The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-18
WOULD ESTABLISH
WIRELESS STATION
Wichita Is Wanted on TeIe-
graph System.
E. S. GUILD VISITS CITY
Marconi Company to Sell
Stock Here.

L. c. Guild of New York is in the city
in the interests of the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph system. The Marconi COM
pany is establishing a system of wireless
telegraphy throughout the western states
clear to the Pacific coast, and stations
Will be installed at all important points
across the continent Stations are now
In operation at several points along the
Atlantic coast, also at Chicago. Milwau-
kee, Buffalo, Cleveland and one is in
course of construction at St Louis. Ar
rangements have just been completed for
a station TO be installed at Kansas City,
Mo-. by November l. Mr.. Guild has
been in Lawrence and Topeka for the
past two weeks and contracted with those
cities for intermediate stations. and prep
arations will be begun at once at those
places
The plan being pursued by the company
is TO sell stock to the citizens of the
places where they desire to locate sta
tons and when a sufficient amount of
stock has been disposed of contract
will be made TO install the system within
a stated length of time. MI Guild wishes
to make Wichita a distributing station,
from which messages will be sent over
the surrounding country for a radius OF
800 miles. Any long distance message to
be sent from within a radius of about 800
miles south or west of Wichita would be
transmitted to this point and then sent
from here. If the message be sent from
point nearer Kansas City than Wichita
then 1T would be transmitted to that
place. Lawrence and Topeka will be
termed intermediate stations, and their
messages will be sent over long distances
from Kansas City. or in case Z system is
installed at Wichita. from this point.
Mr.. Guild has met with fine success in
his work and has installed a system at
every point he has undertaken At Kan
sas City he sold s37 .O00 worth of stock,
and at Lawrence 5000 worth
The Kansas City Star of April IA stated
as follows: THE National Bank of Com
merce will abandon cable service between
New York, England and Europe May /.
A contract was signed yesterday by
which the bank will send its messages by
wireless telegraphy. The contract in
cludes also a provision that messages
will be sent between Kansas City and
New York by wireless biography within
six months. The contract further pro-
vides that a wireless telegraph station is
to be erected in Kansas City within that
time
Marconi messages have been sent over
three thousand miles and this not inter
but continuously from day TO
two thousand miles at sea from shore !
station. Messages are constantly passing
every day between ships, and between |
shore stations and ships. The fact that |
Marconi has succeeded in sending mes |
Sages from England to Russia and from |
England to italy. over all sorts of inter |
vening objects. proves conclusiveiy the |
success of the system, not only Sor trans
mission over large bodies of water. but |
over land as well.
The working agreement between the /
Marconi Wireless company and the West /
arn Union and Postal is one of the most I
important steps yet taken in the pro-
yress of the system. The cooperation /
Of these two great telegraph organiza- !
tons in the wireless rather than in COM
expect to find their greatest advantage
Every telegraph office in the United .
States and Canada by this agreement be- /
comes an authorized agency for the re-
ceipt and Transmission of wireless mes /
;ages. With western Union and Postal /
IN this side and the government tele- |
yraphse in Canada and England cooper
,ting. the system should at once become
If vast Importance to both nations
William Marconi the inventor, arrived I
rom Liverpool u few days ago on the
steamship Campania. and announced that
10 had demonstrated the feasibility of
1eeping a steamship in wireless commu-
lication with land throughout the entire
'oyage. Mr. Marconi has an arrange
nent with the Cunard line whereby they
urnish a certain amount of Inatter-per-
laps POO words-daily for a newspaper to
,e published on each of the ships of the
inc.
Mr.. Marconi kept in communication
With the station at Poldhu until the ship
vas 100 miles from Liverpool. which is
more than half way across.