The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1903, Page 3

WIRELESS MARVELS. * . \Gentral Station for Sending News, Ap- plication of His System to Cities and Telephones Now the Hope of the Twentieth Century Wizard. / i Marconi, the man of many marvels, ts in New York. He is tworking on plans the perfection of which, even in the light of his present wonderfal discoveries and inventions, will literally and | figeratively electrify the world. These are the advances which he {considers possible: % 3 cA wireless telephone for short distances. A central station for the radiation of news, by which illimilable advantages would accrue fo newspapers. The application of wireless telegraphy to cities tthe New York, inging tt into general use by the individual. t i Marconi arrived on the steamer Pilgrim this morning, and is stopping at ‘qhe-Holland House. He will remain in town until Wednesday next, when he “qwill take passage on the steamship Celtic for England. Marconi has been deluged with invitations from people who wished to fentertain him while in New York, but he has refused all save one. The single exception is a dinner which the directors of the Marconi Wireless ‘M@elegraph Company of America will give him at the Metropolitan Hotel. . Marconi goes to England with a definite purpose in view. He will per fect the sending and Teceiving apparatus at Poldhu, and then ‘he will be in 8 Dositicn to establish a commercial service between Eng) ind and his: - ‘tations on this side of the water. ” , An Evening World reporter visited Marcon! at South Wellfleet yester- tWey. Here ts located the Cape Cod station, from which point. messages have been sent to England. Marconi took The Evening World's representa- itive into that mysterious room which so many have longed to peep at. Up “to-yesterday none but Marconi’s staff and the principal officers of his com- pany lieve been permitted to look upon the magic instruments which hav‘ / produced the sparks which make electrical waves leap to England in one- * “minetieth of awecond. 3 fae Secrets Are Closely Gua'rded. The sending and receiving room is @ brick structure about twenty feet , Square. It isnot unlike the death chamber at Sing Sing. There are no ‘ ‘windows, light being supplied from the roof, which has frosted glass to keep ‘out peepers. Marconi guards his secrets closely. + ‘There were other newspaper men in the party, and the crowd filed in behind the; great inventor in solemn silence. They gazed upon what seemed ®@ maze of; small boxes and wires. The boxes were condensers, used to con- centrate the electrical force which leaped from the wiges strung to the tall Yowers. “nt one end of the room stood a table, upon which were two upright ‘‘arme, supporting brass or copper globes. These globes were séparated by about three inches of space. At one wide of the room were electrical instruments used in receiving. One was a récelver with a telephonic device for hearing, another was a ticker which @pouted forth paper tape on which were printed dots and dashes spelling words, Marconi explained the intricacies of all these instruments, but It ‘would take a far better trained scientific brain then the writer possesses to ‘give a lucid description of them. The receiving room {s connected with the engine and dynamo room by a long hall. The party had crowded in after Marconi when suddenly the inventor turned, and like a flash jumped for the door. “Wait,” he cried. ‘Don’t turn on the power until I sive the word. You may kill all of us.” sh At saps Deadly Power of 50,000 Volts Turned On. ' Then Marconi turned and explained in his soft, gentle way that if the power were turned on, it was a trifle of 50,000 volts, sparks might leap from the condensers to any person standing’ near and shock him severely. ae If the person had a weak heart he would never know what hit him. All of which made the visitor: rather lax in their interest, because they won- dered if the engineer might be careless enough to turn on the current with- out the word. Nevertheless none flinchd, and after explaining the proper- ties of the receivers and condensers, Marconi drew every one to the door near which was stationed his controlling apparatus and the huge key he used fn sending me¢ssages. He stepped on a small platform inclosed by a ae screen. There ‘were two keys before him. One was used for sending messages, the other for signals. This latter was a long wooden