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Show 'NABSOWLhO' THE ATLANTIC BY WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Coasting down the Atlantic coast- has - come to be almost like walking down a street with a news bulletin on every corner. Under the businesslike arrangementsmade arrange-mentsmade by the bureau of equipment equip-ment of the Navy department the mariner mar-iner who is .equipped with a wireless . telegraph outfit may gossip his way from Portsmouth. N. H., to Hampton Roads without more Intervals of loneliness lone-liness than may be caused by somebody - else being "on the wire," and even then he can "listen in," like a neighbor on a barbed-wire telephone circuit. Passing the time of day with the ope-. ope-. rator at Portsmouth, it will not be long . before the Thatcher's Island' operator - can offer a bit of curreat news that will furnish a topic of conversation across Massachusetts bay until news is re- ' celved from the Highland Light station, on Cape Cod. There can be a three-banded three-banded game of repartee with the Nantucket Nan-tucket Lightship crew on the third corner, cor-ner, which may be continued with the Newport operator, whose parting word will be still ringing when the "crack." "cra-a-c-k" of the Montauk Point station sta-tion is beard. There will be lively work passing; the time of day with the New York navy yard and the Naveslnk Highlands stations, and then the mariner mari-ner will have leisure, to think and smile over the quips and sallies of the passage . before be picks up the Cape Henry station sta-tion and rounds into Hampton Roads in full conversational tide with that station sta-tion and the one at the navy yard at "Norfolk- H. C. Gauss, in Harper's Weekly. |