“WIRELESS” PLAGUE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9419, 15 April 1909, Page 2

“WIRELESS” PLAGUE.

■New York, February 17. Wireless telegraphy is the latest craze among the sons of millionaires, who are constantly seeking new diversions. So many amateur stations have been established along the North Atlantic coast that naval god commercial wireless operators are experiencing serious moon* venience. graphy has been greatly stimulated bv the wreck of the Republic, and plants varying in cost from £3 to £SOO have been installed at Boston; Brooklyn, New York and Portsmouth, mostly for the benefit of boys and young men. These experimenters hold wireless conversations with each other, and the messages are usually recorded on outside apparatus as well. The result is chaos. Complaints are being made this week that the naval station at Portsmouth has succeeded in receiving only one message prom the homeward-bound battleship fleet. The receiving apparatus has been congested with social and personal messages transmitted bptween private stations. There are at least fifty wireless telegraph plants in the borough of Brooklyn alone, and many more in New York and, in towns along Long Island Sound and New York Bay. Most of them are not capable of sending more than a few miles, but there are a few ..very powerful stations. Mr W. E. D. Stokes, the New York millionaire, has just fitted a 6kilowatt plant on roof of the Ansonia hotel, for his young son, which is capable of* sending and transmitting messages over a radios of 200 miles. He has intercepted many messages from ocean liners, but in consequence of appeals from commercial and Government stations he now abstains from “ talking” when important messages are being transmitted. The necessity for Government regulation of wireless telegraph stations is being urged, and a Bill for this purpose may be introduced at the next session of ilia Legislature. '