"Hello, Mars, Anything Doing Up There Today?"

This Message Nicola Tesla Is Preparing to Send to the Men and Women Up There Soon.

New York, Jan. 10. — An attempt to open communication between the world and Mars is to be made from this city. The transmitter and receiver for this great interplanetary wireless telegraph is today being completed in the laboratory of Nikola Tesla, the great electrical expert, at No. 47 Houston street.

“I am preparing,” said Mr. Tesla yesterday, “for the greatest experiment that has ever been made on this planet. Sooner or later I shall establish communication with Mars.

“I am certain that the inhabitants of that planet have many times endeavored to signal this earth, but we have never had instruments of sufficient delicacy to receive their messages, nor instruments powerful enough to answer them.

“At last we have the former, and I will soon have the latter. It will remain then only to decipher their messages and answer them.

“It is more than possible that the Martians will read our messages to them before we can read theirs. I believe they are a more advanced people than we are.”

Expects Results Soon.

“Already I have a transmitter that is, I am certain, of sufficient power to send a message to Mars with strength enough to operate a delicate telegraph instrument. A beginning has been made, and the great result will soon be achieved. I will have some definite results soon, and when I get them I will explain all about them to the press.”

Taboos Marconi’s Views.

Of Marconi’s views on the subject, Tesla said:

“He knows nothing about what I have been doing, and if he has arrived at any conclusion it is but the conclusion of an educated guess. His wireless telegraphy has to do with this earth; mine deals with the stars. Let us both stick to our subjects.

“I see that Mr. Edison says he confines his thought below the apex of the Himalaya mountains. Well, mine climb higher, and will reach their goal.

“Talking with Mars is not a new proposition. Other men than myself have received on delicate instruments messages they could not understand. My task is to receive them, to understand them and to reply to them.”

FLAMMARION SAYS WE KNOW ABOUT MARS

Paris, Jan. 10. — Camille Flammarion lectured on Mars last night before the Astronomical society of France. After the lecture he summed up as follows:

“We know Mars better than the earth was known before the time of Columbus.

“We know the climatic conditions of Mars better than we know those of the earth today.

“We cannot tell what the weather will be tomorrow on the earth, but we all know what it will be on Mars, since it is always fair.

“Whereas, no one has ever seen either the north or the south pole of the earth, one pole of Mars is always observable.

“The conditions of operations are peculiarly favorable, on account of its proximity and because when Mars is in opposition it receives the full solar light.”