The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-03

stations and stsamsrs with wireless
equipment.
These steamers and slGnAl stations
are all intimately acquainted with the
experimental station Of the Junior Club -
too much 10 at times. IL sosms. when the
Manhattan Beach station has To ask it
60 stop resolving for time: for tho Man
haitian Beach station Ia lees powerful
and is retarded In recsivinR.
The young president puts the receiv-
ing headEeaT CA your head.
Listen he says. They're talking
10 Manhattan Beach
How can you read it'- YOU ask
-l.istsn.- he says. The spaces -da
ia dada -dA-cant you hear hy" Aud
he becomes . trine impatient AZ your
stupidity. He discuasea condenser, de-
tectOrs. sensitive points and other ap-
propriAte topics for your enlightenment,
but you are a poor subject.
Then the president tells how the Junior
Wireless Club came 90 he. how it operates
and what IL intends.
About two years ago the Junior Aero
Club. under the direction Of Miss D.. L.
Todd. participated in the toy exhibition
held at Madison square Garden. THREE
81 these youthful members. Frank King
FaitOute Mum and Frederick Seymour.
specialized on wireless teIegraphy and
frequented Miss fodd's studio ON West
Tw~nty-third street 20 experiment Each
81 them made his own wireless apparatus
and through the newspapers they invited
any other boy 20 come and show a me-
chanical set he had made himself.
W. z. ID. Stokes. Jr.. then aged -.
had rugged up n wireless outfit which no
brought forth to display and which Frank
King helped him set up. Such hooks
as the a n & nf Wireless T.lsgrAphy-
and Electricity of Everyday Life and
possibly the random Rssistano. Of
random electrician were the principal
sources OF Information
The father OF W. =. d.. Jr.. met the boys
and invited them To his home to form
club. There the Junior Wireless club.
Ltd. caHe into being with headquarters
nc the Ansonia. there being Just enough
OFFICES To 60 around among the charter
members. ". T.. d. Stokes. Jr.. was
made president; George Elsz. aH West
Fortv-ssventh street. vicS- president:
Faitoute Mum. Fast Orange. " j.. re-
cnrting secretary; Frank King. S?a West
forth street, corresponding secretary:
Frederick Seymour. Fast Orange. y j..
treasurer. Miss r. L.. Todd was made
honorary president. Prof X. 4. Fessendcn
of Brant Rock. Mass.. was chosen as con-
-ulting engineer. and Seymour. Seymour
A McGrath. Il broadway. a. general
solicitors and patent attorneys. Thus
from the start the clubs Ietterheads pre-
~snted a complete and diRnified appear
ance and are as vet unchan sed. although
the club has extended its membership
to thirteen.
At 10 A. NJ. the first Saturday Of each
month from October to MAY the club
holds meetings at the Ansonia. goes
through tine regular preliminary business
acts on the business letters received and
the applications for membership. talks
over schemes and. most OF all, works with
the wireless. The necessary qualification
for membership IL that the applicant has
himself made his own wireless apparatus:
later he may have assistance and more
elaborate mechanical contrivances. but
the first rule IL invIolable.
They first mernorize the Morse code
until they are able TO think IN dots and