Show rw cs spi py f irya y sEti tr wires interlaced like a gigantic bed spring at their feet Is a small building in which are housed two great engines and mighty dynamos a room ful of powerful batteries and a lot of instruments which few people could understand this Is the high power station of the marconi wireless the station from which messages can be sent 1500 miles to sea it matters not press dispatches commercial messages love words from a woman to her sweetheart or husband far out on the bosom of the ocean stock quotations to the business man this Is the place from which they are sent to the last limit where the wireless from the shore can be picked up at sea it Is the jumping off place for the united states in a bungalow in the shadow of the mighty towers dwell five men the me iwho make it possible to reach ships at sea the men who can save life by imparting the information they have about a disaster and calling other ships to the rescue y two of them are operators marconi operator sand two of them electric engineers engl ginman and sampson campber and nickerson the fifth man Is the steward who cooks the meals tor these lonely men so far from tome and makes their beds there Is a sixth man II 11 C velby who prior to this time was in charge of the station but he Is going to seattle to erect another station there just as he went to jolo in the philippines several ears ago to put up one which the united states needed to get in touch with manila but the chief of them there now is ginman A II 11 gin man the man who got the famous C Q D from jack einns of the republic and got to work to get help from ships far out at sea everybody takes his hat off to binns who stuck to his ship to the last calling for aid but had it not been tor ginman who kept his wits the news would never nave reached the land nor would the ships thit started at once to the rescue have beard the danger call C Q D mr ginman Is just back from a well merited vacation in england whence he halls it was he who received the famous C Q D at on the end of nan island which resulted in the saving of every soul aboard he republic to him it was nothing it Is his business to him the mere sending of a message out to sea Is nothing more nor less than pumping at a big telegraph key for a few moments to the layman it Is a marvelous mys tery A representative of the press saw ginman at work and spent the night in the office with him the first person permitted within the bounds of this station the big gest in the united states what are we doing laughed ginman why we are manufacturing lightning all what long distance wireless really means and then he led the way to this little station on the bleak confines of cape cod to show how it Is done the big plant Is surrounded by a barbed wire fence nobody may enter except the employed emp loyes summer vis igors nay come to the edge of the fence because nobody can buy up the ocean front but they cant come in nobody can stop them from gazing at the tour big tow rs which can be seen for miles around the desolate flat country but there can they go and no further how marconi men send their short distance messages miles or jessis no secrete that much of the pro ess ginman could explain cut what Is done when words are flashed to ships half way across the ocean the marconi men are the only ones who can do itis a real secret there arc four rooms la this little building which has 0 o much to do ellb ohp ways of the world one Is filled with engines and dynamos another is crowded with batteries A third holda the long distance apparatus and a fourth Is where the operator sends his messages and receives them it is strictly against the rules eald ginman with a smile to allow any one to see bow we work the long but let rie show you the short distance work ell let you beafus work the long distance hatsh all here we are he led the way into a tiny room with a desk and a table on the t ble was a telegraph key ten times mag and a switch just as large attached to two wires were two telephone receivers exactly the same things that any office boy might put to his ears in an office which had a private branch exchange 0 o the left waa an induction coil capable of a ten inch spark and a mahogany box in which was fixed a small clockwork motor surmounted by two small canate disks connected by a band of iron wire now explained ginman this Is our short distance apparatus with this we can send and receive for miles in any direction As a matter of fact this Is a long distance station ond we are called upon to send very few messages for short distance our business is to reach ships jar out at sea now let me show you I 1 call up on nantucket island 60 miles away and get him to send you the famous letter S the first letter which mr marconi managed io send clear the atlantic from the coat of ireland to the coast of nova scoba pulled down tue switch turned a lever which got him ln tane with Isan and began to send the groat induction coll shot out it spark in blue flashes you see went on ginman I 1 am telling nan I 1 want him to send back the letter S three dots like this and as be spoke shot out three dots or rather jolts through his in strument ment the motor kept turn ing around those two little disks boik e connected by the band 0 iron wire