The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-05-03
Use Of Wireless
Becoming General
Throughout World

While the wireless has taken f-or
ocean travellers that sense OF solitr6,
which the vastness ~ the sea Is SIM
posed 20 produce. q has given the-
feeling OF security and certain Nay
10 communicate with land IN case 81
necessity Il furnishes them snuss-
menr, TOO. snd relieves the naonoioav
OF which some travellers complain. Each
day the Associated Press sends news
bulletins 10 vessels which take III.
darconi service and print ocean papers
and each day there are business mes
sages speeding through the ethe- from
Slips Invisible 70 the observers On Lara
Business men buy stocks and bo.ds
and real estate. and carry on vsrtou-
transactions az sea IS privately ana
safely as on shoe Messages ma -
caught. Il Is tue. BY the operators %
other companies, but few business men
ifaVel without a prize code book
"nlcn has been cs5nI,i..sd especially for
tneir own use si.a Is vaoIly unreads bic
70 any but those Who have Tia kew
The other types y nessazes-ssDine
with me Friday OF Send CAB 10 III.
pier Saturday az nOOn''-are OF No vslu@
20 anyone who would intercept them
50 the wireless companies assert that
their clients are protected as adsouatelv
as are those OF the land telegraph Any
man who can read Morse signals might
80 into a land telegraph orrics an6 sur
reptiuoOsly take down messages. but a.
IN the case OF the wireless. iulDorrau,
communication 90 over the wires IN
code.
On recent voyage an ops-stor on
board the Kronprinze SSH Cscfiie CAUGHT
q wireless dispatch that was speeding
rom Canada 20 a London nswspaper.
he had Il printed IN the Sims daily
paper When the vessel arrived =.
Bremen the operator was dischsrrad
Tor pirating news That incsden- IN
oicates desire on the part Of the wi-a-
less companies 20 protect their cIie,+.
Ihe ships. too. are protected. Tor f. :.
understood that no operator shan san5
ont news regarding the business ~
ne ship except BY permission OF her
The United wireless 5tlar+fc 80.
Slatlons are a. Bridgeport. Conn Nfs1-
haitian 5sa.-t Beach, q Broadway. Ie-ser
Clly. Galilee. Atlantic CIV. < 7 ~
folk. Va: Elizabeth civ
S,larlesJon, : C: Savannah. Ca. Kev
" est Havana Cuba; Fort sTo~es-
2loolle, Ala Southwest Pass. New o.
cans. La; Galveston and Fort Arthur
Eighty-fve steamships IN the cos.+
wise and West Indian trade are e0rTsr,-ss
49, - his system and have the privi-
lese OF using these stations on a
number o. ships a newspaper * -,.r,--
hshed by the company
stations OF the company on the Pa
SIS coast 9re at San Diego. Los An
gees and san Francisco. Cal p7-t
land, Astoria. Ore. Tacoma 80 e
altle " ash and several trading We
apparatus VIII
a third system Is that OF the NJ
sc wireless Telegraph Cornpsuv-- NJ -
1-as sO5tlors on the Pacific coast and On
long island Sound and zDpsr at7rS -
sound boats as well as eoiipD7enr ~
some United States wsrships Ire
EE,o2'Eernnen-. b. the way. uses United
other companies which max. -sr-f-,-,s~,-
out DO not operate.
II Is probable that the world Win
oe encircled with wireless stations with
- a Few years Already they are 20 be
round in Alaska. India. Japan. CHINA
Australia Peru, Brazil. and the Argen-
me Republic Newfoundland has five
staIons, re Canadian government has
nIteell, Wniie ne MarcOni COul1snv OF
Canaoa sends its messages straight
acress the Atl5-ntic from Cape Breton TO
NiIoen ireland The transatlantic
service IS used by aeN-sp apers- and -
said 10 be patronized By the Canadian
public
Around the coast OF Great Britain
LAANLE dAE a AAull-lGE OF SraCl-lrlz --nfNa
Germany. Holland. Belgium. IraIv
Montenegro. and Egypt in addition "a
other countries in that mart ~ rhe
world have their share Cf apparatus
Up to the present time the ,-nsDe-
Iy OF the cable companies has not baa-,
threatened by the new method OF -rrars-
mission nevertheless the Eove-urenrs
OF the world apparently desire 70 eve
else control over the wireiess n
statement made re emily before 49,
Committee on Agriculture OF the E4ol1Ss
Il Representatives, Willis J. aFoa-e
chief of the Weather Bureau. AIS tila-,
II would be only a matter OF time v-h,--s
the governments OF the world urouls
compel every snip above e.
tain tomas &c TO carry a wireless frStrt,.t
ment and OPERATOR. and require each
snip to transmit FL messages Now me
companies do not exchange telegrarns
with all other ships and stations. re-
gardless o. the system used IN other
words. one operating company receives
only those messages which come TO I'd
from its own stations on ship and shore
although an exception IS made in the.
case or signals from vessels IN distress
The wireless companies, particularly
those that utilize the inventions OF Mar,
conf do nJ- want Government controls
and so far they have succeeded in evad-
ing K.
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