Sydney, N. S. Oct 23 — The Mar-
coni system of trans-Atlantic com-
munication is now fairly well estab-
lished, and with very few intermis-
sions the station at Glace Bay has
been in constant operation since its
opening for commercial business on
Thursday last. That Marconi him-
self is reasonably sure of the con-
tinued success of his improved sys-
tem is best testified to by the fact
of his leaving shortly for New York,
thus leaving to his subordinates here
the actual carrying on of the busi-
ness.
The wireless wizard now claims
that he has no intention whatever of
competing with the cable companies
for some time to come, until his
trans-Atlantic stations, at all events,
are better equipped to successfully
handle the great amount of business
they are constantly being deluged
with. This will mean that until
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such time as the Cape Cod and Pold-
hu plants are re-constructed with the
una-directional system and until the
machinery of all stations is dupli-
cated in every detail.
At present the most serious diffi-
culty apparently being met with is
the inability of the system to trans-
mit and receive messages at the same
time. This necessitates the moving
of operators from one room to an-
other at intervals of ten minutes
and admits of some confusion aris-
ing in the operations of the two sta-
tions in communication. It is also
somewhat of a bar to absolute accu-
racy for if, for any reason the re-
ceiving operator is unable to read
the message being sent, it is impos-
sible for him to acquaint the sender
until his station is prepared to re-
ceive the message. The loss of time
entailed because of this is manifest.
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