The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-02
GLORY BY NORNINGLORYPHONE
on HEAR THE Actors CATCH
THEIR TRAINS


rlorv arrangements that have been in
sailed in the Grand Central Station begin
70 announce trains TO waiting paaAengers
these days in place Of the old time man
with the ~megaphons don't make the mis-
lake that it's a a cylinder behind he
noise when the morning glory tunnels
observe in a loud. clear wheeze: -Grrrr
pfwii oof. grrrrumpf grr OF track-ack-
eck-ack zwipteen," Take IL from Jack
Hammond. press agent Of the Central
lines but who once had a job with a room
show that played against Ed Sothern and
C,sev Loftus in Aurora. Ind.-that the
noise Won hear ia the personally conducted
voice # Al Alderman, star Of
the Grand Central troupe.
For an hour or two yesterday afternoon,
,lsr previous to the only serious derange-
nent that has happened to the new
announcing machines. when the tunnels
began 10 announce mysteriously In a press
sCentv voice. An abo-o-ard. Eddie Fcy
s~pecial No. ~, first stop New Rochelle
summer home Of Eddie Foy, who is turning
'em away ~nightly-track thirteen-Eddie.'
r.. 4. well. for an hour or two previous
10 this Jack Hammond explained how
the tunnels work. From the technical
uatllTe Oh wv. EtfINiilotlu . oral ecSdy OH inc
tunnels one could see that he has made a
deep study Of the machine.
According to Mr.. Hammond this prize
announcer. Al Alderman. climbs into a
I,tle closet like a telephone booth which is
known as the noise pantry. There's a
,peaking tube on a board in the noise pantry
and Jack Hammond says that the wires
thar run from these m~outhpieces are first
sreare1 all over with amperee. Any one
can see from this that the amperes act
directly upon the ohms and consequently
rapidly condense the circular diaphragm
as II tends TO repe. the ohms. You can see
this after one glance into the noise pantry
Or. aa Mr.. Hammond pointed out. you can
observe 1t from the Belmont bar. Any
way YOU look az IL the amperes steadily
sct directly upon the ohms.
Now. without being too technical for
the lev mind" Mr.. Hammond said, Il ask
you # you have ever studied IN ohm under
the microscope? Each ohm, like an am
Tere. IS supplied with tentscles hat"
Right there the first trouble Of the after
noon took PLACE. No train was 10 be an
ncunoed until 252 o'clock. IL was now
only 242 o'clock by the clock Of the Bel
mont bar. but through tbs open doors
Of the Grand Central Station wss coming
6 growl IN purring that caused Jack
Hammond 10 drop his discussion and ether
things and run across the street to see
WY the funnels were taking ahead Of
time.
Young Mr.. Hammond had to laugh
when he arrived in the excited waiting
room and saw his mistake. Two japanese
spanlels led by a young woman with Q
rseled nose had eot into a fight and were
rolling all over the waiting room scrapping
1t out. When the dog fight began many
p~sssengers who could not see the dogs
started toward the train shed. They
thought they had heard the word Cos
cob. Al Alderman first sererated the
dogs and then assured the rasee nsers
that tho noise was not nae by the funnel lie.
The real trouble with the machines
began an hour later when Fred Thompson,
the Grand Young Msn Of Coney. buried
through TO the street on his way from
ROTOR Point. where his yacht. the Sham
rock. had gone aground In a vacant lot
Freddy were wordy Wood, who is an
artist, and Stufy. You know that strired
suit Of Stuhy's-the one with drsr a blsck
STRIPE snd next TO IL a white one-running
verticslly-and then another black stripe,
end so on all around StuIy?
Well, he had had that suit pressed and
hal added white yachting shoes and a
cap like those the cops wear in winter
and had Joined Freddy and wordy. h
artist. ~ cruise the Sound. When the
yacht grounded in the vacant lot and the
launch got carried away by a rail fence
fence and hurried back to town with Freddy.
The Grand Young Mar OF Coney went
rlght to work when he reached town. but
Stnfy and Wordy had TO 60 over to the
knickerbocker. and they pause. In their
Fight through the waiting room only long
fNGtln fg hear a mart 0f Mr Jack h2fn-
mOna's lecture.
On the way TO the K~nickerbocker StufYy
and Wordy got an idea nea Fifth avenue.
Z occurred 10 them that all q mar had to
do To get his goods before thousands OF
waiting people would be to step into the
little noise pantry at the western end OF
the outside platform OF the Grand Central
and talk into the speaking tube arrange
rnent until Mr.. Depew or one OF the Van
derhilt boys ran out OF his office and made
the press i,ycnt stop. And 10 was a cinch
that Mr. Depew wouldn't be d the
station.
Jack Hammond was telling how the
steam pressure of a great cluster OF amperes
> could blow up the station u the ohms were
concentrated. when a voice came from
al the tubes az once. Il was a higher
pitched voice than usual and clearer. The
time mad about arrived To the
'2 train, anyway. 80 a Hammond
went right on with his discussion without
u'd'lng Wnat the TUNNELS were saying
rs near ~ can be remembered the morning
glories spoke in part:
All aboard Stamford train-leaves at
1872 Po-o-ort Chester. Greenwich. Cos
Gov. ho-o-o-me OF Miss Connie Ediss
famous English corleiienne. impo-o-orted
81 an rlOrmous salary--soon to appear with
grrrr track -lck-ack bingl"
Press Agent Billy Semple. 30 II wal learned
,ater ut this POINT had begun TO bury his
hngertlvs in the varnish Of the interior OF
the noise PANTRY. Young Mr.. Hammond
had hold of one Semple foot and was drag
Ginc anchor, and Al Alderman had hold OF
The other Semple foot. The press agent
tried 20 hold on until he could get in the name
Of the theatre OF show that Miss Connie is
going 10 appear in, but the varnish gave
way In the background. over near the
station masters office. Stuffy was holding
Worly's sides and Wordy was holding
StuTy's sides.
If Jack Hammond hadn't been compelled
TO go over TO the Belmont 10 listen TO the
machines from a distance some time pre-
vious he would nave heard ths announce
ment Of the departure Of the Eddie Foy
Limited Mail for New Rochelle. One rea-
son that Announcer AL Alderman let the
Iress, agent get way with that wheeze
vas that young Mr.. Foy was in the waiting
room NJ the time TO give the machine a per-
sonai hearing. Young Mr.. Foy was wearing