The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-08-31
Wireless Te|egraphy Again.

me to address your readers on the SUBJECT
of wireless telegraphy as developed by
DR.. DeForest, a Yale graduate. This
article was in answer to previous letter
in your paper, written by an admirer OF
Marconi's, who took occasion to belittle
Dr. DeForest's work as that of mere
imitator rather than an inventor copy
of your valuable paper reached me few
days since in which further article on
Marconi and his wireless telegraphy is con-
tributed by New York subscriber, and
which is direct answer to my own letter.
While do not wish to encroach upon your
space, l would like very much to lay be-
fore your readers an answer to this most
amazing article referred to.
am very much pleased that my former
letter received sufficient attention to elicit
at least one answer, and am also pleased
that this answer should come from the pen
of such highly imaginative and oratorieal
writer as my New York opponent In read
ing over the statements he makes in at
tempting to refute what previously wrote
about DR.. DeForest, one is strongly con-
WINGED that the realm of imaginative litera-
LuTe Has ceIldluly lOSt NolC my OApohSii'
when this correspondent turned his atten-
ton to wireless telegraphy. He seems to
be under the impression that my sole argu
ment in favor of DR.. DeForest is that he is
an American born in place of Italian born.
] do not think any fair minded reader OF
my previous letter could get the impression
that the only claim DR.. DeForest has to in
10 Ioth o Jannopod IN no
born under the Stars and Stripes. l think
| gave enough specific instances to justify
my prediction that DR.. DeForest's name
will 90 as mrch to place this country among
leading scientific nations of the world as DO
the names of Cyrus Field and Thomas
Edison, but | would like to take up his
article point by point,
nreoard to Marconi's wonderful receiv
ing device of which the writer speaks, as
far as have been able to find out if such
an instrument exists it must be slowed
away carefully in Signor MarconIs safe
deposit vaults. l was so much interested
in this particular matter that took occa-
sion to talk with some wireless telegraph
operators about it, and learn from the OPP
orators in New York, where there is more
wireless work handled than any other place
in the world that here quote the words
of the Gperator-sMarconi messages still
come in at the same old gait; that is, about
ten words a minute" 1t seems to me ii
this wonderful receiving device was being
used anywhere it would certainly be used
on the boats coming into New York. In
further conversation with the operator
learn that he had some vague idea that
there was a device of Marconi's something
along this line which would work fairly
well for distance of fifty miles, but after
that it was useless This information did
not come from man interested in booming
either DeForest or Marconi. He simply
stated the actual facts as they are apparent
to him in New York.
In my previous article | pointed to the
fact that communication has been estab-
lished by DeForest between Key West and
Chicago, a distance of 1,100 miles. our
correspondent, in very oratorical manner,
wishes to know if | am aware OF the fact
that these stations have been dismantled
owing to their utter failure. l regret to be
compelled to admit that am not aware OF
this fact AS your correspondent is no
doubt speaking from authority suppose
this Key West station must have been dis
mantled. Now | am no believer in ghosts
or spirits, least of all in ghosts of wireless
telegraph stations, but the ghost theory
will alone account for the fact that the Key |
West Inter-Ocean receives practically all
its news via the DeForest Wireless Tele-
graph station at Key West |, myself. saw |
a copy of this paper a few weeks ago and |
at the head of each column was printed, |
"Via DeForest Wireless Telegraphy,"
Now if this station has been dismantled, as |
your CORES pondent affirms, it must GER
tainly have left a powerful spook behind.
If your readers are believers in ghosts no
doubt this explanation will satisfy them.
Your correspondent, after having exploded
this Key West-Chicago communication in
one fell swoop by saying that these sta
tons have been dismantled goes on to ask
if the writer is aware that Marconi is
constantly sending messages over dis
tances upward of 1900 miles. Again am
forced to acknowledge my ignorance on
this point, and again l am forced to be-
lieve that this communication must be car
ried on somewhere in the South Sea Islands,
in the wilds of Siberia, Or some other mac
cessible place where no inquisitive human
being could find out anything about it. l
should almost think it would be more ad-
ysabe for Signor Marconi, if he is sending
messages 1900 miles continually, to let just
a few fit over between his station at Glace
Bay and his other transatlantic station in
Wales. OF course this may be an unrea-
sonabe suggestion on my part but it seems
TO me if ! were sending messages this dis
tance ] would certainly send them between
two points where somebody would know
something about it. Not content with this
triumph he tells us that 1900 miles is COW
cred merely by Marconi's old apparatus. No
doubt when he gets that new apparatus
and high power installed 10000 miles will
be mere bagatelle for the Italian inventor.
The reason your correspondent gives for
the failure of the Cunard Line to learn
about the grounding of their steamship
"Carona' is certainly a masterpiece in its
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