The Evening Bulletin

Latest Wonder For Automobiles.

Signor Marconi, the inventor of the wireless telegraph, has perfected lately an ingenious adaptation of his invention for use on automobiles, says the Chicago Tribune. On the roof of the motor car in which he is touring through England is carried a tall funnel, which when not in use lies down flat along the roof. When he desires to communicate with the hotel which he has left or that to which he is going, the funnel is raised to a perpendicular position, and the wireless telegraph is set to work. Thus Signor Marconi, by means of the wireless telegraph and without leaving his automobile, is able to order his lunch at a hotel 30 or more miles distant.

The first practical use of this adaptation is to be made on automobiles fitted up for use in war. A party of scouts might make a quick run in one of these machines into the enemy's country, make their observations, raise their funnel and communicate the result to their headquarters and then start back before a successful pursuit could be organized. Several cars fitted in this way are to be used in the next English military maneuvers.