New Test Of Wireless.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 9, 1913:
The Salem Will Take a Long Cruise in Touch with Land.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON. Feb. 8.— The Navy Department radio experts will in a few days undertake some of the most important tests that have yet been planned for the new wireless plant at Arlington. Next week, probably on Saturday, the scout cruiser Salem, one of the swiftest ships of the navy, will go on an extended cruise specially to test the range of communication possible from Arlington out over the Atlantic Ocean. The Salem has one of the most powerful wireless plants afloat.
    If all the preliminary tests are reasonably satisfactory the Salem will traverse the length of the Mediterranean, continuing to send and take messages as she proceeds eastward. She may be sent even into the Indian Ocean.
    On the last sailing of the North German Lloyd steamer Barbarossa from New York, an arrangement was made between her officers and the branch hydrographic office to try to keep in touch by radio all the way across the ocean. To-day the branch office received the report of the vessel's noon position at 12:25 P.M.
    The navy wireless time service is of very great benefit to shipping generally. Every day the Hydrographic Office gets reports from vessels at sea stating that the noon time signal was received clearly or strongly.