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telegraph lines, and the Marconi appa-
ratus is of the latest pattern, and pro-
vided with a new attachment to prevent
interference by any other wireless sys-
TEN. The location of the station neces-
states the installation of short-dstance
apparatus only at the present time, and
the station, therefore, has an effective
forwarding range of 200 miles It's receive
ing apparatus is capable Of handling mes
sages from any distance.
The new station forms the final link
in the chain of stations whereby all the
big Atlantic liners are in communication
with shore uninterrupted for between six
ty and seventy hours from the New York
docks. Incoming vessels first get in touch
with Cape Race, Newfoundland, when
1900 miles from Sandy Hook. Before they
lose touch with Cape Race, they have
picked up Sable Island, off the Nova
Scotia coast; before dropping Sable Is
land they have opened communication
with Slasconset, and then they are
successfully in communication with Saga
ponack. Babylon and Seagate. Outgoing
steamers reverse this process.-New York
Times, January 90
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NEW LINKS in MARCONPS
WORLD SYSTEM

Marooni wireless biography stations are
being erected in every civilized nation on
earth. so as to form a network of line
of communication by means of which mes
sages may be sent from one country
to another without reference to the inter-
vention of mountain ranges or oceans.
Where cables are now employed for
the transmission Of messages to distant
parts of the world, at rates varying from
% cents to s. per word, the Marconi sys-
tenn will place at the command of the
public means of communication by which
this cost will be reduced to a minimum
of 10 cents per word.
One of the newest links in this chain
of stations is that recently arranged for
near Buenos Ayres, in the Argentine Re-
public.
Mr. George II, Munroe. of the firm of
Munroe & Munroe, reached New York
January 10, after four months sojourn in
the Argentine where he completed the
organization of the Mareoni Wireless fele
graph company of the Rio de la Plata.
This company has a total capitalization
of S6.500000 The entire allotment of shares
Offered the public was oversubseribed in
ten days.
Within a short time a large force of
men will be put at work by the company
constructing the great high power station
by means of which communication will
be established between the United States,
iEngland, Italy and other parts of the
world, as rapidly as stations can be con-
'structed.
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New York. March 5.-RepresentatlVes
~ the Chicago clearing house committee
which has charge of the affairs of John
r.. Walsh, the insolvent banker of that
city. were in conference here today with
the heaas of the Lake Shore and Mlehi-
gan Southern railway, the Pennsylvania
railroad and the Rock Island company.
The conference had to do with the sale
of the Walsh railroad properties, the In
diana Southern and Chicago Southern
railways.
The Chicago clearing house was repre-
scented by j. b. Forgan, president oil the
First National bank; e. A. Hamill, presl-
dent Of the Corn Exchange bank, and j.
b. Hutchings of counsel to the Illinois
Trust and Savings bank. These institu-
lions represent the principal Walsh cred
itors.
For the railroads, President W. f.,
Newman and Vice Presidents W. c.
Brown and John Carstenen, represented
the Lake Shore; James McCrea the Penn
sylvania, and President Robert Mather
the Rock Island company of which he is
also general counsel
The conference lasted several hours.
No statement was issued by any of the
principals, but it was learned that no
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MAY CHANGE PLANS FOR
GOVERNING CANAL ZONE.

Washington, March 15.-With the type
of the isthmian canal and the method
OF construction yet undetermined, the
Senate committee on interoceanic canals
has under consideration a bill to provide
for the government of the canal zone,
and other matters subject to legislative
control. The draft which is before the
committee in the form of a confidential
print was prepared by Senator Kittredge
and is very similar to the one he offered
of controversy over the size and per-
sonnet of the canal commission.
The bill authorizes the President to del
egate to the commission the power to
make and enforce regulations necessary
for the government of the zone, but re-
serves to both the President, and either
House of Congress, the right to require
full and complete reports from the COM
mission, or employees annually, or at any
other period. The same methods of esti-
mating expenditures and appropriations
are applied to the canal work, as are
required of the various executive de-
partments.
The offices of the administration shall
be located and maintained in the canal
zone. and 1t is required that SO far as
practiea BILE the work of the commission
shall be concentrated there. The federal
laws relating to employees outside the
boundaries of the United States are ap-
piled to the employees in the canal zone,
but the bill leaves for consideration of
the commission the percentum Increase
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NEW LINE PROPOSED.
Illinois Central viii Make a Survey
From Aberdeen to Nashville.

