The San Francisco call., 1905-02-05
President Roosevelt Recon-
mends Measures Favorable
to Wireless Telegraphy
PACIFIC COAST STEAM
ERS EQUIPPED WITH
MARCONI APPARATUS.
Eighteen Hundred Storm
Tossed Passengers Re-
assured in Mid Ocean
Special to The Can.

tOa Al llS Gay QOlnSS that the Govern
ment proposes to use IL in both peace and
war. President RooseveIt's Cabine+ has
taken the matter in hand and the admin
1strauon's views have been embodied in
a bill drafted By the Commissioner of
navigation, assisted by Captain Seabury
or the navy and others. Government sta
tions are prohibited from competing for
commercial messages with regular COM
mercial wireless stations.
VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb 3.-Marconi
wireless system is being installed on the
Canadian Pacific Railway steamers ply
Ing on the Pacific and between here and
the Orient. The Empress liners will
work In connection with the high power
station which Will be esta blished at some
suitable point on the British Columbia
CHICAGO. Jan. 2s.-Johann Hoch. al
legged wholesale bigamist and wife-rnur-
oerer, Is believed to be on one of the At
1antlc liners and the Chicago police have
sent wireless messages from the Marconi
stations along the Atlantic Coast to
every steamer that left port within the
tast three days; The messages have
caused great excitement on d score of
Atlantic liners, each of which has been
searched for Hoch. No trace of the man.
however, has as yet been found, the
steamers SenclnS Marconigrams" that
ne was not among their passengers
Inc Poilce Department is enthusiastic
on the success and dispatch with which
or the Atlantic by Aarconi wireless
NEW YORK. Jan. 11-With her bow
stove IN and forward windlass twisted,
lle be1SrdNla, OF the Hamburg-American
Line, arrived to-day with a tale of six
hours experience in a hurricane that al
most threw her 1920 steerage passengers
1Ilto a panic. When the officers went be-
low 10 quiet them they listened intentIy
10 the assurances given them that they
were IN communication by MarcOni wire
less with other vessels and the land. and
a =
be necessary. and these assurances that
the steamer was in no danger of sinking
soon allayed their fears.
WASHINGTON. Feb. As n result
OF Admiral Togo's demonstration in the
blockade Of Port Arthur of the value Of
~lreless telegraphy IN war. exhaustive
ter maneuVers in the Caribbean Sea
Lines or communication viii be estab-
hshed through scout cruisers sent four
or fNe hundred miles. or even farther in
different directions. The opposing SQUAD
rons VIII be equipped with wireless an
paratus and each feet viii try to outdo
ne other IN sending the messages the
The foregoing kilograms. showing the
progress Of the Marconi system, have re-
Gently appeared in the press of the coun-
try
Successful communication was main
tained for several hours Yesterday he
tween the Aarconi station in San Fran
cisco ana the Z. 5. battleship Ohio as
she left the harbOr on her way out tc sea
The messages were received up to $50
miles 1t was the most successful test
Of wireless telegraphy ever made on the
Pacific Coast and one Of the most unique
nests ever made anywhere Never before
have MarconigramS been received from
such q distance in the heart Of a big citv
Dots and dashes flew all day long over
the skyscrapers and over the hills Of SaT,
Francisco. At 1870 p. N. the "Ohio" an
nounced that she was 81 miles out of the
harbor. The distance at $50 .. m was
l5O miles. Numerous messages of a
business and personal nature were re-
corded on the tape.
Many Of the readers Of this article had
the opportunity a few years ago of in
vesting in Bell Telephone stock. and sIoo
date profit Of over $780, 600 Marconi
securities. taken now, offer as great an
opportunity. The investment is as safe
as bank and certain to pay vastly more
IN dividends.
The Marconi Company is already in re
ceipt OF considerable and constantly in
creaslng revenues. There are alreadS
over 800 Marconi stations IN con, roercio1
operation, earning money every day. AS
hn Illustration. during a recent trip of
the steamer '1ucania" over $500 00 in
tolls was collected It is. therefore. safe
70 estlmate that each ship Installation
VIII show net profit of $4,000 to $40. 600
year, which. multiplied by the number
OF ships viii amount to several bt.Ddra5
thousand dollars annually.
1t is estimated that the Forwarding o%
press news for the ocean DafIv" nr,I1
Ilsneo on board the transatlantic liners.
VIII give an annual profit to the com
pany OF at least $750.00o
me Mareoni Company will derive ifs
largest profits from its transatlantic
service. There are il trans Atlantic ca
bles in the United States. haHdiine al aI1
the traf5c they are capable of hand1sn1
az % cents a word 1t is not unreason9
able to expect that with ] 4 trans tI-s4s
Marcon1 stations the profit viii he o1reS
$4,000, 600, making possible a NET nro5+
for dividends Of $50 per cent on the en-
IRE capitalization from that branch of
The magnitude Of the telegram bpsi.
ness is best evidenced by the fact that
an average OF 100000 telegrams aro
sent every day throughout the wear Tbis
shows that the possibilities Of the wires
less telegraph are practically unlinsted
The cost of installation. maintenance
and operation OF the Marconi system ss
so small compared with that of the Ca
bic and wire systems that IL can . ffor5
10 transmit messages for LESS THAN
HALF the price of the old systems
Therefore II stands to reason that the
public always gives the preference to the
cheaper rate.
Marconi securities have increased 1oo
per cent during the past twelve months
a greater increase IN value than anv
other security in the same time Imme
diately following a most important an
nOuncement. which viii be made at an
early date. the price Of Marconf sec1,ri
ties VIII be advanced WITHOUT FUR
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