nary terrestrial wires in this respect. A few years ago a 

 Boston correspondent of a New York paper, who was 

 reporting a murder trial of considerable notoriety, 

 found that a severe snow-storm had destroyed all tele- 

 graphic and telephonic communication with the metrop- 

 olis, thus blocking him and his brother reporters in 

 their daily stories. In this extremity a brilliant idea oc- 

 curred to him. The cables to Europe were working as 

 usual. By sending his story to New York by cable via 

 London this keen-witted correspondent accomplished 

 a "scoop" that is now newspaper-reporter history. 

 To-day he would have done the same thing via wireless 

 telephone or telegraph. But it would have been no 

 "scoop." For every other reporter would have done the 

 same thing, many of them as an ordinary routine. 



One advantage of the wireless telephone over the 

 wireless telegraph is the fact of its compactness. A good 

 working instrument can be made small enough to be 

 carried in a coat pocket. In this day of air-ships, where 

 every superfluous ounce of weight is dispensed with, 

 the compactness of the wireless telephone makes it 

 doubly valuable. It adds practically nothing to the 

 weight of the car, and yet it affords a means of con- 

 stant communication between the air-ship and distant 

 points. It is declared by many serious thinkers that 

 the development of the wireless telephone plays a 

 most important part in the development and practical 

 usefulness of the air-ship. But this is only one of a 

 thousand important applications of wireless telegraphy. 



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