The daily sentinel., 1910-03-31
HE'S GOT THEM BLUFFEO
AND THE PEOPLE
LAUGH
Remarkable Wireless Telephone Per-
fected by Young Fellow on the
Coast Put Wireless Telegraph
of the Navy on the Blink.
AN APPEAL MADE TO CONGRESS

AN hffEAL MhUE III CUNGRESS
| The strains of raucous ragtime
carried on the crest of Hertzian waves
through the medium of wireless
telephone have arrayed together the
| United States navy, the revenue cut
ter service. the congressional COM
mittee on naval affairs and Congress-
man Roberts of Massachusetts
against one Jack Mccarthy, inventor
and Irish, manager of the Universal
Wireless Telephone company, who
from his lonely perch of an office in
the Metropolis bank building, daily
twists the tail of the powers that be
and laughs them to scorn Naval
officers of rank and degree have sent
up a rabid yell for the extinction of
one Mccarthy, inventor.
They have reported him to Wash
ington. They stand behind Con-
gresham Roberts to have him legis-
lated off the map. They complain
that with his fiendish invention he
makes as naught the wireless service
of the fleet, and that he and his rag
time tunes played into a wireless
telephone from a .phonograph have
put the everlasting blinkers on gov
ernment messages.
And Mccarthy grins.
The trouble arises over the ques-
tion of the ownership of the air. The
federal officials believe that they
should have some exclusive right to
it. while Mccarthy believes that 1t
belongs to the fellow who can put
the others out of commission-drown
them out
Mccarthy. after several years of
n rd OIL -,
from electrocution, and in the face
of continued reverses, perfected a
wireless telephone. Others had tried
the same thing. but with humorous
results. Mccarthy injected himself
on the wireless horizon some months
ago, when wireless operators, taking
the routine messages from the sur
rounding points, were interrupted by
strong voice saying:
Hello, there. Pleased to greet
you"
Receivers dropped in vague alarm
and a concerted inquiry arose as to
the inventor. They found a young
man, entangled in wires up in the
Metropolis bank building, smiling a
very satisfied smile.
Mccarthy offered the phone to the
government. particularly to the navy,
but the government scoffed, and par
ticularly the navy.
A short time previously wireless
phones had been installed on board
the vessels of the fleet only to be
discarded few weeks later, choked
to the nozzle with profanity-pro-
family which had been deposited
within the mechanism of the instru-
ments and which they found had
fa cd ffr=a In, ha
ner. In fact they were looked upon
as deposit vaults for the safe keep
ing of harsh language 1t mattered
not how much an irate post captain
beloved into it or what the chief
electrician said into the receiver
nary a word escaped. 1t was the
most moral phone in existence and
therefore when Mccarthy proposed
his kind he was waved away.
The navy went its mighty way and
Mccarthy his. One fine night, few
weeks later. operators on board the
fleet, sending brutal messages from
| irritable commanders, heard a pc
culiar buZZing and on their surprised
ears broke a ghostly tune-none 9TH
er than "Ma-a-andy La-a-ne." Com
ing as 1t did from nowhere it was
| fascinating but the operators dis
covered they could not penetrate the
music. The service ceased And Nc
Carthy. sitting by his wireless phone,
into the mouth of which was screwed
n phonograph horn-well. Mccarthy
grinned. Though the navy knew not
the tail twisting had begun.
The next day the music started
again-and kept up. The revenue
cutters were forced to cease their
wireless messages until one Mccarthy
had become satisfied with the glee-
full refrain of Pickle Lily Polka"
From that time on it has been con-
| tinuous. According to the reports of
the commander of the cutter McCul-
| loch which lay at Sausalito, nine
miles from the persistent Mccarthy,
| the latter took particular delight in
interfering with his weather reports.
Then, to add insult to injury, it
caught and laughed at the private
messages of the officers.
Coming ashore to take you to the
dance tonight" wired the operator,
sending the message to girl in Van
Ness avenue. Mccarthy forthwith
gave three loud has" over his tele-
phone and turned on Waltz Me
Around Again, Willie" During the
playing the revenue wireless service,
heavy with its, messages of dinner
appointments, was put on the blink.
In the midst of message from shore
to the effect that three enlisted men
| had landed in the calaboose. Nc
Carthy- broke in with the dulcet
strains of Has Anybody Seen
Kelly" Half an hour later he turn
ed on the selections from The Love
Tales of Hoffman," being desirous
| to show that his was not q rude ear
for music. The reports of the reve-