Tesla Ready To Try Transatlantic Talk

His Assistant Starts from London for Portugal, and Tells How He Will Set Up Apparatus for Wireless Messages to America.

(Special Cable to the New York Journal and Advertiser.)

London, Feb. 21. — James Galbraith, a New York electrician from Tesla's Works, left London to-night for Lisbon with electrical apparatus for use in connection with a test of transatlantic wireless telegraphy. Galbraith said to the Journal correspondent:

"I am establishing a receiving station on or about the fortieth parallel. Tesla, at a point exactly opposite on the New England Coast, will try to set up communication.

"Tesla has not yet seen fit to disclose his system or the details of the transmitting and receiving apparatus, but the system is simple, like all great discoveries. 

"Briefly, Tesla is satisfied that the ether is the conductor of all force in space, but Is not a conductor unless set in agitation in the direction to be travelled. He discovered that the ether can be set vibrating in a straight line in any distance in an area unrestricted to length but circumscribed in circumference. Suppose a shell to be fired from Philadelphia to Lisbon, the path of the shell, if filled with vibrating ether, would represent Tesla's conductor.

"He proposes to establish with one set of apparatus a slender bridge of ether all aquiver with vibrations across the Atlantic. Here is the conductor. Over it he will transmit as over a cable or wire electrical currents, whose vibrations being infinitely slower than those of ether will pass over it as over a road. That is the essence of Tesla's theory.

"I am permitted to say nothing of the marvelous apparatus which will perform this scientific miracle. If, at my station, I find myself communicating with Tesla over the ether conductor, then, at that moment, space will be no longer untraversable; the very heavens may be opened up, for it is thus he purposes to bridge the gulf to Mars."