against me, saying
and doing everything possible to upset me,
but L want to state that | feel very CRATE
full to them for their opposition Particu-
la do yx-iCh tn h1n ha 1nod darS, rhn
continually opposed me. | do not think l
would have been half so successful as /
have but for them. And when they
changed their attitudes they helped me, too.
1t had very good effect upon the public
confidence in my work. If they had taken
no notice of me at all 1t would have done
me more harm than anything else Their
criticism made me anticipate a feeling Of
future satisfaction when | should have the
satisfaction of showing them they We're
wrong"
Likes Solitude.
For society in general Marconi cares lit
tie. He is constantly refusing invitations,
and his apartments are besieged by various
men who want to cultivate his acquaintance.
At the Savage Club in London he is seen
occasionally, but If his own preferences
are carried out he Is to be found at one Of
his stations on the coast of England, miles
away from the haunts of men. Here he Is
practically alone, and here it is-out Of
doors if the weather is favorable, and any
thing less than a gale is regarded by him
as favorable-that all of his important
plans are formed and preliminary expert
ments made.
He has never written a letter to a news
paper or directly sought publicity in any
way. In fact, publicity is thing he breads
and he Is not without fear that the con-
tinued praise which has been coming to him
for four years will injure his capacity for
serious and patient work Yet in the Lon
don offices of his company several huge
scrap books are filled with newspaper clip
pings about him. The present contribution
is doubtless subject to this fate, for one