Show MARCONI CUTS RATES Claims He Will Transmit for One Cent a Word CABLES CANNOT TOUCH HIM I Two Hundred Words a Minute is the Speed Promised I Hopes to Have General Use of Wireless Wire-less Telegraphy Supplant Mails For Foreign Correspondence Glace Day Cape Breton Jan 7 Two hundred words a minute at 1 cent a word and the general use of wireless telegraphy instead of the malls for avery a-very large proportion of the personal correspondence that now passes between be-tween America and Europe arc developments devel-opments that I see in the near future said Signor Marconi There Is nothing rash In that prediction predic-tion for having solved the problem here the success of the Cape Cod station sta-tion means only the application of the same methods < and I expect within two weeks or perhaps a little longer to t have It In perfect working order Some of the newspapers of the United Unit-ed States have scoffed at my experiments experi-ments others while accepting wireless telegraphy joyfully when It seemed applicable ap-plicable only to short distances seem to be Influenced In some degree by the fears of the cable companies and arc now decrying and discrediting our success suc-cess here I have found the same antagonism an-tagonism In England among the representative repre-sentative newspapers ONE CENT A WORD 1 1 spoke of a cent a word n few days ago said Marconi smilingly That seems to have worried some of the business bus-iness Interests connected with the wireless wire-less telegraph companies I believe it i will come however know It will come Of course we shall not make any such rate as that at present Last June in London when I first described my new magnetic detector I said that It was possible that with such a device an automatic arrangement for sending and receiving messages could be applied by which speed of several hundred words a minute could be attained at-tained Now 1 am sure of that It Involves In-volves no new Invention but merely the application of familiar principles I could have this station equipped for a rate of 200 words a minute In a few days if I wanted to and it is only a question of lime when It will be I done I READY FOR BUSINESS We are In shape here at Tablehead to take commercial messages today and I would have no fear of any breakdown break-down or delay In transmission We are in dally communication with Poldhu and have sent and received over 2000 words successfully without an error and with only such Interruptions as have been made necessary by the Installation In-stallation and testing of new and Improved Im-proved equipment But we shall alto no chances whatever After I have got the Cape Cod station sta-tion In operation across the ocean and have rsonally seen to the equipment and readjustment of the Poldhu station we shall accept commercial messages That may be several months from now but when we do begin business It will be done without any chance of failure In all probability the next step will be the connection of Italy with Argentine Argen-tine by wireless The King of Italy who has been most kind l to me Is interested In-terested in that project and construction construc-tion work on the Italian tower has already al-ready been begun That will be a much larger jump than has yet been attempted attempt-ed tor the distance Is more than 1000 miles I dont anticipate failure however how-ever I never anticipate failure |