Amory, Miss, March 15.-lSpecial.) lit
is learned upon what is regarded as good
authority that the Illinois Central rail-
way will commence a survey in April of
a line of railway from Aberdeen to Nash
vile. The survey, however Will only be
made from Amory northward, as it is
the purpose Of the railway company to
use the Aberdeen branch of the Frisco
from Aberdeen this far. 1t Is only about
thirty-five miles from Amory to a point
on the Illinois Central between Corinth
and Haleyville, and If the line was built
no further the project would be feasible
since the Illinois Central and Mobile and
Ohio both come to Aberdeen, where
neither has northward outlet.
A large northern lumber company will
GO since they own practically all the
timber in Ittamamba county
The Frisco is stocking large quanti-
ties of Alabama coal presumably on ac-
count of the threatened strike among the
miners, though among we'll informed peo-
pie strike of the soft coal miners Is
not looked for
Judge e. o. Sykes of Aberdeen, a MEM
Der of the committee invited by Presi-
dent Fish of the Illinois Central to par
ticipate in the selection of route to
Nashville for his road was in Amory
few hours one day this week.
Much new building is going on here
now. A laundry, ice factory and planning
mills are now in course of erection, and
an oil mill and wholesale grocery are
in prospect.
The new independent telephone line is
in operation and the exchange is in
charge of that excellent operator, Miss
Matte Glozier.
Charles Pitcher of New Orleans is con-
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expert code editors. and when finished will
be the most complete and satisfactory
Geographic code book ever published BY
its use the cost of ordinary business cor
respondence will be decreased 80 per cent.
The Messrs. Munroe & Munroe are now
organizing a corps of canvassers who will
compile the classified directory and place
the volume in every important counting
house on the American continent.
This enterprising firm Of young Cana
dams has made its indelible mark in the
world of finance-they have successfully
financed the Marconi companies during
the most unpropitious times and have
therefore earned for themselves the admir-
alton of all who are familiar with the
difficulties OF promotion.
They have been through much the same
experience as Cornell, Field and Hubbard,
and the results will be much the same.
A man who. following the advice of Corn
nell, invested 500 in Western Union Tele-
graph stock when 1t was young, had the
satisfaction Of seeing that 500 grow into
$500 In less than eight years. Ten dollars
invested in cable stocks on Fie--- advice
brought its owner $500 per annum revenue
for nearly life time.
Many who put 800 in the telephone
stock at Hubbard's solicitation over
Increase to 100000 down to the present,
with promise of further increase.
The Edison electric light has increased
a 500 investment to $1,000 in one year.
There is good reason, therefore, and
sound sense in the belief that an invest
ment in Marconi wireless telegraph stock
will produce like results.
With men like Munroe & Munroe, who
know no Encouragement. who suffer no
backward steps. who pursue their plans,
there is no possibility of failure.
Every emergency Is met with resource
fulness and power and gradually but sure
ly the goal Of success draws nearer.
The great object to be gained by estab-
fishing the Marconl wireless telegraph sys-
TEN Is the removal of a burdensome tax
upon the business interests of the world
Over $500, 10000 is invested in cables be-
tween Europe and America.
Over $500 600 Is invested in land tele-
graphs on the American continent
The interest of this $500, 900 is an an
nual charge upon the business transact
ed of not less than $32, 100000.
When the Marconi wireless system shall
have replaced all these, this annual in
terest charge will be almost wholly elimi-
mated for the necessity of wires and ca
bles will be done away with.
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NEW STATIONS IN CANADA.