lever. “Don't be alarmed at what you may see or hear,” said Marconi, reas- guringly. The visitors shifted nervously and edged still closer to the door. Marconi pressed down the lever. There -was a brilliant flash of light and ® report that almost equalled the detonation of a small cannon, An electric @park as thick as a man’s finger leaped from globe to globe at the far end of the chamber, Crash after crash succeeded each depression of the lever and the cham- ber was flooded with blinding flashes of light. It was a remarkable exhibi- tion and it filled one with a profound respect for the man who could toy ‘with concentrated Mghtning of this sort. “Marcon! said many interesting things during the trip to New York. One of the most important has thus far been spoken of more as a jest than anything else. The Evening World representative asked him more as a joke than any- » hing else whether the time would ever come when a man could carry a Wecelver about in his coat pocket and receive messages by Wireless teleg- faphy. Marconi smiled, but Capt, George Stevens Kemp, one of his per- sonal staff, who sat beside him, said: Gets Messages in His Coat Pocket. ¢ “The time has come and is here.” / Marconi stil! smiled and looked at Capt. Kemp Indulgently. “I asked the question tu a Joking way,” said The Evening World's fepresentative, “Now, are you joking when you say the time has come oad is heres” Marconi’s expression changed instantly, Becoming grave and serious, be answered: “Capt, Kemp is right, but the time {s not quite ripe.” “I have a receiver,” put in Capt. Kemp earnestly, “that I have egrried fm my coat pocket and have received messages miles away.” , “iow many miles?” | “As high as thirty miles,” returned the captain positively, “I hid the time was not ripe.” interrupted ‘conl, “because while it jf possible for a man to carry about @ receiver in his pocket und ve abie to take messages, the other end of it, that of sending, is yet p be over- eer er te, “You mean the dificulty of carrying about a battery of suMcient power | $0 produce Hertsian waves?” “Precisely, The weight is the obstacle. Perhaps as We progress wo ez awrranye byes Stew) Such @ condition would be invaluable, for 5 “TI have thought of the possibilities, but cannot speak of them just at present,” said Marconi cautiously. News Can Radiate in Every Way. “Wireless telegraphy will be inyaluable to newspapers. I have thought out this end of it, and the possibilities are tha®a station may be erected at some central point if America where news can be radiated to every part of the’country simultaneously. This result can be reached by attuning the re- celvérs in each city to a similar pitch, so that all can catch the waves as they are radiated. With a station in England and another in America the nows of the world can be quickly disseminated.” “Could receivers be installed in private houses, with ticker attachment, so that persons could read the news of the day as it happens?” Marconi only smiled. He does not indulge in dreams, but he has shown that perhaps this might be possible. “Will it be possible to bring wireless telegraphy into general use in a TOR OF THE WIRELESS SYSTEM , WHICH HAS REVOLUTIONIZED TELEGRAPHY. BURNED T0 DEATH \large city, like New York, for instance?” “That is a matter to which IJ have not given much thought as yet. It/QiL SET CLOTHING ON FIRE. will require considerable thought,” he added, reflecttvely. “I will turn my attention to that problem poe as soon as I have perfected the transatlantic service.” “When will that be ready for commercial use?” “Within six months.” ' “Will the service be as good as by the present cable method?” “Cheaper, at any rate, and better; I hope. We can reach Hngland inf 1-90 of a second, telegraphy quicker. It takes 1-12 of a second by cable. That makes wireless It costs a matter of $5,000,000 to build a cable. Marconi stations can be built at a comparatively small cost. Wireless telegraphy| After descending few We have agreed | tripped and fell, can be operated cheaper, and so rates will be much less. upon a rate of five cents per word for press matter and ten cents per word for ordindry business.” Wireless Telephone Possible. “Is the wireless telephone possible?” . Marconi shrugged his shoulders. “It may be for short distances. I do not believe they will ever get power enough to telephone wireless at any great distange. They have telephoned without wires a distance of