The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-17
DAILY PAPER At SEA.
Wireless News on the Cam
pania All the Way Across.
ISSUED SOON AFTER BREAKFAST.

Mareoni, Who Directed the work,
Tells Of Great Cost of Long Mes
saees 10 Land = Communication
With One shore or Other kept
Throuehout the "trip.
Fresh from work that has made a
daily paper possible in mid sea, WIZ
liam Marconi arrived at New York re-
Gently on the Campania, says the New
York Tribune When ssen at bis hotel
Mr.. Marconi said that the cost Of in
stalling plant sufficient 10 maintain
constant wireless communication with
the shore on the transatlantic steamers
was 50 great as to DE practically pro
hibitive. According to the inventor the
cost Of such 4 service Is over $4,000
which be fears is greater than tile
steamship companies will be willing
/ to pay.
Marooni places little credenee in the
report that the United States govern
ment Is to assume Or to attempt to as
sumo control 81 the wireless telegraph
stations IN this country.
Neither this government liz said,
NOR any other government will ever
control wireless teIegraphy while am
alive 40 not believe that Ills gov
ernment has any intention Of trying to
attempt such i thing. / think that ali
the stories that It is to do anything Of
the sort are newspaper yarns.
All the chief transatlantic steam.
ship lines, with the exception of the
White Star line, have Installed my
wireless telegraphic apparatus don't
know why the White Star line ii hold
ing back as 1t Is, unless ii is simply
looking for ii chance to pay more mon
Ell to ME. As all the other lines are
equipped, it IS becoming more and
more Indispensable to that line. bur
the longer it delays III equipping Its
boats tile more it viii have to pay for
the apparatus.
II had four different instruments ON
board the Campania, but only one Of
them ID obtain tile news for the new
daily paper The instrument as yer
has no specific title, but might be called
| the improved AIarconi apparatus to
distinguish il from tie others Be
yond saying that ii was not 4 magnetic
detecter az not care 70 say anything
describing the new apparatus.
4 "a
ton with the shore at ALI times during
d voyage requires an apparatus Of ex-
ceptionally high power, costing more
than $4,000 for each vessel This il
practically prohibitive. for The present
al least, as / think that tile steamship
companies lire scarcely ready 1t the.
present time fol- such an outlay
ii am most thoroughly satisfied with
| what / have accomplished during the
I present voyage We kept in eommnni
cation with land throughout the trip,
and Oh Tuesday and Wednesday were
ID touch with both sides Our longest
i message came from distance of over
$500 miles
The Cnnard Daily Bulletin was pub
lished every day giving tho passengers
| an epitome of the news Of the world
The paper Is sold for ) cents i COPY.
and almost everybody from cabin I'll
steerage rushed to secure tile first copy
issued With few exceptions AN tile
passengers kept Ii complete file 81 tie
papers issued during the voyage.
/ The paper WAS Issued soon after
breakfast War financial, society and
general news was printed. All the I'M
portant happenings Of The week were
| published and Us the Campaaia was
entering New York harbar an extra, an
Arrival Bulletin. was published 10
addition 10 the regular sheet This
contained among It's paragraphs the
death 1T Levi " Letter tile attack by
tile Eibetans oil tie British post at
Kangura. the arrival Of Cardinal satol
Il The cripple Creek troubles and the
| latest Japanese var news.
| Tie regular edition III the Gunard
Bulletin il an eight page paper, about
| q by inches, with Tive pages Of plate
matter. The FIRST edition, which was
/ 4SAB6A 1H AIlHdt9 1lQttltH&s = NA1N =,
contained tile news Eft the shooting of
ACaesar Young ana The holding Of
Nan Patterson without bail. Until the
oampania was past the mid Atlantic
/ the messages were received from Pold-
hu. and before that station had been
dropped The Cape Breton shore station
lad been picked Oil.
On Thursday Mr.. Mareoni received d
dispatch from Lord Inyerelyde. the
chairman Of the eunard company, CON
graduating him on the success Of his
experiments The next day Mr Mar
conf. nearly fifteen hundred miles away,
replied.
| Sincere thanks Your cordial wishes
/ received Wednesday midoeean Hap
BY inform yon Daily Bulletin entirely
successful and greatly appreciated.
/ Mr. Marconi desires 70 have Il under
stood thut the work done On this trip
/ of the fampania was in no way ia the
i nature of an experiment.
When I left New York ga the last
\ trip 81 the Gampania Mr.. Mareoni
4 said II conducted i series of expert