In further perfection of the system of
wireless aids to navigation afforded by
the Marconi system In Canada two new
stations have been contracted for between
the government and the Canadian COM
pany.
The first of these is located at Quebec,
on the st. Lawrence. and the second at
Crosse Isle, in the st. Lawrence below
the city of Quebec, completing the chain
of stations from Sable Island to the last
named point.
In addition to the above it has just been
announced by the Montreal Gazette of
March ., that the department of marine
and fisheries of the Dominion of Canada
has decided to have the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph company, of Canada. erect
three new stations ON the Pacific coast.
Twenty-three Marconi stations are now
in operation and self-supporting on the
Atlantic coast Contracts have been let
for three more in the east to be erected
in the spring. This Will give the com
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MONTREAL MEN WIN BY WORTH.
Remarkable Career of Two MasterfuI
Young Canadians.
NOW BIG FACTORS IN FINANCE.
Success of Munroe g. Munroe In New
York an Example of What Energy
and Enterprise VIII Accomplish.

From the Montreal Herald. December S.
No more forcible example of the sue
cess that follows close up the heels of
merit is to be found in modern everyday
business life than is furnished by the ca
reer of Munroe & Munroe in New York
city.
The brothers comprising this firm, the
Messrs Alexander and George II. Mum
roe, have carved out a name for them
selves among the fnanclers of the great
American metropolis.
They began their business life in Mon
treal and still maintain an office here,
although the main office Is located in the
heart of New York's great financial dis
triet also.
Those who are familiar with the his
tory of the telegraph, telephone and cable
know how the names of Ezra Cornell,
Gardiner Hubbard and Cyrus w. Field
are inseparably connected with the sue
cess of these enterprises, of how Field,
struggling against all sorts of obstacles,
twice bankrupted through his attempts
to build the cable. persisted to the end,
until success at last crowned his efforts
and made him a millionaire.
They know how Ezra Cornell in his
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RAILROAD MEN DISCUSS
SALE OF WALSH ROADS

agreemen. was reached because of the
terms demanded by the Chicago creditors
The Indiana Southern railway has
funded debt of S5,000O0O with assets IN
excess of $11 100000; the Chicago South
ern railways funded debt is 100000 and
the capital stock $l,5000Oo.
Just what propositions were made at
the meeting could not be ascertained. but
1t was reported that the creditors FAVOR
ed the sale of the two companies assets
the proceeds to be thrown into the bonds.
In financial circles recently it was de-
clared that Walsh's creditors had named
$25 100000 as the minimum price they
would take for the railway properties.
The offer of the Lake Shore PennsNlva-
nia-Rock Island combination is said to be
near 500 ,0G0.
The Chicago committee is expected to
submit the offer of the combination to the
creditors without delay. Meanwhile nego-
tiations may be said to be at stand
ctfl
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fight to establish the telegraph, combatted
with a thousand difficulties, the burden
of which almost overcame his indomita-
BILE courage, until success at last was at
tanned for the Western Union Telegraph,
a success which brought millions to him
and hundreds of millions to those who
enlisted with him in the struggle.
They know too, how Gardiner Hub
bard of Boston, worked against the COM
bined millions of the telegraph companies
in his efforts to establish the Bell Tele-
phone system; how he had to fight against
infringing patents and systems, and how,
at last, through his persistent efforts, sue
cess came to him.
With that success came millions of dol
lars. not only for himself, but for the
people whose faith in him and in the
telephone caused them to back him with
their means.
When the history of the Mareoni Wire
less Telegraph company of Canada and
the United States shall come to be writ
ten the name of Munroe & Munroe will
be put up alongside those of Ezra Cor
nell Cyrus Field and Gardiner Hub
bard.
These untring young men have cast
their lot with the Marconi Wireless Tele-
graph system, and by their faith, their
persistence, their courage and their en-
terprise they have surmounted the thous-
and and one obstacles that have bestrewn
their pathway, and are rapidly nearing the
goal of complete success.
They have succeeded in impressing upon
the public mind large part of the faith
and belief they have in Marconi and the
wireless telegraph.
To do this they have been compelled to
carry on a campaign of education through
the medium Of the public press and by
personal effort throughout the length of
the land
So enthusiastic are they in their be-
lief in Marconi and his system of wire
less telegraphy that they have raised
large sums of money for the Marconl
system in North America.
They have also undertaken the publica-
ton of a cipher code for secret cores
pondence by wireless telegraphy
The book, which will contain over 800
pages, will embrace some 225000 code
phrases. representing by one word each,
and will also contain complete classified
directory of the leading business houses
of the United States and Canada, with
the word which constitutes their tele-
graphic address.
The compilation of this code is entrust-
ed to the hands of a corps of competent
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over the English channel, the Isle of
Guernsey and Jersey. the whole of France.
including the Cote dor range of noun
talns, and the cities of Orleans and Aux
ere, the Swiss Alps, almost directly over
Mt. Blanc, in Switzerland, and the town
of Lausanne; almost the entire length of
Italy and the Apenlne mountains, over
the Italian cities of Milan, Parma, across
the AEGEAN sea and the Greeian peninsula.
including the Pindus range and MI st.
Elias. and the city of Athens, crossing
the AEGEAN sea and the Grecian archipela-
go, including the island of Karpathos also
crossing the Mediterranean Thus it sped
across cities and mountains, forests and
plains, rivers and seas, arriving almost
simultaneously from the place where it
started.
In view of this wonderful accomplish
ment, who can doubt the efficiency of
wireless overland?
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MOST WONDERFUL STATION IN
THE WORLD.
Wonders of the Marconi Station on
Sable Island.
Hon. Raymond Performances Opinion
of Wireless.

