In 1899, messages from the first commercial demonstration of wireless telegraph at this site were received from the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, who had been invited to America by Gordon Bennett Jr. of the New York Herald to report on the America's Cup sailboat race using his wireless telegraph. An antenna mast was erected on top of the north Twin Lights tower. On September 30, the America's Cup race was preempted by a naval review organized by then governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt, celebrating the victory of Commodore George Dewey's fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay, and Marconi's first wireless transmissions in America were sent from here to report on the progress of Dewey's fleet. On October 3, the same wireless apparatus received reports on the America's Cup race between the Shamrock and the Columbia in the ocean just off Sandy Hook. Marconi kept a wireless station at Twin Lights for a short time before deciding that other locations along the United States coastline offered better reception.