Tesla Building Wonder Factory

Huge Electrical Works and Marvelous Laboratory and Experimental Station to be Erected

NEW YORK, August 7. — Nikola Tesla is about to build a great electric plant at Wardenclyffe, nine miles from Port Jefferson.

The plans show something too big for an experimental station, and the mysterious electrician is far from loquacious about the purposes for which he intends the new station.

It probably means Tesla's leaving the field of experiment and theory and entering the commercial field with his inventions.

It is likely that Wardenclyffe will become as famous an electrical capital as Edison's place at Orange, N. J.

Tesla's purchase is of 200 acres, and the contract he has closed calls for works, the main building of which is to be 100 feet square. The initial cost of construction will be about $150,000.

In the neighborhood of Wardenclyffe the new electrical plant is referred to as the principal station for Tesla's wireless telegraph system, soon to become a common method of communication.

Tesla, in his laboratory in Houston street, said yesterday that it was true he was establishing an electric works at Wardenclyffe, but declined to go into details as to his purposes in connection with it.

"There is nothing new to tell about my wireless telegraphy," he said. "The system has been in operation five months. As to the new station, I will use the power for a variety of purposes."

"And those purposes?"

"I cannot give you the details now." It is known that besides the electrical works there is to be erected on the land a wonderful electrical laboratory and experimental station. The first marvel that is expected to issue from the wonder house will probably be a system electrical illumination by diffused lights.