Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-19
New Wireless Law Hits Hard.

New wireless Law Hits Hard.
Despite an alleged scarcity of OPP
orators, the Federal government will
brook no further delay in the gen.
eral and sweeping observance of the
new regulation in which every ocean
going steamer will be required to
carry complete aerogram equipment
to be in charge of a qualified oper-
ator.
The new order, which comes from
the commissioner Of navigation of the
Deuaftment of Commerce and Labor
at Washington, is believed will have
considerable effect with number of
steamers now making periodical trips
from the coast to the Hawaiian ISL
ands. The order plainly states that
the federal wireless law requiring all
vessels carrying fifty or more per-
SONS, including the crew, and plying
between ports more than 200 miles
apart, 70 be equipped with, sfficient
wireless apparatus and a night and
day operator, must be strictly en-
forced on and after October 1.
Inspector Cadmus wrote the de-
partment that several of the steam
ship companies on this coast had
asked for further time to comply with
the wireless act in all its exacting
particulars. Commissioner of Nayi-
cation Chamberlain answered that
under no conditions would further de-
lay in the enforcement of the law be
brooked by the government.
aff 81 nf ~ fho
steamship companies Assert that they
are having difficulty in securing cap
able wireless operators, but Cadmus
has Informed them thatheh GKQJB
has informed them that he has no al
tentative but to require strict com.
pliance with the new law. However,
he is assisting the companies In every
way possible to secure operators.
In order not to come within the re-
quirements of the wireless law some
of the steam schooneTs engaged in
coastwise trade which have been car
rying from fifty to one hundred pas
sepgers will for a time cut down the
list below fifty. ~ arf.s ..-.
Under the new law the masters of
vessels are hold responsible for the
wireless operations aboard ship. They
are subject to a fine Of 500 if it is
proved that a wireless operator is
not constantly at his post of duty
day and night while the ship is be-
ing navigated. ,....: +.
The law regulating shore stations
requiring all stations to take out a
government license will become ef-
fective December 49, >
The law which has been passed re-
quiring all ocean-going steamers,
whether passenger or freight car.
riers, to be euipped with wireless,
will 60 into effect in July next. '
Coast Yards May Build Mexican
Steamers. -.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Con a
mission, which it is said will involve
negotiations with the Mexican gov
eminent for the construction of war
ships, w. H. Bell( travelling repre-
sentative of Armstrong, Whitworth
& Co.. a British concern. which con-
trolls some of the famous shipbuild
ing plants at Newcastle-on-Tyne. ar
rived here yesterday from Australia
Bell was extremely reticent about
his commission, but intimated that
his destination was Mexico, and while
he would not admit that his company
contemplated doing business with the
Mexicans, he said that he would be
glad to get an order either from Ma
dero or the opposing forces.
Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. sup
piled the armament with which the
new British dreadnought, New Zea-
land. is equipped, and it was in con-
nection with this matter that Bell
spent several months in the Antipo-
des. The great warship was launch
ed recently on the Clyde and is now
in commission.