From the Halifax Chronicle, October "A,
1905.
Montreal October 23.-'I have often
asked myself why we people of Quebec
cannot cast off our partisan feeling and
initiate the English speaking provinces,
especially when questions of vital in
terest to the country are being discussed?''
This is what the minister of marine and
fisheries had to say today after his trip
to the lower provinces. The Hon. Raymond
Prefontaine said that the most interesting
spot visited was Sable Island, where he
was astonished at the splendid results OBJ
tanned by the Marconi station on that is
land. though it has been established less
than. a month";
ITO give you an idea what can be
DONE" said the minister II had dis
patched message to Sir Wilfred Laurier
at IL O'Clock in the morning and by
o'clock in the afternoon had the prime
minister's reply in my hand. Just think
what such a feat means There | was.
away out in the ocean, on what has been
called the graveyard of the Atlantic, and
by means of this wonderful invention OF
wireless biography 1 was enabled to
communicate not only with the mainland
but with the seat of government, quite as
well as If l had landed at some point on
the coast.
II consider this Sable Island station
one of the most important in the world.
for l am informed that they receive from
thirty to one hundred messages a day.
They communicate with Caperdown, near
Halifax; but this is not all, for there lie
not liner bound to American ports pass
ing within hundred miles that does not
communicate with Sable Island, and !
believe that all parties. both in Canada
and the States, are most pleased with
the Marconi station at Sable Island"
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Quoting a sale for Holmes Bros. in the
Goss store in front of the park.
Miss Clifford Jones. teacher of the
fifth and sixth grades in the graded school
at this place, spent Sunday at home in
Smthville.
Mrs. R. V. Goss and Mrs. E. G. Smith
were shopping in Memphis the first of the
week.
DR.. G. S. Bryan is in Alabama on bust
ness connected with his drug stores. The
doctor has almost become famous by re-
fusing the sale of coco-cola in his estab-
lishments
Miss Irene Wax, who has been teach
ing school in the country during the win
ter, is at home again, to the delight of
her many friends.
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Alexander [. White Dead.

