The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-08-31

among the magazines and timetables for !
perusal of the manager when he should get J
back from trip abroad. have spent con- !
siderable time trying to figure out the cor
rect explanation of this failure to connect |
with the Cunard Line, and as both these ex-
plantations are so good, hesitate to decide
which one is correct. | will leave that to |
your readers
In regard to the Mid Ocean Daily, which
is published by the MarcOni people on
board their trans Atlantic vessels, your
correspondent asks if | am aware that it
costs twenty-five cents per word for all
news matter printed. Again l am forced to
admit that 1 am woefully ignorant on this !
point. l am fully aware of the fact that if i
the press matter was received over an ocean
cable the charge would be something like
this, but as the news is supposedly sent by
wireless apparatus, all belonging to the
Marconi Company, do not quite see where
the twenty-five cents comes in. But even
granting this enormous charge per word, l
do not think it would cost many hundreds
of dollars per day to print the news items
that are given in these Mid-Ocean dailies.
For my part l cannot see why it would be
much more expensive to print several pages
of news, so long as the matter was coming
over the Marconi system, than it would to
print several pages of love stories and ad-
ventures which could just as well be read
in any magazine
In regard to the paragraph about the
Marcon VS. DeForest suit, cannot exactly
hot 1lx,
| means, but he concludes by saying that the
decision, SO far as the main and all encom-
passing facts were concerned, was in favor
of Marconi. | am afraid his imagination
has again led him astray. The very back
bone of the Marconi claim was that he had
the indisputable right alone to operate
wireless biography. This was the kernel
of the whole matter and his other claims
were simply thrown in as ballast. This
claim was refused point blank. and it is
from this decision that Marconi is appeal
ing
In regard to the Governments use of
wireless apparatus, l am perfectly aware
that more than one system is being used,
but am also as fully aware that these sys-
TENS do notincude the Marconi system.
remember reading that at the time, some
few years ago, when the Government was
testing several different systems, the repre-
sentatives of the Marconi system, seeing
that they were not going to be in sight
when the leaders were finishing, put on an
air of injured dignity and said if they could
not have all the Governments business
that they would not take any, and further
more that they did not see the necessity of
having to compete with any other systems,
and SO they withdrew
In regard to the DeForest wireless SER
vice for the London Times in the far east.
it is sufficient to say that this service was
so satisfactory that a DeForest company
has recently been organized in England I'M
der some of the leading financial men of |
Great Britain, and that this company has !
already snatched considerable business
away from the Marcon interests establish
ed there. This is the more remarkable in |
view of the fact that the Marconi head |
quarters are in England and not in this |
country, and that if he had firm hold any
where he should have it in England. l |
must conclude that some of the people in |
Great Britain must be almost as ignorant
as L am concerning these marvellous
achievements OF MISUNDERSTANDING 22OO
miles continually, sending and receiving at
the rate of 100 words a minute without a |
flaw, etc. l wish to refute utterly your
correspondents statement that Marconi is |
still the premier in the field of wireless |
telegraphy. If Marc0ni has done ANYTHING
in the last few months, l think it must |
have been concealed in that same subtle |
manner in which that wonderful invention |
OF his has been concealed. | remember the
great splurge there was when one message
went from Poldhu in Wales to Glaze Bay.
but since then | have not noticed that many
OF our great dailies are receiving their for
eign news via the Marconi European con-
nectlGn On the other hand l have seen
numerous articles in the papers concerning
new DeForest stations being put up, extend
ing from one side of this continent to the
other. have also seen notice of work to
be done for the British government in
their foreign possessions by this same
American inventor. In South America
al SO, for some strange reason, they seem to
think that the DeForest apparatus is pre-
ferable to Signor Marconi's. Surely, if an
American has reason to be proud Of an
American inventor or scientist he should
be willing to throw out his chest when the
name of DR.. DeForest is mentioned as an
exponent OF American ingenuity, starting
as he did at time when the papers were
full OF Marconi and his wonderful inven-
ton, working steadily and persistently to
the top. Outside of the reach of the bril-
liant lime light of publicity which was
shed over the career of the Italian inven-
tor, he has worked his way steadily up
wards until at the present time you will
find no scientific man, who is at all ac-
quainted with the subject of wireless tele-
graphy. who will not say that the DeForest
system is vastly superior in every way to
not only the Marconi system but to every
other system of wireless telegraphy now
being exploited, either in this country or {
abroad. Respectfully yours,
FRED Fl. BEACH,
New Haven, Conn, Aug II, 1906