New-York tribune., 1902-03-08

SIGNOR MARCONI TELLS OF WIRELESS
EXPERIMENTS FROM a MOTOR CAR.

The Automobile Club of America gave its third
annual dinner last evening in the Waldorf-Astorla.
Members and guests numbered about one hundreu
and seventy. President Albert X Sha'luck was
toastmaster.
Good Roads" was the slogan of the evening
The speakers and the subjects announced were
Jacob A. Cantor. 1.-The Highways of Manhattan
w Pierrepont White, of Utica, Good Roads and
the Farmer; Edward A. Bond, The State of New
York and Good Roads; Professor EHhu Thomp-
son, "The Mechanical Development of the Auto
mobile; Colonel w. H. Moore, president OF the
National Good Roads Association. Roads: organ
ization and Results; Professor +. R. Hutton sec
retsry of the Society of American Engineers. .rhe
Future of the Automobile Martin Dodge. Federal
Government and Good Roads"
President Shattuck said in part:
We are ashamed that it has been necessary for
to prevent the abuse of the highways by the own
ers of automobiles. This club believes that the
roads belong to all citizens in common and we do
not defend for a moment the driver OF an automo-
middle of the road, and blowing his horn as an
ntimaton to the rest or the w9rd m [aI Toad
are few such people and they should De oIlVen
It is the Intention of the club to hold hundred
mile contest on May 80 and on May 81 race Next
autumn we hope to hold another endurance CONTEST
Jacob A. Cantor said in part:
The "hayseeds' control the State, and the first
ths task farmeTs Er Ss that hat they are good things
would say to my I 2 m @ for 6e9a e 6s F YEAR As @
nIblican victory viii be as far off as ever. I
good roads and good signs. not the kind OF signs
which you see in the country ana which re86;
If Tammany Hall has left US any money at All
there is immediate probability or you gentle
men being able to ride along the boulevards north
Of Canal-st. in your automobies without 6, danger
of being pitched into ditch by some OBSTRUCTION
left in the road by subway contractors or others
signor Marconi spoke briefly, saying:
I am bad after dinner speaker the subject
is so interesting that may be able 10 90 as wen
as a better I am in this country FOR the pur-
pose of developing my system of wireless teleg-
that I received much encouragement from the gov
ernment and private corporations, and an en-
wireless teIegraphy at that time was about twenty
miles but since then great progress has been made
wires, such between Europe and America, or
about three thousand miles. I will not trouble you
with the discussion OF my theories on wireless
much about it myself 1 have two automobiles
One is steam motor car and the other a motor
cycle. 7 bought the steam motor car to carry on
my experiment in wireless telegraphy, and was
able to carry communication with my barn at
a distance of about thirty miles. l have not been
able to apply wireless telegraphy to my motor
cycle because the apparatus is too heavy, and you
know if you break down you have to pedal.
Ernest Cuenod de Martgner, vice-presdent of
the Automobile Club of Switzerland, made this
among other remarks: LAS all rocky roads are
paths to heaven you in the United States sure
go there"
Edward A Bond State Engineer and Surveyor
said: II believe that this State is going lead all
others in the next few years in improving high
ways. The problem of the past raiIroading
but the new century brings new conditions and
sure that the American people are ready to
meet them"
1.-The automobile is bound to be civiliZng agent.
he said, 'and 1 look forward to the perfection of
this machine the height of mechanical con-
struction. The time will come when it will be
perfect watch"