two miles,” ‘ “But there was a time when you were only able to telegraph that| Vicinity. distance. Now you telegraph across the ocean. phone be subject to the same improvement?” It's a matter of power. They do not use the Hertzian waves. are not applicable. I have left that field to others. It may be perfected, but I do not believe so.” DENIES BURGLARING; HOPED 26 YEARS ADMITS BARBERING,' Staten Island’s Swell Hair Re-| mover Has Unpleasant Early, Aged Benjamin Loder a Long Morning Experience. Time Ago Was Granted De- cree of Divoree, but Didn’t File It Until To-Day. Why shouldn’t the telo- Fred Bacey, the swell barber of Sta- pleton, Staten Island, thought he heard some one tapping about his shop early to-day. He sneaked down stairs from his quarters over the shop and crept They|at the reauest of Colonial Becweiary FOR A REUNION,| TODEATHIN CHAIR STILL LOVED ERRING WIFE, eh of Thomas and Mary Baker, of | quietly into the store, The tick, tack gf the strange some thing kept up in the rear of the shop, Bacey struck a match. hopped out of his skin, Tbe front win- dow pane of plate glass was shattered and two men sprang into the shop. One held a revolver and the other a dark lantern “Throw up your hands,"* with the gun, Up they went. “You're a burglar,” declared ine man with the lantern. “I'm not, ‘I'm @ barbér and I own this shop," declared the trembling Bacey. The two strenuous window smashera put down the lantern and the revolver and reveaigd themselyex as Policemen Blebelt and Wrenn, to be passing when they saw the match struck and jumped right in, The nolsc Bacey heard was the dripping of water in one of his washstands, oe DIPHTHERIA COMPELS CLOSING OF SCHOOLS. Disease Has Broken Out at Scoteh ina, New J yore an, 28. sald the man (Special to The Bvenin PLAINFIELD, N. J. Tae Scotch Plains Board of Health was or+ dered the public schools in that place to bé clofed on account of the unusual prevalence of q\phtheria ‘The schools in Willow Grove, which he have i a pi Arai t jalia have alga, bec Then followed! @ tremendous crash. The barber almost) They just happened | A pretty and pathetic romance is re- vealed by the filling, to-day, of a decree of absolute divorce; granted twenty- lelght ‘years a 2,80 Benjamin Li from Sareh uawein: Teaser John Henry Huike ‘ittorney, at No, 138 Nassau street, filed the decree, and the tale is gathered from him. Away back before the war, the five dauughiors of old Ike Oilver, the "Tam many printer’ of the time, were famous beauties, Hull and Ben" ‘Loder and Alonzo Polnemus were inseparable chums and leaders of the younger fashionable Bet All three fell in Jove with [Aggie Oliver. Ben Loder won her, and the other two acted as ushers at thelr wedding in 1s61 After the war Hen Ioder returned to his watting bride, but his dream of love was short lived, “Lon" Polhemus, 51s bosom friend. recolved the favor of his [beautiful wife, and on Feb. 16, 1875, Reteree Edward D. Justice Lawrence, me that Loder was ent.tled to avso- aivorce, young wife made no defense, and | Court, Ba h r Judge Lawrence granted the decree The decrec must be filed with. the ‘ Clerk to become effective, and eF forbade He fling. because his lo! sull burned th thin tite, Ben Loder got rich, and hatred, Uk, ® Johu ag twensy yours th hin wife of forty years u Henry dail Xo id ted lowed by age, ut of tts’ ding hue oy avoid eld. aay 8 bet 8 | ire now, waite | 9 wire | and file We erat Hohn aver Bis ag Ned ¥s Dowd. “ WEALTHY WOMAN Mrs. John Finnerty, Aged Wife of Brooklyn Contractor, Fell on Stairs with Lighted Lamp in Her Hand. OYSTER BAY, L 1, Jan. 2%—Mrs. John Finnerty, wife of wealthy con- tractor of Brooklyn, was burned to death to-day in her country residence half way between this place and yonset. Mre, , Finnerty was seventy- five years old, Early this morning she started down- stairs with a lighted lamp {n her hand. eps ahe The lamp ke and Mrs. Finnerty's dress ignited from the blazing oll. In a moment she was enveloped in flames. Her cries brought other members of the ¢amily to her assistance, but she had ‘been terribly burned before the fire was beaten out and she died soon ufterward, Mrs. Finnerty was rich in her own right. Bhe owned a large lumber yard in Brooklyn, Both she and her hus! are ‘well known in Brooklyn and in this _— es Bocr Delegate to Re! Home, LONDON, Jan. %.