El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-21
Merging the Wireless
Companies

speed Of light, namely, $4,000 miles
per second. There is nothing faster.
] On May 4, somewhere in the ;hjck
| fog off Cape Cod, the steamship san
/ turce, bound for New York from Boston
Light, coIlided with the steamship Ligo-
nier. Through the roaring Of the i'm
! mediate panic on board both steam
| ships, the wireless operator sat calmly
! tapping out his c. O. D. calls Walter
/ w Massie, at his home in PrOT1dence,
! five minutes later was awakened by
| call from the station at Point Ju-
! dith, telling him the story Of the col
| lision, giving him the names OF the
two vessels and appealing Urgently for
! help. Immediately, Massie commun--
Gated with the wrecking tug, TaSco,
and president Scott. of the ScoIt wreck
ing company. of New London, and the
work of rescue began at once. This
was merely one of the hundreds of In
stances where wireless served Is life
saver on boundary and inland waters
On the Great LAKES numerous instances
of this kind occur with consequent
good results, to the credit of Thomas
E. Clark, making the lives Of sailors
and travellers comparatively safe
But 1t is not on the water alone that
the three inventors plan their great
improvements At present, it is impossi-
! BILE to telephone from New York City to
San Francisco. In the future, It will
be possible to communicate over this
distance by wireless If the wire tele-
phone cannot convey speech over the
United States, there must be some other
means of covering that distance
Everything points TO wireless as the
solution of difficulties presented to
commercial and social life by distance.
and Collins, MasSie and Clark STe
working at the puzI.e-
The Massie Wireless Telegram sys-
tenn is the result of years Of study and
experiment by Mr. Massie, and has been
in practical operation for over six
years, accomplishing much in New Eng
land and along the Atlantic coast.
Steamers of the following lines have
used the Massie equipment: San Fran
cisco and Portland, Pacific Coast, Mat
son, Maine. FaII River, Providence, New
London, Norwich and other steamship
companies and lines. In addition to
this service, land stations are located
at Wilson Point, Connecticut; Point
Judith, Rhode Island; Block Island.
Rhode Island; Cape May, New Jersey;
New London, Connecticut; Chatham,
Massachusetts,; and Jacksonville, Flor
ida
The Collins Wireless Telephone COM
pany of Newark, New Jersey, has spent
years in developing its wireless tele-
phone under the well-known expert, A
Frederick Collins. and it IS the inten-
ton of the Continental company to
install the wireless and put 1t in opera
ton at all the wireless telegraph sta
tons.
A. Frederick Collins is a man of
mental force, and judicial scientific
publications place him in the class with
Morse, Bell, Edison and Marconi in
furthering the cause of modern science
for the benefit of mankind Mr.. Collins
says:
My wireless telephone represents the
last stage known in the evolution Of
communication Wireless telephony is
a great advance over the wire system
because distance between two stations
ceases TO be an. impeachment to clarity
and reliability, and the cost Of main
tenance and installation is slight in
comparison"
Since it's inception. the Collins com
pany has grown from healthy infancy
70 vigorous youth. through the policies
of A. Frederick Collins, technical d.
rector, and his associates. owing to the
fact that Collins is the pioneer Of !
wireless telephony in America, and is
probably the best informed on all wire
less matters, being author of five books
on wireless, the authority quoted in
many encyclopedias. and his aim be-
ing to further modern science. He was
awarded the only gold medal ever won
by any company or scientist, exclu-
sively for wireless telephone. at the
Seattle Worlds fair, in September, 1909 }
The Clark Wireless Telegraph
phone system is the creation of
Thomas E Clark. electrical engineer of |
Detroit. and has been in practical and |
successful operation on the Great Lakes |
of America during the past five years. /
On the Pacific Coast, the Pacific !
Wireless Telegraph company has been |
established for several years. and en- |
joys an excellent reputation for eff |
cient service
Americas broad areas will lose the |
quality of magnificent distances when =
the East becomes constantly in in !
Simultaneous touch with the West by ]
means of Continental Wireless Sta
tions are now built and operating in 1
New York City, Buffalo, Detroit, Toledo, |
Chicago, Oakland and San Francisco, |