The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 4, 1904, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1904, MAINLAND AND THE FARALLONES ARE JOINED BY WIRELESS “LINE”, f Page Column 7. | essels w futare. The | Wes not able to provide v a however, | & expected p owr will | tt tiative in the matter. A | pr y equipped with . ss grapt atus for less $104 ¥ ¥ g W travel INSULATIONS ARE GOOD. f the Weather Bu- s well able proved i the scheme | THIESSEN MAKES REPORT. ys ago Thiessen made a ' r of the work on the tem at Po At present eulation and insulators sstment the vk, - { SECRETARY WILSON | AND CHIEF MOORE ARE GIVEN CREDIT The biggest part of the credit E for this achievement belongs to | Willis Moore, Chief of the Weather Burean, and to Secre- tary Wilson of the Department r of Agriculture. They provided the means for us, and if we have done anything it is due to their | dabors in our behalf. Mr. Thics- sen has worked faithfully and well. He deserves all the glory that the experimenters should ! have. The other boys have fur- nished us much aid. We have ambitious plans for improving our system and we hope for suc- cess. The thing is on a practi- cal working basis. The machine | is running and we must study 10 see how to make it run more casily —Professor McAdie. e s 4 | pleased. in their power to let McA | | diate | stations. | with require frequent clening. I am now s tter insulation, that h will not br and which will “weathe unding earth. St port apidly as e condition of is the wind Barring be added to "n came to San Frar« isco from ones last Friday morning for of securing apparatus with ve test of the working of the new system might be made. After a consultation with his superior offic Professor McAdie, final preparations were made. Saturday afternoon Thies- ned to his station at the Far- n a tug. t immediately about repairing defective pieces of the appar- s and shortly after nightfall every- was in readiness for the official It was decided to wait until yes- terday morning before beginning to transmit messages across the twenty odd miles of water in order that the tired workers might have an oppor- tunity to r hortly after daylight yesterday sig- nals were sent from Thiessen and Hobbs on the Farallones to Observer Thompson at Point R s and other returned. The apparatus be in perfect order. The t Point Reyes showed plainly tact with the electrical waves sent through the atmosphere from the station out on the horizon. office on the tenth floor building followed the prellminary tests by tele- tion from the operator at Intense anxiety was feit cox It 1ing should break down at t 1 d retard the an- s in the great un- At twenty minutes to 12 cAdie sent word to Thompson nt Reyes to direct Thiessen and at the Farallones to transmit 1 message over the wire- SREETINGS TO “CALL. minutes to 12 o'clock the re- Point Reyes began to show which gradually became the operator and were over the telephone to Me- Mills building. The latter sent the message to The first official message over the first successful follows: arallones, Jan. 3, 1904. tted Adie in the immediately The Government’s telegraph line “Farallones send greetings to Call by wireless. (Signed) “THIESSEN. riment was a succ The s which had been besetting the ment experts for years had been It was demonstrated b nd ove all doubt that the system was practioi McAdie, T sen and their assistants had accomplished their purpose. From now on, the growth of the new science under governmental protection is as- sured. The system has worked and will work Future progress will be in the improvements. The possibilities ¥ be accomplished are prac- tically limitl Wilson and Chief Moore have been apprised of the success of their subordinates, and both are highly As a particular and unusual mark of his appreciation of what has been accomplished at San Francisco, Secretary Agriculture Wilson has sent a telegram to McAdie congratu- lating him and wishing him happiness for the new year, auspiciously begun. The greatest fear of the local officials of the Weather Bureau is that the higher authorities may stop their work and turn it over to some other branch of the Government for further investi- gation. It is certain that both Secre- tary Wilson and Chief Moore will do all Secretary = of sen continue their labors terruption. MUST GET PATENTS. The inventors' superiors sent imme- commands that applications be made for patents on all new devices in use at the Farallones and Point Reyes It is intended that the Gov- ernment shall be protected in respect to the discoveries thade by its em- ployes. McAdie and Thiessen have merely a scientific interest in their ex- | periments and had no intention or de- eire to patent their inventions until