Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-18

Giace Bay, Oct. 1l.-lnVitatiOnS to the
Inauguration of a regular tranS-A
lantic wireless service We're issued for
2 O'Clock this afternoon, but the world
wide interest in the undertaking pro-
duced Il flood Of messages in the early
morning and the service was opened
some time after daylight. This was
the announcement the inventor Marcoli
made 20 The Associated Press at
O'Clock at the Marconi station. six miles
from here. \ score of British and
American papers were also represent
ed.
Il am perfectly ratified with the re-
suit" said Mlrconi, "A great many
papers have wired ne for a personal
statement of III" accomplishment of the
object | have been working for several
years. but | am too busy today to die
tate anything. You can say however,
that eve rythng has worked Soicndidly,
we are going to operate 4 limited SEP
vice for q while, but we have already
handled from 5000 10 10000 words today
On account Of il being a special day
and Il large number of cnngratulatory
ana press messages In. ifG 'iecn eX-
changed ietN",n 1-naljnm and New
York. We ar" not Transmitting COM
| m,rcial oi private messages rs 4 rule
today. as we Hrc making il Il sort of
press day
"No." continued the inventor. You
cannot call it an inaugural or opening.
| We had our opening two years ago
when kilograms were PASSED by our
system between the !'r"sidnt and the
| Kings We have not therefor" at this
| time addressed anything to diGnitarics
| or crowned heads. bat, are just quietly
| starting to DO Il regular business b.
| tween Europe and America in contin-
uatirn of the old start. But since YOU
TASK know that Sir Wilfrld 1lUricr. The
premier of Canada. sent two messages
| to London by our system this morning.
| There We're others. NJ. | cannot re-
member what Was tie first message
| sent across the ocean this morning. We
| handled a pie of kilograms which must
| have aggregated mere than 5000 words.
| / am indeed pleased with the result.
| Mr.. Marconi was rendered Il dispatch
| from The Associated Press London.
| calling for a reply as to time received,
| but said they could not handle it to-
| day. They had given the first day
up to newspaper business. but would
be ready to forward the message to-
| morrow morning. The inventor OK
pressed absolute confidence in the
| triumph of trans Atlantic communica-
| ton and in the vast future of long dis
| lance wireless biography. "a" said the
| work ut the Cape Breton station was
! now practically finished and did not
| longer require his attention. which
would be turned upon the problem OF
| overland wireless communication be-
| tween the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
| Of america and other matters. Trans
| continental communication would not
| be the first question he would take
up personally. but it would be dealt
| with in due course.
! Marconi will leave for New York
| in about Il week On route for England.
| He will not stop at Cape Cod to su-
rerntcnd the Improvement Of the sta
| ton there to fit it for direct commu-
nication with the other side. The chief
engineer "f the American Marcino Co.
| \. W Bradley. will attend to that II"
| has been for several days studying the
details of the cape Breton station ana
| Will take w the development of the
f! Cane Cod station soon after his re-
turn to New York.
| r. n. VIVIAN. chief engineer of the Ca
| nadian Marconi Co, who has been at the
Cape Breton station continuously for two
wears, received the press representatives
| ut : o'clock and conducted them over the
| station 1t is situated some miles from
| a railroad a bleak projection of the
Cane Breton coast Immediately overlook
ing the Atlantic ocean. a high wind was
blowing when The Associated Press rep
| resentativa arrived, but he was assured
that the condition of the weather made
no difference in wireless transmission.
The station is the property of the Ca
madam Marconi Co and is estimated by
Mr. Vivian to have cost Sl00,G0J ndepen-
dent of expenditures for experimenting
incidental to the first attempts to make
practical use of a new invention. The
station is placed in the center of a farm
of $50 acres. The farm is wire fenced. In
n large clearing in the middle ~ pine
masts $50 feet high are arranged in n
circle of 900 feet diameter. These are
all guyed and supported by stays and will
stand any wind short Of hurricane.