Tesla Has Plan to Do Away with Newspapers

With Wireless Waves of Communication, Plans to Girdle the World with Story of Happenings Far and Near

BUILDING BIG TOWER OUT ON LONG ISLAND

By means of the gigantic transmitting tower he is erecting at Wardenclyffe, L. I., Nikola Tesla hopes to put every newspaper in the world out of existence and to transmit telegraphic messages to the uttermost parts of the globe.

In an article in the Electrical World and! Engineer Mr. Tesla explains the system, and adds that "the noble generosity of J. Plerpont Morgan," who furnished the money when others did nothing but doubt, enables him to put the system in operation.

If the new system works a man may stand in the middle of the Sabara and by means of an inexpensive Instrument so small that it may be carried in a vest pocket receive news of events in New York.

Mr. Tesla says he will magnify the stationary electric waves in the earth to such a degree of power that the globe easily can be girdled.

Earth Hears Our Whispers.

Discoveries made in Colorado, he says, showed him that the earth is a conductor of limited dimensions, and that it is possible to Impress upon the whole globe the faint modulations of the human voice. Having determined these basic facts Mr. Tesla says he set himself to work to develop a magnifying transmitter which should make the modulations louder and stronger. The tower which Mr. Tesla is building at Wardencliff is almost two hundred feet tall and is surmounted by a big cupola. The tower is in the shape of an eight-sided pyramid from the top of which will be sent the messages that are to circle the; globe.

"See the Excitement Coming!"

That Mr. Tesla believes there are great possibilities in the system he is perfecting is shown by the conclusion of his article:

"When the great truth accidentally revealed and experimentally confirmed is fully recognized, that this planet, with all its appalling immensity, is to electric currents virtually no more than a small metal ball and that by virtue of this fact many possibilities, each baffling imagination and of incalculable consequence, are rendered absolutely sure of accomplishment; when the first plant is inaugurated and it is shown that a telegraphic message, almost as secret and non-interferable as a thought, can be transmitted to any terrestrial distance, the sound of the human voice, with all its intonations and inflections faithfully and instantly reproduced at any other point of the globe, the energy of a waterfall made available for supplying light, heat, or motive power, anywhere — on sea, or land, or high in the air — humanity will be like an antheap stirred up with a stick: See the excitement coming!"