The Bottineau courant., 1904-12-02
.WlRELE LEsS TALK SCHOOL.
Instruction Of Telegraphy Class
at Brooklyn Navy Yard.
MASTERING ART OF SPARKLING "a

Method Of Turning Out Operators .o
Send Government Messages
! Positions For Young Men In H..
Navy-OnIy Electricians, Howsv.
Are Employed.
For six hours every day a class NJ
twenty-five young sailor men in tbe>
navy yard at Brooklyn delve With
book and key into the mysteries oe
wireless telegraphy, says the New
York Post. They report for study fro3,
stations the country wide and from
warships all over the seas. When their,
course is finished they are sent wher>
ever there is government wire,es;
plant in want IF an operator, and be..>
| they serve olt their enlistmeuts either
shooting go. .nment messages throug|,
the atmosphere or alert to catch stray
sound currents looking for a receive.
This means that messages will he tax.
en- from vessels other than warshins
| and, transmitted for them at commer.
cial rates to their proper destinations
1t also means that the government is
going to keep other wireless plants
from getting anywhere uear its sta.
| uons.
The government system of wireless
communication is going to be biz
one, and the demand for operators is
To- fl,0
| can be transmitted from Maine to Pan>
anna, which places the navy yard at
Brooklyn in close communication with
all the stations up and down the coast
| Soon the Pacific coast line will be har>
| messed. and then the government will
have a chain connecting United States
forts and naval stations from Vancou,
yer to New Brunswick.
The wireless school in the navy YARD
| Is close by the steel sides of the un,
| finished battleship Connecticut ard In
the shadow Of the immense travelling
crane. Straight into the air overhead
sticks the big white pole with it's
streamers of steel. This indicates the
wireless station, and under it six hours
at a stretch the trim figures in blue
plug" away at the ''art of sparkling"
| That's what the sailor lads call it.
Some in steel helmets are busy at re
| ceiving," others are at the key send
ing" and the rest are taking apart and
putting together the electrical and me-
chanical appliances that make the bat
terry and apparatus.
The spark from a wireless plant
sounds like the cry Of gigantic To-
Gust in summer time, only it is not 50
long and drawn out. 1t comes sharp
and distinct like the click Of a telc-
graph instrument. Add this racket to
the rat-a-tat-tat of the workmen's ham,
of the travelling crane and the CON
tnual hiss Of escaping steam. and one
has the atmosphere of the navy's wire,
less school. Occasionally the band Of
warship breaks loose in honor of
somebody's coming aboard small but
important tugs are necessarily whis-
ting hoarsely. and the noise of the
shops close by never ceases.
1t would seem as If the sailor man
could make little progress in a school
Of such surroundings. but he does.
Moreover. he finishes his course in
thirty days and Is ready to be put on
station by that time. 1t must be re-
membered that he comes to the school
an electrician. Only this class Of
sailor man can apply for the instruc-
ton. When he enlists he passes Oh
examination and is rated as an elec'
trician-that is. he gets $50 a month
pay, where the landsman. which is the
lowest class Of recruits. gets only SIG.
If the electrician is steady and shows
desire for work he is showed ahead.
and each higher grade brings more
as $75. All wages, of course. include
food. clothing and transportation.
Such wages bring better class OK
recruits into the. navy than it ever had
before, and the men one sees around
the school in the yard are bright.
clean looking lot Of men whose generai
makeup is above that Of many of the
are sent to all parts Of the world ana
are the governments workmen and op-
orators aboard all manner Of craft,
Their work is congenial; they are weli
kept and receive fair pay. 1t Is not 10
be wondered at. therefore, that few OF
them leave the navy after they once
get in. They are instructed by gradu-
ates Of the United States Naval acad-
emy and have every opportunity for
advancement in their work to the emo
that If they do leave the governments
service their papers find them good ena,
ployment Immediately.
The United States navy was the last
to take up wireless telegraphy, and al
though much progress has been mace
with the new system Of communica.#
ton, we are, it is, said. still far behlnu
the other powers in both construction
ind operation.
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