Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-07-07
THE WIRELESS STATION
AT Battery Park AsheyilIe North
Carolina
FIRST OF IMPORTANT LINK
System With Which Contract Has Been
Made Is Interested In Both Tele.
graphy AID Telephony

The decision of the Continental
I Wireless Telephone and Telegraph
Company TO establish at the Battery
Park hotel wireless telegraph sta
tion at Asheyille, N. C., mean that
the hotel Will be brought into connec-
tion by wireless not only with all the
large cities of the country, but with
vessels on the sea as we'll as all for
eign countries.
The wireless telegraph has undoubt-
edly come to stay; its value has been
recognized by the wonderful savings
of life it has effected upon the ocean
and the company has decided to make
wireless available to inland points as
well as along the coast lines. The
company intends to do q general com
mercial telegraph business and the
fact that the office will be located at
the hotel will be decided advantage
to those who, as guests of the hotel,
have friends at distant cities or upon
the deep blue ocean with whom they
wish to keep in direct communication,
for business or social purposes.
The Battery Park hotel, located
upon an eminence is splendidly stu
ated for operation of the wireless in
struments, say the experts. The send
ing station will be located in a room
at the hotel, while the wires will be
run up on mast high above the
hotel. A regular operator will be
sent there when the instrument are
installed and the wireless will then
be in competition with the wire COM
panies.
The office at Asheville will be the
first one to be established at an in
land point and it is to form an i'm
portant link in system of wireless
stations reaching from New York to
New Orleans. This circuit will in
clude such cities as New York, Phil
adlphia, Washington, Baltimore,
Asheville, Atlana, New Orleans, FL
PasO and San Francisco.
The same company will also con-
struct another system from New York,
through Pittsburg, Denver, Salt Lake
City and San Francisco, while
third will include New York, Chicago,
Denver, Spokane, Seattle and Port
land.
This company will also establish a
wireless system along the Atlantic
coast beginning at Portland, Me-, in
cluding Providence, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Beau
fort, Wilmington. Charleston, Jack
sonvlle and Key West. Part of this
system is now in operation. Asheville
will be in connection with the whole
world. therefore, by wireless tele-
graph. Stations will later be placed
in the other cities of the state and
country.
Contract has been made with Pro-
prietor j. l.. Alexander, of the Bat
terry Park hotel for establishing a
wireless telegraph station of the Con-
tinental Wireless. Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, the station to be COM
pleted within ninety days. The Con-
tinental Wireless Telephone and Tel
egraph Company is consolidation of
the Collins Wireless Telephone and
the Clark, Mason & Pacific Wireless
Telegraph companies.
Tbs station will means much for
ASueNllle as well as LOT the OOuIlUen-
tai, placing Asheville in direct wire
less communication with New York,
Philadelphia and other important
cities of the Atlantic seaboard, also
Chicago and Cleveland and other
cities around the Great Lakes, and in
less than twelve months it will be
extended as far west as the Golden
Gate and to cities along the Pacific.
The station at Asheville will com.
plete the service from New York to
New Orleans and it is intended also
to place the wireless telephone in
all small surrounding towns.
Congress has taken notice of the
necessity of the wireless telegraph
by passing bill last week requiring
all passenger-carrying vessels that
enter United States ports to be
equipped with the wireless telegraph
Ashevile is the first inland city of the
south to secure wireless station.