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aNhC0N|'S ACHIEVEMENT.
Wireless Messages Sent From Eng
land Received at Newfoundland.
100 MILES ACROSS ATLANTIC

Electric Age-Prcarranged Letter Re.
peatod at Intervals In the Marconi Code
Inventor to Continue the Trans-At
lantic Experiments In England.
st. Johns, N. F.-Signor Marconi has
announced the most wonderful scien
ti6c discovery Of modern times. III stat
ing that he had received electric sig
nails across the Atlantic Ocean from
his station in Cornwall, England. Ht
explains that before leavin,, England
he had made his plans for accomplish
Ing this result, for. while his primary
object was to communicate with ocear
liners in midocean, he also hoped te
succeed in attaining the wonderful
scientific achievement of wireless telc
graphy across the Atlantic.
Signor Marconi's station in CORNWALL
is most powerful. He possesses az
electric force generated there hun
dred times greater than at his ordinary
stations. Before he left England ne
arranged with the electrician in charge
of. the station. which Is located al
Poldhu, to begin sending signals daily
after a certain date. which Siguor Mar
conf would cable him upon perfectins
his arrangements here. SigDor Mar
conf arrived here a week ago Friday
and selected Signal Hill, at the entrance
Of the harbor. as an experimenting
station, and moved his equipment
there. On Monday he cabled to the
Poldhu station to begin sending signals
at 3 p. IN. daily, and to continue then
until 6 D. NJ, these hours being respec
lively 11.3O to 2.30 p. M, st. Johns
time.
During these hours Wednesday, Sig
nor Marconi elevated a kite with az
aerial wire, by means of which sig
nails are sent or received. He re
NAMED at the recorder attached to the
receiving apparatus, and, to his pro
found satisfaction, signals were re
ceived by him at intervals, according
to the program arranged previously
with the operator at Poldhu. These
signals consisted Of repeating at inter
vals the letter 49," which, in Marco,
mis- code, is made by three dots, OF
quick strokes. This signal was re-
peated 80 frequently, and according
to the detailed plan arranged to pro
vide safeguards against possibility Of
a mistake, that Signor N1arconi was
satisfied that it was q genuine trans
mission from England.
Again on Thursday, during the same
hours, the kite was elevated and the
same signals were renewed. This
made the assurance so complete thai
Signor Marconi cabled to his princi
pals in England and also Informed the
Governor of Newfoundland, Sir Cav
endish Boyle, who aDprised the Brit
ish Cabinet of the success of the ex'
periments.
Signor Marconi. though satisfied Of
the genuineness of the signals and that
he - succeeded in his attempts tc
esta II communication across the
Allan. e without the use of wires EN-
phasizes the fact that the system Is
vet only in an embryonic stage, but
that the possibility Of its ultimate de
velopmenr is demonstrated by the sue
cess of the present experiments With
incomplete and imperfect apparatus,
as the signals can only be received by
the most sensitively adjusted appara'
tus, and Signor Marconi is working
under great difficulties owing to the
conditions prevailing here. The Corn
wall coast is 100 miles from st
Johns.
In view Of the success attending
these trials, Signor Marconi will fol
the present disregard the matter OF
communicating with transatlantic
steamers He will return to England
Immediately and will conduct the eX
periments from Poldhu himself. He
will undertake this work himself
leaving assistants here to erect 6
mast and receive the signals as he for
wards them. 1t is not possible to re
turn signals from here until powerful
electric battery shall have been in
stalled.
Signor Marconi intends to build 6
large, fully equipped experimental
station near st. Johns, besides the
Lloyd's station at Cape Race. The
former will have the same equipmen
as the Poldhu station, and will play
the same part on this side of the Allan
tic as Poldhu does on the other. The
st. Johns station will communicate
with New York City on one side and
Cornwall on the other, being midway
between the two. This establishment
will probably cost about $4,000. and
will perform the same work as the
modern cable station.