Biggest Marconi Station.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 10, 1913:
Ground Broken for It at Franklin Park — Appeal for Road Work.
Special to The New York Times.
    SOMERVILLE, N. J., April 9.— Frederick Sammis, supervising engineer of the Marconi Wireless Company, appeared before the Somerset Board of Freeholders yesterday to request that the macadamized road from Bound Brook, to New Brunswick be completed so that it would be of service to haul material to the company's plant at Franklin Park. He said that with the exception of the last mile and a half the road was excellent, but at the New Brunswick end the mud was a foot deep. Mr. Sammis said that the ground had been broken, and that the building of the new transmitting station would be completed in some nine months. It will have thirteen masts, each 400 feet high, and will be the most powerful station in the world from which messages will be flashed across the Atlantic. '