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Show IT IS A BINDING TIE. Wireless Telegraphy Has Taken Away the Mystery of the Sea. The equipping of ocenn greyhounds with tho Mnrconi system has taken nway part of tho dread and mystery of tho eoi. Steamships can now communlcnto with ono another or with tho shoro nt n distance of hundreds hun-dreds of miles, tho case of tho American Ameri-can liner Philadelphia, which talked with Poldhu from mid-ocean, 1.D51 miles, on Fob. 22, 1902, coming to rrilnd. Itecently tho Philadelphia and tho Lucania played a chess gnmo en routo, and n plan of supplying liners with dally news from shoro at $5 n day Is now being contemplated. contemplat-ed. In April, 1809, tho Goodwin Sands lightship off tho English coast, was struck In a collision, and with her Marconi apparatus was ablo to send for nsslstanco across twolvo miles of ocean. Life-saving stations nlong tho coast of England have frequently fre-quently received warning, by tho wireless system attached to outlying lighthouses, thnt vessels woro drifting drift-ing ashoro through tho fog, When the Invention Is perfected so that tho weathor bureau can Hash warnings from shoro stations to tho coasting licet plying tho coastwise lanes n grent step will havo been taken; but at present tho tests of this nature, owing to tho various atmospheric disturbances, dis-turbances, havo not met with com-plcto com-plcto success. |
