Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-11-08
MENTAL TELEGRAPH
BY ITS USE LOST PARTS OF MA,
CHINERY WERE FOUND.
Civil Engineer Has Remarkable Elk
perience While Building Road in
lndia-DeveIoped to a Won
derfuI Degree.

spend a year or two in India, as l did, |
and work shoulder to shoulder with
the educated East Indians they would
cease their soothing" said G. r. Scrug- |
ham, organization manager for the
international policyholders' committee,
and one of the most prominent cleo
trio railway men in Ohio. 1T is won
derful to what a degree of perfection |
those people over there have deveE
oped the faculty of wireless communi-
cation without the aid Of any lnstru-
ment other than their sensitive brains.
They were using the wireless system |
over there centuries before Marcont
and De Forest were born.
Let me give you an instance In |
point, and it is only one of many |
which changed me from skeptic to |
a convert. Several years ago, when l
was in active work as civil engineer
with railroad construction as my spe- |
| cialty, l went to India to assist in |
| building line into the interior. we
came to a heading where the use OF
| rock drills, of the tripod style you see
| in use here in New York in making
excavations was absolutely necessary
This had been foreseen in the surveys
| made in advance of the construction
| work. and we had ordered battery
of those steam drills. Finally we
worked right up tn che place where
we needed them, and we could not dc
much more effective work until we
got them.
81 was in the office one day, Tuning
and fretting about those drills and
wondering whether the steamship up
on which they should have arrived
had reached Calcutta and whether the
drills were in her cargo. L asked one
of my assistants If he had heard any
thing from Calcutta, which was many
miles away. He replied in the mega
tive He had not even received adj
vices that the steamship had arrived
. I was turning away in discomfort
when one of the East Indians who had
been assigned by the government to
assist us, stepped forward. He was
educated highly and spoke English flu
emily.
"4lxcuse me- he said, were you
asking if the steamship had arrived?
"'Yes-we are expecting severa
steam drills on her and cannot dc
much more work until we get them,
I replied.
"'She arrived this morning and the
drills have been unloaded from her,
said the East Indian. They are on the
pier now, but something seems to bt
missing from them. Are they funn.
looking things that stand on thre'
legs?'
81 told him they were and showe'
- to him a picture of one of the drills
He looked at it carefully and then re
Piled
Eyes; they're what are in thos
long packages on the pier, but tina
part is missing from each of them
"He indicated an essential part 1
J.. the body of the drill as that whic
{ was missing from each. At first / wa
i inclined to regard what he said as
e Joke but his seriousness impresse
y me. l instructed the operator to viii
to Calcutta and ascertain what til
condition was. In a little while /
received a reply which corroborate
e everything the East Indian had to-
= me, and, worst of all, that when TT
. cases were opened it was discovere
- the parts were missing. That meal
II long delay, because the. drills we
er worthless without the missing part
fy In nv dilemma I called the East l
dian to me and said:
"sCan you tell me whether tho
n. missing parts were shipped with Il
- drills?
for without hesitation he replied:
to | hut thau haVa not he