New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-02
MESSAGE l,55l MILES AT SEA.
MARCOW ALSO PROVES HIS ABILITY TO SEND EXCLU-
SIVE DISPATCHES


al cornwall sent messages the Philadelphia
moved further and further out to He had
many OF the messages. taken down on a strip
OF tape, and dated and certified TO by the cap
tain and chief officer of the steamship. They
might have been more interesting. I must ad-
NIT ne said, reading that came over five
hundred miles. Stiff sOwest breeze: fairly
heavy swell" And this one sent a few hours
later sounds like hymn" he laughed, reading.
May every blessing attend YOU and your par
y." Certified messages were received at 032.3.
at 1163J. and finally at ,5J1.J miles from
Cornwall This last message read; "All in or
der. > ) 5 S. Do you understand" The
letter S continued to be sent at regular inter-
vals and received by the ship. till February 26,
when the last SIS were recorded and certified by
the ships officers at distance of 2.O99 miles.
Then communication with England ceased
Marconi will stay in New-York only two or
three days. Then he will go to Canada for two
weeks. to complete his plans with the Canadian
Government. He would not say whether it
true that the Canadian Government had
ranged TO give him $4,000 for his station in
Cape Breton Island. in exchange for toll of
10 cents word for messag ges and five cents
word for press matter He said that negoti-
attons were pending with the Canadian Gov
ernment but until he that the printed
reports of the $4,000 offer authorized by
the government OIlcldlS, ne dlO not Ieel at llD-
erty talk. After his Canadian visit Mr..
Marcon will return TO England. leaving men
at work both at Cape Breton Island and at
Cape Cod, building stations. Nothing has yet
been done at the former place. and at the lat
ter. the poles erected last year have been blown
down. A tower will be built at Cape Cod. and
both stations will be made much more powerful
than the one at Cornwall 1t will take several
months to complete the work. and until then all
experiments will be conducted last week, be-
tween the English station and a ship. When
the stations are completed transatlantic mes
sages will be sent from both of them at the
same time, Mr.. Marconi said
Mr. Marconi will increase the power at the
Cornwall station five times In two months
he will again cross from England In a ship
and try to keep in constant communication with
the other side all the way across. Il am con-
vinced" said the inventor that the transmits
sion of messages is only a matter OF power
The electric waves follow the conhguration OF
the earth and we think now travel at the rate
of light waves or 10000 per second. Take the
distance at which nave already received
message, and consider the fact that We were
so tuned with the sending station that no one
else could read the message. With powerful
Instruments two warships guarding the Ameri-
can coast Cne at New-YOrk, the other at Colon
could communicate with each other. That is al
ready demonstrated possibility. Is it not an
important oue?"
Mr Saunders the director of the Marconi
company. was elated over the experiments made
on the trip They show" he said, that the
system is bound to succeed. and that MT. Mar
SoG0,,i.s dahonce to his critics to take messages
tbat we're sent for ship or station alone
vas justified. When he addressed the STOCK
boIIeIs of the company, just before We Salleo.
axnIaining fully what had already been dohe
and what was planned to do In the future, ne ne
vas received with entire confidence. we knoM
- he will succeed. AS soon as the stations
at CaDe Breton and Cape Cod are completed OF
i'm a few months from now, we Will go into ousl-
nass as a commercial company, and SEND mes
eo,,os across the Atlantic After that Is done IL
js not certain what will be attempted next per
hans a line from England 10 South AFRICA