Huntsville, March 15.-S2ecial.-A tele-
gram from Fayette Court House, Ala.
last night announced the death there of
Alexander H. White, member of a large
and prominent Madison county family.
Mr.. White was slxty-three years old, He
was a brother of Thos. w. White, trav-
cling auditor of the Southern Railroad.
Jas. b. White, VIM. Y. c. White and Addi-
son White, Jr.. Of west Huntsville, Frank
White of Whitesburg; Misses Jane and
Bessie White of Huntsville, Mrs. w. H.
Wigton of Soddy, Tenn, and Mrs. Frank
Tickling of South Carolina.
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Coleman presiding. The grand jury was
empanelled and settled down to work
with jeff York, of Dora as foreman.
Solicitor John Mcqueen is on hand and
will push matters with his usual vigor
Owing to the short time the court will be
in session and owing to the large docket
not much will be accomplished in the way
of getting business off hand.
Contributions for the Confederate mon
ument TO be erected in Jasper to the mem
DRY of the confederate soldiers are COM
ing in rapidly and it now looks as If
the amount of 5000 will be raised within
a very short time. Messrs. Newburger
and Seaman, proprietors of one of the
leading dry goods stores of the city do
mated three per cent of one months cash
sales to the fund which amounted to about
$500. Contributions of $100 each have
been received during the past week from
William c. Davis, Mr.. J. II. Hayes and
J. A. Higgins.
Congressman John H. BanlShead is in
Jasper looking over the political situation
and visiting his sons. John ii. and W. b.
BanlShead Capt. Bankhead Is delivering
number of speeches in Walker county
this week. His friends are claiming that
he will carry the county this time by a
safe majority. Capt. r. p. Hobson IS
scheduled to speak at the court house here
on Saturday morning Whether the two
candidates will meet in joint debate here
on that date has not been learned.
Invitations have been issued to the Gold
en- wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. w. 5. tos-
ter which will be celebrated on the even
ing of the 2Sth instant Mr.. and Mrs. fos-
Ter have been residents of Jasper Tor Il
long time and have a large circle OF
friends who will gather at their handsome
home on third avenue on the occasion OF
their fiftieth wedding anniversary,
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pany twenty-eght stations In addition
to the transatlantic service soon to be
opened
The Canadian government is authoriz-
ing these new Pacific stations because Of
the perfect service rendered to the gov
eminent and to the Canadian public by
the Marconi system during the past three
years, and because it is convinced that
the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company,
of Canada, win continue to meet the Sc
Nerest test placed upon II.
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MRS. J. o. A. PACE DEAD.
Circuit Convenes In Jasper, Judge
Coleman Presiding.

Jasper, March 15.-AIrs. Pace, wife of j..
o. A. Pace. field editor of the Mountain
Eagle. died at the family home in east
Jasper last night after short illness of
pneumonia. The family removed from
Tuscumbia to Jasper only short while
ago. The remains were inferred in the
Oak Hill cemetery here this afternoon.
the funeral services being conducted from
the residence by the Rev. A. B. Metcalfe
of Carbon Hill.
A two weeks term of the circuit court
convened here on Tuesday Judge A. A.
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OVERLAND WIRELESS.

Occasionally critic complains that the
Marconi system does not work overland.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Recently messages We're dispatched from
the company station at Poldby In Corn
wall TO the vessel In which the Prince
and Princess of Wales were passengers
on their way to India.
Uninterrupted communication was held
with the vessel until it was within one
hundred miles of Port Said on the Suez
canal. In order to reach this point it was
necessary for the Marconigrams to pass
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

The undersigned beg to announce hav-
ing formed co-partnershp under the
firm name of Gilbert & Gasquet for the
transaction of any business pertaining
to the following, viz: Locomotives. rail
way and contractors equipment. new and
relaying rails, iron and steel scrap ma
terials, pig iron steel, coal and coke.
car wheels and logging cars. Office 1863
Woodward building. Phone 36a.
HARRY T. GILBERT,
f. VAUGHAN GASQUET.
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the 15i page bound book entitled Current
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contains a complete list of st-eet cars
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