The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-18
SIGNALLING The SEA
REPRESENTATIVE OF MARC0NI
SAYS COMMUNICATION
BY WIRELESS TELEeRAPHY
WILL BE ESTABLISHED HERE In A
YEAR.

| hepresen NATIVE Now In savannah.
Says Installation of Stations Is
Practically Insured-what 1t
Would Mean-The Cost of InstaIIa-
ton and the Difficulties Encoun-
tered-PensacOIa Eager for n Sta
tfOn-What the System Is-Its Prac-
and Its Inventor.
1t is probable that within a years
time a Marconi wireless telegraph
station will be installed in the harbor
| OF Savannah. From encoura cement
and assurances received in many of
the Southern ports by Mr.. Daniel KEEL
ly, the New York representative of the
company, the establishment of the sta
ton is almost a foregone conclusion.
Mr.. Kelly is in Savannah for the
purpose of ascertaining the support
which would be Forthcoming here in
the event of the installation of the
system. Yesterday he visited a num-
Der Of the prominent naval stores and
cotton factors. receiving from them
their heariest approval OF the install
iation of stations in Southern ports.
The Difficulty Encountered.
The difficulty encountered by Mr..
Kelly in this port is in the absence of
ship owners. All of the people whom
he approached on the subject, while
thoroughly in accord with the estab-
hshment of the system, said that it
was not for them to determine the
| question. The ship owners are the
parties to be approached.
The Ocean Steamship Company's Of
f1cials and the officials of the Mer-
chants and Miners Transportation
Company both referred Mr.. Kelly to
their home offices in New York and
Baltimore. Among the gentlemen with
| whom the promoter of the wireless en-
| terprise. conferred were Mr. Minis of
j. F. Minis & Co.. Capt Walker of
Strachan & Co., Maj Williamson of
| Williamson & Rauers, and a represen-
tative of the firm of F. T. Webb.
This morning Mr.. Kelly will call up
on the president of the Board of Trade.
| The object in meeting the officers of
| the Board of Trade and Cotton Ex-
change, Mr.. Kelly said, is to ascertain
conditions, and feel the pulse of
the commercial people. He does not,
he said, expect to receive any
assurances from them.
The Differing Conditions.
| In this port said Mr. Kelly. ''the
| conditions are different from those In
PENSACOLA. Fla. There found the YES
| sci owners, the people that / am most
| DESTROYS of reaching. but here there are
rev, II any, owners. The trade here
| Is confined to the two steamship lines.
ana tramp steamers from foreign ports.
secretary Watson of the Board of
Trade in Pensacola said, without hes
ltancy, that station would be INSTALL
| ed. He told me that his city was eager
| for improvements.
Mr.. Kelly left New York three weeks
| ago. going direct to Galveston. From
there he has been to New Orleans.
Mobile and Pensacola. The most in
terest in the enterprise, he said, was
| ELECTED in Galveston and New Orleans.
! where he received every assurance of
the support of his project. From Sa-
vannah he will probably go to Charles
ton, and will visit Wilmington, New
| port News, Norfolk and Baltimore be-
fore returning to New York
If station is installed, Mr.. Kelly
said, 1t will not be necessary to have
1t at Tybee, the conditions here being
] favorable for a site near the CITY. In
many other cities these excellent con-
| dition do not exist, and it is not prac-
| ticable to erect the stations in the port
| ltself. An acre of ground is necessary
| for the station.
The COmpany's Proposition.
You cannot conceive of more
liberal proposition than ours" he add
| ed. For $1,000 we install the appara-
tus aboardship Without additional
cost we furnish an operator. We nav
the operators salary At our own ex-
pense, we build station ashore at
cost of at least $4,000, and operate
1t ourselves. If at any time the owner
of the vessel becomes dissatisfied. we
VIII remove the apparatus from his
vessel
In addition to this we allow the
captain of the vessel the free use of
the instrument for specified num-
Der OF messages ashore. We have never
yet had any one to become dissatis-
ned with our system. 1t is in con-
tinual use along the Long Island
shore, where we have three stations"
Mr. Kelly was asked to give some
explanation of the construction and
working of the system
Something of the System.
ut is no secret" he replied. '.The
principle is simple one, and is easily |
understood. Throw a stone into a |
quiet pond. Instantly waves are form /
ed which spread out in every direction.
ElectrlC waves cannot be SEEN but |
electricians have learned how to in
cite them, and have devised instru
ments which register their presence |
The air is full of ether Electrical
waves have long been harnessed by the |
use OF wires, but the ether exists out |
side of the wire as we'll as within |
therefore, having the ether everv-
where, is II not reasonable to suppose |
that waves can be produced in II, |
which VIII pass anywhere? The diff- |
Guilty lay in producing the instrument !
which would produce these waves, and |
this Marconi accomplished"
Mr.. Kelly described infinitely the de-
sign, material and working of the Mar |
conf instrument. 1t is on the Same |
principal as the telegraph, to a great |
extent, the messages being transmitted |
by means of dots and dashes. Sinnlv |
constructed, but powerful and accurate |
machinery is employed. A single man. |
he said, is all the help necessary AT |
one end of the line.
PracticabfIity of system
In explaining the practicabilitv of |
the system Mr.. Kelly brought out a |
great many interesting facts Need T |
say more than that there are at pres- j
ent twenty-three stations on the Eng
fish coast, all in perfect and most |
satisfactory operation. For solely ex- |
perimentai purposes the Italian gov !
eminent has given Marconi the Carlo