Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-10

! lands street, and tho music was distinctly
| heard all over the room at the Saratoga
Hotel by means Of q loud speaker. At the
same time loop was connected with my
house in Morristown. N. D., thirty miles
| from here. and large party danced there
during the evening 10 music played In New
York.
soYrENED MELODY.
AT the recent banquet OF the Electrical
| Club in this city loud-speaking trans
mitter was placed ia the electroller over
the boards and an orchestra PLAYING into
| the funnel at the Cortlandt-Street Office
flooded the room with delightful, softened
music. The effect Is at first very curious.
| The sounds fill the room and seem to
come from nowhere. This same orchestra
could Just az readily have been furnishing
music at the same time in the COO stations
in this city and ia oil the other cities men,
toned before.
1.-THE company ia gong right ahead per-
fecting the details Of transmission, and
the results are coming nearer and nearer
perfection. With a little more improve
ment the transmission will be- perfect.
Then the lines used in the daytime for busi-
ness affairs will at night carry music. lee
lures and various oral entertainments to
all the cities Of the East"
Mr.. Hubbard SAYS that one OF the chief
aims he has in view in the perfection OF
! this discovery is the furnishing. after
awhile, of all the great asylums. prisons,
hospitals. and even tenements with these
telephones. by which the highest forms OF
musical and literary entertainment can be
easily within the reach of thousands.
Thus the discovery, or application OF the
discovery. presents the great phllanthropic
possibilities. While the expense will for
time be heavy. perhaps, 1t Will not be
ADVANTAGES
within reach of all.
AHALF HOUR OF CONCERT.
The reporter had practical proof of the
advanced stage Of the experiments. A
loud speaker was set up in Nr. McCartney's
Office and connected with receivers at the
Madson-Square Amphitheatre. halt
hour of the Seidl concert was thoroughly
enjoyed by all present. The high notes
were cIearest. and some difficulty was
experienced with the bass tones, but
this is not usually the case, and the trou-
bic was thought 20 be in the receivers at
the theatre. The company had been
obliged 20 move them % a greater distance
from the orchestra than was the case at the
Strauss recltals, and this made d herence-
But had the music been collected IN fun
mel, as will always be done when the real
tests are made. the concert would have
line. Some time this week the Seldl con-
cert will be switched OF to the Masonic
Fair no Baltimore.
Ithaca and New Haven are now con-
nected. and Mr.. Hubbard has in mind
novel test EXHIBIT for the winter: lie will
try 10 have the Cornell and Yale Glee
Clubs give simultaneous concerts IN Ithaca
and New Haven. The two concert balls
will be connected by telephone, and then
the Yale Club will sing, and both the
Ithaca and New haven audiences Will hear
the music simultaneously. Then the
Cornell Club will sing in Ithaca and the
New Haven audiences will hear 1t as well
rs the one 400 miles away when the sing
ing il taking place. Spice would be added
to the entertainment II jQInt DEBATE De
tween the Yale and Cornell nayles could
be arranged ON the Nale-COrnel boating
difficulties.
A BoAT-BACE.
Mr.. H,bbard. at his home in Morristown.
received reports by telephone from New
London during the last Yale-llarvard race.
For the benefit of his guests he rugged up
a couple Of TIN shells, each with its eight
oarsmen and 10y changing the relative po-
sitiOns Of the boats at each report he kept
his friends in high excitement for twenty
three minutes. AZ the end Of the race the
cheers for Yale from the spectators on the
tdUkh OF INC i uuiito N'uib 10 hAotiH''A9
heard in Morristown.
The photograph will play an important
part in the scheme of transmission of
music. Sc. when the multiple resonator
is perfected IL can be attached TO a pho
nograph and connected with the wires,
taking tho place of orchestra or lecturer,
and the death of great musicians will not
bv any means necessItate q cessation of
the enjoyment of their renderings OF
music.
The reporter was shown over the entire
building occupied 10y the company in Cort-
landt street The expermenting-rOoms
are filed with experts. and every year the
force Is strengthened by the brightest gra-
duates Of the technical schools. TO the I'M
initiated there is an atmosphere of mystic
~ and wonderment throughout the build
ing. Nearly everything seems to be able
to be accomplished by touching button
or furuiup "a switch