Tesla Talks of Discovery

Has Heard From the Planet Mars.

Time for an Exploration of the Universe, He Says.

New York. Jan. 3 — The Sun today prints a further interview with Nikola Tesla, who, as stated in these dispatches yesterday.claims to have communicated with the planet Mars. Mr. Tesla found it necessary, in order to carry on his investigations and his experiments to the extent he desired, to work at an attitude of several thousand feet. He found conditions suitable for his purposes in Colorado and built a laboratory about 10 miles from Pike's Peak. The result of his investigations were first made known when he spoke before the National Red Cross society's new century meeting.

While he was conducting his investigations in nis Colorado laboratory one day, the instrument he was using to observe the electrical conidtion of the earth was affected in an unaccountable manner It recorded three distinct though very faint movements, one after the other. These movements were observed not once, but many times, the number of impulses varying, and Mr. Tesla now firmly believes that, with improved apparatus, it will be quite possible for the people of the earth to communicate with the inhabitants of other planets.

"I have incessantly thought of this for months," said Mr. Tesla, "until finally I arrived at the conviction, amounting almost to knowledge, that they must be of plaretary origin. As I think over it now, it seems to me that only men absolutely stricken with blindness, insensible to the greatness of nature, can hold that this planet is the only one inhabited by intelligent beings. I have perfected my transmitting apparatus so far that I can undertake to construct a mashine which will, without the slightest doubt, be fully competent to convey sufficient energy to the planet Mars, to operate one of these delicate appliances which we are now using here, as, for instance, a very sensitive telegraph or telephone instrument. Now, since we ourselves are already so far advanced. is it unreasonable to at least believe possible that out of 20 or 25 planets of the solar system one, if not more, might be ahead of us in the evolution? Where there is sun, heat and moisture, life must originate and must go on developing, just as a stone must fall to earth.

"I would have abstained from making these observations known for some time yet had I not been asked by the Red Cross society to give a short expression of opinion for its meeting on New Year's eve. I believe it to be the noblest and worthiest association in existence, and I desired to give it my best. This discovery in my opinion, was my best. With improved means of communication we shall soon be able to find out whether, indeed, these disturbances which I have noticed are what I feel they must be. The time has certainly arrived for the electrician to join the astronomer in the exploration of our neighboring worlds."