4,000 Miles By Wireless.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 10, 1913:
Nauen, Germany, Communicates with the Station at Sayville, L. I.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Saturday, May 10.— The Berlin correspondent of The Daily Express says that the wireless station at Nauen to-day succeeded in establishing communication with the station at Sayville, L. I., at a distance of over 4,000 miles.
    The wireless tower at Sayville is owned by the Atlantic Communication Company, of 90 West Street. None of the company's officials could be reached last night, and the report that Sayville had been in communication with Nauen could not be verified. The operator at Sayville declined to discuss the matter over the telephone, and added that the chief engineer had received instructions to give out no information whatever.
    Considerable interest was aroused in August of last year, when the wireless plant at Sayville was still in process of construction, by a dispatch from Washington, which said that the station was being observed by the Navy Department and the Department of Commerce and Labor, because the powerful wireless station, which practically dominates New York Harbor, was reported to be controlled by a corporation reputed to be under the influence of the German Government.
    Manager A. E. Debec, of the Atlantic Communication Company, said at that time his company had no connection with the German government, and that, while there was some German capital in the enterprise, the German capitalists were interested only in the same way as English capitalists might be in the Marconi Company.
    Experts here expressed some doubt that the wireless record had been broken. As long ago as November, 1911, Marconi sent the first wireless dispatch from Italy, in the form of greetings to The New York Times, across 4,000 miles of space.