Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-18
Wireless Telegraph Across At
lantic Opened For CONNER
cial Business
MARcoNI is WELL SATISFIED.
Calls His Undertaking Triumph
Will Join American coasts-Great
interest in London-Prepared to Re-
ceive and Transmit Messages Across
the Sea.
the Sea.

Glace Bay, N. s., Oct 18-At last the
ular competition with the Atlantic
cable. Yesterday the Marconi station
here flashed to Clifden, on the coast
of Ireland, message from Sir Wilfrid
Laurier. premier of Canada. congrat-
ulating the English people on the in
auguration of regular transatlantic
system of communication. A reply was
soon received, and the station was
formally declared open for commercial
business
Premier Laurier's message was adj
dressed to the London Standard and
was relayed on the Irish coast on the
inland telegraph lines. Later in the
day several dispatches were sent to
London papers.
In the British metropolis great inter-
est was manifested in the opening Of
trans Atlantic service, and several per-
sons sent congratulatory messages to
Mr.. Marconi, among them the Duke Of
Argyll. Lord Mayor Bell and Lord
Strathcona, Canadian high commits
sioner. Hundreds Of persons offered
private m -sSagcs for transmission, but
We're told that the business must wait
until toGIy. when all messages offered
viii be taken. The station was kept
busy with messages passing between
public officials and between newspa-
pers In England and America.
Invitations to lar e number of
guests We're 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 news service were rep
resentCtives Of score of Iri Ii AMI
American newspapers
Il am entirely satisfied with tie re-
suit" said Mr.. Marconi "a great
many papers have wired me for per-
sonal statement of the accomplish
ment of the object I have been work.
inc on for several years. but am too
busy to dictate anything. You may
say, however, that everything has
worked splendiGly; we are going to
operate limited service for time,
but we have already handled from 5 900
to 10000 words today on account of it's
being speci..l day, and large num-
Der of congratulatory and press mess
ages have been exchanged between
London and New York. We did not
transit ,11o rnio1
ages as rule, as we made 1t sort of
press day.
you cannot call 1t an inaugural or
opening. We had our real opening two
years ago, when kilograms were passed
by our system between the president
and the king. We have not therefore,
addressed anything to crowned heads,
but we are just quietly starting to do
regular business between Europe and
America In continuation of the old SER
vice. Sir Wilfrid Laurier sent two
messages by our system this morning.
We also received here a message from
Lord Strathcona, the Canadian high
commissioner in London. We handled
a pile of kilograms, and 1 am indeed
pleased wit, the result"
itS lily SiANOA cAp1 cSSeu absolute con
fidence in the triumph achieved in
communication and in
the future of long distance wireless
telegraphy. He said the work at the
Cape Breton station was now practi-
cally finished and did not longer re-
quire his attention, which would be
turned upon the problem of overland
wireless communication between the
and Pacific coasts of America.
and other matters. Transcontinental
communication will not be the first
question he will take up personally but
it will be dealt with in due course, he
says.
Marconi will leave New York in
about a week on his way to England
He will not stop at Cape Cod to super
intend the Improvement of the station
there to fit it for direct communities
ton with the other side. The chief
engineer Of the American Marconi
Company, A. w. Bradley, will attend
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