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Show A FRANKLY-CONFESSED IMPOSTURE. It stands confesed that the Marconi sjstem of wireless telegraphy Is not Marconi s The exposure became too warm for the oung Napoleon of vagrant va-grant electricity and he own up like a little man. The real Inventor Is the MarquN Lugt Solarl of Italy, who communicated com-municated tho dlscotery to Marconi and let him work It up Tills is one of the very few cases where sham Is exposed ln such matters and the real Is revealed. But hold! Where did Solarl get It? It Is possible that he Is secondhand second-hand also As the great explorers of the mountains nnd tho west generally followed wagon tracks. It Is quite possible pos-sible that this wireless telegraphy business bus-iness was a common knowledge pos-ressed pos-ressed by electricians, who generally nnd without special design pushed nenrer and nearer to the Idea until the way was opened broad enough for many to walk upon it This wireless telegraphy Is a great Intention nnd perhaps It may be rather a sort of common heritage than the single idea of any man Ej the way. It Is a singular singu-lar coincidence that Clarence T, Mack-ay, Mack-ay, son nnd heir of Senator Mackay, who did so much for ocean cables ln Improving them, building nany and reducing re-ducing the rates, should hate recelted the first word of the death of his father fath-er by means of this new system, which may render taluelrss nil thnt his father did In this direction. At present, however, tho relation of wireless telegraphy tel-egraphy to tho wire and cablo system appears to be much like that of tho balloon to railroad and steamship transportation a rather precarious curiosity cu-riosity rather than a rival, but tvlth the advantage on the side of wireless telegraphy ns compared with the practical prac-tical service of the balloon. |