Tesla in Colorado

Will Attempt to send a Message From Pike's Peak to Paris.

NEW YORK, May 19. — 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 14,143 feet in altitude.

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

"I must study the condition 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. It 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 Pikes Peak which, while disclosing fifty thousand square miles of mountain and plain landscape to the tourist, secures Tesla 14,398 feet altitude.