The San Francisco call., 1910-03-11
Music Again in the Air

The next day the music started again
and kept up. The revenue cutters
We're forced to cease their wireless
messages until one Mccarthy had be-
come satiated with the gleeful refrain
of Pickle Lily Polka From that
time on it has been continuous. Ac-
cording to the reports of the COM
mander of the cutter McCulloch which
lay at Sausalito, nine miles from the
persistent Mccarthy, the latter took
particular delight in interfering with
his weather reports. Then, to add in
suit 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 ap-
pointments, was put on the blink. In
the midst of a message from shore TO
the effect that three enlisted men had
landed in the Gala abooSe, Mccarthy
broke in with the dulcet strains of
Has Anybody Seen Kelly?" Half an
hour later he turned on the selections
from The Love Tales of Hoffmann.
being desirous to show that his was
not a rude ear for music. The reports
of the revenue officers state also that
all this time Mccarthy had the field.
WIRELESS OUT OF BUSINESS
Here is a sample entry in the jan
uary log of the McCulloch:
"McCarthy's wireless telephone gave
its usual concert during the day and
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tions and singing ragtime songs, which
made the local commercial stations
give up trying to do any distant work
Mccarthy became a thorn in the side
of wireless in the navy-eXcept among
the enlisted electricians, who, when
ashore. swarm into his office and help
him poke around. In time the officers
began TO take an interest, but govern
mental action was not forthcoming.
Recently Mccarthy with his phone be-
came such an important factor in the
wireless world that Congressman Rob
erts was chosen TO introduce bill
regulating him.
You can not legislate advancement
and progress off the map said Nc
Carthy yesterday. Il am here and 1
intend to stay here, government or no
government. 1 don't want to interfere
with the navy, but l also don't want
the navy to interfere with me. l rep
d
Francisco businessmen and we have
rights which can not be set aside to
give way for message being sent by
a navy man to some girl or anything
else. There are two courses open to
the navy; one is to get better equip
ment and drown me out, Or
THE ONE ALTERNATIVE
And Mccarthy grinned broadly as he
continued:
"Or buy my phone. l am not the
kind of man who goes lobbying around
Washington trying TO sell my goods.
have tried to prove that my phone
was serviceable have played fair
in this business" he added in a new
vein. II have stopped demonstrating
whenever / caught an important or gov
ernment message and done everything
possible to meet others in the wireless
field. Recently, however, / discovered
that my wires had been cut. This was
downright dirty. And now If they
want a fight they can have one. So
far I have been using q small instru-
ment, but within three weeks 1 will
have installed stations containing some
very much stronger. With this in
navy as it stands today will be worth
just so much junk. If there is going
TO be any more wire cutting or dirty
work / will kick open the whole
shooting match and keep it open all
the time, except when 1 catch signals
of distress.
They may legislate me out of busi-
ness, but they can not legislate an i'm
portant fact out of the minds of the
American people-the fact that one
man has an instrument which can oust
the entire naval or revenue wireless
service from commission in second.
--S-
CoLLIDES WITH FLATCAR-Alsmeda March
1o.-A south side local train. west bound.