passing a magnet then he took the tele phone receivers from hla ears put them on now and get the answer he laughed in about three seconds came back three little clicks in the ears the letter S in ahe continental code which Is used in the marconi system it was perfectly plain anybody who knew the telegraph code could easily read any message coming in now I 1 am thanking him said ginman as he jolt ed out a few more blue sparks then he put the receiver to his ears he a answering laughed ginman lies saying ha ha but there were signs of business about the plant by this time the engineers and electricians were on duty now air welby had come in to send out the bulletins by long distance in his hands was a resume of the days news of the united states sent there by land wire by the Asso clat ed press this was to be sent by long distance wireless to all the ships at sea within a radius of 1500 miles with this news explained mr welby we are going to reach the regana dl talla la provence the nieuw amsterdam and the Kalser ln auguste victoria they are all within our zone then he showed what Is known among wireless men as the communication chart ex cry steamer for the month which Is fitted with wireless is plotted on the chart by straight lines showing her position on every given day according to her average speed the lines which cross at the date show just which steamers are within the radius ot the long distance wireless of course explained mr welby we cant tell just where they are because no steamer could carry such a powerful plant as we have here so they cannot answer us but it Is p m herp now and they are all wait ing to hear from us while we can send they cannot reply and this Is the prearranged hour no matter where they may be at sea all right was the call to the engine room 11 II right came back the answer start her up was the order 1 heres some cotton said mr welby better put it in your ears most of us have to do it it bores into your ear drums pretty badly suiting the action to the word be plugged his own ears we are going to have a little thunder storm close at hand laughed ginman it was almost uncanny these men in rubber gloves sitting on stools placed on rubber mats their ears protected with cotton getting ready to flash their news 1500 miles to great ships on the bosom of the deep then the grea engines chug chugged and the dynamos began hissing the power was at hand everybody was excluded from the room except the operator mr elby he began to send it was like a cannonade grait sparks lighted the entire building as amri welby shot out his news north east south and west the crackling of the electricity was intense no wonder the cotton in the ears it awauld have deafened i man not used to it and Is a sample of what Is sent coopers found guilty murder second degree ed 20 ears ball each pending motion set verdict aside because announced disagreement stop barrow in furness gangway connecting battleship van guard wharf collapsed under 50 workmen vickers max ime yards three killed 40 injured stop evansville h early all of 37 miners coal mine here be cleved killed by explosions afternoon stop belgrade alarm over possibility war austria subsiding rapidly russian minister long conferences yesterday today to day nothing officially alv en out but reason be hove peaceful settlement controversy now only question hours stop ine word stop means the end of a news item and that another is coming in of course all these abaro wireless are tilled out and published on the various ships in more extended form some as bufe tans and others a regular daily newspapers LS wireless stations along the coast and why it was possible tor banns C Q D signal to be taken up and then sent out again there are ships which are equipped with marconi wireless we can send to them further than they can send to us some 0 them are capable of re ceiling press dispatches at long d Is others are not that depends on their plant every ship has its code sign althe Is BC the lucanda Is LA the new york Is the minneapolis Is MS the carolla is CA each wireless station has its code number too this station at south wellfleet Well fleet is CC siasconset on nantucket island Is BC when we get the danger signal from a ship we drop all commercial business and press dispatches and start to find the ships within our radius we know from the chart just which they are and where they are the particular moment when operator irwin got the news from the republic that the ship was rammed by an unknown steamer mr iraln came over and woke me up it happened to be his eight hour trick at siasconset be cause there we worked in eight hour watches I 1 knew it was up to me to get help I 1 looked over the regular chart and found the steamers that were within touch with us banns kept sending us his wireless messages with the information that his juice was giving out and that it last much longer by aid of the submarine bell on nantucket shoals lightship his captain could tell the ships latitude and longitude in the tog this information be sent to us we found that the baltic was closest to us we kept sending out B C till we got her answer then we told them the story then we tackled the lucanda and got her with the same news next the new york and then the minneapolis tuning our