The chronicle=news., 1913-03-01
Me,o lnvention to
! |Reoolutionize Messages

ages BY the application OF the Morse
system. heretofore believed 10 be
impossible. was announced by Presi'
dent Clarence. II. MacKay At the an
nuql meeting of the Markak CONF
paniea recently.
The most notable event of the
year in connection with your COM
stockholders. ''!s an invention OF
John Colt. who has been the chief
engineer OF the Commercial Cable
company since I've organization in
1881. II" has invented n device by
which the Aorse dot and dash sig
mails can he used on long submarine
cables-that Ia to say. messages can
be sent by the ordinary land line
Morse key and read on q Morse SCUM
der. This invention surpasses In I'M
nortance anything that mas been ad-
dcd 10 the submarine cables since
Sir William Thomson and Cromwell
Earley first made the practical oper-
aion o long submarine cables pos
slblc fiity-five years ago.
1T Is expected that Mr. Colts In.
vention will make the cable service
Az flexible ss tho land service. II
links up cables or land lines OF both
or alternate rsbles aud land lines.
and is an achievement which invent
osx and the forcln most scientists In
the world In cable working have
striven to obtain ever since the first
Atlantic cable was laid.
The first transatlantic cable was
destroyed by forcing u powerful cleo
i-ic currcn; through /, In the at
tempt 10 employ the Morse alphabet
OF dots aud daShes. Ever since that
time continuous but always unsuc-
cessful atteiupia have been mada TO
discover some method of using the
MoNe system of dot and dash
signals.
The far.rcachIEE effect o! this
invention on all kinds OF telegraph
transmission. both by land and sea.
cannot at this time be dcfiitcly stat
cd. but the Commercial Cable COM
rAny believes that by this Invention
II viii he possible to transmit thru
automatic receivers. telegraph sig
nals all around tho world. Tho Com
mercial Cable company has acquired
the rights to this Invention and has
taken out patents all over the world.
1T should br mentioned that OF
tho very limited number Of improve.
inents IN submarine cable working
Mr.. Colts invention Is the third In.
vcntion Of prime Importance produc-
ed by members OF the Commercial
Cable company'x staff. inventions
! which the rest OF the cable world was
quick TO appreciate and adopt.
namely. the vibrator. by the late
Charles cutsriss. for which be re-
tcieved first prise u; the Paris ex-
position Of 1857; the automatic
sransnitteres OF T. J. Wilmot and
ska Hs,.es o. 4 t.A
cable system by John Got. This In.
reality tho dream OF cable cnRt-
ncesx ever since the first Atlantic
cable was laid In 1875.
Mr.. Gotta invention Ia only the
latest evidence that the Commercial
has bcen.-a progressive. aggressive.
competing company Determined 70
hold Its pre-emincnt position by
;aeritorious improvements In inter-
rational telegraph service.
Some years ago Thomas Edison
took very excellent automatic
Morse arrangement to England. and
| In the course OF his experiments sri.
ell to pass dots .nd dashes through .
cable about one thousand milcs long.
ooiled in a tank. After the trial he
lauEhinsly acknowledged that he
had not been very successful. as a
not sen. into the cable was twenty
eight feet long when II came out at
the other end
| lin fact. he said. I thought that
dot was never going to end"
| Mr.. Markay told thes tockholders
that the trustees had had no cause
a. yet to chang. their views concern
Ing competition from wireless tele.
Eraph!. During the last year trials
were made pi wireless transmission,
end the reseuits. he said. proved that
this mode is far inferior TO that OF
cable transmission.
! A test conducted bv committee
OF the House OF aPrlioMent to de-
'srmine the relative speed OF cable
and wireless messages showed that
the time consumed in Transmitting
wireless from London to New
Nork was three hours and forty-six
minutes while the same nessa ge was
sent by cable in fifty.one minutes.
Mr.. Mackay said that the investi.
| CATION OF the United States govern.
ment Of the proposition to take over
all the telegraph lines In the United
states proved that the postmaster
general was not satisfied from any
evidence before him that these lines
could be managed moro economically
or any more efficiently than by pri-
Nate companies.
The anual report of the compan-
les shows that their financial coudi-
tton is highly satisfactory. They earn
ed a substantial surplus above the
dividend requirements for the pre-
lerred and common shares and after
deductions for betterments.
Kegarding the $l2,000.OaO fund
which the companies have maintain
en- since the sale Of the American
Telephone stock three years ago,
MI. Mackay stated that the fund was
still intact and available for any en-.
ergency that might arise. such us ex.
tensions Or the taking up of new
line Of blSinnss