The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-03
MESSAGE 1851 MILES AT SEA.

At''A
 Marconi Also Proves His Ability to
 Send Exclusive Dispatches.
 William Marconi reached New York
 Saturday on the steamer Philadelphia,
 after trip that was for him one of
 the most important since his expert
 ments with wireless telegraphy began,
 for he succeeded in receiving aboard
 ship q sentence sent from the station
 at Poldhu Cornwall, England, when l.
 5515 miles from that station. This beat
 all previous records for the transmits
 sion of wireless messages by oyer a thousand miles. He also received sig nals, such as were received last Decem
 ber in Newfoundland, at distance of
 2.099 miles, or about the same distance
 as in December. These signals are to | him as satisfactory test as the send i ing of messages.
 1 MT Marconi was accompanied on this
 trip by H. s. Saunders, one of the di-
 rectors of the Marconi company; Will 1 frid Blaydes, his private secretary, T. | Vyyyan and J. D. Taylor. The latter 1 two will be in charge of the construc- tion of stations on this side of the At lantic. There were also two skilled op- orators in the party. MT, Marconi went to the Hoffman house, where he spread out on the table in his room a large map of the Atlantic Ocean, marked with a red line by Captain A, R. Mills and Chief Officer c, Marsden of the Philadelphia, showing the course of the ship and the points at which messages were received when these officers were in the receiving station of the ship Every message that came in their pres ence was signed by them, so that there should be no shadow of doubt as to its genuine character.
 HISTORY OF THE VOYAGE ON A
 MAY.
 You sec, said MT. Marconi, point ing with his forefinger to a cross on the curving red line that fell south and a little east of Newfoundland, in latitude 42.10 north and longitude 4723 west, there is the last point at which com munication was received from England. At that point, 2099 miles away, only the much abused letter S was received. But that is as good a test as any mes sage. If 'S's will come, any words will come The B is easy to send; that's why we use it. And I shall keep on us- ing it in my experiments. It satisfies me. Now, since December the Cornwall station, whence these signals were sent has not been strengthened, As this roiut in he Atlantic is about the same distance from Cornwall as the station we had in Newfoundland, it seems to .s,t,, tb. of hp tyoI station is just about enough at present to carry a message two thousand miles. It wl't be greatly strengthened soon. It seems tu ne only a question of power | to send a message around the world"
 Another satisfactory and important | feature of the experiments made on this | trip continued MT. Marconi, was the l fact that oul receiving instrument was | so tuned with the transmitting instru- ments at Cornwall that not one of the | sent was received by any | other boat, and we could neither hear l nor speak to any ship in midocean. If | the St. Louis had been beside us when We were receiving messages from Eng land, she could not have read one of | then Not even the S's were received i by any other boat were they?' he ask ed, turning to one of his assistants with laugh
 "I didn't hear any" the assistant an sWered, also laughing.
 "Of course" Mir Marconi went on, i've could not answer the messages af- ter We were a couple of hundred miles out, for our instrument was only of low power. Had we had a second instru- nent tuned to the other instruments on the liners we could have both kept our own secrets and talked with other boats But there was no need of that. should be kept as simple as possible"
 The inventor then explained how the station at Cornwall sent messages as he Philadelphia moved further and further out to sea. He had many of he messages taken down on a strip of ape and dated and certified to by the ,aptain and chief officer of the steam hip, They might have been more in- eresting. l must admit" he said, read ng one that came over five hundred | niles stiff so'West breeze; fairly leavy swell" And this one, sent CIV hours later sounds like a hymn" le laughed, reading, May every bless ng attend you and your party" Ger flied messages were received a 1,032S, ! t 1,163.5 and finally at 1,551.5 miles rom Cornwall, This last message read: l All in order SS s $ s, Do you ( The letter S continued O be sent at regular intervals, and re- eived by the ship, till February 26, Shen the last SIS were recorded and l ertifed by the ships officers at dis ance of 2099 miles. Then communica- ion with England ceased.