The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-10-02
IT IS COMING.
Wireless Tslsgraphy to Flash
Messages Throu1h the Air.
IN GEORGIA AND CAROLINA.
Tho Nsw Company That is Oct
ting Ready to Operate In
This 9sc2ion. How
IL Works.
It Works.

A special dispatch from Atlantis to
the Augusts Chronicle ssys the West
ern Union and Postal telegraph COM
panies, from the latest reports, may
have formidable and far reaching op-
position IN the south-a kind Of 'scom-
petition that competes," csntrs-distin-
guished from the brand being dispens-
ed here in Atlanta By the quondam
rival street railway companies.
This new entry into the field is to
be the Federal Wireless Telephone and
Telegraph company, who propose to
| fash messages through the air at one
cent word.
This new wireless telegcsphy bids
fair to reVolusionize things in the com.
mercial world if it can be made Q 20,
and the experiments seem to demon
strate that it can.
The above company will have the
exclusive right to manufacture and
operate wireless telegraphing inssru.
ments in the state of New York New
jersey Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland,
District Of Coluubia, Virgins, West
Virginia, North Carolina and South
Carolina.
The company wants TO obtain foot
hold in Georgia and If it succeeds, CEN
trsi Offices will be established in At
lanta, with branches in Augusta and
the principal cities and larger towns in
the state.
OMces will also be established be-
tween San Francisco and the Klon-
dixie region where the elements pre-
vent the erection Of telegraph wires
The installation Of q New York
Philadelphia line is the first step in
the undertaking. Others are to follow
as rapidly as possible, and in shors
time the company will beready to open
up here in Georgia.
The cost Of installation is . very
small fraction Of that Of the other COM
panies. Not only is the saving in wire,
poles and other equipment, as well as
the right Of way, but the necessity Of
municipal permits, votes Of municipal
bodies, and such things is absolutely
removed.
All that is nescessay il to rent .
q room for the instruments ct each end
Of the line and the requisite Offices
where the messages may be handed in
by the public.
No conduits, no patching Of lines, no
fights with municipal authorities, no
obstreperous land owners to be pacifed
nothing but the instruments, the fee
Of ten cents and the flashing Of the
message through the air, which is as
free IS it is to the birds.
Can it be done at the rate OF ten cents
for ten words?
Il is said it can be done at the rate
Of one cents a message, If necessary.
The amount Of capital engaged in
manufacture and trade in the states
above mentioned is more than ak times
that Of all the remaining states and
territories.
The shipping which annually leaves
from 1ts ocean ano lake ports ls more
than thirty times that Of the other
states.
The articles concerning the wonder
full achievements Of wireless tele-
gsaphy, to which the leading newspa.
pers Of this country and Europe are
devoting columns Of their valuable
space read like fairy tales.
Such marvellous feats have been sc.
compiishsd as the sending and recsiv-
ing Of messages from ocsan steamers
many miles from land; the sending Of
telegram through brick walls and IRON
safes without wires.
On the Duke Of York's yacht recsnt-
ly wireless message vas sent for .
distance of 1876 miles. The United
States government is nov working
wireless .elegraphy 127 miles, under the
supervision and direction of Professor
Moore, chief Of the weather and bu-
reau, and Professor Fessenden, govern
mect electrician,