The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-29

of whom are indebted to the inventor
for extraordinary favors. When Ed
ward was Prince of Wales, Marconi
installed his system of wireless teleg-
raphy on the royal yacht and sent daily
bulletins to the queen during the ILL
ness of the Prince. Three years ago the
young Italian gave the use of his sys-
tenn to his fatherland. From the former
ruler he received a royal patronage,
and from the latter the title of Cheva-
lier in the Order of the Crown. One
day, before the Queens death, Marconi
received a telegram requesting his pres
ence at Windsor. The postoffice people
who received and delivered the MESA ge
were in state of great excitement;
they were quite paralyzed when Mar
conf wrote out his reply stating that he
could not come that afternoon, but
would arrive the following morning.
Those who know him best were not
surprised at the news of what the world
regards as his greatest success, but
only those who were closest to him I'M
derstood what the accomplishment OF
trans oceanic biography meant to him.
Over a year ago he became engaged to
an American girl, Miss Josephine b.
Holman, and when an intimate friend
asked him when he expected to get
married, he replied:
Not until l have done the big thing"
The big thing" was the electric
bridging of the Atlantic, and now that
he has shown that it can be done, II is
not at all unlikely that the wedding
will occur next spring. Miss Holman is
an Indianapolis girl-who has lived for
nearly two years in New YORK
city, and the story of
Marconi's wooing and winning is inter-
esting. The two young people met en-
the st. Paul in October, '99, on the way
to England, and the acquaintance, ro-
mantically begun, ripened to a close
friendship before the girl returned to
New York that winter. After that,
Marconi's zeal to carry out his trans
Atlantic plans increased tremendously,
and a year ago last summer he found it
possible to take a vacation in the Adj
rondacks, where Miss Holman was then
staying. 1t is said that the young lady
was not at all dazzled by his fame,
and that Marconi found 1t difficult TO
propose in the American fashion until
one afternoon the two wandered away
from their chaperone, and while they
were lost in the woods the important
question was settled.
Naturally enough, Marconi likes the
praise of men, but he says 1t has been
their adverse criticism which spurred
him on through all of his early work.
"In the beginning" he, says, Il had
the whole scientific world against me-
saying and doing everything possible
to upset me. but l want to state that
feel very grateful to them for their OPP
position. Particularly do 1 wish to
thank the leaders who continually OPP
posed me. / do not think would have
been half so successful as / have but
for them. And when they changed
their attitudes they helped me, too. II
had a very good effect upon the public
confidence in my work. II they had
taken no notice of me at all. II would
have done me more harm than any
thing else. Their criticism made me
anticipate a feeling Of future satisfac-
ton when / should have the satisfac-
ton Of showing them they were
wrong"
For society in general Marconi cares
little. He is constantly refusing inVi-
tations and his apartments are beseiged
by various men who want to cultivate
his acquaintance. At the Savage club
I'm London he IL seen occasionally. put
II his own preferences are carried out
he IN TO be found AZ one OF his sta
tions on the coast OF England, miles
away from the haunts Of men Here
he Is practically alone, and here II Is
out Of doors II the weather b. fayoraple