Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-17

slant touch with Secretary Loeb and
his Official staff while in Colorado
on his hunting trip, and ! see no rea.
son why wireless communication
should not be used between the presi-
dent and the exposition on June l.
II this were accomplished, the act
would demonstrate the practicability
of wireless telegraphy for long dis
tances as nothing else could. The
thousands who will attend the open
ing exercises will await the opening
signal, and when 1t comes there will
be no longer any question that the
wireless method of sending messages
Is practicable. 1t will be a demon
stration more interesting than any
place within the grounds. have
absolute confidence in the feasibil-
ity of the plan we have made, and
the public is to be congratulated
upon a truly novel feature"
The wireless telegraph which Pres
ident Roosevelt will use for communi.
cation with his advisers in Washing
ton, and which will enable him to
flash the opening signal to the cheer
! ing throngs at the Lewis and Clark
exposition grounds. will be under the
supervision of United States army
officers. The apparatus will be con
veyed by train to GlenwOod Springs
wake of the presidential party by ar
army automobile as far as the roads
will permit. When the presiden'
strikes into the big woods, the wire
less field outfit will be carried en- the
backs of horses.
AS elevation is essential to thu
sending of messages, the wireless out
fit will have to be installed at thu
top of some im~provised tower. |
has been suggested that On June ! tn
necessary elevation might be secures
by placing the instrument in the to-
Of a tall tree. In that event as Pres
ident Roosevelt must himself pres
, the key that will give the signal, h
will have to climb the tree. 1t woul
be interesting to know what the mucl
hunted bears will think of this prt
ceeding.
The opening day exercises at tn
great western worlds fair will be r.
plete with novel features. The pre-
Iident's signal. transmitted from tn
wilds of Colorado, will set in motto
the immense chimes in the towers
the United States government bun
! ings, on a peninsula In the center
Guilds lake, and the impressi,
4 strains OF america will float o
! the lake and reach the ears OF Il
assembled thousands awaiting II
+, signal which will tell the world II
4 message that the dream Of Lewis ar
! Clark has come true.
! Simultaneous with the Ginning
i"America,'' the machinery in the m
chinery, Electricity and Transport
!, ton building will be set in motto
a and when the strains of the nation
:, anthem have died away, the famo'
: lines band will play the Lewis al
CLARK March" composed for the occ
u sion. A dozen other bands will al
l. play, and heavy artillery salutes W
boom above the rattle of small arm
while from the warships anchored
= the Willamette river, adjoining I
: grounds, will come the roar of !
d guns. Whistles all over the city W
! Iblow, fire bells and church bells "
|, ring and thousands upon thotsan
! will shout themselves hoarse in an
lie stacy Of patriotic enthusiasm.
l.. The formal opening ceremonies W
= be held before the opening signal
ic given by the chimes OF the Cove
r ment peninsula. The gates will
ie opened early on the morning Of Ju
|. to enable the crowds to assent
&c gradually The first demonstrate
will be a big parade about the groun
a in which the military, civic and So