The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-07-06
Engineer Mayer at Tuckerton,
\. j.. Tells Of Messages
in Daytime.
$50 FOOT TOWER GOING UP
Company Has Strong American
Rackcrs-Ncw Features
Described.


company which is building an $50 foot
wireless tower here. confirmed tonight
THE SUNS cable from London that
wireless messages sent with Or. Rudolf
Golds, hmidt's apparatus have been re-
celyed from Germany.
The messages were sent from the COM
pany's 500 foot tower in Neustadt, near
Hanover. They came in clean cut, three
times day. with hardly missing word
In the whole lot. They were sent at a
slow rate.
Mr.. Mayer will sail for Germany in
a few days to arrange further expert
ments These will aim at sending and
receiving 200 words a minute.
The company back Of this new trans
atlantic wireless believes II has mechan-
ism that will enable 1t to send and re-
oelve twice as fast as the Marconi and
Telefuuhen systems. both OF which do
business overseas. It expects to send
al rate as low as s cents word
u promises degree Of secrecy and
freedom from interference with mes
eages hitherto impossible.
Messages sent in Daytime.
one Of the remarkable features Of the
last few days is that the messages
received here came in the daytime the
mos; difficult period for long distance
wireless work. The many electric storms
here N the past week made IL inadvisa-
Ne To test the tower NJ night, which
is not in shape to send,
Dr. Goldschmidt's radiorrams. all OF
which We're short. were acknowledged
ny cable. They were in the form Of
greetings and were in cipher. They
were received by Mayer and two assist
ants
The tower which received them is
$50 feet high and when finished WAL
he $50, the tallest in the world II
Is being carried to So great height
solely to make possible the sending and
receiving of messages not only between
Europe and america but between
America and Asia, South America and
perhaps Sydney, Australia.
II is said that with three or four OF
these large mastS the German compa nv
expects 10 belt the world. The German
company is the Hoch Frequenz Maschi-
nen Actiergese'lschaft Fuer Drahtlose
Telegraph!e, or the High Frequency Ma
chine Company FOR Wireless Telegraphy.
American. Are Inter~sted.
T. has German and French hackers
and English and American associates.
The company has proceeded quietly.
hut this Is said to be due to desire
not 20 announce itself until it is ready
FOR business That may We in a year.
hardly sooner.
New York representative Is at $50
Nassau street on the door OF that
of!ce, II Is said. only his name, Mr..
Lemke, appears
The s2 600 600 stock of the original
company IS in private hands and the
*5'oOo,ooo capital ~ company soon
70 he formed in London IL said to have
been subscribed fully. An American
Company Will be formed later.
How confident the hackers are il
shown not only by the completion of the
costly Grman tower and plant but by
the way IN which more than $1,000. 900
is beng spent to erect a slender steel
mast In the swamps below Tuckerton
Marsh ground was picked because
water Is first class conductor. Work
began last fall and has been pushed
ever since. The tower itself may be
complete month hence.
'uckerton is Il village in the New
Jersey pine lands The residents have !
been stirred for months by the mys-
'erlous mast going up in the swamp
with steel beams and other material
swelling the receipts OF the Tuckerton
Railroad beyond all precedent. They
say that the German company with the
long name and longer purse was a god
send last winter. When farming and |
o'her work Of the town was out OF the |
question 80 men OF the neighborhoOd |
were employed in the swamp at $2.25
and $3.50 a day.
Visitors Not Welcome.
Mayer speaks no English and does not |
welcome visitors. There are things about
the plant that Mayer and the men under |
nun are not to make public as yet, and
as Tor Photographs. they are not to be
'aHen II watchmen and huge listed |
t'eepleJacks can prevent 1t. !
Mayer explained to-day that the COM
phhS does not want details of Its work |
"hpwn until that work is finished.
Does grounding play an important |
part In your sending and receiving?"l
ne was asked
No more than in other wireless sys-
TENS he replied.
In few words how would you de-
s'F'ne the chief difference between DR..
"oluschmidts apparatus and others?"
~ is This; Other systems nearly all
use a spark crossing a gap to create the
raHlo waves We do not use the spark.
we nave a machine In which the electro
,''ashetic waves, the radio waves, are
,'rrned and from which they are sent
'orh through antcnna at the summit
n me tower. That IL one Of the big
differences.
We are thus able to get a very high
'u'pnt' nut one easily comfortable. The
next question for us over the ocean 10
speed Our method is unusually inter-
'"fencc proof. The statement in The
SUN that others must tune within .o6
per cent, OF our pitch to get anything
is correct, and that would
ne -. very difficult to do without our sing.
What Is your singing wheei7" no
was asked.
IN Germany We call It q tone wheel.