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ings and good wishes to you and all the people of the British Empire. Theodore Roosevelt, Wellfieet, Mass.”

As the new station at Poldhu was not in shape to send back the reply of King Edward it had to be transmitted by cable and it read:

“The President, White House, Washington, America. I thank you most sincerely for the kind message which I have just received from you by transatlantic wireless telegraphy. I sincerely reciprocate in the name of the people of the British Empire the cordial greetings and friendly sentiments expressed by you on behalf of the American nation and I heartily wish you and your country every possible prosperity. Edward R. and I., Sandringham.”

That cableless telegraphy might be done on a commercial basis to the best advantage the Marconi Company decided to put up two new and more powerful stations, one at Clifden on the coast of Ireland an a a new one at Glace Bay on this side of the Atlantic. When these stations were finished the regular transmission of both private and public messages across the Atlantic began in competition with the cable lines. The exchange of cableless messages was kept up for ten months when the station at