Tesla's Latest Idea

To Establish Communication Between the Earth and Mars.

CHICAGO, May 13. — Nikola Tesla, the electrical inventor, proposes to establish communication between the earth and the planet Mars. This is to be done by an instrument so sensitive that it will feel disturbances created anywhere on the globe. Mr. Tesla says: —

“The coming century will be the era of the atmosphere. From the moment I discovered that the air under certain conditions was a better conductor than a brass rod, I saw possibilities which made me grow fairly dizzy at their extent. The transmission of force and influence to any distance, the use of the sea’s energy for all the needs of man, the possibility of controlling things with which there is no visible connection, these and an endless number of similar achievements have become facts which in a short time will have their practical demonstrations.”