Aquitania Fastest Big Ship Reaches New York Harbor
Wireless report notes Cunard liner Aquitania averaging 23.65 knots to noon yesterday with 602 knots in a 24 hour run. Captain William T. Turner, famed commander of Lusitania and Mauretania, is praised as a master navigator and democratic leader aboard the Aquitania bound to Ambrose Lightship and West Thirteenth Street pier.
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Turner
Ambrose Channel
West Thirteenth Street
Liverpool
William T. Turner
Aquitania
Cunard Line
Lusitania
Mauretania
White Star
Cape of Good Hope
Guanapo Islands
Thunderbolt
Mr. Turner
Globe
New Zealand
Cape Horn
Inman Line
City of Chester
Cunard
Cherbourg
Mediterranean
James Kenway
Star of the East
Cunard Company
Aleppo
Carpathia
Ivernia
Umbria
Caronia
Carmania
Royal Naval Reserve
King George
Gladstone Dock
Marconi Device for Wireless Fog Gun Tested at Sea
A wireless control system for fog signals on sea beacons enables a shore station to start or stop acetylene fog guns without a crew. Tested on Clyde Lighthouse Trust guns, the setup allows months of unattended operation in fog, avoiding costly cables and dangerous rescues.
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Empress of Ireland
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America
Marconi Company
England
Marconi
Clyde Lighthouse Trust
Coast Guard
Stevenson-Moyes
Marconi fog signal control apparatus described for sea use
The report outlines a two function Marconi control system for fog guns at sea with synchronized relays and clockwork to open and close a gas valve, powered by dry cells. A four month clock drives a hammer to reset contacts. A shore transmitting setup supports short and long range signals.
Duryea Found Hopelessly Insane and Committed
After a commission of alienists found Chester B. Duryea hopelessly insane and a paranoiac, he who murdered his father Gen Hiram Duryea at their Brooklyn home on May 5 was ordered committed by Judge Dike to Matteawan Asylum for the criminal insane. Duryea has been held at Bellevue Hospital pending commitment. Doctors Rathbun and Dexter were appointed to examine him.
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Queen of the Nations
Cape Horn
Callao
Peru
Liverpool
Turner
Thunderbolt
Indian Ocean
Washington
Poland
Kosciusko
Germany
Anheuser-Busch
Chester B. Duryea
Hiram Duryea
Eighty-fifth Street
Brooklyn
Dike
Kings County
Matteawan Asylum
Duryea
Bellevue Hospital
Nathan Rathbun
Thurston B. Dexter
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Captain. Turner
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Avmibek
Jefferson New Hampshire
Delightfel Family
White Mountain
Charles V. Murphy
Mgr
Laurel House
Lakewood
N. J
Hart Schaffner & Marx Good Clothes Makers
Wallach Bros
125Th St
Third Ave
Lake Hopatcong
W. 234
Liberty St
Jackson Ave
Jersey City
Ward
George Coppinger
Wadhams
Peniten
Coppinger
Sixth Avenue
Anheuser-Busch Agency
New York
A. Busch Bottling Co
Eee
Modeentian
Matterwan
Equitable
Equitable Building
Pine Street
Peerless Knitting Mills Co
170Th Ave
New York City
Guabdenestore
Madras
Haberdashers
20Th Street
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