The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-10-18

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Bay for transmission through ether Is
to Bournemouth, and thence by postal
telegraph, lid, to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
LORD Tennysons message was to his
nephew at Elton, and was as follows:
Sending you message by Marconi's
ether telegraph, Alum Bay to Bourne
mouth, paid commercially thence by
WIRE; very sorry not to hear. you speak
your Thackeray ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -
! The first opportunity I really. had. to
prove to the public that my new system
must and should be adopted by reason
OF It's practical serviceability was afford
ed by the Dublin Express in having me
report the Klngstown regatta. One OF
my assistants fitted up a land station at
JAMESTOWN and another set up instru-
ments on board the steamer FLYING
Huntress. During the progress Of the
race the Flying Huntress followed the
course Of the yachts, and wireless mes
saSes We're sent shoreward every ten or
n1teen minutes. Several hundred bulle-
TINS were dispatched, and not single
message had to be repeated.
The land station was in room at the
rear OF the residence Of the harborma ster.
20 the top of a mast forty feet in height
on which was suspended wire netting
arrangement corresponding to that at
tached to the mast of the steamer. While
che tug was running down to ttse *Kish
lsntsnlp the final preparations were made
LOT receiving and transmitting messages.
Ine test for finding whether the instru-
ments are sensitave enough is avery
simple one. The operator takes an ordi-
nary electric bell, which he holds at some
distance from the Morse indicator. He
SENDS out from the battery of the bell a
very tiny current, which is instantly re-
sponded to by a click. or by flas sound of
enc bell on the Indicator. This is Of itself
very simple exhibition Of wireless tele-
graphy. ~.s.@.. 49, b."
At length all was in readiness, and the
~, message was received from the tug.
Inc tape merged with the familiar dots
ana dashes beautifully printed, ready to
De translated for the reporter AS fast as
the messages arrived they were tele-
phoned to the Office Of the newspaper on
Cork HILL The operations were carried
out with precision and in perfectly mat
ser-of-fact manner. LIN
The race reports were entirely salts
factory in every respect, a large number
OF the bulletins being sent, so that the
race news was issued by the Express
much earlier than it could have been in
any other way. The Flying Huntress was
constantly in motion of course, but this
made no difference in the legibility of
messages The distances crossed were
small-from five to ten miles,. 4
The prince of Wales about this time
was confined to the royal yacht Osborne
In Cowes bay, by an injury to his knee
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland asked me
1t l could establish Geographic service
installation was at once made and the
prince sent this dispatch to the queen: 8
1.-THE prince of Wales sends his love to
the queen, and hopes she is none the
worse for being on board yesterday"
During the sixteen days I was on the
yacht, I sent one hundred and fifty mes
sages. Great interest was taken in my
work by all the distinguished company
and particularly by the prince. Among
those present were the duke Of York, the
Princess Louise, and Lord Rothschild.
These messages were sent while the yacht
was going at a high rate of speed and
attracted the attention Of the press and
Of scientific journals. a 3"
-Four years after my first experiments in
Italy and after my apparatus had been in
successful use for nearly two years, I
established on Christmas eve, 1898, COM
munication between the East Goodwin
Lightship, twelve miles off the coast, with
the South Foreland Lightship. The APP
paratus had not long been installed be-
fore its value was shown most conclusive
ly by the saving Of the lightship herself.
She was run down at o'clock in the
morning Of March 3, 1899, by the steamer
r. p. Mathews, outward bound from Lon
don. The wireless telegraphy operator
hurriedly called up South Foreland light
house and said that the lightsnip had teen
run into and was leaking. Lifeboats were
sent out at once and -he l:;htshiD was
saved. Since then several other ships
have gone upon the sands and assistance
has been obtained by means Of wireless
te1egraphy, the operators telegraphing
ashore in each case. The success Of the
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