The Alaska daily empire., 1916-09-08
Superintendent DeSart An- nounceS New Rate Ef- feCtive on the First
 of October
IMPROVEMENT IS MADE
Ketchikan Station Is to Be Increased at Once Giving Greater
 Efficiency

The Marconi Wireless Company will meet the rate reduction Of the United States cable which has been announced to take effect on October 1st, according to the statement of A. W. Desart, district superintend- ent of the Northern Division. who ar rived in Juneau last night on the Prince George.
 Mr. Desart came north in company with George Plllsbury, the general superintendent of the Transatlantic Division, and Mr. Winterbottom, sec retary to the general manager Of the Marconi Company Mir. Desart stopped off here while the other two ment continued their trip to White horse. and will return here on the Spokane. The party will spend four days here in Juneau before leaving for the south.
 We are going to do everything in our power to improve the Marconi system no matter what the cost and it will be equal and. we hope, better than any other service to Alaska" said Mir Desart this morning. When our new station here is completed, and 1t will be the most modern sta ton on the coast. It will be possible to wire from here direct to Astoria Oregon station at all times, and most of the time we will be able to get Seattle. which will do away with the relay point at Ketchikan. The Ketchlkan station will work direct with the Seattle station which would work direct with the Seattle station. which will do away with a great deal of the transferring which is now necessary.
 we don't care what 1t costs. we Ire going to give the people of AL lska the very best service. New lwelling houses are to be erected It the KetchiSan station at once and improved machinery installed in that plant. It will be larger than the Juneau station by 10 k. W. but as hat station is the relay point, 1t is he most important. The Juneau station will be equipped to handle any business offered.
 "A new station is to be installed at the eKnsington mine for the use of the mining company there. It will be a five k. w. 250 volt station and will be identically the same as the one now ia use at Jualin. V. ]. Kraft will arrive from the south on the Spokane tonight to install the station there. The machinery for it IS already here" he said.
 On the return of Mir. Winterbottom and MT. Pnlsbury from the north on the Spokane they will spend couple of days here and will then leave for eKtchikan where they will spend several days The party will 90 to Seattle, and then to Astoria where Mir. Desart will remain The other two will so to San Francisco and from there to Honolulu
 The announcement of the new rate by the Marconi company is not un- expected on account of the proposed EeQuCLlQu III NduAt AdNSos @AANNA NAAN drst of October the rates for mess ages on both the cable and wireless will be:
 For commercial and day messages and for night letters:
 All southeastern Alaska points. $1. Panama and on the Yukon river, S2.
 Seward Peninsula rates will be S2.SO.
 The night rate will be 75 per cent of these figures.
 The ten-word day message which has been charged for at S1.61 will be Isl. This message will be delivered at destlation on day received. The night letter rates for 50 words has been $1.61. will after october 1st be S1. These messages are never de- livered until the following morning. The night rate of 10 words will be | 75 cents instead of $1.