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The colâ€" Jlision occurred at four o‘clock in the morning. ~ Binns was asleep at the time; he was awakened â€"by the shock, and as he jumpedâ€" from his berth, the wall of his cabin simply eruampled up , | and disappeared. /R Yiiepe by surprise, and that you gave him no encouragement?" "I do," replied theâ€" girl. "Doesn‘t it strike you as f Not Gailty . A man was. charged with Kkissing a girl. against her will, and during the proceedings the girl went into the box. «‘You say," said.counsel for the defense, "that my client took you _ _Since Jack Binns‘ dramatic entry into the public eye by way of the first Florida disaster, wireless has progressed tremendously. Captain Fried‘s latest adventure shows that one of the most important devélopâ€" ments has been the "direction finder," by means of which an operator can find the exact point of the compass from which a radio message comes. "Groping his way ‘to the wirebess instrument, he found the key broken off. He tied it together and began giving the alarm.:. He could get no response and suspected that his storâ€" age *batteries were not working. In the dark, he got a pitcHer of water which _he poured into the storage battery cells. .Then he tried again to get his signal to the shore staâ€" tions. He .finally succeeded; and, what was more important, he sucâ€" ceeded in communicating _ with the Steaimship Baltic, then only. 30 miles away.‘ _ Another striking coincidence is found in the name of the Italian steamship, "Florida."~â€"For the first shipping â€" disaster =iw which _ radio ‘played an imporfant part was the collision of anotKer ship of this same name. with the steamer ~Republic, off Nantucket. The American Magazine describes this incident of January 190{), as follows: ts < First S. O. S. Rescue s "Jack Binns was the first wireless «operator to send an"S. 0. S. .Binns was the operator of the Republic, and this was ‘the world‘s first experience with a radioâ€"distress signal. It was also one of the most thrilling that: has everâ€"occurred. After the crash, the Florida drifted away into the fog but was located by a small boat sent out from the Republic. ‘The bow injury to the ‘Re‘pubilfgg';d; _ more grave, and her passengers were transâ€" ferred to the other vessel. HISTORY REPEATS . IN SEA TRAGEDIES Captain Fried‘s dramatic rescue of the crew of the steamship Florida has served to bring to public attenâ€" tion another series of those strange coincidences which are a striking feature of sea tragedies. Three years ago, almost to the day, Captain Fried thrilled the world by a similar rescue, saving the 24 men aboard the British steamer Antinse. f the Florida was crushed, but the How Jack Binns, First Wireless Operator to Send S. 0. S. «_ Managed to Get Help Feat Is Recalled T HE PR ES 5 strange that he should have managed to kiss you as you were unwilling ?" added counsel. . "Look at my elient, and ‘then consider your own height. 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