instruments to catch each one we even reached the carolla which was too far away to be of any service but an old story Is very simple the simplicity of the thing Is wonderful if we have trouble we can find it out right here on a telegraph hue they have to employ a big force of linemen and when anything happens they have to go out to see whits the mattar matt tr and even then they cant tell where it is and just then came a business message from a man in chicago to another man on la provence nearly I 1 miles away it had been sent to new lork from thence another operator bad hustled it along to boston and from boston it had been sent out to cape cod miles away la provence was in but across the line which divides the european stations from the american stations and off went the message with its thunderstorm of dots and dashes to that lonely ship ar out on the atlan tic while engines ground and the dynamos sizzled with enough power to kill a man lightning again laughed ginman as he sent the last dot b i r receive the higher technical training necessary soldiers to have who serve in this particular branch of the service the officers ot the nat lopal guard coast artillery organizations ot the various states are wel coined as students at the new school and the govern ment has great numbers ot them taking advantage 0 the opportunity to make themselves proficient in their par branch ot the civilian arm ot the service the school Is divided into two divisions and these all visions in turn will be subdivided into many depart ments the first division has the training ot the stu t dent officers while the second division has the training tal ot the enlisted young fellows who are at stated periods j every year ordered to fort monroe to take the course 1 that Is expected to make them so proficient in their pro that they could exercise the command ot a fort should the emergency ever render that duty on their si part necessary in the officers divisions there are two main depart main departments 1 the department ot artillery and gun defense and 2 t the department ot electricity and mine defense in the 0 and gun defense the student officers are as thoroughly trained as ex 6 e COB pert artillery can train them in all the I 1 important subjects of artillery proper H I 1 artillery defense explosives ballistics cai while the department of electricity M covers the great field of electricity the ft u student officer being taught the rela B B alon of electricity in all of ita hundreds V W K V of branches to the coast artillery ice of the present day Z WAIT for instance the officer he la BB BBB a graduated from the new school and exclamation ia acab the diploma will in this case be a true I 1 J J certificate of merit will know nearly all that there is to know about practically of electrical corn s every known means 1 I he will be an expert in 9 handling the searchlight aa a means r of defense and offense in war he will CALL 0 know all about dynamos how to oper ate them and how to fix them and it necessary be can come very near manufacturing one ot them should the emergency demand it when he leaves fort monroe a graduate of this asplen ane did establishment the department of ballistics familiar izes him with the chemistry of all known explosives he has to study the manufacture of all the explosives from the cheap black powder right up to the terrible nitrocellulose powders such as the british the french the german 88 the italian te tha australian and the japanese he must also know it he gets his diploma everything about a projectile how much powder it takes to i lot different projectiles different distances how to them and all about the effect of humidity on the speed of a projectile how to handle powdery of all kinds how to preserve them bow to prevent explosive accidents how to tell when there Is danger in time to prevent the acal dent and how to keep powder years and years without the composition losing power in defense and ottense the instruction Is just as thor ough problems that are supposed to represent war con being given the students from time to time to work out these problems being intended to familiarize them with their duties in all possible situations in time of war there will be nothing about great guns that they won t be given a chance to learn and this instruction will render them capable of caring for these great engines of war BO that they will always be ready tor instant service night or day in range finding elevation of rifles in armor attack how to ventilate magazines everything imaginable about the use of the barometer and thermometer in these magazines and the manufacture and construction of every device connected with modern coast artillery armament the instruction Is just as thorough as it can be made in the department of electricity and mine defense the instruction in the use of the searchlight in defensive and offensive work from the shore is one of the most important subjects in this department tor than tho searchlight there Is no greater adjunct to the night work of the coast artillery corps of the present time the officer must know everything about tho telephone the telegraph and the and he must be as near ly perfect as he can be made in understanding the operation and manufacture of the instrument |