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Show Union Pacific Is to Use the Apparatus on Its Trains New York, Feb. IS. That the Union Pacific plans to equip Its entlro system sys-tem with wireless apparatus for sending send-ing messages from moving trains to stations along the line, Is the an nouncement of Dr Frederick Milliner of Omaha, an electrical, expert In the employ of the railroad, who Is now In New "ork city. "Wo have decided to adopt tho wireless telephone which our experimental experi-mental work shows to be entirely practicable." Dr. Milliner told the New York Railroad club at their annual an-nual meeting here. "Within a year or so, wireless telephoning from moving trains will be a dally feature of trains on the Union Pacific. Two wireless stations will be established this summer, sum-mer, one at Sidney, Neb., and tho other at Cheyenne, Wyo., one hundred- and three miles apart, on a single line. We expect to keep up communication' with moving trains between these stations sta-tions and others that will he established. estab-lished. Wires will be stretched on top of tho cars. "Tho wireless telephone which we have, devised and have beeji using in, Omaiia Is"lTuTfIcTently powerful for messages to be received from, a considerable con-siderable distance simply by attaching attach-ing tho receiving apparatus to an ordinary or-dinary umbrella over the operator'6 head. Tho ordinary telephone head set is used by the person receiving. oo |