Evening star., 1901-08-09
Nikola Tesla Preparing to Build Big
Electric Plant.
TO TEST GATHMANN'S SHELL
Senator Scott Of West Virginia
Booms Hanna for President.
CHINAMAN AND HIS QUEUE
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

NEW YORK, August s, 1901.
Nikola Tesla is about to build a great
| electric plant at Wardenclyffe, nine miles
| from Port Jefferson The plans show some
| thing too big for an experimental station
and the mysterious electrician is not dis
posed to talk about the purposes for which
he intends the new station. 1t probably
means TeSla's leaving the field of expert
| ment and theory and entering the CONNER
cial field with his inventions. 1t is likely
that Wardenclyffe will become as famous
an electrical capital as Edsons place at
Orange. N. ]. Tesla's purchase of 200
acres, and the contract he has closed calls
for works. the main building of which is
to be 100 feet square. The initial cost of
construction will be about s15O,00O. In the
neighborhood of Wardenclyffe the new
electrical plant is referred to as the prin-
cipal station for Tesla's wireless telegraph
system, soon to become a common method
of communication. 1t is known that be-
sides the electrical works there is to lie
erected on the land wonderful electrical
laboratory and experimental station. One
of his first productions will probably be a
system of electrical illumination by diff
fused lights.
Senator Scott and His Hanna Boom.
United States Senator N. w. Scott OF
West Virginia came to town this week
with a new Hanna presidential boom.
While at the Fifth Avenue Hotel he un-
loaded 1t on the politicians and reporters.
According to the West Virginia statesman,
Senator Fairbanks is the observation-disclosures
man in the middle west, Vice President
Roosevelt in the far west and Senator
Hanna all over the country. From long
ASSOCIATION with Senator Hanna, said
Senator Scott, Il am convinced that if the
republicans nominate him he will be elect
ed by very large majority. Ard if
elected he would make the most conserv-
tive and buSineSS-like President we have
ever had. Out west the politicians are al
ready beginning to speculate upon the sue
cessor of President Mckinley. There is A
great deal more interest over the matter
than there is in the east
To Test Gatbmnnn's Shells.
1t is stated among the ordnance people
here that it is not probable that the Gath
mann shell, for the testing of which Con-
gress appropriated about $5O,O00 will be
tested before Congress meets, though every
effort is being made to have the target
constructed by the first of November The
plan for the test was adopted by board
composed of army and navy officers it
being decided that huge target resembling
In every way the modern battle ship should
be foated off Sandy Hook, and that one
OF the huge Gathmann shells should be
fired at it from the shore. The inventor
of the shell claims that he can demolish
the target with one shot, even though it be
OF iron and armOr clad. Accordingly a tar
get has been designed which is to have the
weight of a battle ship with the same re-
sisting qualities. 1t is to be covered with
armor the same as a battle ship, and it is
in this that the delay has occurred. The
target is nearly all completed, except some
minor parts but the armor will hardly be
ready for delivery before the latter part
of october, so that 1t is almost certain to
take until some time in November to COM
plete the construction Of the target.
Society Marriage Announced.
The engagement is just announced of
Miss Nelly Harges, the youngest daughter
of Mr.. John H. Harges of Paris, to Mr..
Lion Gardiner the oldest son of Mr. John
Lyon Gardiner of Gardeners Island, L. 1.
The wedding will be celebrated in Paris
probably before the end of the season. Miss
Harges, who Is very pretty and talented
girl, was born in France. She is we'll
known in society, having been introduced
here at large dinner and dance given in
her honor, by Mrs. j. Hood Wright, several
winters ago. Her last visit to New York
was made in the spring of this year, when
she visited the parents of Mr.. Gardiner at
Gardeners Island. Mr. Gardiner, who is
now in France, was born in Germany and
educated for the most part at St. Paul'S
school. He recently entered Princeton Un-
iversity.
The Queue is Not Yet Doomed.
The information that an edict promul-
gated by the Chinese Reform Association
of San Francisco, by which Cinnamon in
this country were to remove their queues
is accepted by Chinatown with a very large
pinch of salt. The Chinese Reform Asso-
citation has little hold in Mott street for
one thing, and in these later days the
Chfnaman retains his queue or chops it off
largely as his fancy dictates Some one
has been talking without reason said Tom
Lee, the Chinese deputy sherif "There is
no chance of many queues coming off
move his queue, why, it's all right 1t
would not be at this time any hindrance to
his returning to China"