Tesla's Great Plant at Wardenclyffe

Messages to Go From There to All Parts of the World.

THE INVENTOR INTERVIEWED.

HE TALKS OF HIS PLANS AND BUSINESS PURPOSES.

Perfectly Confident That He Can Make a Commercial Success of That Which Has Not Yet Been Done Publicly.

WARDENCLYFFE, Nov. 14. — Development of the great electrical plant of Nikola Tesla continues rapidly. A large force of men has been at work some months in getting ready the buildings and apparatus for the generation and transmission of electricity. An immense sum of money is being expended in getting the plant established.

Mr. Tesla was asked yesterday to give a statement as to his work for the benefit of the readers of the Brooklyn Times. He shrugged his shoulders. "There is not much that I can tell you," he replied. There is much that I cannot tell you. Yet there this — this you can say: I am confident of carrying out in every detail the work that I have set out to do. I am perfectly satisfied from the experiments I have conducted that I can by my system of transmission through the earth, establish communication not only across the Atlantic Ocean, but also to much greater distances, even as far as any two points may be separated on this earth. I am perfectly confident of the commercial success of my system, as I have found ways of securing secrecy of messages and also ways of transmitting great numbers of messages simultaneously without mutual interference,"

As already stated the work of construction of the generating and transmitting plant here is proceeding rapidly. Early in the year a track of about 100 acres was secured and workmen have since been busily engaged in clearing the land, erecting buildings and constructing machinery. The first building on which work was commenced was the machinery building. This will contain the generating plant. This building is nearly completed. An annex will be used as a workshop for the installation of instruments and the laboratory for the testing and adjustment of the apparatus.

The first building has been completed and part of the transmission plant has been built.

The second building, now in course of construction, is to serve as the actual transmission, plant, taking its power from the generating building.

All the machinery is of novel design and in its construction embodies the results of a number of years of Mr. Tesla's experiments. The largest part of the machinery is now ready and the parts are now being installed.

While primarily intended for the transmission of messages across the Atlantic Ocean, the plant, Mr. Tesla says, will incidentally serve for other purposes.