The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-01
Topeka May Have q Station of
Its Own.
Geo. e. StOker Is Here to For
ward the Plan.
REACH ACROSS THE CONTINENT
This City May Be on TranscOn-
tinentaI Route.
Says He Has Been Authorized
to Establish One.

Topeka may have a wireless telegraph
station At least there is a move in
that direction and a number of inf1u-
entail business men in the city have
become interested in the proposition.
George E. Stoker. attorney for the
Federal Telegraph company organized
under the laws of California, and who
was formerly for II years a well known
lawyer in Topeka, is here in the IN
terests of the company which he rep
resents. Il am here to get station
established in Topeka provided enough
business men are interested said Mr..
Sucker today. Under ordinary cond1-
tions Topeka wouldn't get a station at
this time, for we are installing the
stations in the larger cities. However,
when 1 was in Topeka recently several
business men became interested N tue
plan and when 1 returned to san FRAN
cisco the company authorized me to
arrange for the installation of a sta
ton provided that certain conditions
are complied with.
1.-The Federal Telegraph company
controls the Poulsen patent rights COW
ering wireless biography for the Uni
ted States and It's dependencies IN
Guiding Alaska, Cuba, Porto Rico, Ha-
wall and the Philippine Islands These
rights are the inventions OF Valdenllr
Pouisen of Copenhagen, Denmark.
PoulSen is renOWn as the DanlSh EQl-
son. and has made many noted as
coVeries in electricity aside from MS
perfection Of the system or wireless
telegraphy. His method of producing
the wireless wave is by what is known
as an arc in hydrogen, as distinguished
from the spark methed employed by
other wireless companies.
THE POulSen wave is far superior TO
any other, as is demonstrated by the
ability to send it over land as We'll as
over water, and in the daytime as Wen
as at night. Other wireless companies
can do neither of these things to the
exfor7t of ma king their system q COM
nnercial success
..The Federal Telegraph company now
has a line of stations extending from
Seattle to Chicago and is doing an
active commercial business in compe-
tition with the two wire companies,
between these points, at all times OF
the day and night. The service is just
as reliable and accurate as that given
by the wire companies, ana is mucn
THE company commenced it's COM
merciaI activity on the PACING coast
and at the present time most OF lts
customers are located In the cities OF
Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles
and Sau Diego, although recently the
business has grown rapidly at PhoehlA,
ElPaso, TT. Worth, Dallas and KANSAS
you may be interested to know
what some of our customers say OF the
service the company gives For IN
stance the Bank of California, the lars
cago SAYS: The service rendered py
your company has been uniformly
satisfactory to US, and we have given
your Office a large share OF our Dus'
ness to points reached by your system;
1.-THE following from Duncan CampOell
r. Co, wholesale fruit and produce
brokers of San Francisco: The service
is complete; in fact better than given
nv either of the old line companies.
And this from the California trulC
Growers Exchange: We have been Us
ing the Federal Telegraph service ex-
clusively since last July, and flnd tnat
we have received faster more ac-
curate and better service at less mon
ey than when we were using either Of
the competitive companies
IT could give similar reports from
hundreds of other firms, brokers ana
bankers, showing that the system is
NOT an experiment, but an actual COM
merciaI success.
ssJJnlike other wireless companies tire
Federal company was not promoted as
a stock jobbing proposition. 1t mas
heen financed from the beginning py
a few very wealthy men of San Fran
cisco I have up to the present
time expended over 100000 IN estaD-
fishing and extending the service MOI
until the present time has snare OF
stock been offered for sale to the pup
lie. hut now that the system has been
nroven a success a limited amount OF
stock will be sold in each town in which
a station is established in order to Sc
cure interested friends in as many COM
rlunities as possible"