The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-09
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
Three Years Since Ocean
Traffic Was Promised
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
Considerable Rein Has Been
Given the Imagination.

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wireless telegraphy:
1T is now three years since we were
! promised in no qualified terms trans-At-
lantic wireless biography says Cassier' 5
| Magazine. 'At intervals that may be said
| to have correspondent more or less with
marked depression in the wireless stock
market these promises have been repeated
with increased emphasis: and in fuli-page
advertisements the public has. among
other things. beea informed as to the ex-
act prospective earning capacity OF each
transatlantic wireless circuit which
earnings never fail to show 10 per cent
clear profit annually on the entire capt.
tai stock of the company. These earn
ings, be it pointed out. are based on the
possible earnings of circuit working
| every hour Of the year at q rate about
equal to the best speed of the Atlantic
cables. which is assuming Il maximum
of business 10 be handled which the At
lantic cables nave not yet found to be
Forthcoming. Probably these cables are
not operated to their full capacity more
than fxe-sixths of the time. exclusive of
Sundays. The comparison is also made
with the cable service as il trans-Atlanti
wireless telegraphy were an accomplished
fact. whereas this is not so. but there is
probably not at present single wireless
telegraph circuit in any part OF the world
where the business offered for transmits
sion is sufficient to keep it occupied every
hour of the tWenty-four at The rate OF
speed mentioned. nor is it likely that
l. ~,
system of wireless telegraphy that can
be relied on to work without inIerrup-
ton twentyfOur hours of the day-al of
which is said without desiring to detract
in the slightest degree from the immense
Importance of wireless telegraphy in It's
proper sphere. But the foregoing facts
profiteth the advertising and press agents
of wireless telegraphy nothing. Their
business is to facilitate the transmission
of stock To the pockets of prospective in
vestors. and, indeed-we trust the re-
mark will not be considered unkind-this
appears TO be the part OF the business
new being most energetically carried on
BY many of the promoters of wireless
telegraphy.
THE rein which some of these gentle
men give to their imagination is well eX-
emplified in one instance where an in
stallation consisting of a fiagpole.
wooden building of the dimensions of an
automobile shed, containing small oil
engine. a dynamo machine, and the other
ordinary apparatus of yireless outfit, is
alluded to as "a magnificent station at
Blanktown. When, however the short
time that has elapsed since wireless tele-
" introduced a ic
considered, one wonders not so much that
transatlantic wireless telegraphy is not
yet an assured practical success. but that
the art has. already attained a degree of
practicability whereby it is possible to
communicates between passing vessels.
and vessels and the shore. with fair
regularity and precision. For these re-
suits unstinted credit should be given
to the inventors OF the various systems:
and it is. perhaps, quite possible that if
these inventors were allowed to pursue
their preliminary Investigations and eX-
periments TO conclusion without undue
pressure TO show immediate practical re-
suits of some kind. the actual progress
would doubtless have been even greater
than it has been. Sooner or later the
possibilities and limitations of this art
will be better understood. at which time
il will be assigned To the work for which
il is prominently adapted, and the brain
wearin gattempts TO show sadaptabity
TO purposes whc hare already better per
formed by other methods VIII be aban-
doned
"A few weeks ago" says the Scientific
American. the new Eigerwand station.
on the electric railway which is being
constructed to the summit of the Jung
frau Q3,670 feet, was opened for traffic
At the present moment four stations are
open. aud il is expected that the next
the Eismeer QO355 feeD-will be opened
before very long The line starts from
the Scheidegg station t5.02 feeti-the
highest point on the Wengren Alp rack
an-pinion steam railway. which runs be-
tween I.auterbrunnen and Grindelwald
From the Scheidegg to the first station
Eiger Glacier G.6l5 feeD. the line is in the
open with the exception OF a short tunnel
ninety-two yards long. From this poitn
splendid circular view is obtained. To
the south the northern slopes Of the
giants of the Oberland-the Eiger G3.0io
feet). Monch Gs.i and Jungfrau. with
their glaciers stretching down along the
rocky walls. 10 the west the snow summit
of the Biumlistalp. Breithora and
Tschingelhorn: 10 the north the LOUDER
horn. Tschuggen. Mannlichten Faulhorn
and the Schwarzhorn: and 20 tho east I
the great Scheidegg the TitIis. Melten-I
berg and the Matterhorn. The k,ger /.
Glacier station is one and one-fourth :.
miles from the starting point ard ihe 7
train has mounted "a metres
After sKirtlng the face - the elf the
train ecters the SreGt tunnei. and Tor all
the reSt II The way it IS underground
Galleries will be cat at c3ch station
similar u those Of III Asceueffpasse
on the Lake Of I-uce~ncl To allow pas
sepgers 20 obtain THE maruihcenf seene-r. :
The Jungfrau tur1el vii D.. ten kiiome-
tres in length. The tunnel Is go r1e-res
wide ard 4 . metres high Electric boring
machines are used The number % shocks
amounts 70 - a minute ihs force en-
ployed being about fte horsr pose- nor
machine Each weighs abort . kIo-
grarnnes ard they are voried by Thomp-
son-Fouston motors Nofels n.iFoglycer-
ire is the explosive tIscd. this las 90 ~
constantly thawc6. - temperature from f
20 20 = degrees &. he.ow zero are IN
couutered-
The second station IS the Roih-tock
6sz-a fer;1. TWO rriies from the starting
point \ traverse shaft. 90 gallery. Iven-
ty-;ive feet long leads ~ q platform
orcn 10 daylight protecting from fhs
vertical side - the Esser. ore CAR a.
cend the Roihstock S-sa tset and attain
a fine view over the I-suberhorn 70 the
lakes q the Swiss plateau ard 20 the
far-on mountain chains % the 1nsa The
yosees. and the BLACK For,s Th~ third
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