The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-02-02

werewolf and continued conver.
sation Stimulates the roar OF
shotted artillery isn't much OF tan
gible asset around the capitol. so Mr
Woods has been worried and has been
looking around for a reliable remedy
for the trouble.
All this is by way OF introduction to
James Henry Harper, v. A. c.. who
may be called upon to doctor the pub.
lie hearingrooms. MIR. Harper is a
little man. with grayIsh hair and
twinkly eyes, who has a new method
for treating cirrhosis Of the acoustics.
Up to a recent date. whenever an
architect put up an auditorium or
something that was a poem from the
outside, but acoustIcally was so Inn
possible as 10 make stralghtaway talk
sound like the last mouthings OF John
Mccullough, there we're only a couple
OF cures known. One Of them was TO
line the inside Of the upper part Of the
auditorium with felt and clutter 1t all
up with fatty upholstered furniture
and draperies and soft stun Of all
kinds, on the theory that II would soak
up the superhuous sound. Another
method was to string a bunch OF
wires across the top Of the auditori.
um. This was in the hope that the
wires would strain the sound, letting
all the extra rumbling and jumbling
filter through and go out the sky.
lights, and bounce the useful noises
back at the audience.
These two methods do not amount
10 much, but they comprise the whole
list. The felt and furniture hang
lngs and other things used as sound
sponges made a building fearfully in.
sanitary, and the wires strung up in
the air made It look like a telegraph
ofHce in a busy city.
But Mr. Harper has a brand new
method that has worked fne, he says.
He discovered that sound doesn't trav-
el in waves like light, but jumps along
by magnetic impulse. and he has fig
ured out too. that It doesn't make a
bit of difference what material IS used
IN a building. just so long as its shape
Is correct This discovery simply de-
stroys the regulation theory, and many
learned professors occupying chairs
In colleges have amused themselves,
Mr.. Harper says. BY jumping up and
down on his frame. But now he feels
better. because, he says, most Of them
are coming around to his way OF
thinking.
Anyhow, when Mr. Harper, who has
quit regular engineering and now de
votes his entire time to ventilation
acoustics, and chromatics, is called in
on Job, be does not proceed to bull
the felt market and order all the thick
furniture in sight
He looks at the shape Of the hall OF
auditorium or theater or church, OF
whatever it may be, and then he
stands in the middle OF the main floor
and claps his hands or yells. He does
this many times until he knows al
about the reverberations, and the
resonance, and such. Then when he
has this all down, he does some more
figuring, and finally winds up by IN
stalling an invisible canopy to keep
the sound from going up and up and
up, and playing hide and seek midst
noric columns and Gothic windows
and pure Greek pllastegs aud Geor
gian domes. and other architectural de
lights, but acoustic horrors.
Mr.. Harper explained that he uses
silk threads because silk is full Of mag
netism and potentiality and all that
So when he stretches his invisible spi
der web of silk across a hall it acts
like real ceiling and sound hasna
q chance Of getting by to reverberatt
and echo and double up and play th'
deuce generally He claims that h'
has tackled audItoriums that woulC
rake the clearest voice that evel
/ care out Of the silvery throat of Al
oratorical headliner sound like th'
Swiss bell ringers on jag, ant
fixed them up with his sill
spiders web
until the sss =ffii.sEassat
acoustic prop - aJAi1lLss y : III
critics were g1S Iaslsll ~; : @ ~ y
perfect.
See Ghost Of Gen. Logan.