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Show CUT RATES BYfflRCONI Wireless Wizard Will Decrease De-crease Cable Tolls Across the Atlantic. BOSTON, Jan. 8. It is understood that the commercial rate for wireless messages across the Atlantic wtll be 10 cents a word. Press messages will be S cents a word. It is a bid for the world's business. "The charges," said one of Marconi's spokesmen, "are already fixed by the contract Marconi made with the British Government In getting the Pold-hu Pold-hu station. Americans have not been following Marconi's work very closely. They do not seem to appreciate that before be-fore spring is over a wireless message can and will be cent from Boston to Capetown in Africa for less than it now costs to send one by cable across the Atlantic to London. Before . the year Is i out I expect to see-messages sent from London to Vancouver or San . Francisco at less than 25 cents a word." |