one of our well-known inventors, representing a close corporation, has communicated over a distance of 3300 miles with less than 40 horsepower.
The Marine Insurance Companies are also doing their share towards belittling the value of wireless telegraphy, for although it can be proved that it has saved them thousands and thousands of dollars, they refuse to acknowledge it to be a safeguard to vessels, and will not lower the insurance rates to vessels equipped with wireless apparatus.
To cite a case: On a recent trip the steamer City of Puebla encountered a vessel that met with a mishap and was floundering about in the sea in a helpless condition. A wireless message was at once despatched to the nearest life-saving station, and in due time assistance arrived. The position of the floundered vessel was such that a vessel of heavy draught, such as the City of Puebla, could be of no assistance. In answer to the despatch a light vessel was sent out and the vessel and crew were saved from destruction.
Some of the coastwise vessels on the Pacific coast have repeatedly communicated with the government stations over distances ranging from 1600 to 2200 miles, with only a 4-horsepower outfit. This shows very clearly the difference in work, and results accomplished, between the stock companies and the close corporations.
