Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-11-06
WONDERFUL PROGRESS OF WIRE.
LESS.

The Argus: The following clipping
from the Chicago Examiner shows
such wonderful progress of wireless
telegraphy that feel sure that it will
be interesting news to your readers.
We should bear in mind that it has
only been a few years since the read
ing public was much astonished when
the papers stated that wireless mes
sage had been sent sixty miles from
the land to vessel out at sea- Now
they send readily messages from 500
to 1000 miles over land, and from
1000 to 5000 miles over water.
They can send three times as far
over water as over land. Why? No
body knows why. They can send
rauch farther at night than in the day
time. Nobody knows why.
1 presume the majority of Argus
readers will not fully understand the
third paragraph of this clipping un-
less I explain, that when a wireless
message is sent it is shot off into the
air and goes every direction at once,
like the sound of a cannon. The sound
travels north, south, east and west
So the wireless message can be caught
by any instrument that is within ra-
GIus of the power of the sending in
strument For that reason the opera
tor at Chicago caught messages sent
from New York city to vessels on the
Atlantic.
The Examiner of October 10 had the
following:
Wireless te1egraphic communica-
ton was established by Chicago with
Duluth for the first time last night
Chicago has been ready to receive
through the United Wireless Telegra-
ply Company and send messages tc
the Minnesota city for some time, but
the apparatus in Duluth was not ready
Until yesterday. The first message
that came from Duluth was addressed
to Mayor Busse, and was from R. D
Haven, mayor of Duluth. It read
Greetings by first wireless message
from the largest shipping port to ths
largest city on the Great Lakes
Mayor Busse's answer to Mr. Haver
was as follows: Your kind aerogran
received, and I am more than gratif1eC
to know that modern science has Civ
en- to such friendly cities stormproo
connection. Chicago sends your cit,
genuine greetings of friendship
"Aatmospheric conditions last nigh
were exceptionally good for receivin,
and sending messages. In the offic
Company in the tower of the Audito
rum Building the instruments crack
led and spit flames of electricity al
night long. The operator single hand
ed was enabled to hold telegraph
communication with gOodly porto
of the United States. From Manhai
tan Beach near New York he coul
catch the messages that were bein
flashed to ships incoming and outgc
ing. From Hampton Roads hundred
Of miles farther south, he could hea
the ships of Uncle Sans battle f1ee
. talking to one another. From Poi
Arthur in Texas, he could hear th
messages that were being sent to
Standard Oil steamship far out on th
Gulf Of Mexico, and from New orlean
he was able to catch messages ths
were going to fruit steamer still {
sea-
The following is copy OF a tele
gram from the Seattle Office of tn
United Wireless Company:
s. S. Minnesota last trip in com
munication every night. Seattle to ia
pan. Established receiving recor
3,628 miles,
If any reader of The Argus desire
to ask me question about wireless
let him address it to The Argus and
will take pleasure In answering 1t if
can. W. G. HUBBARD.
Go1dsboro, N. c.