Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-23

1 York. He was 1,200 miles away The Concho has only small equipment
 but 1t acts perfectly. The operator al
 Colon heard the operator on the Con
 cho trying to wake up Key West. The
 signal was very faint, and the Key West operator replied:
 Fix your spark, man; fix your spark"
 The Qoncho was silent for q moment
 or two, after which the conversation
 was resumed, and Colon heard 1t dis. tinctly.
 The operators at Newport and St Augustine frequently talk at night, bu, have never been able to do so in fhe daytime. Some nights are better than 1 others. Cool clear, calm weather is the best far long range messages if not att tended by local electrical disturbances. The navy department is carrying on every night continuous test between New York. Washington, St. Augustine,
 Key West. Guantanamo, San Juan l (Porto Rico. Colon and other points, and operators along the coast are lis tening attentlvely all the while to catch what they can.
 As soon as the government naval system Is complete there will be regu- lar intercommunication for experiment. al purposes from Panama to Portland, Me. by way of Galveston and New Or leans and also by way of Guantanamo and San Juan and Key West. There will be a chain of wireless stations along both coasts and throughout the West Indies on the Atlantic side, while on the Pacific side they will stretch | from San Diego to Bellingham bay and | to Honolulu. Guam and Manila. Power houses are now being erected at all Of | the places named. and 1t Is hoped that within a few months 1t will be possible | for the president to talk with the gov arnor general of the Philippines by wireless telegraphy any night that he ias anything to say. It is now possible or the secretary of the navy to com | nunicate with vessels at sea within l co miles of the Atlantic coast and un- Ter exceptionally good conditions at distance of 800 miles.
 Lieutenant Robinson of the bureau of equipment of the navy department who has had charge of the experi- l ments, is confident that it will be pos sible to send messages to vessels at sea l distance of thousand miles when | the system is perfected and says that l the possibilities of range are growing | wider and wider as the experiments continue. The navy department now
 has stations in operation at the follow
 ing points: Cape Elizabeth, Me; Ports
 mouth (N. H. navy yard; Cape Ann
 Mass; Boston navy yard; Cape Cod
 CHighland light; Nantucket shoals
 lightship; Newport torpedo station
 Montauk Point, N. Y.; New York navy
 yard; Highlands of Nayesink. N. j..
 Annapolis Naval academy; Washington
 navy yard; Norfolk navy yard; Cape | Henry. Va; Diamond shoals llghtship
 Pensacola navy yard; San Juan, Porte
 Rico; Culebra. West Indies; Guantn
 namo, Cuba; Colon, Panama; Mare Is
 land, Cal; Farallon islands. Cal; Yer
 ba Buena island, Cal; Honolulu maya
 station and Guam The following sta
 tions are in the course of installation
 Cape Henlopen; Beaufort, \. C..
 Charleston, s. C.; New Orleans; Puge i sound, navy yard and Caylte, ?. l. 5,
 The navy department is experiment
 ing with all systems. Marconfs onlJ
 excepted. It has never been able to d
 business with him. He offered to equlI
 all of the ships and stations deslret
 for the sum of s50,O00 year on con
 dition that his system should be uset
 exclusively. but the secretary of th'
 navy refused to consider such a propo
 sition.