they were commanded to do so by their superiors. Immediate benefits will be reaped by the people at large as soon as vessels are equipped Wwith the necessary appa- ratus. forward in the race for State pre-em- inence, Science, agriculture and com- merce will all be advantageously af- fected. When ships of this port equipped the proper apparatus are ap- proaching port the information may be | sent broadcast long before the vessels heave in sight. Frequently ocean liners get outside the heads just at nightfall and cannot enter the harbor until the following day. If they are in commu- nication with the shore boats may be sent out to them and mails may be dis- patched across the continent many hours before it would be possible under the present arrangement. 1f passengers or ship's officers are in great haste to communicate with peo- ple ashore messages may be sent by means of wireless telegraphy and trans- | ferred to the regular telegraph or tele- phone lines. In such a case as that Consul General Wildman would not have been in such urgent haste to have had the Rio de Janeiro come into port. Under present conditions the military authorities might possibly only have a short warning to prepare for an at- tempt by an enemy’s fleet to enter the harbor and take the city. Professor McAdie asserts that he has indisputa- ble proof that a vessel recently entered ! ot which has been so | California will take a long step | | vessel, | {can be known daily. ve been puzzling the weather experts | wireless | | bent would result disastrously. | will not at present tell the name of the nor when the thing happened, ;| but he says that he is ready to come Zorward with the proof if the military 2 the harbor unnoticed, when every ob- ser ! ‘When r on this part of the coast was en- | deavoring to find a trace of her. | the ship was discovered shé was al- | most up to Meiggs whart. | Such a happening as that in the case of a foreign man-of-war on, mischief | authorities are skeptical. DEFENSE LINES ARE SHORT. McAdle/ The present defense lines at the en-| trance to the harbor are dangerously All three systems of batteries stream may be mined, but time should be given for Dispatch short. are powerful, and the the preparation of a defense. boats prepared to transmit wireless | messages would give all the warning| necessary for adequate protection. A hostile fleet could not enter the har- bor if the defenses were properly | manned and the defenders were aware | of what was coming. Hongkong could ‘Wireless | almost as easily be taken. telegraphy applied to the defenses of this port would make it impossible for | some Dewey of a foreign power to steal | into the harbor some dark night over a | thoroughly mined channel. But in times of peace wireless tele- i graphy at San Francisco will prove no | less valuable to the people of the city | and of the State. may be the state of the weather. In this way the forecaster will know if a storm is approaching and how severe it may be. McAdie said yesterday that if a storm were coming to Southern California and he knew it, be worth a million dollars to the agri- culturists. immensely benefited from ‘When boats are going | or coming they can signal ahead what | then the knowledge would | The meteorologists will be| a scientific | standpoint when the weathef off coast | Problems which | for many vears will be solved, and the| results will be awaited eagerly by the scientists of every civilized country. McAdie declares that the ferry service | in the harbor will be improved incalcula- bly when the boats use wireless teleg- raphy. Collisions will be averted on foggy nights. The courses of the steam- be maintained without fear of | going wrong because the lights cannot be seen. The sinking of the San Rafael the running aground of the Sausa-! » were accidents that might have been a >d if these ferryboats had| been communicating with each other| and the shore by means of wireless telegraphy. CONDITIONS UNFAVORABLE. Particular stre that it is m laid on the t to succe legraph system be- Point Re L than between other two known points on the surface of the earth. Sec- retary Wilson, Chief Moore and Mec- Adie are agreed on this question. The winds are nearly always high, the fog is generally heavy, the sea is never calm and if electrical atmospheric waves can travel between the two sta- | tions . at . any time and under any weather conditions, it is positive tha wireless telegraphy may be used over an equal distance anywhere. McAdie said yesterday: “The biggest part of the credit for this achievement belongs to Willis Moore, Chief of the Weather Bureau and to Secretary Wil- son of the Department of Agriculture They provided the means for us and if we have done anything it is