The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-16
STILL THEY COME.
WIRES MUST GO prT OF
BUSINESS


TUCSON. CA. I'd. April G-Eddie
johnson, a Tucson boy employed i'm the
Eagle flour mills i'm this city has sue
cessfully applied wireless electricity I'm
lighting mp the iuCaujasoout lights of
the big mill. He has also sent wireless
signals through the threa-toot stone
wall of the basement of the mill which
separates the engine-roOm from the
milling machinery.
He has invented a cOherer which ac-
Curately records the wireless signals
and his OsCillatOr consists mainly of
two screws which he uses To regulate
the size of the electric spark which he
wishes to send into space. The crudest
appliances are used by the young in
yentor, and he spends his spare time as
engineer in the mill i'm developing his
apparatus.
Considerable interest is felt in the
young mans work i'm Tucson. His
success i'm lighting up the mill by the
wireless waves, and sending the waves
through a three-foot stone wall surpris-
ed his employers and an who have wit
messed the tests.
Eddie Johnson is an orphan boy and
has been employed i'm number of mills
as electrical engineer. He is a close
student of Marconi, and believes that
wireless biography viii prove all that
Marconi claims for it. Johnson sends
signals without a ground connection,
which has astonished electricians in
this city.
STOCKTON April 6.-While con-
strucung a barbed-WiTe telephone sys-
tenn for the farmers i'm the northern
part of the county, j. H. Lille of Lodi
claims that he discovered a new system
for teephoning without wires and has
already made out the necessary papers
for a patent for a system with which
he hopes to revOlutiOniZe COmmunica-
| ton by voice in the next few weeks.
! Mr. Lille, who has charge of the Sun
| set or Pacific States telephone business
| in Lodi, has been constructing a series
! of lines for the prosperous farmers in
the northern part of the county, and
| two of these systems We're about -four
Lille heard some one talking on the
! independent line over eight miles away
! This set him to thinking, with the re-
! suit that he soon studied out the situa-
| tiOn and found that he had a wireless
telephone which is entirely different
from anything ever reported hereto.
fore
He has made an application for a pat.
ent on the instrument, and expects t.
have matters so arranged in a few
! weeks that wireless telephOning vii
4 soon be i'm operation in this county. He
refuses to give out any of the inside
workings of this new system till he
has secured a patent on it, as he wish.
es to protect himself but he says tha
later the invention will be given to tn,
public.
VANCOUVER, B. G. April Cap,
tain j. E. Bernier of Quebec, who for
year has been planning an expedition
to reach the north pole, is expected t
arrive in Vancouver in two weeks t
make arrangements for the construc ioI
of a ship for the northern cruise.
A system Of wireless telegraphy is on,
of the principal features of the plan t,
reach the pole where Bernier expects t,
be in 1906 at the latest. A wireless APP
paratus Will be taken on the steame
after a voyage of two years, it is ex
pected the vessel Will be within 80
miles Of the pole. one party Of adven
turers will then start over the ice fur
Their north, planting posts, from which
wireless messages may be transmitted
Another party will proceed further anC
finally it is expected that a chain O.
wireless telegraphs will be continued
from the ship to the location of tn,
pole.