From Pike's Peak to Paris

Nikola Tesla to Make Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy at Colorado Springs.

New York, May 12. — A despatch to The Tribune from Colorado Springs says:

“Nikola Tesla, the wizard of electricity, arrived here to-day to spend three or four months in hard work from advantageous situations on mountain heights, ranging from 10,000 to 14,000 feet in altitude.

“I have been preparing for a long time to visit Colorado Springs,” said Mr. Tesla.

“I must study the conditions of the upper-air strata. There are great laws and principles which I want to study and command. When I master these I will attempt long-distance signaling — I may send a message from Pike’s Peak to Paris. In these high altitudes there is much to be learned. The electrical conditions are more active than at the lower levels. This air is charged with electricity. I hope for favorable results.”

An eighty-foot steel tower has been erected on the summit of Pike’s Peak, which while disclosing fifty thousand square miles of mountain and plain landscape to the tourist, secures Tesla 14,123 feet altitude.