The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-07-03

sic for the service being played by
the musicians a mile away, who were
Kept In instant touch with the cler-
gyman by telephone. AS electric
current travels faster than 10000
| miles second, 1t can be readily seen
that no time was lost in transmits
sion of either signals or music cur
rents.
On January 81 the leading spirits
of the New York Musical Therapeu-
tic Society, practicing and developing
the world-known principle of apply
ing music to curative purposes, per-
ceived and Immediately took advau-
tage of a totally unforeseen possi-
bility in the telharmonic system. Pre-
scribing music had been merely a
matter of approximation, filling such
prescription on the part of musi-
clans purely guesswork. The cura-
tive principle of music is based, of
course, on the vibratory effect upon
the nervous system through the audi
tory nerve. Now, for the first time,
the exact intensity and precise rapid
trolled and made formulae. Further.
musicians could not be readily in
truded upon the privacy of the sick
room. Now all was changed. Wir-
ing and receivers may be installed
anywhere, and the musicians may be
miles away. And so the Society for
mally adopted this as the only scien-
tific method of applying musical
therapeutics, and this form of prac-
tice, which has hitherto suffered all
the handicaps and disparagements
which medicine would have if the
pharmacist were without scales, is to
take its place as an exact science
with materia medica.
On February IT, at another hotel,
religious service was held, all the
ten musical numbers, hymns, an
thems and solos being sung by the
choir and congregation to the music
rendered by the distant musicians at
the central station. AS before, the
telephone kept the players in instant
touch with the order of the service.
During March two notable events
occurred. The first was the COM
pletely successful wireless transmits
sion of telharmonic music currents
by DR.. Lee De Forest of wireless
| telegraphy fame, listeners enjoying a
concert program at nearby hotel,
! others in the sky-scraping tower Of
| the New York Times building, others
at the Government wireless station
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, six miles
away from the musicians, and yet
others on board the U. S. S. Virginia,
| lying off Staten Island in the harbor,
nearly ten miles away. In all these
cases the air, the ether, was the only
transmitting medium of the CURRENTS.
The amazing prediction is made as a
scientific certainty, that in a year or
two, passengers on ocean greyhounds,
bound to or from the port of New
York, will have concerts when within
a thousand miles of the musicians
at the central station.
The public wonder had scarcely
subsidized when DR.. B. F. Tracy,
practitioner of electrical therapeu-
ClcS ana an MD. Oh nOIe, COHuuCteu
a series of experiments upon patients
afflicted with various stages of deaf
ness. OF five students, deaf mutes,
from the New York Institute for the
Instruction of Deaf Mutes, two Of
whom we're congenital cases, deaf
from birth, all were able to expert
ence the sensation of tone; one by
the sound wave from the horn and
receivers, by reason of the sound
being scientifically perfect, with
wonderful carrying or penetrating
power, and two others by bone con-
duction. the telephone receivers be-
ing pressed directly upon the skull at
| different points. The others, the
congenital cases, experienced sensa-
tions pleasurably equivalent to the
sensations of tone, by the direct ap-
plication of the current from the dy-
namos upon their scalps by small
electrodes or wet sponges at the ends
| of the wires.