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Show RIVER VESSELS TO INSTALL WIRELESS NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Wireless telegraph tele-graph apparatus is to be installed on thirty-six freight barges that shortly are to be put in service on the Mississippi river, according to an announcement made here today by the Marconi companv. The fleet of barges, each of which will be of 1100 tons, will ply between Minneapolis Minne-apolis and New Oi leans, in t ompetit ion with the railroad service. Their wireless equipment will be used in keeping shippers ship-pers advised of market conditions and directing di-recting the transshipment of cargoes to take advantage of favorable developments. The Inland Navigation company of this city is back of t lie project. |