The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-27
(New YORK Mail and Express.

/ whom they honored as their guest at
/ the Waldorf Astoria hotel last night I
was amazed. So many well-matched
/ heads, so many plump faces, so many
rose flushed cheeks and downy nous
/ tachios never had seen in any land as
| constituting the gathering of scientific
men. There was Young. America" with
a vengeance. 1 felt as if my years
| might constitute a grievance in sucn \
/ company, and when 1 saw here and
| there a very few gray boards and a
bald head or two I looked to see the
! guilty look of shame upon them for in
truding the mere accident Of years in
| such d company.
Twenty or more brought ladies, only
one in the full dress that one would
| have expected at a Waldorf banquet
the rest hooked and eyed to their
chins,
/ AS all the men were in proper attire,
why were not the ladies?
| never will get accustomed to these
! discords. these Earring notes, this con-
| tempt for formaEty. Mark YOU moth
/ ing. not even confession, is so good for
| the soul as a strict adherence to the
etiquette for all set and formal occa-
! sions. And for my own part, to slip
| into evening dress after the days work
4
ulating as a cold plunge in the morn
! ing. Better. it is as full bath. In
| throwing off ones wOTkday clothes and
donning a new attire one cleanses ones
self of the cares and toll of the day.
/ But as was remaFking. the very
young science of electrical engineering
I is thus fittingly represented by a host
of very young men. And To- When
/ Mareoni came he proved almost as
/ young as the youngest. The favored
/ city of Bologna saw his debut only
/ twenty years ago in the family
1 of a learned and respected doctor Of
| laws, who is as staid, as settled in an
Client faith and as conservative as his
/ son is restless and revolutionary.
Guglielmo (William), the son, is of a
boyishs figure, spare, alert, quick and
boyishz in everything but his grace Of
movement and the fixed, stony cOncen-
| tration in his gaze.
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He has a long narrow head broad
ened atthe bow, rounded on top and at
the back into superb cranial crescent;
an altogether perfect head from the
continental European standpoint but
| failing a little in meeting the American
and Anglo-SaXOn standard, because it
lacks the hammer-hke projection at
the back of the sklll. which we think
has made us the drivers and pioneers
of the world.
Young Marconi has a well-chiseled
/ face. a fine. high brow. long. shapely.
force suggesting nOse.za mobile mouth
and strong, though small chin. His
| hair is dark, his eyebrows and downy
mustache. are pale ebrewn, but his eyes
are two black beads 1t is altogether
lin his eyes that one. sees the -outcon-
ling of the gold, or value. in his nature.
i They are indomitable. glowing, rock
/ boring eyes. And yet- taken altogeth-
| er, his face is rich in kindness and
gentle humor t is what women would
| call a nice face. what men would call
square and honest one.
His evening costume was of English
Lieut.. He wore three large pearls in
his shirt front and his chin was
pushed ups by an amazingly high coll
| lar. His nervousness was very ap-
parent. His mouth twitches. his eyes
| snap and he constantly carries a hand
to his face and rubs it across his mouth
or chin.
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The full impression that Signor Mar
conf produces is that of a clear-cut,
sharp bright youth, forever thinking
far away from his surroundings, but
-
when called back to the conversation
of his companions. There is no doubt
that every man in the banqueting hall
last night thought more of Marconi
than he had ever risen or descended to
think of himself.
In this all truly great men are alike.
Simpler men than Thomas A. Edison,
Charles A. Dana, Edhem Pasha and
Rudyard Kipling I have never met in
my life. There is room and reason to
hope boundless things of a man so
young and modest as Mareoni.
We were all ushered into a splendid
hall mistakenly set with lot of tables
for four instead OF with a great horse
shoe board or d series of long ships
tables after the well-tried. well-serv-
ing custom of old. There was what
has ever been called the high table,
at which the lords and seigneurs sat
in feudal times with the retainers and
hoi poIloi below them. and such as
has since been seen only. yet always,
at great banquets. Around the wall ran
incandescent bulbs in threes-the
Morse letter ''S'' used by Marconi with
wavy wire dotted here and there with
which to conquer continent dividing
space.
st Johns at one end of the hall to
another legend in electric jets-the
name of POldhu, British Marconi sta
ton. When the walters served the ices
they came in the forms of automO-
biles and incandescent bulbs on plat
ters bearing telegraph poles or sea-
tossed vessels so that the heaVing line
OF platters borne alOft by the servants
and bobbing up and down as ships and
waves and MarcOni MESA ges do ap-
peared appropriate and provoked
cheers.
Mr.. c. p. Steinmetz. president of the
American Institute CT Electrical En-
gineers. merely accounted for himself
in a few opening words, and then turn
ed the task of talking over to NJ. T. c.
Martin. POSTMASTER of the institute.
Of whom he said that his like and equal
did not exist. SO we learned that we
were in the presence of another mas
ter-the Marconi of that good sugges-
ton which Shakespeare says should
wait on appetite Mr.. Martin read
ringing message from Edison who
/ hailed the monument audacity" of
! the man who not only attempted but
succeeded in jumping an electric wave
over the Atlantic"
Mr.. Martin also read letters of re-
SASt anu SdIuld llOn from the mayor,
from General Miles, from the new pres
ident of Columbia college and from the
Italian ambassador. The POSTMASTER
said that Edison spoke of Marconi in
! a recent interview as "a man who
works. He is in my class 1t is a
good thing we caught him young" In
his more sober moments, Mr.. Martin
I spoke of a certain possible MarconI
station within the limits of Greater
New York, as Mar-Coney island and
said that when the inventor came
again the institute would entertain
him in IFS nov library h,,fl5iy,or --ts1