Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-19
THE LATEST TRUST
This One Will Be Known as the Wireless Telegraph Combination. 7
 Plans All Complete
NEW JERSEY WILL FATHER IT

| Washington, Nov 19.-When some
 humorous writer once entertained
 his readers with description of the
 Consolidated air trust, which ac-
 quired proprietary rights of the at
 mosphere surrounding the earth and
 charged the inhabitants for the priv
 ilege of breathing, he wrote fiction,
 but he foreshaddowed another trust
 which is based on air and which is
 now being formed-the wireless
 telegraph trust" which is the latest
 idea in industrial combinations.
 The writer has just returned from
 White Park" West End, New Jer-
 sey. the magnificent home of Abra-
 ham White who is to be the presi-
 dent of the United Wireless Teleg- raphy Company-the" trust st"-where
 the plans for the consolidation of
 all the English and American Wire
 less companies have been perfected. While there are details in connection
 with the transfer of stocks, patent
 rights and interests which have not yet been fully worked out, the gen.
 eral ground for the consolidation has
 been mapped out to such an extent
 that MT White announced to his
 guests last Sunday that the tram
 sections looking toward the perfec- tion of the combination were com pleted beyond the possibility of
 failure. The United Wireless, or
 trust" will be composed of the
 Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Con- pany, It'd, of England, and the
 American DeForest Wireless Tele- graph Company. The former con- trols the Marconi companies of Amer ica, Canada and Europe. The American DeForest is the parent company of the English DeForest
 company. Between the two they
 control all the commercial systems of wireless now operating in En- glish speaking countries. The com
 bination will be capitalized at twenty million dollars and MT White
 has accepted the presidency. While
 Marconi is credited with having been
 the first to combine the principles
 of the wireless into a working sys- tenn, and DeForest followed with an- other similar system, the work of
 both of these have been improved
 upon by many other inventors. so that the systems now in use are the joint work of many scientists. For this reason the new company will not include the name of any inven- tor, but will be known as the United Wireless. Az is we'll known, most of
 the transatlantic liners are equip ped with the Marconi system. espe- cially the English liners. while the
 vessels of the coastwise trade employ the De Forest system almost ex- clusively. The United States govern ment stations and vessels are equip ped with the De Forest instruments, while the English government pre- fers the Marconi. The new com- bination will therefore include all the wireless stations up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts from Maine to Florida and from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska; the interior stations at Chicago. Denver. St Louis and many other places; though on the Great Lakes, and on substantially all ocean-going vessels flying the American and English flags. The interchange of wireless messages about which there has been such a fuss, and which led to the recent international conference at Berlin. will be practically accomplished by the consolidation of the De Forest and Marconi companies. As the Eng fish and American governments are both greatly concerned with wire less 1t will be interesting to note their attitude toward the new trust" which will control both the English and American business.
 The plans for the consolidation have been worked out at White Park" the magnificent estate recent ly purchased by Mir White. It was formerly named Shadow Lawn" and was created by the late John T. Mccall, president of the New York Life. who spent at least million dollars on It's ground and buildings. After his death it came on the market with mortgages aggregating s26o.- 900. About this time Mir White. always a daring and successful spec ulator, took cognizance of the pos sibillties in Union Pacific and South- ern Pacific stocks. The recent rise public mind. How much Mir White cleared Is not known but with a por- ton of his profits. estimated at half a million. he bought Shadow Lawn" and renamed it White Park The remainder of his profits he de- termined to invest in extending his wireless holdings. having long been interested in the possibilities of wire less. as president of the American De Forest company. For the past few months there has been a suc- cessiou of house" and "veek-end- parties at White Park. at which Mir and Mrs White have entertained English and American scientists and capitalists with a fair sprinkling of German. French and Italian When not at the Park the party would run up to the waldorf-Astoria for a few days. Meanwhile the details were being worked out by the brokers and attorneys of the companies concern ed. Last Sunday Mr White inform ed his guests tha; the consolidation had been perfected and that nothing remains to be worked out except the details relating to the exchange of stccks and patent rights. etc. and the announcement to the stockhoIs- e-s vfIl he made in fer days Nr White will he large stockhoIder ia the Tinted wireless. but ir fs r4r1o-- ed that Lord Armstrong; uflI be equally interested Lord Armstrong; fs the great ship builder Of England