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WHITE HOUSE, Washington, July 29, 1904. |
WM. LOEB, JR., Secretary to the President. |
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD, Washington, July 12, 1904. |
Very respectfully, | R. D. EVANS, |
Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy, Chairman, Light-House Board. |
WHITE HOUSE, Washington, July 24, 1904. |
Very truly, yours, | WM. LOEB, JR., Secretary to the President. |
LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD ROOM, Washington, July 12, 1904. |
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The Chief Signal Officer shall have charge, under the direction of the Secretary of War, of * * * the construction, repair, and operation of military telegraph lines, and the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise.
That the Chief of the Weather Bureau, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, on and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall have charge of the forecasting of weather, the issue of storm warnings, the display of weather and flood signals for the benefit of agriculture, commerce, and navigation, the gauging and reporting of rivers, the maintenance and operation of seacoast telegraph lines, and the collection and transmission of marine intelligence for the benefit of commerce and navigation, the reporting of temperature and rainfall conditions for the cotton interests, the display of frost and cold-wave signals, the distribution of meteorological information in the interests of agriculture and commerce, and the taking of such meteorological observations as may be necessary to establish and record the climatic conditions of the United States, or as are essential for the proper execution of the foregoing duties.
A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itself.
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NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 18, 1904. |
Very respectfully, | WILLIAM H. MOODY, Secretary. |
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 13, 1904. |
Very respectfully, yours, | FRED W. CARPENTER, Private Secretary. |
Respectfully, | JAMES WILSON. |
June 13, 1902. |
WM. H. TAFT, Secretary of War. |
NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, May 13, 1904. |
CHAS. H. DARLING., Acting Secretary. |
May 2, 1904. |
GEORGE DEWEY, Admiral of the Navy, President General Board. |
NAVY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT, Washington, D. C., March 7, 1904. |
Very respectfully, | G. A. CONVERSE, Chief of Bureau. |
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, D. C., June 22, 1904. |
JAMES WILSON. |
NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 22, 1904. |
Very respectfully, | WILLIAM H. MOODY, |
NAVY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT, June 22, 1904. |
on Wireless Telegraphy, On a Letter Submitted by Mr. James R. Sheffield, Addressed to the President. |
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., July 21, 1904. |
THEODORE ROOSEVELT |
EQUITABLE BUILDING, 120 BROADWAY, New York, July 19, 1904. |
JAMES R. SHEFFIELD. |
NEW YORK, April 14, 1904. |
MELVILLE E. STONE, General Manager. |
NEW YORK, April 14, 1904. |
PHILIP RUPRECHT, Manager of the Foreign Shipping Department of the Standard Oil Co. |
NEW YORK, April 15, 1904. |
BOLOGNESI, HARTFIELD & Co. |
NEW YORK, April 15, 1904. |
Very respectfully, yours, | VERNON H. BROWN, Agent the Cunard Steamship Co. (Limited). |
NEW YORK, April 15, 1904. |
Yours, very truly, | EMIL L. BOAS, General Manager Hamburg-American Line. |
THE MARITIME ASSOCIATION OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK, New York, April 15, 1904. |
We have the honor to remain, very respectfully, | C. B. PARSONS, President. |
NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE, New York, May 6, 1904. |
Very respectfully yours, | EDW. G. BURGES, President. |
COSMOPOLITAN SHIPPING COMPANY, 305 WALNUT STREET, Philadelphia, April 16, 1904. |
Yours, very truly, | PETER WRIGHT & SONS, General Agents. |
COSMOPOLITAN SHIPPING COMPANY, 305 WALNUT STREET, Philadelphia, July 11, 1904. |
Yours, very truly, | PETER WRIGHT & SONS, General Agents. |
BALTIMORE MD., April 21, 1904. |
DRESEL, RAUSCHENBERG & Co. |
NEW YORK, April 21, 1904. |
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General Agent for United States and Canada. |
GULF REFINING COMPANY, 110 STATE STREET, Boston, Mass., July 12, 1904. |
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NEW YORK, May 26, 1904. |
A. S. GOUVEA. |
ITALIAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, 11 BROADWAY, HIRZEL, FELTMANN & Co., GENERAL AGENTS , New York, April 16, 1904. |
HIRZEL, FELTMANN & Co., General Agents, |
PHILADELPHIA TRANSATLANTIC LINE, CHAS. M. TAYLOR'S SONS, 454 Bourse Building, Philadelphia, April 18, 1904. |
CHAS. M. TAYLOR'S SONS. |
W | hy the Herald stopped wireless Nantucket news--Requested by the United States Light-House Board to take its Marconi plant from the light-ship at that place--Germany asked that its system be used. |
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, Washington, D. C., July 29, 1904. |
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MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF AMERICA, 27 William Street, New York, June 21, 1904. |
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