The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-07
BUSINESS DONE
ON FIRST DAY
Marconi Pleased at Operation
of Wireless Across
Atlantic.

GLACE BAY, n. s.. October 18th,
Inauguration of a regular transatlanti,
wireless service was accomplished by
William Marcoai and his assistant.
yesterday. Mr.. Marconi stated las
night that more than 5000 words haC
been transmitted between the station
at Fort Morton, six miles from here
and the Irish station.
Invitations to a large number OF
guests were issued for o'clock in the
afternoon, but the world wide interest
in the undertaking brought a flood OF
messages in the early morning and the
service was opened shortly after day
light. Among those present at the
opening of the new service were rep
resentatives of a score of British and
American newspapers.
Il am entirely satisfied with the re-
suit said Mr.. Marconi last night "A
great many papers have wired me for
a personal statement of the accom-
plishment of the object L have beeil
working for for several years, but /
am too busy today to dictate anything.
has worked splendidly; we are going TO
operate a limited service for a time.
but we have already handled from
5000 to 10000 words today on account
of it being special day and large
number of congratulatory and press
messages having been exchanged be-
tween London and New York. We did
not transmit commercial or private
messages sas a rule today, as we made
it a sort of press day.
REGULAR BUSINESS SERVICE.
You cannot call it an inaugural or
opening. We had our real opening two
years ago, when kilograms passed
by our system between the Presi-
dent and the king. We have not. there
fore, addressed anything to crowned
heads, but we are just quietly starting
to do a regular business between Eu-
rope and America in continuation of
the old service. Sir Wilfrid Laurier
sent two messages by our. system this
One was addressed to the
British people. We also received a
from Lord Strathcona, the
Canadian high commissioner in Lon
don. We handled a pile of kilograms
today which must have aggregated
more than 5000 words. I am, indeed,
pleased with the result
The inventor expressed absolute con-
f1dence in the triumph achieved in
ira nsatlantic communication and in
the future of long distance wireless
biography. He said the work at the
Cape Breton station was now practic-
ally finished and did not longer require
his attention, which would be turned
upon the problem of overland wireless
between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts of America and
other matters. Transcontinental COM
will not be the first ques-
ton he will take up personally, but it
will be dealt with in due course, he
says.
THE CAPE BRETON STATION.
r. W. VIVIAN, chief engineer of the
Canadian MarcOni Company, who has
been at the Cape Breton station con-
inuously for two years, received the
,ress representatives and conducted
hem over the station. 1t is situated
N bleak projection of the Cape Bre-
on coast, Immediately overlooking the
cean. A high wind was blowing when
he press representatives arrived, but.
hey were assured that the condition |
# the weather made no difference in |
wireless communication. The station |
S the property of the Canadian Mar |
oni Company and is estimated by Mr.. |
VIVIAN to have cost 100000, independ-
mt of experimenting incidental to the |
rst attempts to make practical use of |
new invention. There are twenty
n a circle of 5000 feet in diameter. |
he masts are wired and connected
18th the four towers forming the CEN
ar of the circle. The towers are wood,
Is feet high, and surmounted by
lasts 80 feet in height.
Among the messages which were
transmitted today was one from Sir
Tiram Maxim and telegram from
he London Daily Mail to President
roosevelt.
The principal advance IN long~ols-
ance sending which Marconi has made
/ two years work is described as the
of a receiver many times
lore sensitive than the original in
-rument. Details have been kept
ecret.
FROM THE BEGINNING.
The development of wireless tele-
raphy may be briefly summarized as
blows:
1S42-Prof. Morse sent signals across
lie Susquehanna river without metal
C connections of any sort by means
: wires stretched along the banks
59-September, James Lindsay OF
read a paper before the Brit
h Association stating that if wires
ere run along the coast of America
nd Britain and charged with bat
ries he could send messages from
ritain to America.
1S64-December 8, Clerk Maxwell de- :
ned at the Royal Society the ether
ayes to a certain extent, and showed f,
lat wireless telegraphy would be pos
BILE by means of the electromagnetic
ayes, the velocity of which he con-
uded was the same as that of light.
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