—The Government, Chamberlal:, has granted Abraham Fischer, one of the Boer ‘delegates in Burope, permission to return to South Africa. BABY GIRL BURNED Mother Left Child with Little Brother While She Ministered to Sick Neighbor. ‘Nine-months-old Mary Baker, the . 632 West One Hundred and Twelfth | ioe s burned to death in a fire that did elight damage to the dwelling | | ARGUMENT WITH CABMAN. SwORLD: FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 2, 1009, NET Y END | IN DAYLIGRT WDE “Mr. and Mrs. Hickey” Had the Time of Their Life at the Oid Guard Ball, but To-Day They | Are Sad. Peace Messures Failing, They Are Taken to a Vulgar Station-House, Where Woman Tries to Depopu- late Force, “It in no time for mirth and laughter ‘The cold gray dawn of the morning after"? —The Sunen ot sutu. | That's what "Mr. and Mra. John J.! Hickey, of Mt. Vernon," thought at 1 o'clock to-day, when they stood he- fore the Grand Central Hotel in. the dying glory of faded | evening raiment | and argued with a cabman over the | pric was charging | They *must have had as much fun| as ever two healthy persons crowded | into a night and a day, They had been to the Old Guard Ball. They had danced | and they had dined and they had wined, | but now they were fo tired, The young man's opera hat was dust-covered, Mis | once white shirt was soiled and neglixee. | His Inverness coat was torn and) rgmpled. * Dressed “to the Limit.” And she, she looked like any woman might who had dressed for the evening, Geen up all night on the time of her life and now had to stand the cruel ght of a cold fresh morning. She wore no hat. A beautiful tlara surmounted her hetr, undimmed by the night's gay riot, A sunburst at her throat and great dia- mond earrings still sparkled, but that waa all the sparkle there: was about her. dirty and bedragated, opera coat that covered tt would be the despair of any ‘cleaner. As the dispute with the cabman grew warmer a crowd gathered. Cronin frled to patch up a peace, but he couldn't. The couple became en- raged and he took them to the station. Fought All the Policemen, The Sergeant decided the best thing’ for them both was to lock them up. He tried to take the woman's diamonds from her and she fought all the police in the station-house, scratching them viciously, They let her alone finally. There being no cells in this etation, “Hickey” was sent over to the East Fifty-first street station and ‘Mrs. Hickey" to the East Thirty-fitth street station, where there Is a matron, She re- xisted when they separated her from the man, but the pollceman won. Magistrate Mayo, in the Yoskvivile Court, this afternon fined ‘Hickey and his wife $3 each. , JULIAN RALPH BURIED. Notables in Newspaper and Artistic Worl at Faneral of Writer. The funeral services of Julian Ralph, the newspaper writer, were held to- day at Christ Church, Broadway and Geventy-first street. They were ex- ceedingly simple, there belng no music and no honorary pall-bearers. Rey. George Alexander Strong, rector of the church, officiated, assisted by Rev, Will- fam N. Dunnell, rector of All Sainta’ Church. The principal mourners were the widow, mother, children and other relatives of the dead man, Among those at the church were Herbert F, Gunnison, Robert Brown, Richard Watson Gilder, H. C. Duval, George 8. Spinney, William Leary, Wil- Ms Holly, J. W.' Alexander, John A. McCall, "Frederick, Remington, Charles Hosebauli. @. J. Taylor, Joseph How- ard, jr., and a number of others in the newspaper and artistic world. | Tha funeral was at Fairview, Red Bank, N Hubbard bh Smith Seriously 11, ROME, Jan. 22.—Hubbard T. Smith, the Vice and Deputy Consul-General of the United States at Cafro, ts seriously il, suffering from sropey, of the kidneys, COFFEE @EART. Life Insurance Companies Now Recognize the Disease, The “Dietetic and Hygienic Ga- gette,” a famous authority, said in a recent issue: ‘Medical examiners for life insurance companies have added the term ‘Coffee Heart’ to their regular classification of the func- tional derangements of thaf organ. Its effect is in shortening the long at that address this afternoon, ‘The father, who 1s a driver, had din- | ner with his wife and two Ittle boys, James, eight years old, and Thomas, | four, After dinner he went togwork, and little Jim went to school, A few minutes later the mother went out to take some soup to ag@pick neighbor, leaving her four-year-old boy in charge of the baby. | She had barely left the house when the little fellow rushed into the street crying ‘"Fire!"’ When the firemen got to the baby, which the mather Jeft strapped in a chair, it was burned to 4 crisp, ‘The boy, Yommy, was #0 overcome with what had happened that nothing | could be learned of him as to how the, started, DUBLIN MAYOR YOR RE- ELECTED, | Timothy Barrinwton i inelfapiahe Third Time. Jan, 23.—Timothy Harring f Parliament for the Hare Was today re- Wuoln for the i third succ sive time. terest Was take; nin th jounc!! six m ths ago a the Lord has been for many yeara'a member. of the huld of one of Neve terk-s oer, star n resaurateura—and Mr. Hull | 110% Be, Mee sayn sie bears his naine. | 1 tying up all hope of a reson which | followed naliat or sections, but the Lovgue ? lewed mupport of Mr. 4a Lavaor voters favored Ms, beat of the heart. ‘Coffee Topers,’ they say, are plentiful and as much | tied to their cups as the whiskey toper. The effect of coffee upon the heart is more lasting and conse- quently worse than that of liquor.” | A well-known physician specialist | of Ladoga, Indiana, tells how he) treats such cases, He has had many such, He says: “I wilt meation one | case in my practice—Mrs, H., age 54 very fleshy, family history g004, had) been for more than three years a constant sufferer from headache, heart trouble and smothering spells, | accompanied by nervousness; had to, lie down when attacked by these epells She was treating all the time but got worse *T soon found out that she had| coffes heart,’ and promptly cured reek in this way: I forbade her coffeo and put her on Postum Cereal Coffee instead. She reported in five weeks and sald she had not had a bad spell | since and felt sound and well, This fas four years ago and she Js now a picture of perfect health and happi ness. “This 1s only one case out of many I knew the doctor's bills would be small, but I also knew the case would bring lots of others 10 me. Few peo- ple realize the great value of Pos tum. It is not a ‘cure-all.’ but it has been the means of relief to perhaps more people than any one thing e introduced in the American bill of fave, T have seen some wonderful re- sults from its use.” Name given by “Postum Co,, Battle Creek, Mich. |tan, green, gray, navy, also solid: blacks and whit Her beautiful all-lace gown was | and the, white | Policeman | HE Total Importations of Champagneinto ‘the Ui States for’ 1902 were 360,708 cases, of Wi 125,719 CASES ‘were roe ay ~ any other brand, The Ferrous 1898 Vintage of Mumm’s Extra D XX ry, Now Ar } t Cestined 1o make a still more emphatic increase, 7 4 We Annourice for Saturday, January 24 A Special Sale of 200 Womens Silk Wests, The assortment consists of Peau de Soie, Pena’ Cygne and Crépe de Chines; colors:—light b'ue, pit all colors in each style), but many styles and col select from; sizes mostly 34, 36, 38 and qo, Not a waist in the lot sold for less than $10.59 {others up to $15.50 each; to effect a complete cle: these 200 waists, we offer them Saturday, at 87.50 cach, - ' | Lord & Taylor, Broadway and 2oth Street. CAN D) SPECIAL SALE OF COUNTER GO! ; FOR THE ENTIRE WEE ' 20c. Lb. AN UNEXCELLED ASSORTMENT, INCLUDING THE FOLLOW Fruit and Nut Buttercups, Molanses Cream Kisses, Fesoat nips: Molasses Datnties, Bassatras Chips, Seatch We Honey Rock, Almond Chips, BOSTON CHIPS FILLED WITH CREAM: ‘ FRI SEROTAL, FOR SATURDAY © caramel Teebers ried Choe; lee Crenmn. By SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY ‘AND SATURDAY. je and Vanilla Fudge. \ We will deliver any of al! ‘ot the above speciais at the foulowing “raters Manhattan Island, 10e.; Brooklyn, Ho- hoken, Jersey City or the, nt, ibe. No goods seat MOE LEVY & CO., 119 to 125 Walker Strect, Zasf0rtronaway. Alteration Sale %" PRICES ALWAYS % LESS THAN THE LOWEST. Just Now 15% Less Than That, Also some VERY SPEGIAL—Specials in Men's, Boys’ and Children’s CLOTHING, HATS, FURNISHINGS, The Evening World's Greatest Six Months, ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS BEATEN, This ts the comparison of 2dvertising for the last six months of each 139 col Ih of the past 16 ycars, showing that the [ict half of 1902 beat all previ- ous records and exceeded the corresponding six months of 1901 by YRAR, oP inven nierx. ven. ous . 1887 @ mootns caty) «¢ +» 426%) 1805 1888 + + + + 186%] 1806 . 6 «© 4 2SO 1889 » «© «+ 41,41334] 1807. onl allan 1,334% 1992 6 8 8 1,361% 1800. | 6 1892» 2,050%: 100 . @ ,60¢ ] 1898 2: 717% 1901. a i 1 32) :2,388%imd, Above figures are for the Evening