When I got settled in Paris I struck out to see the Eiffel Tower station. I found it was just about to be opened and it was my intention to try to get a job there for I believed it would be the only way I’d ever get to see the installation. I asked a _gendarme_, as they call an armed policeman over there, who was standing hard by, where the office of the wireless station might happen to be--that is, I asked him in the deaf and dumb alphabet, and I gathered from the motions he made with his hands and arms that it was in the underground building. I hied me down the stairs and found myself in a small, central area-way from which doors around it opened into the office, receiving, dynamo and sending rooms. Not being able to read French, as I explained to some officials afterward, I had carelessly opened the door on which the sign read _Bureau de Transmitteur_ instead of _Bureau de Telegraphie sans Fil_ with the result that I saw the whole blooming sending apparatus. There were two operators in charge but they didn’t think I was worth noticing. The sending apparatus was very much the same as that I saw in the cableless station at Glace Bay. This is easily explained because there is only one way to change a large amount of low pressure electricity such as is generated by an alternating current dynamo into high potential, high frequency electricity and that way is to use a transformer to _step up_ the pressure of the alternating current; condensers are then charged with the latter current and this in turn is discharged between a pair of spark balls, or a rotary spark-gap which is used for the same purpose. Not having been thrown out of the sending room and having seen all there was to see I opened the door to the _Bureau de Recepteur_ and took a good look at the receiving apparatus. The detectors were of the _electrolytic_ type, each of the cups which contained the solution having three wires sealed in it instead of one; this was the invention of Prof. Branly of Paris who got up the _coherer_ several years before Marconi began his experiments in wireless. The door of the _Installation d’Alimentation Electrique_ was open and I glanced in at the dynamos, motors and storage batteries and from the size of its equipment I judged the station to be about 100 horsepower. Having seen it all I opened the door of the _Bureau de Telegraphie sans Fil_ and walked in just as we do in offices over here. Somebody must have told the _Directeur_, or _manager_ as we would call him in good old English, that I was coming for before I could explain in sign language that I wanted a job he, with the aid of a couple of other conspirators, hustled me unceremoniously out, up the stairs and on to the green grass of the park. No, it wasn’t exactly a case of _sour grapes_ but after I had seen the apparatus of the station and added it to my Christian Science collection I didn’t want the job anyway.