The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-17
MARCONI'S
WIRELESS.
Greatest Invention and Most Success
full Since the Telephone.
IT HAS A GREAT MoNEY-MAKING
POWER.
Present Status of the System Is To Be
Fully Explained to the Public.

That wireless telegraphy is soon to
supplant the cable as a means of conf
munication between Europe and Amer
lea is an admitted fact.
That the system which will accom-
plish this is the one invented by Mar
conf is generally admitted by both
press and public.
That tho installation of this modern
scientific marvel will provide better
and cheaper means of communication
over great distances than present
methods cannot be gainsaid
That 1t will earn greater profits
upon a given investment than any
other industrial enterprise of like char
acter is also a foregone conclusion.
That the stock of the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph company is a better
and more profitable investment than
any other ever presented to the Amer
lean public is the claim of the pro-
meters of the enterprise.
In order to convince the people of
Birmingham of the correctness of
these claims in order to enlist the
cooperation of the people of Birming-
ham in this enterprise, the Messrs.
Munroe & Munroe, of New York, man.
ayers of the Marconi underwriters,
have brought to this city an equip
ment of Marconi apparatus, by means
of which they propose to demonstrate
the effective working capacity of the
system and explain its workings thor
oughly.
Next Monday evening, beginning at
s o'clock, a lecture describing and il
Illustrating the operation of the Marconi
wireless telegraph will be given at the
new High School auditorium.
Facts and figures will be given to
support the claims of the company,
and the public will be invited to sub
scribe to the companys shares, which
are being sold in blocks of from one
share to two hundred shares at $6
each. No one will be importuned to
buy-the logical arguments deduced
from admitted facts will be relied on
to convince the nearer. Full and free
discussion of every feature of the COM
pany's business and of the system is
invited and all questions will be an
swered freely.
The lecture will be delivered by Mr..
w. A. Ryan of New York, who has a
thorough knowledge of theN wireless
situation and who is prepared to give
full information to all inquirers.
The method of public demonstra-
lions and lectures to provide the sale
of the stock is the same as was en-
ployed to float the Bell Telephone
company twenty-seven years ago, when
it was first installed. The same means
was employed to raise money for the
establishment of Morse's electric tele-
graph; also to finance Cyrus w Field 5
cable enterprise.
Morse had almost despaired of rails
ing money to erect wire telegraph
lines. Congress gave him $4,000 and
he put the first line up between Balti-
more and Washington with that
money. 1t showed that millions were
needed to establish his system, and so
he offered to sell out to the United
States government for 100000. Con
gress appointed a commission to in
vestigate. 1t reported that no means
could possibly be devised whereby the
receipts of the telegraph could ever
be made to equal its expenses. Con-
gress declined to buy and Morse and
those who bought stock in his enter
prise became millionaires. Western
Union paid 100 per cent per annum for
many years.
Field was compelled to make a
house-to-house canvass to sell stock in
his cable scheme before he raised
enough money to bring it to its final
successful completion. His son tells
in the biography of Cyrus w. Field
that $40 invested In cable stock of that
dark period of cable history brought
life income to the investor of $500
per year.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell APP
pealed in vain to the moneyed men of
Philadelphia, Washington, New York
and Boston for aid to promote the
telephone. Jay Gould and the Western
Union laughed him to scorn, called
him maniac and afterwards spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars try
ing to establish rival system. when
they might have bought all of Bells
rights for few thousands few years
before.
So Professor Bell was compelled to
turn to the public for support. He
gave lectures and demonstrations
throughout the country. explaining the
foundation principles of the telephone,
appealing to the reason. the common
sense and judgment of the people and
not in vain. Many persons gifted with
prophetic foresight saw their opportu-
nifty grasped 1t. and became million
aires, for every 500 investor in tele-
phone stock at that period has brought
a total return to the investor of oyer
5000 .000-s200, 900 as the result of a
500 investment for twenty-seven
years.
All of which goes to show that not
all of the wisdom and ability to grasp
an opportunity is concentrated in the
millionaires of the nation, and that the
men and women of modest means are
wiser if the opportunity but be pre-
scented them.
We are bringing you an opportunity
to make an equally fortunate invest
ment in Marconi stock. Come and
hear what we have to say. We will