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Show Marconi's Great Triumph. Every day things happen that furnish ; sufficient excuse for individual, municipal, muni-cipal, or even national rejoicing. It is not so often that anything happens j to benefit the whole world and to I make it proper for the two hemispheres j to congratulate each other. Just such ja happening, however, is this of the transmission of the first wireless signals sig-nals across the Atlantic. In this achievement all mankind may take sat-, sat-, isfaction. It is a triumph for every-,: every-,: body. Of course it. is Marconi in particular J who is to be complimented, and the puunc win not oe sorry that it is .he. Marconi has conducted .his researches j and experiments in the most admirable way. His disclosures to the public have come after, and not before, the fact aptly remarks the Chicago Tribune! . They have been accounts of what he j has done, not of what he intends to do. I If Marconi had plans for communicating communicat-ing with the Pleiades the public would know nothing about it till the first message from that constellation had been received and translated. So when he says that he, in Xewfoundland, has received signals through the air from England, he can be believed. No doubt Marconi, like other men. is not made unhappy by public recognition of his 'services. But he relies for that recognition recog-nition on his achievements, not on his aspirations. For such a man the public has a deep respect and a cordial admiration. ad-miration. ! The outcome of Marconi's successful experiment remains to be seen. There was a long space of time between the . first experiments in passing an electric ! current through a copper wire and the first successful telegraph line. It may ' be a long time before the transmission of messages across the Atlantic otherwise other-wise than by cable will be an economic , success. |