" WIRELESS '' TO CANADA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 13

" WIRELESS '' TO CANADA.

I o> ' PROSPECTS OF NEW MARCONI ] ATTEMPT. 1 Great interest, has been evinced in ths statement that a Transatlantic wire- ' less tehgraph service is to b« opened by I ths Marcor-i Company. These messages i will be transmittsd, it was anounced, ; from ths station at Clifden, Ireland, to | Capo Breton, Canada, and the rates I will bs stl a word, plus land charges. The Press rates will he 2id a word, plus land charges. ■ i When lh<s Irish station was finished recently, Mr. LXarconi proceeded to ' Canada, and tho teets that he made are 1 stated to have been highly successful. , Tho Canadian station is said to be , piactically identical in design with that in Ireland, ;md it is now claimed that what has been' known as the "day-light i difficulty" in connection -with wireless , telegraphy has been surmounted, and , that under the worst conditions it is ] possible to transmit messages across tho j Atlantic 1 . ■Ifter the Irah and Canadian stations havo been proved to bs of commercial -■ value, tho idea is to increase the powei- ■ of the station at Cr.pj Cod and use it \ jin connection with that at Poldhu, and : tbi proposals in regard to inland schemes contemplated on tho other side ', of the Atlantic include the running of n, wirp from Capo Cod to New'Tlork. j But interest for tha time being is centred in tha attempt to make wireless ' telegraphy a successful commercial iival ' with tho cable acioss the Atlantic. ' In view- 1 of what is about to be attempted, it is interesting (says tho Lon- ' , don Tribune) to remember the early tx- ] perimente carried out by Sir. Marconi ' in telegraphing without wires between ' tho Tcrracs oi the House of Commons 1 and St. Thomas's Hospital. Since that ] Hni* wireless, telegraphy ha 3 revolution- 1 ised the means ot martime comnninication, and to-day the managers of Lon- : don hotels are no more surpri&ad' by a receipt of a Marconigram. from, an American traveller en board a liner in the Atlantic than they ar© by ' the re- '. tieipfc o£ a. sixpenny telegram firom th-o provinces. Tlie estimate given by the company of tha number of words parsing between t.hips end the shore on their wholo service is 1,280,000 annually :