Remarkable Wireless Work.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 21, 1913:
Newport Hears Talk Between Cruiser and Arlington, 1,200 Miles Apart.
Special to The New York Times.
    NEWPORT, R.I., Feb. 20.— Remarkable wireless results are being attained in the tests which, are being made between the scout cruiser Salem and the naval radio station at Arlington. Va., to-day. The cruiser is at sea, 1.200 miles from Arlington. At certain times the Salem and the station communicated with each other distinctly. The weather was perfect for wireless communication, as the "listening in" by the naval radio station here indicated.
    This forenoon the station here heard Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, Commander of the Third Division of the Atlantic Fleet, sending from his flagship Virginia, at Vera Cruz, a message to Washington to the effect that there was no trouble and that relations were cordial. A wonderful chapter of wireless work was recorded last Sunday, when the radio station at the naval torpedo station in Narragansett Bay picked up the steamship Berlin, which had left Germany the previous day, and was sending out wireless messages.
    During the work this same station heard the naval radio station at Mare Island, San Francisco, operating.