The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-10-08
Operators Enabled to Send
Tunes by Radio TeIegraphy.
Messages Can BE Sent, No Matter
What the Interference Of Big and
Powerful Plants Which May
Be Near.

London.-Remarkable experiments
with a variety of wireless telegraphy
perfected by Baron Won Lepel have
been conducted between Slough. Paris
and Brussels. They included the trans
mission Of messages and of the mel
ody of the national anthem.
In a low-lying meadow at Slough.
within sight of Windsor castle. Is
wooden hut fianked by tall mast and
q tangle of wires. A man who used to
be a yeoman. signaller In the royal
navy sits in that hut tapping wireless
messages to Paris, Brussels and Bruins
wick, North Germany. Occasionally,
when his instrument is not tuned ex-
actly to its own proper pitch, he hears
something like a brass band roaring
In his ears, which means that the Brit
lsh Admiralty Is sending secret code
messages to battleships cruising IN
the North sea or the Atlantic; or he
may receive request from Paris to
tune his instrument to another note
because the great station at the top OF
the Eiffel tower Is drowning all the
messages In its vicinity.
The yeoman signaller turns ham
die, depresses another piano key. and
continues undisturbed his whispered
musical conversation with Paris or
Brussels. The new system is that OF
the Anglo-German Wireless syndicate,
of which a young German. Baron Won
Lepel, is the moving spirit.
The claims made for it are that 1t
calls for much less power than the or
binary systems of autobiography;
that it is, therefore, very cheap In
stallation. and that by applying varia
BILE musical netes to its tune it can
talk In quietness for long distances
however great be the disturbances In
the ether created by more powerful in
struments.
A message was sent TO Brussels
who replied almost at once, adding
that Paris, with which he was In wire
less touch at the moment, had mes
sage. Inquiries were then dispatched
across the English channel and the
north Of France to Paris, producing
the response that the message had
been received and understood, but re
questing a clear course for an ex
perimental message Tin English) re
ceived as follows:
Il am sending this message by the
Lepel system of autobiography
which may further facilitate means Of
communication between London and
| Paris
Owing to the rise in the price Of
wine and general provisions Paris
restauranteurs have materially in
creased their charges.
To-day the weather has been charm
ing.
Great interest is being manifested
by the airmen competing in the Cir
cuff de FEST"
Messages can be sent on eight note.
set to true octave, and In case of in
| terruption the operator can change hi.
note, and the receiver. by few turn.
of a simple regulating screw. sool
finds the new note. The national an
them was played on the keys a
Slough. 1t ELECTED cordial respons,
from Brussels of "vive pentente cor
dialei"
Considering the shortness of thu
aerial" which was only $50 feet long
and the small amount of power used
which was only two kilowatts, the re
suits were good for long distanc,
transmission.
Baron Won Lepel, fair-haired Ger
man enthusiast. is % years old. H,
served for FIVE years as lieutenan
in the Ninth Lancers Of Prussia. H.
took to electric lighting work at