The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-20
MARCONI IS VERY HOPEFUL
THE TIME OF SUBMARINE CABLES
 NEAR AN END.
Dinner Given in Ills Honor by Gov. Boylo of Newfoundland-IIa Not tho Slightest Doubt but That His system Can be Com merciaIly Established.

St. Johns. N. F., May Ex-Governor
 Boyle of Newfoundland gave a large
 luncheon in honor of MT Marconi to-
 day. Among the guests present were
 Premier Bond, the cabinet ministers,
 the heads of departments, marine
 Lloyds underwriters officials and repre-
 sentatives of the press. The affair was
 practically a state function.
 Governor Boyle in proposing MT.
 Marconi's health, spoke exhaustively
 on the inventors work since his arrival
 the journal of the British Society of
 Arts, showing that at the society's an-
 nual meeting in London, November 22,
 the chairman, Sir William Preece, a
 great electrician himself, had presented
 Marconi with the society's medal of
 honor for his discoveries and that Sir
 William said ''Marconi is personally to
 be congratulated, on what he has al-
 ready done and everybody wishes him
 continued success
 Governor Boyd observed that these
 words had been used a week before
 Marconi had left England for New
 foundland, and when 200 miles was the
 limit for wireless telegraphy, while now
 month later, Marconi had attained
 the remarkable achievement of sending
 signals 2,000 miles through space. The
 governor spoke glowingly of what this
 wonderful exploit meant to the scien- tific world and what it might soon
 mean to the world of commerce. The governor commented briefly upon the embargo placed by. the Anglo-American Telegraph company on MT. Marconi's experiments and expressed the hope that an amicable settlement would soon be reached. The speaker thanked Mar conf for having selected Newfound- land as the theater of these most i'm portant experiments. He said this il- frustrated the important strategic value of the island. Governor Boyd also wished Marconi the fullest measure of success in his present and future un- dertakings, and closed by congratuIat- ing the inventor upon his approaching marriage.
 Replying, Mr Marconi thanked Gov ernor Boyle for the many kindnesses shown him and for his flattering re- marks. After referring to the i'm portant factor in the progress of civili- zation which lies in facility of com munication between different coun- tries, MT. Maroon; said:
 "If my system of wireless telegraphy | can be commercially established be- tween different parts of the earth the possibility of which I may state I | 1,o1 ha cJi bring about an enormous cheapening in | the methods of communicating at pres- ent existing. The system of submarine | cables os to-day fulfils the demands of l communication to great extent. But the great cost of the cables themselves and their heavy working expenses causes the existing method to be be- yond the reach Of majority of the people inha biting the various countries of the world. But could this new meth cd be applied I believe the cost of what we now call cabling to England might be reduced at least twenty fold. The present rates are twenty-five cents a word. I do not see why, eventually, with the wireless system, this cost should not be reduced to one cent a word or less.'
 ODSerVlng that ne was nall d BrlClSH- | CT by birth, MT. Marconi continued: with regard to the British empire, the wireless system has a quite special inn portance, as facilitating the methods of between the mother and her great colonies beyond the seas and 1t cannot but result In still , more firmly cementing the bond of unity, and common cause in the inter- est of civilization of which the empire nas, during the anxious times of the { ast two or three years, given such { splendid example to the world. This ( colony of Newfoundland is the first in S which a message was received by cable g rom across the ocean, and l am glad to ( say it has equally been the first to re- ( 'eceive a message across this same f ocean without cable It is my sincere q wish that if there is anything useful in I nv method, that this country should q lot be the last, nor the least in partic- t hating in it's benefits. It is my sincere { wish that Governor Boyle and the members of his government may, in he future, always have cause to look ,aclk with satisfaction to the great as- d istance and encouragement they have n fforded me in the carrying out of my h york" Il