The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-09-14
The MarconI De Forest Cophoyer sew

you so kindly published. l had moi
presumed that my retort to his Garlic,
dissertation would bring forth anothe,
effort from his pen.
However, l deem it pertinent to re-
ply to this last letter because it terms
my last letter amazing" and "imaoi
native" and permits the deduction that
l was laboring under the handicap of a
disordered brain or malicious effort
to misrepresent facts. l must thank
my worthy critic for honoring me with
such an exaggerated description of nv
merits as writer. l might almost give
way to paroxysms of conceit did not
read between the lines the pique which
actuates the sarcasm.
The fluent scribe tells US :" that
DR.. De Forests name will do as much
to place this country among leading
scientific nations of the world as do the
names of Cyrus Field and Thomas Edi-
son. :" Was it their name or the
work which they did that turned the
eyes of the scientific world toward the
latter two famons gentlemen? | cite
this merely to show the need of analyz-
ing all the writer's statements. Had
he predicted that the name of De Forest
and his associates would find its place
in the history of American financing
instead of science, it would have been
| beyond me to question the prediction.
He claims to have talked with a
| wireless operator certainly an au-
thority on what is going on outside of
| the specific station in which he is work
| ing-who informed him that Marconi
! messages were still being received at
the rate of ten words per minute. You
| will note that he does not credit his
interview to a Marconi operator even.
In fact. l challenge him to give the
name of his learned informant or even
to state unequivocally that it was an
operator actually qualified to speak on
the subject. That he should be able to
support his statement with tangible
evidence goes without saying. do not
retract one iota from my former state
ment that Marconis perfected receiv-
ing device is capable of handling mes
sages perfectly at the rate of 100 words
per minute and on any circuits to which
it is desirably to apply it.
Long association with some methods
of doing business almost blinds one to
the existence of other methods. Mar
conf and his associates conduct their
affairs on strictly business principles.
They are not foolish enough to install
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then rip it out to make way for later
style of apparatus here and another
there and subject themselves to the
chaos possibly arising from conglom-
Grafton of various forms of sending and
receiving apparatus. So long as the old
apparatus is capable of handling mes
sageS at the same rate as the cable, why
install the newer when there may even
be improvements upon that, and before
the need of superior instruments be-
comes manifest. The number of gentle
men of unquestioned repute who have
seen Marconi's new receiving apparatus
at work, and know that it possesses
factors of speed, accuracy and distance
hitherto unexpected, rather over
balance bald statement of doubt even
when supported by the assertion of
some wireless operator who gives out
certain statements as his opirion. Few
of us fortunately retain any doubt as
to the value of deductions from limited
data
The writer again refers to the re
markable results of the De Forest Key
West to Chicago service. l wonder
what the writer's sensations would be
if he heard De Forest operator ac-
knowledge, in an unguarded moment,
that message had never been trans
mitted by the De Forest system from
Key West to Chicago. Would he ac-
cept the wireless operators" state
ment or would he demand that it be
supported?
more wireless work handled than in
any other place in the world" Please,
Mr.. Critic, be conservative. Look up
the statistics. Take a trip to London
or some Continental centre and awaken
yourself to a realization of the fact
| that New York comes nearer to trail
| ing the procession in the volume of
wireless business per year than to lead
| ing the same. incidentally, look up
the wireless stations installed i'll Eng
land ard Europe and make sure that
they are actually installed for business
and business only, not exhibition
stations incidental to stock selling.
After you have exhaustively gathered
the data, see if Marconi's installations
do not equal those of all the other sys-
TENS combined.
As to the reason why the news items
printed in the mid-ocean dailies cost so
much per word-a distinct and separate
corporation controls this news service
and, although it gets all the news by
the Marconi system or the only system
which can supply it, it is compelled to
pay the full rates. The Marconi COM
panies would not evidence any great
business capacity if they did not get the
maximum return from a monopoly y.
Even a superficial investigation would
have acquainted my critic with these
facts.
If my critic is willing to leave the
matter of the outcome of the Marconl
DE Forest suit to the actual decision
of the Court, l am. l am also willing
to let the test of time prove which was
the winner thereof.
Would it be good business judgment
to enter into competition to get bust
ness which would prove more costly
than remunerative when that business
must eventually come to you without
competition? l admire the sagaclty
displayed by the Marconi officials IN
withdrawing from the competition to-
the Governments business. When the
business eventually comes to them,
they can figure up nice little palahce
which they will have saved annually III
the mean time.
Should we argue with one who con
fesses himself ignorant on many polnts:
Not argue, but charitably supply the
knowledge of which he IS lacking, /