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 Glace Bay burned down. Work on another station was started at once, however, and new apparatus was built for it.

Again communication was set up between Glace Bay and Clifden, the first messages being sent and received by the Postmasters General of England and Canada.

Now while it was very hard for any one to get a pass to go inside the cableless stations, even the directors of the Marconi Company having been denied that privilege, I went up to St. Johns the next summer for a week’s vacation and, incidentally, to see the station at Glace Bay. I felt pretty sure I should succeed for I knew one of the operators there.

The station is about three miles from the village of Glace Bay, on the ; it belongs to Nova Scotia but is separated from it by the Strait of Canso. I didn’t have to ask where the station was for four enormously high towers stood out before me like great sentinels, imposing and mysterious and they can be seen for miles around. [could also make out a dozen very high masts.

The entire station is built on rising ground nearly a hundred feet above the level of the