New-York tribune., 1902-01-13
MARCONI TO CRITICS.
HIS TEST INDUBITABLE, HE
SAYS AT HOFFMAN HOUSE.
AFTER COMPLETING TWO TRANsATLAN
TIC LINES HE CONCENTRATES
WIRELESS SERVICE TO INDIA.

S1gnor Guglielmo Marconi reached this city
yesterday. He will stay while here at the Hoff-
man House If possible. he hopes to start for
england on the Teutonic on Wednesday, but of
'hls ne is not sure because there is large
number Of influential men here whom he wishes
10 consult and two days. he says may not give
MN time enough. He expects TO start up his
transatlantic experiments again in a month,
lhough he himself may remain in England
Slgnor Marconi last night answered in his
qulcS, laconic fashion the criticisms that have
peen made against his method of sending mes
sages across the Atlantic II will be remem-
pered that the message consisted only of the
letter >, represented by three dots in the
wireless code. Many said some more compli-
Gated message some series of differing words,
should have been transmitted and received to
make the test conclusive
The letter s. was used" said Marconi "for
the simple reason that it is not easy to send
messages all day, repeated at regular and fire.
quent intervals The letter s. can be most easily
sent: 1t was the letter used In most of two
hundred mile tests. The fact that we received
three dots in Newfoundland would not make the
test conclusive. But the fact that we received
the three dots or letter s. hundreds of times
and coming exactly at the rate of speed at
which they We're being sent makes the test in
dubitable The rate of speed at which the letter
was tI5HSIuIteI, 10 De exact, was thirtytWO
times to the minute. We received at Newfound-
land exactly thirty-two SIS each minute that
the kite up"
Here Marconi stopped. awaiting another ques-
ton. Whatever he says is in reply to a ques-
tion and then his words are few
What is your next move to be? Will you
sumo experiments in Canda or America frst?"
he was asked
Il am going to England now, to increase the
power of the station there" he replied. THE
next experiments will begin. hope, in month.
with a station at Nova Scotia. There will be
permanent station ready there by that time
the station at Newfoundland was only tenn
porary-the Ango-American Gable Company
made me get out too soon. Canada is
England than the United States. which is the
reason of my choice. But I want line to
America. also. and the second station will be
on Cape Cod. at Wellheet, where work be-
gun eight months ago. though it was kept out
of the papers for some time"
How soon will you begin sending messages
to Cape Cod?"
81 hope within the year. though We have
busy year ahead Of US"
Just how much more power is required to
send message two thousand miles than two
hundred miles? Ten times as much?"
More than ten; nearer twenty times as much.
though just how much more / can't say till
have a permanent station on this continent to
work with"
''Is the cost also twenty times great?"
"By means"
And il would be much cheaper to build the
two stations and send messages than to lay and
operate a cable?'
Undoubtedly" Marconi answered. shifting
his weight TO the other foot at the mention
of cables, though 1t costs from 100000 to $70.-
900 to build of stations-more of an
organized undertaking than most people sup
pose"
Then the cable companies cannot be blamed
for feeling some alarm"
'I won't say a word about the cable compa-
MES" he replied. They looking after their
business; am going 10 look after mine When
1 sending messages over the sea they Will
doubtless be sending them under the sea, and il
will be question of the survival of the fittest."
do you expect to start other lines than the
two from England 10 Canada and TO the United
States?"
''Yes, to India, perhaps. But not until the
two transatlantic lines are put on commercial
basis"
"Then mountains are not an obstacle to the
transmitting waVes?"
mo, it is my idea that the waves follow the
configuration of the globe. rising up over the
mountains. At any rate. mountains are not an
obstacle to the transmission of messages any
more than high land is necessary for station"
Signor Marconi knew nothing about the re-
ported offer from Iceland to have his company
been made, II made TO the London office,
he said, and he had not been told of II. He said
that he should speak briefly at the dinner given
for him by the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers at the Waldorf-Astoria this evening.
He retired very early. as his custom is, but not
before remarking that If he had had his way
the papers would never have known about his
experiments till the final result had been
achieved.
But 1 needed too large a staff of assistants
to have my way" he said.
ALBAN SEXES A STEAMER.