The Washington times., 1910-05-05

- lamps Of Madison SQUARE anu tilS
lights of windows that looked
like Illuminated chiIdren's blocks
piled high: the twin lights Of the Neill-
Giles % Fifth avenue and Broadway
moved about like iridescent bubbles II
the waters OF . stream
The wireless telegraph operator in the
little room IN the great white tower
was standing by the window, looking
Idly down upon it all
Suddenly. without an instants warn
ing, the room was filled with an in
creduIousIy fast sparkling at the ap-
paratus. with flashes of light which
threw a fierce. paTid light upon every
thing The operator wheeled about.
astouished. and strobe 10 the head-piece
attached TO a cord, which contained the
telephone receiver used for receiving
messages in the Morse code
But before he reached It the dia-
phragm Of the receiver cracked as II
il would burst-as a telephone receiver
or ordinary use CTaCkIes when light
Ming hits the wire. Then, to the opera
tors establishment and confusion. words
came to him from the head-piece- as
distinct as though spoken by a bass
voice into his ear in loud tones-thOush
he was Ave feet from the tiny receiver
halo, Earth Halo, Earth Do you
understand Halo, Earth Halo,
Earth and ran on indefinitely, in Es-
perentO. the universal language which
was by this time used BY all the intel
. IIgent classes OF the earth
The operator was BALI terrOr-strlCHl-
en- Never before haG a spoken word
bsen transmitted through the receiver
Only dots and daSheS from ships. har-
Dor and island stations and JrausaI-
I lan=ic liners had ever come through IT,
The thought struck the operator
/ with professional excitement. after a
moment that perhaps some Of the
! scientists who were perfeCtinE the
( wireless system had at last made wire
Z less telephony possible for long dis
D tanceS, and that he had accidentally
picked I'D the message
! EUt the moment he closed the switch.
after cutting IN" with his sending ap-
/ paratuS 10 sound an % k Signature.
[ the same sounds Issued from the re-
I cgiveT again
'-I4aIIo. EARTH Halo. Earth
/ The operator had imagination, and the
I strange and queer accent Of the voice,
and the startling ccsmic manner OF adj
! dress. set wild visions moving in his
/ head But 10, somebody was having
/ fun with the anonymous 0pp0TtunI-
E ties OF the system. he thought
For one whole minute the voice kent
/ calling. Halo. Earth and then IL
/ ceased
/ Medley Of Messages
/ Almost instantly thereafter there was
/ a medley Of messages in the Morse code.
/ Sandy Hook. Bayonue. Atlantic High
Iands-even Cape Cod. and finally Glaze
/ Bay, Inquired OF each other and every
( body
'Hurrah. Wireless telephony at
Iast7'
Was that your ofice7"
l Whose voice was on the wfrs2''
| flying information went round that no.
body knew anything about f.
I This was forming the absorbing topic
/ OF gossip over the system. when sud
/ denly communication was cut OF abrupt
/ ly by a series Of frequency waves
| which completely annihilated the sys
. TENS currents once more the strange
y accented voice said
Halo. Earth2 Halo, Earth, Do yor
understand
II kept this Up for several minutes
and then suddenly It said
call all your rulers OF the earth TO
getEer and have them do as I bid be
fore the next moons course. or VII
cause your entire planet 70 fail into n
sun Do YOU understand
Then II repeated the same word
( again. carefully and deliberately.
5 The operator stood staring at the in
r strument with dIated ewes and a IKE,
b look OF dmdZement and f1C0murehen
/ sion on his face He dashed of a mes
sage 70 Bayonne, asking, Did you hea
But before BayOnne had 4 chance 4
, reply the hiEh-freQuency current aEaI
. cut in and the receiver, which the op
orator could not hold 10 his ear witEou
pain said
Halo. Earth. You can talk 70 III
{ r YOU get your aerialS uD twice as EiE
/ as YOU are now and send vou- spar
AT right angles from the plane OF Jh
! earth Do you understand Better d
L al once
! Then. once more. it repeated the en-
tire conversation three times
Operator frustrated
/ The operator was completely excited
A cIammy Precipitation broke out on hf
face. and he flung open the window
I with a nervous jerk He called Fl
Hamilton and Sea Gate, and asIle
them what they had heard
/ They replied that they had caught
| confused message which they cOuldn'
make out. but they thought that the.
had been picking up WIIenbOrE's o
some other exPerimenter's trial mes
sages AZ wireless telephony. and tia
: he was quilting them
/ But the operator was not satisfied
Evidently he was the only one who ha
I caught and could understand any pro
iIonEed conversation from the mysterioU
/ sender. Though the time came TO shU
I'D the office for the night, he rename
at his post, hoping for another mes
sage He waited half hour and the
/ he was rewarded
Halo, EARTH Do you understand
This vas repeated q number OF times
/ and then Get TO work AT once and 4
- tai
( higher powered coils, lighter aeTiaI
proper angles and greater hOTsepOwe
shark generation Get your best eleC
trojan and let me tell him how 10 fix
Up Do u a. once, or you'll never nav
the chance I can dump the earth int
! the sun in twenty-fCur hours, an