due to their labors in our behalf. “Mr. Thiessen has worked faithfully and well. He deserves all the glory that the experimenters should have. The other boys have furnished us much aid. Neither Thiessen nor myself ex- pect now or ever did expect to reap any financial benefit from our labors. We would be willing to let any one get | what advantage they might from our improvements, but the authorities at Washington have directed us to take out patents. “I am glad to do what I can for every one here in the world and if I have con- tributed in any degree to the general welfare through this work I shall feel fully repaid. We hav. ambitious plans for improving our system and we hope for success. The thing is on a practical working basis. The machine is run- | ning and we must study to see how we | may make it run mord easily. die and Thies- | without in- | “I only hope that the owners of ves- sels will realize the value of equipping them with the necessary apparatus. The work can then go on rapidly. Wire- less telegraphic apparatus can be in- stalled on any of our ships for consid- erably less than $1000. We cannot do it ourselves, for we have only the means provided by the Weather Bureau |and the Department of Agriculture. “Qur system is similar to that favor- ed by the Italian Government, but I think we have®attained more success than they. We have not infringed on any patents. We have been fortunate in securing such economical methods of doing the work. Reducing the ex- | pense to a reasonable amount puts the thing on a practical basis. “I am chiefly interested in our suc- cess because it will advance the ends of the Weather Bureau, but I realize that the by products might possibly prove of more general value. The Call has done a great deal for the cause of wireless telegraphy and I want to congratulate it now that something has been accomplished of more than passing interést and importance. 43 i JTHIESSEN RENDERS A REPORT OF WORK TO HIS SUPERIORS 3 The details of installation were completed sufficiently on December 8 to make tests. Sig- nals were received that day at the Point Reyes station. Two days later complete words were received at both stations. The stations are now practically more efficient than we ever had the Mantee and Hatteras sta- tions. The present installation is the first one which we have at- tempted to place on a practical basis and this brought out weak- nesses in the detail which re- quired additional study. Barring a«few conveniences which may be added to present installation, 1 may say that the work of in- stallation is practically com- pleted.—Alfred H. Thiessen. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Mutual Life Insurance RICHARD A. McCURDY, President, Company of New York, Announces to its hundreds of thousands of policy-holders throughout the world that its funds held for their protection have now reached the enormous sum of over OO0 MILLION DOLLARS Many millions more than the assets of any other life insurance company in existence. This Company has returned to policy-holders the stupendous sum of over 96 MiLLIoN DOLLARS Ovpr 190 million more than any other life insurance company in the world has disbursed. This excess over any other company is greater than the combined capital of the Bank of England, Bank of France, and the Imperial Banks of Germany These unequaled results are the best guarantee of future returns to policy-holders. STANLEY FORBES, Manager, San Francisco, Cal. and Russia. ADVERTISEMENTS. Coughs Sore Throat Bronchitis Positively cured with Dr. Hal= pruner’s Wonderful Medicine, or your money returned, Price, 50c. and $1.00 per bottle. For sale by all dealers and at office of Halpruner Medical Mfg. Co., 28 California St., S. F., sent by mail or express. People cured free of charge from 1 to 4 p. m. ABG BEERS Famous 'the - World Over—Fully Matured, Sold Everywhere, HILBERT MERCANTILE CO., Pacific Coast Agents. a visit DR. JORDAN'’S arear MUSEUM OF ANATOMY 1051 MABXET 5T. bet. 6t &Tth, 5.7.Cal, The l‘\l’fl\ Anatomical Museum in the decate poahiivaty suraslfourges Speciaiiston the Cone. Eat. % years OR. JORDAN—D'SEASES OF MEN Consultation free and strictly private. Treatment personally or by Jetter. A Poritive Oure in every case undertake for Brok. PHILOROFAY of IAGE. MAILED TREE. (A § g g DR. JORDAN & CO., 1051 Market 8¢, 8. F. DTV VDVVE Dr. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 629 KEARNY ST. Established in 1854 for the treatment of Private Diseases, Lost Munhood. _Debility or diseage wearingon hody and mind and Skin Disenses. The Doctor cures wiien others fail. Try him. Charges low, Cures guaramteed. Culor wilte. Dr. 3. F. GIBBON, San Francisco, Cal. DIRECTORY OF RESPONSIBLE HOUSES. | catalogue and Price. Lists mm on Applieation. FRESH AND SALT MEATS. 