Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-07-31
STARK TALKS WIRELESS
NEBRASKA CONGRESSMAN
ia1 BELIEVES IN THE SYSTEM
Object Lesson to Congress That
Should Secure Cable to Ho-
nolulu---For Us eat the
FarallOnes.

San Francisco. July 22.-Congress-
men w. l.. Stark of Nebraska says that
careful investigation Of the operation
Of Marconi's system Of wireless teleg-
.raphy among the Islands of Hawaii
has convinced him that 1t is the duty Of
between the Farallone Islands and San
Francisco as soon as possible. as the
system is a practical success.
Il have just come up from the Ha-
waiian Islands, said Congressman
Stark yesterday at the Hotel St. Denis.
Il went down there for the sake Of
my wife's health. carefully investi- |
gated the Marconi system In its actual |
use. 1t has proved SO much Of sue
cess among the Islands that the people |
rely upon 1t just as much as they would |
upon cable. Neither fog wind nor
rain interferes with the sending and
receipt of messages. At every hotel |
you will find the blanks of the Inter. |
Island Telegraph Company in a rack,
just as you see blanks Of the Western
Union telegraph in all public places
here. News Of importance is con.
tinually being transmitted from one
island to another. If you are not on
| the coast or are distant from tie sta
tons of the wireless telegram, you
can start via the telephone the mes.
sage that you wish to send. 1t will be
transmitted from shore to shore and
repeated by telephone and wireless
telegraphy from island to island until
II arrives at its destination.
Now from Hawaii to Maui the dis
lance by water Is thirty miles so that
the demonstration Is complete Of the
rracticability of the use of the system
tor all purposes between the Farallone
Islands and San Francisco, for the ex-
same in both instances. That fact
alone is sufficient to determine that
the system would be a success for San
Francisco.
MY attention was first forcibly at
tracted to the matter on the second day
that was In Hilo. On bulletin board
was the announcement Of the decision
OF the Supreme Court of the United
States In the insular cases. The mes.
sage had been received from Honolulu
by the wireless system OF telegraphy.
Several Hawaiians asked me what the
United States would do-whether they
would be fairly treated. The incident
led me to ask about Marconi's system
there. There is no money with which
to provide cables and the conditions
are not entirely favorable for cables.
The answer to my questions was that
the people were greatly pleased.
Some experimenting was necessary
In the first place to obtain desired re-
suits. but since the first of last June
\ there has been no trouble about the
transmission Of messages with Ger.
tainty. The poles are forty to fifty
feet high. The messages are received
in the telephone offices. In the case
of the British steamer Senator. which
reached Hilo leaking and in distress,
the captain sent message up to Da-
vies & Co. at Honolulu. Then Davies
e. Co. sent a letter to San Francisco.
From this city cablegram was for
warded to London and cablegram was
sent back to San Francisco. Then the
mails had to be resorted to agaiS
Now that seemed queer that the only
part of the way where there was no
wire communication WAS between San
Francisco and Honolulu. That was an
object lesson for Congress and for the
American people.
II do not approve of appropriating
money for anything purely experiment
tai In many instances, but where the
value Of an invention to commerce has
ben completely demonstrated there Is
no excuse for the Government II II
fails to give the public facilities that
are within easy reach. You see that
the baby Territory has already some.
thing to teach in this direction.
81 came up on the sailing bark San
tiago with Mrs. Stark. Early one
morning Captain Engeis, a splendid
mariner, by the way, walked me to
say that we were near the Farallone
Islands. We were surrounded by the
fog and on the ebb of the tide. We
could not see the Farallones then and
the islands did not heave in sight for
three-quarters OF an hour. Then they
were four or five miles off and not Just
where We expected TO find them. We
could see the islands very we'll, but
there was an area OF fog all around
them. Had there been wireless tele-
graph station at the F'arallones we
could have communicated with tho
shore. The Santiago Is one of the
sugar fleet. II there were four vessels
to go in at the same time and there
was an advantage of getting to the
dock first our arrival could have been
announced when We sighted the Fara-
Homes and we would have been able
to have spoken for dock room then,
That is an important consideration
with vessel.
Suppose the Rio had sighted the
Farallones when she was off the coast
Just before she went to wreck. She
would have asked for instructions and
would have been saved, in all probabi-
!. lily. Put me down as an earnest advo-
|. cate of wireless telegraphy for use be-
> tween the Farallones and San Fran
CISCO"