Spectacular

Six went forth--three one way, three the other. Three left New Jersey in the evening. They were at San Fran- cisco at sunset; in Honolulu in the afternoon; in Malabar (Java) in the morning; in London mist in the wee, small hours; back on Long Island in the evening. The other three left Massachusetts at the same time their fellows set out. They were in Paris in the wee, small hours; in Saigon (French Indo-China) in the morning;" in San Francisco at sunset; and also at Long Island in the evening. The evening of departure and arrival was the same. The three circumnavigators who went westward were back in six seconds. The three circumnavigators who went eastward were back in five seconds. They were three SSS's and three CCC's sent out by radio telegraph, racing around the World in relays. Really their time was poor--most of it being taken by the frail humans who relayed them on their way. The actual ether time for a signal to go around the World would be something less than one seventh* of a second.

*The rate at which radio waves travel is the same as that of light--about 186,000 miles a second.