New-York tribune., 1902-12-23
A TALK WITH MARCONl.
TELLS or HIS TRIUMPH.
Italian MuentOr Flooded With Nes-
sages Of Congrdtulation
TBY TELEGRAPH To THE rR1BuHE.l

TBY TELEGRAPH To THE TR1BUNE.l
Sydney, y. s., Dec. 22.-Mr Marconis modest
little office at bleak Table Head was to-day
flooded with congratuatory messages from all
parts of the world and the inventor was in
great spirits.
The first inkling that his experiments were
successful was obtained on Sunday morning
when one of Marconis staff asked the Cape
Breton Yacht Club at Sydney, for the loan Of
a number of flags, and Mr.. Marconi evidently
intended to celebrate the success of his work
by a display of bunting at Table Head. The
fierce gale and rain which is sweeping around
the to-day evidently prevented him from
carrying out this intention.
There was nothing at Table Head this MORN
ing to signalize his triumph. When seen this
morning Marconi at first stated that he had
nothing more to give out than had been con-
tanned in his message of yesterday "heh
asked for the text of some of the messages
transmitted he said that matter OF eti-
ouette this would have to be given out nrst
from England, and that the messages would
probably be published ip->tsse- Eaglshs-sseers
to-day.
Il have no objections whatever, he said to
telling YOU between whom the messages were
sent In the first place, there was one from
Lord Mimic TO King Edward. then there was
one from myself the King, to winch re-
ceived very nice reply, congratulattng me on
NV success I also sent a message to the hlhs
Of Italy. and received an answer of congratuia-
tion in reply Commander Martini of the ltal-
ian cruiser Carlo Alberto sent a message 10
the Italian Government, and received reply
Other messages were sent from DR.. Parklh 10
The London Times and from Sir Richard Cart
wright TO The Times All these messages were
If a concra tulatory nature. The message from
Commander Martini to the Italian Government
was in Italian and, despite the d'1ncu'S u
working with English operators both were sue
cessfully transmitted
'I sent all these messages mysell, anu 'he'
,,,ara received bv Mr.. Woodward. chief of the
receiving staff at Poldhu
"vyben did first succeed in transmitting
o.se,gee from, Tablehead to Cornwall? Well
u was about a month ago. The first messages
,,aro of course all in code, and were Simply
oueries such as How is this? We would nave
heen in q position to transmit messages hiuo"
sooner but for delays in obtaining fhacnieiS
of all kinds. We are, as you can see somewhat
ont of the world here and often we had 10 seho
as. far as Montreal for parts or machinery
This of course. delayed us greatly, even after
the first message was sent. A slight defect was
found in one of the instruments ana II requi'eu
two days to remedy this.
ct cannot tell YOU definitely when will have
our station ready for commercial purposes. All
that is required here is a little orgamzauoh'
which is merely matter of little tlne ooIne
time ago, however, the English government
which controls the telegraph system OF the
United Kingdom, refused to make connectloh
with the Poldhu station, and this, of course,
will have to be done before can do a CONNER
cial business"
eft was rather amusing" said Mr.. Marconi,
for Us to read rumors of failure in the news
Dapers lust at the time when our experiments
vrere being successful. The Carlo Alberto sailed
Yesterday but It was not before her object in
being placed at my disposal had been accom-
plished and a message had been sent from her
commander to the King in the commanders
presence and that was during the night before
last.
.I will remain here some time and then pro-
ceed to the Cape Cod station and from there
to Cornwall, to make arrangements for open
ing commercial business.
The staff at present at Table Head Mr..
Marconi r. \. Vyvyan, an engineer for Canada
of the Marcon company, and his two assistants.
Stacy and 2. Taylor, and two of Marconis per-
sonal assistants P. w. Paget and F. w. Kemp.
1obr Fsottomley general manager of the Mar
conf Wireless Telegraph Company, SAID yesterday
that he was gratfed but not surprised at the news
that Mr. Marconi had succeeded in transmitting
complete messages across the Atlantic he had
come to have absolute faith in the inventors aoll-
itv TO make good his predictions. he continued
and when Marcon said to him. at their last meet
ing that he would before the end of this year have
communication across the fully estaoilshed.
Mr. Bottomley that it would be done
L. cei,,ed Yesterday the following dispatch from
Marconi:
GIace Bay y. s, December q, 1892
Glad to confirm announcement of successfu! es-
abiishnnent wireless telegraphic communication pe-
tween Cape breton station and Cornwall o,,,
Mr. Bottomey added that Marconi station was
being fitted up in Alaska and that stations would
Continued third pnge-