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Inventor and Officers
of
Company Inspect Big
Station Being Erected
at Belmar
DENIAL
THAT DEPOT
WILL AFFECT PHONES
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor
of
wireless telegraphy and principal
stockholder in the companies
organiz-
ed under his name, the Marconi Wire-
less Telegraph Company of
America,
which is building the wireless plant at
Belmar, being among them,
yesterday
visited the Belmar plant and after an
inspection expressed his
thoro satis-
faction at the progress being made.
Mr. Marconi made the trip
from New
York with President John W. Griggs
of the American company, John
Bot-
tomley, the general manager, and other
officials, the party occupying
three
autos. On the return trip the party
stopped in Asbury Park and
had
lunch.
After arriving in New York Mr.
Marconi was notified by
The Press of
a report current here that the opera-
tion of the new plant
at Belmar, which
is to be the largest plant in
the country, would put out
of commis-
sion all the telephone wires within a ra-
dius of five miles,
with the exception
of those placed in conduits under-
ground. He
immediadiately wired back
the following reply:
"Replying to your
wire, completely
disagree with expert's declaration.
Belmar plant will not
affect any tele-
phones within five moles."
The statement was made by
an en-
gineer who had come from Panama
for a visit with George C. Martin
of
Hamilton, and who was until a short
time ago wireless manager at the
naval station at Porto Bello. This
man, who claimed to be an expert
at
the wireless business, told Mr. Martin
that the power of the station at
Bel-
mar, when in running order, would
destroy the functions of
every tele-
phone within a radius of five miles of
the station, unless the
wires are un-
derground. Receipt of the tele-
gram and the consequent
assurance of
Mr. Marconi that telephone would not
be affected.
District Agent J. A. Waterbury of
the New York Telephone company,
while he
did not deny absolutely that
telephones might be slightly affected
said
it was very improbable.
"There is absolutely no reason to
believe
that the operation of the new
wireless plant at Belmar will in any
way
affect the telephone service eith-
er within five miles of the place
or
contiguous to it. Telephones have
been operated alongside of other
wire-
less plants without the slightest in-
terference. The tower of the
new
plant will be so high and the electric
waves so far above the wires of
any
telephone that it is altogether im-
probable that they will be
affected in
the least.
"Electricity sent out from wireless
plants
is not as powerful as lightning,
and lighting seldom affects the
tele-
phone system, but a method has been
found to overcome this.
"When lighting strikes a telephone
wire that is grounded about the
only
result is the blowing out of a fuse. No
wireless plant gives out
the power of
lighting.
Waves of similar length are so ar-
ranged
that they have a field to hit
upon. Instruments at the wireless
plant are
tuned to the same pitch,
and this makes impossible the catch-
ing of
wireless messages on telephone
wires. Our wires are made all the
more
secure by insulation. We have
no fear that the new plant will affect
us
in any way."
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