1AS. BOYES & 00, 2zttt COLUMBI SECOND AND LAST WEEK. CHARLES FROHMAN presents Clyde Fitch's Comedy of Wit and Sentiment, The Girl With The Green Eyes Special Cast of Favorites—Matinee Saturday. NEXT SUNDAY NIGHET—One Time Only Alberta Gallatin and New York cast in Ibsen’s *“GHOSTS.” SEATS NOW READY AT BOX OFFICE. Next Monday—Mrs. “MRS. RCE. DEERING’S DIVO) OPERA TIVOLISEe “OH! BE CAREFUL!” And Do Not Miss the Magnificent Production of the Holiday Spec- tacle, IXION “THE WHEELMAN,” CA Mylhuloglcl) Musical Extravaganza in Three Acts. See Bothwell Browne’s Beautiful Ballets. MATINEE SATURDAY. ——NEXT!'— When Johnny Comes Marching ll.mc USUAL POPULAR PRICES—25c, 50c an Proscenjum and Mezzanine Box Seats....§] % ALCAZA 'ro-rmn—-m WEEK ONLY. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. The Picturesque Romantic Play of a Cen- tury Ago, LANGTRY in Belasco & Mayer, Proprietors. E. D. Price, General Manager. A LADY Poapes, OF e QUALITY . Julia Arthur's Greatest Success. Evgs., 25¢ to 75¢; Mat. Sat. & Sun., 15¢ to 50c. NEXT MON.—Clyde Fitch's Strongest Play, OTH First '.IAI‘-D I l Alcazar THE FPLAME. Production. GCENTRAL*:: Market Street, Near Eighth...Phone South m TO-NIGHT—ALL THIS WEEK. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Magnificent Rev\vn of the King of Sensational Dramas, MONTE CRISTO Unrivaled Masterpiece of Alexander Dumas m n"!\lelll Play Staged on Stupendous Seale, with Splendid Scenery and Brilliant Cast. EL MAYALL AS EDMOND DANTES ggggfifi\ THAIS LAWTON AS MERCEDES Evenings. .10c to S0c Matinees. .10c, 13e, 26c Monday, January 11—THE MOONSHINERS. BAJA CALIFORNIA Damiana Bitters I A om’l.' RESTORATIVE, INVIGORA- d Nervine. ‘wonderful OILS: LEO; BLLIS. RONTSRINS Misd Apegiat Lunmcu'mo- s. Pho’l’ullln 1719, “’l"‘h‘o mruul.nuonnu.( Doth sexes: Q-m ldllclltlmm B C HUGHES, 51 sancome st . m, ufln,tr. o Cifediare). ILYRIC HALL | | Direction Will Gre EVENINGS AT 8:15. BURTON HOLMES MAGNIFICENTLY | LLUSTRATED LECTURES. 00!1'"‘ A. YOSEMITE . IELLOW STONE . ST. PE'(‘ERSBL RG The Fior ALAS!\-\ u. The Klondike. COURSE B. . Jan. 12 Jan. 1 1. Sale of Course Tickets, 34, 83 and $3. THIS MORNIN AT SHERMAN, CLAY & CO.S. The Funn y Musical Farce. A BIG, NEW SHOW. Hallen and Fuller; Dumitrescu, Van Auken and Vans; Chark Vannerson; The Sa- otte Guyer George; Deaves’ Merry Manikins; Joan Ha- den’s Cycle of Love; The Tobins; Ernest Hogan and Mattie Wilkes and Orpheum Motion Pictures. Reserved Seats, 25¢; Balcony, 10c; Box Seats and Opera Chairs, 50c. Hacing !&Bac‘mg! OAKLAND RACE TRACK NEW. CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB. Commencing January 4. » Racing Each Week Day, Rain or Shine. Six or More Races Daily. Races commence at 2:15 p. 3 For special trains stopping at the track take P. E 12:30, 1: last two cars, and their trains nz 4:45 and_immediate! . foot 1:00, 1:30 or PERCY m. sharp. of ket street, at 12, 2 o'clock. No smoking in which are reserved for ladies leave track at 4:15 and ly after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. TREAT, Secretary. l | A ition, H and | mmun unting stock. est prices. Send for_catal Y 730 Market st. and 821 Kearny st OPERA GRAN HOUSE MATINEE SATURDAY, WEEK EXCEPT THURSDAY NIGHT. The Great Laughing Hit, JOE KELLY THE PIPE DREAMER In the Big Musical Cut-up. The Head Wailers NEXT SUNDAY MATINEE, IN CONVICT STRIPES. 4| A Thrilling Story of Life in South Carolina. USUAL POPULAR PRICES GRAND OPERA-HOUSE--SPECIAL THURSDAY EVENING, January 7. 1 at $°15, and MONDAY AFTERNOON, January 11, at 2:15. Positively Farewell Tour. MME. ADELINA PATTI (THE BARONESS CEDERSTROM.) Direction ROBERT GRAU, Incorporated. Management MARCUS R. MAYER. SIGNOR ROMUALDO SAPIO, Conductor. BRI <. - 0cs57% $2, $2 50, $3. §4, 35 and $0 Seats Now On Sale at the Box Office. OUT OF TOWN MAIL ORDERS, accom- panied by money order and addressed to H. H. CAMPBELL, Treasurer Grand Opera-house, will be fliled In the order of their receipt and seats assigned as near the desired location as possibl EINWAY PIANO USED. Pl “Whence comes this happy. joyous crowd®P® Asked the man of bilious hue; “The answer's easy,” said his friend, “They've just seen— l‘ -O-U The record-breaking musical comedy, Now in its sixth and last week. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. ‘An incomparable production of a strictly locat burlesque. Introducing our new principals, HELEN RUSSELL and JOHN PEACHEY, and our “All Star” cast THE BRITTONS And a Great Show Every Aftermoon and Evening in the Meated Theater. INTERESTING BABIES IN THE INFANT INCUBATORS Seehihullerlalylflhy. Visit the Mystic Mirror Maze. Take a Trip Down the Flume. AMATEUR NIGHT THURSDAY. Admission, 10c; Children, Se. WEEKLY CALL, $1.00 PER YEAR,