Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-15
Ocean Liners Kaiser and Lucania
Made Use OF the Mar.
conf System.
We're in Constant Communica.
ton. Tho Not in Sight.-Tele.
grams Forwarded.
Passengers Send Word to Friends
in England and the Con.
tinent.


mann of the North German Lloyt
steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
which arrived yesterday from Bremen
Southampton and Cherbourg, had tn,
longest wireless sea talk on record will
the Cunardcr Lucania on her last triI
to Bremen from this port. He says tina
the Malconia apparatus on both ship!
worked unusually well. This he attrib
utes partly to the fact that the kaiser's
operator, Herr Kronken, was formerl.
on the Lucania, and the Lucanias 0p
orator was once on the Kaiser. Each
thoroughl,, understands the peeuliari.
ties of both Instruments The ships held
aerial conversation nearly three days
or until they were about half way across
the ocean.
The Lucania sailed three hours before
the Kaiser, on Dec. IA. OFF the Hook
when the CunaTlar was sixty miles
ahead, the two ships began to ''swal
sentiments" The signaling was kept w
all night long. AT daybreak the mex
day, Sunday, the ships We're in sight OF
each other. AT p. m. the Kaiser
passed the Lucania, four miles to the
southwark. Twelve messages were sent
by passengers on the Lucania, fol
transmission to the wireless station al
the Lizard and thence by land wire tc
the persons in England to whom they
were addressed.
Just after nightfall on Sunday the
lights of neither ship were visible from
the other. They were still in touch tel
geographically. AT noon on Monday the
liners exchanged positions, and their
commanders found that they were forty
miles apart. Early in the evening. off
the banks, the Kaiser ran into thick
fog. She struck into clear weather la
ter. and her Marconi man sent this mes
sage to the ship astern:
twenty-five miles east Of banks.
Clear weather"
The Cunarder thus acknowledged the
receipt of TIE dispatch: Thanks. Am
still in thick fog"
The liners were then sixty miles apart.
During the night the clicking aboard
the Kaiser grew fainter and fainter and
firally, when there were about eighty
five miles of sea between the ships, the
ceased to work.
On the trip she finished yesterday,
while in midocean, the Kaiser passed.
but did not sight, the KronprinZ, her sis
ter ship bound east They snapped po-
sitions. and passengers sent messages
across forty miles of water. They were
in communication for two hours.
Captain Hogeman said that on pre-
vious trip when the revolving light
board the Nantucket lightship was out
of order, he sighted what he surmised
was the lightship. One Of the young Of
ficers doubted it, as he saw two fixed
lights instead of the revolving one.
Well" said the captain, well soon
find out" and he ordered the Marconi
operator to project this inquiry into the
air:
Have you two fixed lights?"
The young officer was satisfied after
this answer had been translated to him:
I'VE have; the revolving light is
broken
Captain Hogemann says that the mes
sages he received from the Lucania We're
delivered at the Lizard station and sent
to their destinations, reaching them be-
fore the I4ucania got to port. The Kaiser
also notified the German Lloyd Office at
when she was about fifty
five miles from that place, when she
would arrive at Bremen.