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Show TO TELEGKAPIi AT SEA. Ocean Liners Will Adopt the Marconi Wireless System.. New York. March S. The North German Ger-man Lloyd line will adopt the Marconi aystem of telegraphy on its fast vessels as a means of communicating with the land on each side of the Atlantic. Gustav H. Schwab, general managing manag-ing agent, will urge the erection of a lofty mast on the Nantucket south shoal lightship, about 220 miles from Fire ieland. This will enable steamships steam-ships to communicate with New York fifteen or sixteen hours before they reach their pier. A series of experiments conducted on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. which has arrived here, was successful in every way. From a sprit which had been run up from'the main mast until its tip was 135 feet above the deck, one of Marconi's electrical engineers who was on board communicated satisfactorily satisfac-torily with Borkum island, in the mouth of the Ems. On the island of -Borkum had been planted a mast 185 feet high. Owing to the disparity in the height of the spars, the Borkum station received messages from the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse while, the ship was fifty miles away, whereas the ship received messages from the island only at a distance of thirty-five miles. Greetings and business busi-ness messages were exchanged by Captain Cap-tain Bartelmann with the officials of the line in Bremen. |