Evening star., 1914-09-27
SAYV|LLE TO GIVE
PUBLIC SERVICE
Wireless Plant Gets License to
Do Commercial Work on
limited Scale.
FORMERLY SENT RADIOS
ONLY TO SHIPS AT SEA
Government Officials Also Consider
Operation Of Siasconset Station,
j Closed by Daniels.

Revealing the difficulties Of wireless
Communication with Germany. and ad-
hitting that the Sayville, L L, station
II practically the only means, license
to conduct a limited public service
station" was granted to the Sayville
concern by the Department Of Com
merce last night.
Assistant Secretary Sweet notified
the Atlantic Communication Company,
which owns the station, that the IL
csnse permitted operation in connec-
tion with the coast stations at Nauen
and Eilvese in Germany. and with the
coast station at Cartagena, Colombia
The license originally issued to you
February 81. 1913" the letter adds.
authorized you only to communicate
with ships at sea About that time,
February II. you stated that you wish
ed to use . high-power set at Sayville
for special testing In conjunction with
the engineer Of the Telefunken Com
pany at Berlin, and the department
permitted these tests to be conducted
to be dxed by the radio inspector at
New York.
A Dollar Per Word.
sOn the 11th instant. the radio in
Bpector advised the department that
you were charging one dollar a word
for messages between SayyOs and
Nauen. Germany. This commercial
service was in violation Of law and Of
the understanding by which you had
been permitted to conduct only expert
mental tests.
you now ask for a license to send
transatlantic messages to Nauen and
R<~n ri tnd nf
charge at the rate of IS cents per word,
the additional coast charge at Nauen
being as cents, which includes the Ger
man land line rate.
oeeds any rates for radiograms per-
mitted by any government, as shown
by international records. You claim
that you need this high rate because
your Transmission is SO uncertain that
messages often have to be repeated
six or eight times. and you have shown
to the department service messages to
prove that sometimes s.sn several n,,al day days
munication. Other experts have cor
roborated from observation your state
ments as to the uncertainty OF your
communication with German coast sta
tionA
Accepts Statement
The department does not believe
that the uncertainty Of your communi-
cation is q valid reason for an excep-
tional rate. It accepts your state
ment that at present you have no
trafic at all with ships at sea and
no other source of revenue. and that
at . lower rate than IS cents 1t will
be impossible for you to keep the sta
tien open.
Under these exceptional conditions
the license forwarded to you today au-
thorixes you to collect the rate Of 70
cents . word up to noon January l.
sibls for ron to increase your power
or in other respects improve your COM
municAtion. The license will termi.
nate At the hour and day named. and
you may then apply for q new license
at lower rates. -,
'The license also authorizes you to
charge a5 cents q word for TRANSMITS
same period"
Discuss Use Of Station.
The possibility Of operating the Mar
conf wireless station at Siasconset,
Mass, Of which the government has
taken possession because Of failure to
observe censorship regulations, was
discussed yesterday, but no conclusion
reached Hundreds of radiograms are
said TO have been handled daily by
the station.
Pending the return Of Secretary Of
done It was urged that the income
from the station during the period OF
governmental control would reduce
largely the damages. II any should
ever be held to be due the Marconi
Company in the litigation already be-