SAVED BY WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 497, 3 May 1909, Page 7

SAVED BY WIRELESS.

:~- -ft— ■';'■.•".■■'■'■ .Never has humanity acknowledged its debt to science.:in. a more dramatic mW than Ilauy Ma,l Overseas Edition." But for wireless telegraphs wo should have had to record an awful calamity. Hero were two ships,steaming through tho fog and crashing, into each other. No imagination is needed toreal se 'the dismay an! confusion 1 ,2S f « W? T mel ? ts when roused, from their sleep by a staggering flow hurry on. deck in the darkness feel tho Iship sink.ng : under their feet. Happily, in .the Republic as well as in the FlonSa-her > unwitting assailant-wero men of cool courage and resource.. The, Florida, though in : parlous state, stood bravely by her captain refusing .to escape until ho had rendered every aid m his power. But passengers and crew owe their rescue to the ievotioi of one man and to tho invention of another. Tho sea like the battlefield records many acts of Z r / a EB + l? Dd • Sa ? nfice ' aud the stor y of how Binns, the wireless expert on board the Republic, _worked his .instruments in the momentof disaster is worthy, of a place in the chronicle of heroism. . When the ship was sinking and tho enginoroom was flooded the stuck to his post. With fineer on f°J? \° P e l«« with IY/A hcl ?' C vP-Q- —"ship in distress" —was the signal borno,: on the air! "Ropublie -sinking. Latl 40.17; long. 7011 " Until batteries wero exhausted Bums made his appeal for tho lives of hundrcds.andhis appeal'was heard and an- • swered. "Lam comin E) " called a voice, car- ', nod over miles of ocean by. unseen, foroos, and 110 Republic knew that from every point of Hl C S aSS S i" pS WCro hurr y in 5 to E'er aid. ! Humanity and war, commerce and sociotv \ owe much; to tho invention that has made, u ! 5 whispnnng gallery. We have acknowledged its services VAo Navy to which it has given ears as well as eyes-and a voice that can speak; over leagues of space. W 6r have seen its uses in commerco, but never before has its benefit to tho Wuso ofhu- "■ mamty been so signally established.