The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-21
TO SEND MESSAGES
BUT USE No WIRES
Plans On Foot To Install High
Power Wireless Radiating
Station In Richmond.
FOR TEL EF2t GiRR APH AND PHONE
Company To Compete With. The
Old Telephone And Telegraph
Companies.
FOR TEL 7 ELF 6fiRR CRAP AND PHONE

"A syndicate is being formed in
Richmond to underwrite $40, 900 OF
the securities OF the Continental
Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Co.
for the Immediate installation of ii
high power wireless radiating station
in this city. Agents of the fiscal de-
partment are soliciting subscriptions
for Continental stock. and canvass
is later to be made for public pa
tronage after the station is installed
here.
The plans of the Continental Conn
many contemplate a rranscontinental
commercial business as we'll as con-
tfnuance of marine reports and ship
ming messages, which have up to
time constituted the great portion OF
wireless endeayors. 1t is expected
that within three months coast to
coast service overland will have been
Instituted, which will permit OF Wire
less communication from the Eastern
cities to Alaska and Pacific ocean
vessels.
Richmond and Norfolk viii be I'M
portant links In the chain of opera
ton. connecting with many Vesse Is
on the high seas, as we'll as with the
stations across the country.
While the operating department OF
the Continental Company are deslf
Gus of putting in as many stations as
possible, those cities and towns WI
first be favored where people want
the service and will invest in sufncleh
Of the company's securities and pledge
%
sary expenditure.
Compete With Old Companies.
The Continental Company Will en-
ter into competition with the old
wire telegraph and telephone compa-
MES for commercial and general pa
tronage In the South In the same
manner that II Is now operating IN
competition with them in Northern
States. This will mean, 1t is de-
cfHred. reduction OF about orf~-t tfft.-
or more from the tariffs now in force
by the wire companies.
The merger Of the wireless interest,"
signifies not only community OF in
terests of the former competing wire
less companies, but unity of purpos'
and work of the three greatest Writes
technicians in America. A. Frederick
Collins, inventor of the wireless tele
phone. waiter '" MhsSls anu AhoiaI
r. Clark.
The officers of the Continental Wire
less Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany are: President, r. T. Davis. Phil
adelphla: ice-President, Walter W
Massie. Providence. r. L.: Genera
Manager Tomas E. Clark. Detroit
Mich; Technical Director, A. Fred
erick Collins, Newark. n. j.. inventol
of the wireless telephone.
Congress recently passed bill max
ing 1t compulsory for every ship car
rying fifty passengers or crew o
more than fifty to be equipped wist
wireless telegraphY,
! Put Ina Wireless Phones.
/ In addition to the telegraph service
! the Continental Company announce
that 1t will put the Collins wireless
telephone in all the wireless station
to supplement- the telegraph work. an,
will also be placed in joint operation
In marine service, as we'll as in fac
/ tories, on farms and in mines.
will also be placed in small cities ad
! iacent to telegraph stations for aux
! Hilary service and viii be operated ef
| ficiently through the support Of tn
I telegraph stations by Interchange o
messages, forwarding of same and Ell
1 fecting reduction of rates. Thes
I stations are planned for the alternat
/ use of the wireless telephone and tele
graph.
Each new invention that has mad
/ for human progress has had to strug
! gle its way and fight for recognitio
against the prejudice and conservatism
OF incredulity that II the child of liz
aeranee. jiifst 50 the Invention or wire
less telegraph and telephone has ha