Marconi Speeds Up Wireless Messages.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 12, 1913:
Inventor Says New Station at Belmar Will Handle Sixty Words a Minute.
COMES HERE TO INSPECT IT
Also as a Witness in His Company's Suit Against Signaling Company for Infringement.
    Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, arrived here yesterday on the White Star liner Olympic to inspect the new transatlantic wireless station being constructed at Belmar, N. J., and also to give evidence in the suit of the Marconi Company against the National Electric Signaling Company for infringing upon its patents. This is the first visit paid by Mr. Marconi to America since he met with the automobile accident, as a result of which he lost an eye.
    Speaking of the new station at Belmar, which is to be opened in the Fall, Mr. Marconi said that it would not be used as part of the chain of wireless stations around the world.
    "We intend to send all messages for the United States only through Belmar, which will be the longest sending station in this country," he said. "The distance from there to Carnavon in Wales is 3,000 miles. Glace Bay station, which I am going to look at before I return to London, will be reserved for Canadian and Pacific wireless messages.
    "By the new route from Carnavon to Belmar the speed of messages will be increased from thirty to sixty words a minute, which will be a great improvement in the service for commercial transatlantic messages."
    Asked about the upset in London over Marconi shares, the inventor said it had beep a most regrettable business and had done a great deal of harm all around, but that he still believed his company would get the contract from the British Government.
    "Cecil Chesterton, the editor," he said, "who was sued for criminal libel by Godfrey Isaacs, Chairman of the Marconi Company, was fined $500, and had to pay the costs of the action, was regarded by the people of London as a fool. The remarks he made about Mr. Isaacs in his paper were of the most puerile character."
    Mr. Marconi is accompanied by his wife. They are staying at the Holland House. The inventor said he expected to leave in two weeks for England if he could get his affairs in shape to do so by that time.
    The case against the National Electric Signaling Company comes up next Monday in the United States Circuit Court. The company controls what is known as the Fessenden system, which Mr. Marconi contends is an infringement of his patents.