Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-29
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.

Senator Hoar's absent minded ex-
plot last week of securing the passage
by the senate Of measure that had
already become law recalls, says the
Springfield Republican, the story of
the senator which is sometimes told
in these parts. He was at privade
dinner attended by number of pub
lie men and citizens. One of the
guests had just finished an anecdote,
and the laugh had hardly subsidized
when Mr.. Hoar started in, saying that
reminded him of something, and told
over again the same story that the
company had just listened to. Mr..
Hoar's telling was naturally a great
success. For every one realized at
once that he had been thinking of other
matters when the story was being
told the first time, but had caught
barely enough of the thing to be re.
minded OF the anecdote as 1t lay in
the recesses of his own mind. It
should be added that little foibles like
this have only endeared Mr.. Hoar to
the people of Massachusetts.
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During the navy department test of
the DeForest wireless telegraph sys-
TEN, which he has just brought to
successful conclusion, DeForest sent
the enclosed aerogram to President
Roosevelt from the Naval academy at
Annapolis:
In explanation of this promise to
accomplish trans-Pacific wireless tel
egraphy in the near future, DR.. De-
Forest today made the following state
ment: Long before the success of
transatlantic wireless telegraphy was
publicly demonstrated, the officials of
the American DeForest company had
completed plans for an elaborate sys-
tenn of gigantic power stations for
spanning the Pacific. BY next June
there will be two trans-Pacific cables,
and it is safe to say that there will be
no more cables laid across that ocean.
Several months ago the DeForest
company placed large orders for high
power apparatus with several large
manufacturers of electrical apparatus
for transformers and generators, ac-
cording to the patents owned by the
DeForest system.
1.-TWO of the stations shortly to be
begun by the company will far exceed
in power those in existence today for
Atlantic work.
These two stations are to be in the
Philippines at point not far from
Manila, and the other on the northern
most of the Hawaiian group.
"In regard to the largest stations at
Manila and Hawaii the DeForest
company will simultaneously erect
smaller one at Hongkong, China. to
work with the Manila station. This
will require but twenty horse power.
and will obtain its energy from kerr
osene oil engine. The towers here will
be only IT'S feet in height The Amer
lean station will be placed near the
southern end of the lower California
peninsula, which is on the line Of
great circle with Hawaii. Here three
towers, 210 feet in height, similar in
construction with those of Manila,
will hold aloft three screens Of verti-
cal wire cable.
'The estimated cost of the four sta
tions is: $4,000 for that at Hongkong,
$4,000 each for those at Manila and
Hawaii and $4,000 for the California
plant. making total of $1S2,000. This
investment seems mere incident
when compared to the cable, where a
simple break or defective insulation
may involve an expenditure of $4,000
to repair"