Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-20

ana Baltimore. Electrician Davis,
OF Philadelphia, Here to select the
site for the station What the New
system Is, simpler aud CONNER.
cially Cheaper Than The Present
The editor of the GLOBE Is pleased 60 am
nounce exclusively To- the Washington pub
Tie the inside information loo our possession
lo the effect that the system of wireless
tclegraphy, SO much written about and now
so well known as @ demonstrated CONNER
cial success. viii De established between
this city and Baltimore FOO short while.
ln fact soon as the preliminary arrange
'meuts, now iu process of negotiation. are
completed
Electrician Davis. of Philadelphia. with
whom the editor has had some former fav-
orable acquaintance and who IS known i'm
his line as one of the most accomplished
and financially csponsiblc of gentlemen In
his line of business dropped into Washing
ton early 800 the week and iu renewing the
old acqulintauccship we discovered his
business here, which was or is, as stated.
TO select a site for this end of the ATLANTIC
WIRELESS SUB COMPANY, which is To be
established between the Nations Capital
and Baltimore.
The recent master test OF the system
won the encomiums of all the after
noon newspapers throughout the country
during the yacht race In which the Colum-
bia beat Sir Thomas Liptou's Shamrock II
for American cup. Since then, however,
the morning newspapers exceeded, If any
thing, their afternoon contemporaries in
praise and perfection of the system In the
steamship Lucania affair
The substance Of this praise is thus CON
densed
"The utility of the wireless telegraph
as a means of communication between
widely separated ships was again demon
strated when the Lucania arrived here from
Liverpool yesterday She passed Fire Island
without being sighted, owing to the fog, at
2 a. M. When no tdiugs of her had been
received at o'clock Vernon IT, Brown. the
agent Of Che -uuard Line hid Che operator
of the wireless telegraph instrument on the
Umbria, which was lying alongside the
Cunard pier call the Lueania up. re-
sponse was received saying that She had
anchored outside the bar to wait for the fog
to lilt AT $50 O'Clock a dispatch was re-
ceived saying that the Lucana was proceed
ing up the bay.
The Lucauia passed the Campania, east
ward bound, ON Tuesday night and com
tinucd in communication with her for six
hours and ten minutes
Mr. Davis says that even with "a small
experimental instrument communications
have been sent and received distance of
800 miles ON land and the company are now
preparing with the assistance OF two or
three small relay stations 20 telegraph
across the Atlantic Ocean But at present
the company is coufniug lis efforts to the
establishment of the system between all
the large cities of the country. OF course,
If the new system would not be less cN
peusivc and more expeditions than the
present overhead and underground wire
and cable there would be more difficulty i'm
establishing IL as "a success. But that IL will
be speedily substituted for the old may be
understood from the fact that it will send
messages for less than third of the present
cost
After an there is nothing So mysterious
as the simple thing one is iu ignorance of.
and iu this case the rule holds good But
the wireless telegraph is just as simple in
principle as the present wire.struug system
or as the telephone The Morse code of
dots and dashes Is used. but mo- wires'
How few people had any faith Zoo the
Bell Telephone at first It's stock went beg
giug at fifty cents per share as a gauge of
public skepucism and uubelef iu the invcu-
ton and this same stock to-day cannot be
purchased under $4,000 per share.
But coming back TO this new and marvel
lous yet really simple invention OF tcle-
graphing without wires, it is accomplished
with transmitting aud receiving instruments
just the same as is done at present by the
old system. j. is true the mechanism Is
partially alike but the scientific principle
differs and enables the new system to dis.
pense with wires and substitute instead a
copper plate in the ground at the trans.
mittlng and another copper plate at the re-
ceiving station The balance Of the bust
ness is performed just as it is by the old
system; the sender touches his keys and
the receiver takes off his dots and dashes
The parent company has already char.
tered or established -four sub.compauies.
one Of which has now taken the prcimi-
nary steps in selecting sites iu Washington
and Baltimore for wireless stations. We
are not familiar enough with these organi-
cations to be able TO give our readers further
details than that at present the stock iu
these concerns is selling at seven dollars
per share, aud that the prospects of
its increasing value are as Aattoriug
TO say the least as the Bell Telephone
shares which forced their way mp from fifty
cents to four thousand dollars per share
While we have no cash TO invest ana If we
had the GLOBE would be as it is now. our
FIRST love we would not be at an astouished
to see a scramble for this wireless telegraph
stock In Washington when the station gets
under way which it probably will in a few
days or weeks and being unselfsh IN the
matter we lay the facts in our possession
before the general public toll make what use
of them they please, coutented ourselves
that the SUNDAY MORNING GLOBE scores a
decided and palpable scoop" ON It's sleepy