The Washington times., 1903-04-20
WIRELESS TEST RESULTS
AWAITED WITH INTEREST
Reports VIII Soon Be Made to Army
and Navy Bureaus.

Wireless telegraphy experiments
which promise interesting results have
lately been undertaken in Washington
/ and at remote parts Of the United States,
and extensive investigations and trials
By officials of the army and navy have
brought the subject into prominence in
scientific and service circles in Wash
ingJon. Much interest is felt. in con-
+ sequence. in the reports which VIII
doubtless socn be presented to the heads
/ Of certain bureaus IN the War and Navy
/ Departments
The navy is conducting part OF its in
yestiEari0ns near al hand. From the
Washington Navy Yard to Annapolis is
one of the routes" which Is receiving
attention. This work is under the di-
rection OF Rear Admiral Bradford, chief
OF the Bureau Of Equipment. Some
months ago an agent was dispatched
abroad 70 obtain the wireless apparatus
which was desired for the present ex-
+ periments He purchased for the de-
/ parJmcnr some French and some Ger
man instruments, of designs which had
received careful inspection and approval
It IS understood none Of these articles
were OF the kind used by MarcoHis but
OF a similar style.
Greater interest is felt in the future
OF wireless teIegraphy by officers of the
naval establishment than by officers of
the army Investigations have been
conducted and reports made 10 Gen.
s. W. Greedy, chief OF the Signal Service
Bureau Of the War Department. for
some time past some have reported
success and others, il is said, have not
convinced the officials that there is as
yet any system OF wireless telegraphy
which could be adopted with safety by
the Government.
An evidence of this feeling by high Of
6cials OF the department is the pressing
OF work on the cable connecting Seattle
Wash. with Juneau. Alaska Wireless
experiments were made in that far cor
aer Of the world. but so far as has be
come known in Washington the result
Of this work was not all that was eX-
pected Interesting reports have come
from Alaska that the wireless system
NAV be sufficiently developed TO take
great part of the work oI the Govern
ueut cable now in course of compile
ton. but the value Of the new invention
has not been sufficiently tested. it is
thought. 20 permit the Government 10
run any risk about getting promptly
such information as it may need from
time 10 time.
General Greedy himself is now on his
way TO Alaska He is now in Seattle.
and from information received there has
sent word 10 Washington that he eN-
poets the telegraph system OF the Ter
ritory to be completed within a month.
Two months from the present time the
cable ship Burnside is due al Sitka TO
put in the links of the. cable connecting
the main ports of Alaska with Seattle.
The construction of the cable line.
after ali the experiments made with
the wireless devices. is regarded IN
Washington as the safer course to pur-
sue The Vastness OF the Alaskan coun-
Try is not generally appreciated and
officials who have gone there to--in-
spect the country have found the dis
tances something appalling. The cable
first to be laid viii EXTEND from Skag-
way TO Hams Mission and afJerward
southwark, in two sections, for the l.
200 los To Sn1fffr.