Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-02
MARCOM 8.PLANS
WILL START HOT
FIGHT0N RATES
Honolulu To Be Center of a
3-Cornered Competition Be-
tween Wireless & Cable

A rate-fight on the Pacific with Ho
nolulu as the center Is foreshadow ed
| by the announcement in San Fran
cisco last week OF. a working agree
ment between the Marconi Wireless
Company and the Western Union
| Telegraph Company.
The fight is shaping up as a three,
{ cornered one, with the Marconi Wire
less, the Federal Wireless and the
Commercial Pacific Cable companies
all after the business.
Details of the new Marconi-W estern
Union agreement are given In the San
Francisco Chronicle of January &c
which says:
Announcement was made in San
Francisco last night of a working ar
rangement having been effected be-
tween the Marconi Wireless Company
of America and the Western Union
Telegraph Company. 1t is conceded
to be the most important deal that
has been negotiated in the telegraph,
telephone and cable business in the
history of the United tSates.
Coming so close upon the arrange.
ment recently arrived at between the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company and the federal government
at Washington, whereby the Bell Tele-
phone Company agreed to divorce it.
self from the Western Union, thereby
giving rise to deep self-congratulation
on the part Of the Postal Telegraph
Cable Company, it is expected to Gre
ate a sensation B"
Rate War Likely. -
1.-THE big outstanding feature of the
new arrangement is the rate fight
fore-shadowed between the Marconi
wireless and Western Union on one
side, and the Postal Telegraph and
Commercial Cable Company on the
other. Within the next few months
a complete transatlantic and trans
pacific wireless service will be inau-
gurated, and by linking up with the
Western Union Telegraph lines will
effect an entirely new telegraph and
transoceanic service across both the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the
American continent It will also ex-
tend from Alaska tohCape Horn.
The new, service will be initiated
with 33 1.3 per cent reduction over
the existing cable rates ...
Every Western Union Office will be
a Marconia wireless Office, and the
transpacific wireless service will be
operated in connection with the West
ern Union "a = ~ - *
"The arrangement still existing be-
tween the Western Union and the Bell
Telephone Company makes it possible
for patron to telephone his cables
to StaPetersburg. fe - +. :
Marconi Official Here.
This. important announcement was
made at the Hotel bSt. Francis last
night by, Edward j. aNally, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Mar
conf Wireless Company He arrived
here yesterday from Seattle.
The presence of iHal1y in the serv-
ice of the Marconi Company is not
the least important feature of tho new
deal. The Marconi people got him
from the Postal Company He has
been pioneer in both the telephone
and telegraph business of America.
having entered the service of the Edi-
son Telephone Company of st. Louis
in 1878. He went with the Western
Union the same year and remained
until 1890. Subsequently he was with
the Postal Company for 20 years. Dur
ing the last seven years he was vice
president and general manager and
one of President Clarence H. Mack.
avs most able assistants.
"Justs how Nally came to go with
the Marconi Company is not told, but
he resigned from the Postal last July
and joined the wireless concern in
October.
"Nally has just returned from Eng
land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland,
where he made an inspection Of the
new high-power stations, and is here
to inspect the high-power stations of
the company at Marshall and Bolinas,
in Marin county.
Stations Around World.
These two stations are part of
chain of high-power wireless stations
that is being built around the world.
They will work with similar stations
in Honolulu, Japan, China and Ma
Mia. They thus will form a trans
Pacific, trans-continental and trans
through service by connect
ing up with the long-distance wireless
near New York City and Bel
mar and New Brunswick, n. j. These
latter will work with similar high
power stations at Canarvon and To-
wyn, Wales.
"Other long-distanee stations are be,
ing constructed on Cape Cod, near
Boston, to work with the Norway sta
tons and take care of the northern
Europe and Russian traffic. BY con-