The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-23
.LECTURED ON WIRE
LESS TELEPHONE
#. B. CHANDLER GAVE INTER-
ESTTNG ADDRESS LAST NIGHT
Ar COMMERCIAL CLUB ROOMS
ON TRIUMPH OF WIRELESS.

A good sized audience assent mbled
last night at the Commercial club
rooms for the purpose of listening
to the lecture of F. B. Chandler, the
special representative of the Pacific
Radio Wireless Telephone company.
Every chair in the assembly room
vas taken and the closest attention
was given the speaker. Prior to the
opening of the lecture a demOnstra-
ton was made of the workings of
the new inventions and q great deal
of wonderment was expressed at this
new achievement. Mr.. Chandler
opened his lecture by thanking the
management of the club for putting
the rooms at his disposal and in
brief he said as follows:
Were the statements made to-
night antedated some hundred and
fifty years, and were there made the
same claims, assertions and predic-
tions concerning the present and fu-
ture status of wireless methods OF
communication as made herein, the
author would likely be treated to
the ducking stool or perhaps burned
at the stake for witchcraft.
The world has been going for
ward with leaps and bounds. The
progress of the last 60 years has
been greater than that of the pre-
ceding 800 years. In the last 20
years improvements have appeared
thick and fast, some of them so won
derful in their construction and so
marvellous in their operation as 70
make almost unbelievable what the
ear hears and the eye positively sees.
What few years ago was considered
a scientific impossibility, is now
commonplace actuality.
During the introduction of many
of the great time and labor saving
devices there has been period when
the investment of a few hundred dol
lars would later have represented
a fortune. The sewing machine, the
reaping machine, the electric trolley
car, the typewriter, the electric light.
the linotype, the Morse telegraph
and the Bell telephone ARE just
few of the inventions in which the
investment of few hundred dollars
would have brought almost unbeliev-
able returns.
Alexander Graham Bell. the in
ventor of the telephone, met with
many vicissitudes during the financ-
ing of his company In order 10 Sc
cure the necessary capital, stock
was offered at few dollars per
share and was given TO workmen in
payment for services. The great ma
icrity of the people. however, re-
fused to be caught in such a fool
it was termed at that
time.
He quoted from the New York
Times of April 81. 1909, which
quotes from an address before the
Montauk club of Brooklyn by Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew. the noted New York
senator:
"The senator then told how he
came TO miss making S100,000,0 900
some years ago. He said that Gar
diner Hubbard, father-in-law of Pro-
fessor Bell, was in his Office one day
and told him that Prof. Bell had
invented talking telegraph He
wanted money for its promotion and
offered to sell one-sixth interest In
the Bell telephone to Senator De
pew for $4,000.
"My friend, William Orton, presi-
dent of the Western Union Tele-
graph company and an acknowledged
authority on such matters, persuaded
me from accepting the offer on the
yround that the whole scheme was a
faildre," said Mr.. Depew. THAT in
vsstment, with accumulated divi-
dends. would today have amounted
TO About 100000 900. What a
lucky escape"
Had Mr.. Depew decided to invest,
providing these figures are correct,
each of his one hundred dollars ORR
ginalIy invested. with the accumu-
lated dividends, would now be worth
one million dollars.
Wireless methods of cOmmunica-