The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-15

blasts al tho receiving station in tho OBJ
SeCVatory or Paris, No receivers were
employed. 1t was as if giants voic,
beloved across the ocean, so wonderful
ly had tho art OF tclephoning developed
| Nightly seances were held at the Acad-
eny OF Sciences. to which the public was
admitted. At the end OF ono Of these q
phonoSram from Goarisanbar announced
a photophonic message from the inhabi-
| tants OF Mars. which the astronomer RS
We're busly engaged in decipherinE De-
spite the lateness OF the hour the as
| sembled multitude determined 10 wait
| until the Marian message had been
translated. A huge phonoscope was sus-
| pended from the dome, so that all might
| hear the message. and an enormous
| screen was erected in front of the audi
torium on which the picture writing OF
| all might see It.
Finally after long waiting. a stentorian.
electrical voice thundered from the sus-
pended phonoscope.
Thus spoke the voice from above;
1.-The astronomers of the equa torlal me
tropois OF Mars inform the inhabitants OF
straight for them and Is rushing on at n
speed equal to, II not twice as great. as
the orbital speed Of Mars, Its motion,
when arrested. will be transformed into
heat. and the heat in turn into electricity.
Intense magnetic thunder storms. Place
of collision. Italy
Tho voice ceased. a great hush foil
upon the awcstriclseu multitude. The
convinced. The last shred of doubt was
dlspellcd when tho lights in the audi
toTlum were cut on and message
from Mars was thrown on The screen.
This dispatch seemingly incomprohcns-
bic ar first; read from left 10 right and
downward. 1t WAS clear. much clearer.
than most dispatches from Mars.
Nothing was simpler ,han The read
ing OF tho MartianS' message The figure
OF the comet was conspicuous. The ar
row indicated its movement toward cc
ir.it
scented phases, but radiated Ike a star.
That body was the earth. 1t was but
natural that the Martlaus should repre-
sent It thus, for their eyes, having
evolved in a medium less luminous than
ours, easily distinguished tho phases Of
tho earth all the more so because the
Marian atmosphere f. exceedingly rare
Below the arrow tho disk Of Mars Was
depicted. disk distinguished BY the rep
Yesentation of tho Hour-Cilas sea. the
geography. The arrowa drawn on either
side of Mars indicated that tho speed
of the comet was twice as great rs. the
mcnt into heat: the aurora. the transror
nation OF the heat into electricity and
magnetic force.
OF italy. visible from Mars. was tho oh
icctve point Of the comet. four arrows,
pointing away from Italy aud toward the
IpuT I'ljlic Nl LE' '''lI's''''' 'ltNllN N"lu-
ing TN" inhabitants to ilcc from the dan
Ge- point,
Tho photographic message of the Mar
tians was longer and moro complicated.
The astronomers OF Goarisankar had re-
celved many messages and asccrtained
that they were sent from n very Inn
poriant intellectual and scientific center !
OF the equatorial zone OF Mars not far |
from the meridian The tenor OF this |
last message was grave The substance |
OF the message was summed up in the |
pictorial Interpre tatlou lust given.
Tho president rang the boil for order 4
and proceeded to %iVc summary OF the |
whole situation He said
"Fhr last dispatch, ecntloIncu Is before
sou. The Inhabitants of Mars nro more
advanced In the sclences than we, which |