The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-03-18
WEALTH AND IT'S
REQUIREMENT
Opportunity Is the Keynote to Sue
cess-How the Telephone Created
Riches for the People.

From the Lowell, Mass, Sun, Nov. A. 1905
The people of Lowell are particularly
well acquainted with the history of the
beginnings of the Bell telephone and
know how that invention added millions
to the wealth of this city and made mil
lionaires out of men who had previously
been poor.
To this chapter of the city's history
there is shortly to be added another and
when that history has been made and
written it will read as much like Won
der tale as the story of the telephone does
today.
1T has been rightly said that there is
tide in the affairs of men, which taken
at the flood leads on to fortune and
that opportunity knocks once at the
door of every man" Opportunity, not
chance, rules the destnies of man, and
it is the successful man who recognizes
opportunity when presented TO him.
The time and the opportunity have ar
rived in Lowell when the record of the
Bell telephone may be duplicated by all
who are wise enough to recognize and to
grasp it.
Tewnty-seven years ago Alexander
Graham Bell came to Lowell to show the
people here his wonderful invention and
to ask their aid in establishing his sys
tenn He gave a series of demonstrations
at Huntington hall, since destroyed by
the stock of his company. Few there
were who had the foresight to seize that
opportunity and there are thousands here
today who regret the doubt and skeptic-
ism that deferred them from accepting
that great opportunity for wealth Five
hundred to one thousand dollars then in
vested would have made the investor a
millionaire today.
Another great inventor has sent his
invention to Lowell to be exhibited and
explained In order that her people may
have a chance to benefit by his genius.
Marconi, the great italian inventor of
the wireless telegraph that bears his
name, has sent his apparatus here to
show the people that what has been
claimed for 1t is only very small part
of what it will accomplish. At the same
time an opportunity Is offered the people
to subscribe for the stock of his company
at time when such subscription can not
fail to enrich the subscriber.
Beginning tonight, at the Odd Fellows
temple, there will be a series of demon
strations of the Marconi wireless tele-
graph system. At o'clock each evening
there will be a lecture of explanation,
telling how and why the wireless tele-
graph works. and how and why it will
take its place In the commercial world
as one of the greatest industries ever
created by man.
Facts and figures will be given to show
that in the operation of the wireless tele-
graph there is to be a greater margin of
profit than in that of any other system
of telegraphy, while at the same time
greatly decreasing the cost of Geographic
service to the public; it will be shown
that the company Is already upon a pay
ing basis and that the prospective rise
In the value of the stock will afford al
most immediate profits to the purchaser.
1t is expected by the gentlemen In
charge of the exhibition that there will
be persons who will scott and sneer at
the invention; that there will be those
who will declare 1t to be an impossible
thing-they encounter doubt and denial
wherever they go, but there is no doubt
In the mind of the man who will hon
estly investigate and weigh the evidence
they present, nor is there scoffing among
those who witness the marvellous things
they accomplish.
Upon the other hand the number of
those who doubt and deny today is very
small compared to the number of the
days of the beginning of the telephone.
There are hundreds who retain the men,
DRY of their own foolishness OF those
days, hundreds who with money to in
vest then, failed to do so and saw 9TH
ers grow rich while they remained poor.
These never neglect to buy Marconi
stock; they know the folly of putting OPP
portunity behind them-they are investing
TO the limit that is placed on the Mar
conf investment-3O0 shares. And in this
limit that has been placed upon the
amount of stock that will be sold TO one
person is the most forcible commentary
possible upon the change Of public scnti-
ment in regard to the accomplishments
of science-when Bell was seeking adher-
ents 1t was almost impossible to find a
man willing to risk 800 in the stock of
that company. while today it Is found
necessary 10 limit the number of shares
sold to one person TO prevent the con-