Arizona republican., 1906-11-24
A YOUNG MANS NERVE
 DILIGENTLY APPLIED
What It Has Accomplished for the Head of the Wireless Telegraph Trust in Ten Years.

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 Washington, D. C.. Nov 23.-From a postage stamp bidder" to the head of the wireless telegraph trust. capital iZed at S2O.OO0.OOO in ten years: the possessor of the most magnificent es- tate on the Jersey coast and a for tune to support it, This is not bad for a young man Of forty-three. is it? At dinner last Sunday in his palatial man sion. in White park West End. New Jersey. MT. Abraham White. announc- ed to his guests that arrangements had been perfected to consolidate the operating telegraph companies of the English speaking countries. Among those present was well known Wash ington correspondent. who says: "I was greatly interested in the an nouncement made by MT. White for I have known for several years that he has had this project in mind. The war fare between the American DeForest company and the Marconi company of America and Canada was bitter and expensive. and did neither company any good. Advancement of wireless in this country was hampered by litiga- tion, both pending and threatened Some time ago a modus vivendi was executed under the terms of which the companies ceased their attacks on each other. Since then the harmo- nious relations led to a general desire for closer relationship. Last Sunday Mir. White announced to his guests. os whom I was one, that the negotiations fsaI .Il1 failure was impossible and that in few days the United Wireless Tele- graph company would come into exis- tence. He informed me personally that the new combination had secured a controlling interest in the capital stock of the American DeForest Wireless company, a portion of the stock of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company Of America and Canada. and will ac- quire control of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Gimited) of England. which is the parent company and which owns control of the American, Canadian and all the Marconi companies of Europe. of course. Mr. White is enthusiastic over the possibilities of the United Wireless and a critical examination. of the situation reveals great possibil- tiles. Most of the transatlantic lin CTS are equipped with the Marconi sys- tenn. The English government and merchant marine uses no other. I be- lieve- On the other hand the DeForesr company has a number Of shore sta tions on the American coast and has equipped most of the coasting vessels having wireless IL also equipped the government stations in this country. Cuba and Panama, as well as the United States war vessels. It was this system that made 1t possible for Pres ident Roosevelt to visit Panama with out ever being out of touch with Wash ington. The United Wireless company, by superceding the Marconi and De Forest companies. thus begins business with an equipment on every important transatlantic steamer; with coast stations from Maine to Florida and from the Gulf of Mexico overland to California and thence up the Pacific coast to Alaska. IL also has a chain of land stations running from New York tO San Francisco. via Chicago and Denver. from Chicago 10 New Orleans. via St. Louis. Other stations will doubtless now be erected.
 MT White has been interested III wireless for years. almost ever since he first came into notice as the original postage stamp bidder" That was tel, years ago and when he bid in s1.50O.- GOO of bonds on postage stamp and turned them over to Russell Sage at S1O0,0OO profit without advancing an- other cent. Since then he has been behind the DeForest company of which he is president I knew him when he executed contract with the govern ment to equip stations to send wireless