The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-19
|E. (. Benedict Has
 Clash With Brazil
Sails Today on Pleasure Trip Up the Amazon and Had Built
 Wireless Stations For His
 Own Use
BRAZIL E.EVl KES LICENSE
His Protest Taken Up by Secretary Knox-Benedict Party Will Be
 Gone Four Months.

New York, Dec. 19-Commodore E.
 c. Benedict, banker and yachtsman, Will sail from here today on a four
 months cruise on summer waters and
 under summer skies. The yacht AL
 vina has been chartered for the trip,
 and in the party will be Mrs. Clifford
 Harmon, Commodore Benedict's daugh-
 ter; her friends, Miss Mary Bird and
 Miss Mary Finley, daughter of Ma
 jor Finley, T.. $. A., who Is stationed
 in the Philippines; Colgate Hoyt, L.
 L. Benedict, Edward Beers COmmo-
 dore Frank s. Hastings, A. J. Hutter
 of Para, and pr. Harrison B. Arnold, , who will look after the health of the
 party
 The Commodore never cares to get
 so far away from his business inter-
 ests that he cannot be communicated with, and some time ago he obtained license from the Brazilian govern ] ment to'operate a wireless from Para to Manoas, distance of about one thousand miles. Then word came that the Brazilians had revoked his license. The Commodore went to l Washington and had talk with Sec retary Knox. who promised to look Unto the matter and see that his rights
 were protected. The, Commodore was asked last night why his license had ! been revoked. He answered.:
 II don't know anything about it. How should I know why they have deprived me of it. The only reason that can think of is that they want all of those privileges themselves" The Commodore, after he had ob tained his licence, built the necessary . stations The frequency of his trips to the Amazon made the investment look good enough, for 1t could be used by al vessels fitted with the wireless i apparatus The sudden revocation of the license looked like a great injus- tice and every effort will be made to protect the Commodore and permit
 him to use this equipment. Funchal, one of the deserted islands of the
 Madeiras, has been connected by the Brazilian government with subma- rine telegraph line that reaches from Lisbon to Brazil, and is the property of a native company. It may be that this company has protested against | the insta'lment of a wireless system l that would threaten to curtail its bus 1 mess.
 But the Commodore doesn't know anything about that, and while he would like to know the outcome of whatever action Secretary Knox takes he isn't going to wait for it, but will sail away with the hope that the mat ter will adjust itself before his arriva within the territory covered by his wireless system.
 The itinerary of the trip has been arranged in most elastic fashion. It may be followed and 1t may not be, according to the wishes of the party. At present it provides for a straight journey to St. Thomas. to Barbados, to Para, up the Amazon river to l Manos, and then back to Para There, if all goes well, the party will go to Rio de Janeiro, to Buenos AyreS, and thence by rail4to Valparaiso. Here a considerable stop may be made, and then the party will return to Buenos Ayres and to Rio de Janeiro. After this it is possible that there may be a | trip to the Madeira Islands. and also to the Island of Sicily.
 | Nearly all of the trip will be made 1 in sections where the thermometers rarely falls below 68 degrees and very seldom gets above 95. The Commo- | dore does not know just how many miles will be traversed by the yacht before the cruise is over, but if he cares to he can send bis craft over | 30 900 miles on the Amazon and its | tributaries. The party will do lot | of fishing in the Amazon, that teens with the finest edible fishes, and es- pecially with the pira necu, that is the staple food of the natives. Also l the party may shoot alligators, jagu- ars, bears, and panthers.- No diff culty need be overcome On capturing enough turtles to make the table of | the yacht a constant delight.
 | The Alvina is fitted with wireless, and if the Brazilian government doesn't continue to prevent the Com