The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-31

| plished All Promised"
A recent issue of the Seattle Times
/ contained an article calculated to in.
jure the Pacific Wireless Telegraph
Company by sowing seeds of distrust
OF the efficiency of its system i'm places
where the company has announced its
intention OF establishing stations. A
careful reading of the article however,
by anN one In any degree familiar with
the claims of the company will show
| that it contains nothing which should
occasion any uneasiness in the minds
of friends of the system. Ii was alleged
that the apparatus on board the revenue
cutter Grant had proven partial fail
ure, at least, in that communication
between the cutter and the land sta
tions was interrupted whenever any
wooded hills ntervened between them.
1t has never been claimed by the COM
pany that communication could ts
maintained under such circumstances
unless the land obstruction to the pass
age of the hertzian waves was distant
quite number of miles from both the
sending and receiving stations. That
| il, if the cutter, with its apparatus at
| the top of mast only ninety feet high,
is close inshore among the islands in
| direct line with Port Townsend for in
stance, the waves are either ground
ed" or so diverted that the receiving
instruments fail to catch them. If that
were not the case there would be no
necessity for erecting such lofty land
stations as the one here, the mast OF
which, standing only few rods from
the harbor shore, will rise 800 feet oil
[ more above sea level, and far above
any elevation between here and the
Port Townsend station. 1t is approx
imately the same distance between the
company's stations at San Pedro, Cal,
and Santa Catalina island as 1t Is be-
tween here and Townsend, and that
the service between those stations has
given perfect satisfaction is conclusive
ly shown by the strong endorsements
of companies using it. Note the follow
ing:
The TIMEs-M MIRROR COMPANY,
Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 81 1903.
To Whom II May Concern:-
Since March last. The Times has been
publishing daily at Avolon, CAL, small
daily paper called "The Wireless" The
Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company has
transmitted from 700 to 1000 words OF
news from San Pedro to our Office in Av-
alon daily. In the month of April, the
matter was transmitted during severe
wind and transforms on several different
occasions and no errors or Interruptions
occurred. In fact, the service for the
whole period of time has been practically
perfect, without Interruptions, errors, OF
delays. On two or three occasions slight
errors were made in the transmission, but
in each case when the matter was traced
down. it was found that the fault was
with the Western Union between this
city and San Pedro and not the Pacific
Wireless Company,
II. G. OTIS, Gen. Mangr.
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH Co.,
Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. p, 1903.
To Whom 1t May Concern:-
The Pacific Wireless System, between
San Pedro and Avalon, Santa Catalina
island, has been in operation for more
than year, and is exchanging business
with this company daily, without delay
or error of any kind. 1t has accomplish
ed all that its promoters promised and Is
patronized and appreciated by the gem
eral public the same as any of our modern
conveniences.
C. b. GooDELL, Mangr.
1t may be true that there have been
some recent changes in the personnel OF
the company, but that is hardly mat
ter which concerns the public so long
as the company fulfllls its contracts
- Il moi m fains ita service.