Tesla Sees Wonders

He is Now Opening Up Communication With the Planet Mars.

CHICAGO, May 16. — Nikola Tesla, the electrician inventor, purposes to establish communication between the earth and the planet Mars. This is to be done by an instrument so sensitive that it will feel disturbances created anywhere on the globe. Mr. Tesla said last night:

“The coming century will be the era of the atmosphere. From the moment I discovered that the air under certain conditions was a better conductor than a brass rod, I saw possibilities which made me grow fairly dizzy at their extent. The transmission of force and influence to any distance, the use of the sun energy for all the needs of man, the possibility of controlling things with which there is no visible connection, these and an endless number of smaller achievements have become facts which in a short time will have their practical demonstrations.

“The idea of wireless telegraphy which arouses such interest now because it is developed into a new basis, is not wonderful at all compared to the principle of which it is one of the applications.”