Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-10
In Which is Detailed the Yacht
Race Episodes
BETWEEN THE TWO SYSTEMS
The haTOonl and The American Wireless Telo-
phone and Telegraph Company by Mr. Royal,
Operator on Board Of tho Maid Of tho
Mist.
Written for the SUNDAY GLOBE.

GlODe.
From on or about the 18th day of
September, 1901, to the 9Th day of
October, 1901, | was in the employ
of the American Wireless Telephone
and Telegraph Company, Of Phila.
delphia, Pa, and during that perior
a part Of my duties were the making
and transmission of bulletins Of the in.
ternational yacht races between Col.
umbia and Shamrock H. over the
course set on different days Of the
races by the New York Yacht Club.
While engaged in such transmission Of
bulletins by wireless telegraph, l was
on board the vessel known as the
Maid Of the Mist" commanded by
Captain Boyer.
On the Sd day of October at about 2
p. m, | was approached by a United
States Revenue cutter, flying the rev.
enue flag bearing the black letters "A.
p. % which | was informed signified that
the revenue cutter in question was used
as a dispatch boat by the Associated
Press
as the boat approached "The Maid
Of the Mist / was hailed through a
megaphOne by a man whom [ after
wards learned was a Mr. Stone, and
whom I was inofrmed is a manager Of
the Associated Press i'm New York City.
Mr. Stone asked me If Mr.. Bishop was
on board, | replied that he was not
and would not be allowed on board Of
that boaD as that was the dispatch boat
Of the American Wireless Telephone
and Telegraph Company. Mr.. Stone
then said, 81 wanted to speak to Mr.
Bishop" You are interfering very
much with our messages. How often
do you operator" ] replied, I'VE are
operating every three minutes when
there is any news to send, but have not
sent a message for nearly twenty min.
utes." Mr. Stone then said, 1--WE have
an agreement through our Mr.. Upper.
man with DR.. Gehring that you are
to operate every alternate five minutes.
VIII you not commence now and oper-
ate in that way to avoid interfering
with us?' / replied, "Ihere must be
other interference besides us, but we
will do as you request from now out"
Mr. Stone then said, Let us compare
time" l took out my watch and Mr..
Stone shouted Now, 2.17." | shouted
back All right, we will begin at 2.25."
The revenue cutter then left.
On the evening Of the same day.
about z o'clock, / was informed at the
long distance telephone station, at At
lantic Highlands, ~ j., that Mr.. Upper
man desired me to call him up as he
(Upperman) wanted to talk to me-
The same evening at about 10 o'clock
learned that Mr.. Upperman was at his
residence at Riverside, and 1 held
with said Upperman over
the long distance phone, substantially
as follows:
81 said, "I understand, Mr., Upper
man, you want TO tai to me- Mr..
Upperman said, Are you Mr.. Pick
aru| / replied mo, | am Mr.. Royal,
the operator on the Maid Of the Mist,
but Mr. Pickard is here in the booth
w,n me-" Mr.. Upperman then said,
81 wanted to find out what you meant
by sending messages today l have an
agreement with Dr. Gehring whereby
you were only to send four or five mes
sages at the most for each race, at the
start, at the stake boats, and at the fin.
ish Mr.. Stone talked with you this
afternoon and you admitted operating
every few minutes. Now, / want to
nnow why you did this?" | replied,
Mr.. Upperman, my instructions from
Dr GChring today were to send him Oc-
conhrmatory dispatches OF
the yachts Mr.. Upperman here
broke in. "You Know very well that
we are sending Dr. Gehring our dis
patches as soon as we receive them, |
and you have no business whatever to |
send dispatches the way you are send |
ing them" / replied, "Mr. Upperman, |
If DR. Gehring and his company had |
relied upon the dispatches you sent
last Saturday concerning the start Of |
the race and the finish of the race, and |
had sent them to the papers whom he
is serving with bulletins, he would |
have been ruined Mr.. Upperman !
said, What do you mean" l replied, !
II mean that you sent at the start Of
the race that Columbia crossed the line |
first and at the finish Of the race that |
the Shamrock won AS a matter OF
fact the Shamrock crossed the line first
at the start and the Columbia won the
race. Dr. Gehring cannot rely upon
your bulletins, and this necessitates
my sending confrmatory messages Of
every change in the poauon Of the
yachts, although my rigid instructions
are to interfere as little as possible and
to send as few bulletins as possible
and yet keep DR.. Gehring informed
Of the race
Mr.. Upperman replied, IF you were
fooled, we were fooled as well on Sat
urday last, and you know very well
that you are getting much better news
service
/ answered, Us that so? That isl
probably the reason you got down tol
Galilee so quickly the morning OF the
first race to get DIR III RINGS
NEWS SERVICE for the Associated
Press is it not?"
whats that?, said Mr. Upperman
I replied, "I came to this telephone
I'm response TO your request, and do
not propose to indulge in any mutual
recrimination. we want 20 do what
is right and interfere as little as pos
sible, but we are going to get the cor
rect news through to DR.. Gehring'
while it Is news
Mr.. Upperman said Nov the Chi
cago people want 10 operate too. We
will take the first FIVE minutes, starting
on the hour. they the next five min
uteg and van the third i've minutes"