The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-07

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his grandmother in the city of Salem,
sixteen miles from Boston, it was agreed
that Bell should make his home with
the Sanders family. Here he not only
found the keenest interest and SYM
pathy IN his air-castles of invention, but
also was given permission to use the
cellar Of the house as his workshop.
For the next three years this cellar
was his favorite retreat. He Uttered it
with tuning forks, magnets, batteries,
coils of wire, tin trumpets, and cigar
boxes. No one outside of the Sanders
family was allowed to enter it, as Bell
was nervously afraid of having his ideas
stolen. He would even go to five or
six stores to buy his supplies, for fear
that his intentions would be discov-
cred. Almost with the secrecy of con-
spirator, he worked alone in this cellar,
usually at night, and quite oblivious of
the fact that sleep was necessity to
him and to the Sanders family.
Gotten in the middle of the night
Bell would wake me up, said Thomas
Sanders, the father of George. His
black eyes would be blazing with excite
ment. Leaving me to go down to the
cellar, he would rush wildly to the barn
and begin to send me signals along his
experimental wires. If | noticed any
improvement in his machine, he would
be delighted He would leap and whiri
around in one of his war dances and
| then 90 contentedly TO bed. But if the
| experiment was a failure, he would 90
! hack to his work bench and try some
| different PLAN
The second pupil who became factor
"A very considerable factor-in Bell s
| career was a fifteen-year- girl named
! Mabel Hubbard, who had lost her hear
| ing. and consequently her speech
! through an attack of scarlet-fever wher
! a baby. She was gentle and lovablt
| GIRL, and Bell, in his ardent and head
! long way. lost his heart to her com
pletelv: and four years later, he had the
| happiness of making her his wife
Mabel Hubbard did much to encourage
Bell. She followed each step of hiE
progress with the keenest interest. She
| wrote his letters and copied his patents
! She cheered him on when he felt him
self beaten. And through her sympathy
with Bell and his ambitions, she lee
her father-a widely known Boston
LAWYER named Gardiner G. Hubbard
TO become Bells chief spokesman anC
! defender, a true apostle of the tele
phone.
Hubbard first became aware Of Bell
inventive efforts one evening when Bel
was visiting at his home in Cambridge
Bell was illustrating some of the mys
teries of acoustics by the aid Of piano
IE'Do Won know he sad to Hubbard
II.l,z+ = Lo d O. af4-p n hi
strings Of the piano. that the G-strin.
will answer me?'' 'Wcn. what then?'
asked Hubbard. cit is fact of ire
mendous importance" replied Bell
..It is an evidence that we may SOM
dav have a musical telegraph, whic.
will send as many messages simultane
ouslv over one wire as there are note
on that piano
Later. Bell ventured to contide I
Hubbard his wild dream of sendin1
speech over an electric wire, but Hub
bard laughed him to scorn. g Now yo
are talking nonsense he said. " Sue
- +hinr never could be more than
scientific toy. You had better throy
that idea out Of your mind and go ahea
with your musical telegraph. which l
II is successful VIII make You mi
lionaire.'
; Rn+ the longer Bell toiIed at hi
musical telegraph, the more he dreame
of replacing the telegraph aud its cum
hrous sign-Ianguage by a new machln
= that would carry. not dots and dashe'
, h1t the human voice. off I can max
. Heaf-mute talk he said. 81 ca
make iron talk For months ne WaN
erred between the two IDEAS. He ha
no more than the most hay concepto
Of what this vOice-carrving machn
would he like. At first he conceived o
having a harp at one end Of the wire
and a speaking trumpet at the othe
r so that the tones Of the voice wouI
r he reproduced by the strings of tn
, harp.
II Then. in the early summer Of 1S7-
while he was pulling over this har
Iapnaratus. the dim outiIn" of ne'
C path suddenly glinted in front OF hln
i He had not been forgetful of '' Nislbl
5 Sneech'' all this while, but had bee
5 making experiments with two remari
t oh1p machiues-the rhonautograph an
p the manometrjc capsule. by means
5 which the vibrations of sound weT
L made plainly visible. IF these could +
: Fimproved. he thought then the dea
e migh+ be taught TO speak by sight
o 1a9rninc IN alphabet Of vibrations. II
e mentioned these experiments to 80
n +an frfend-Dr. Clarence !. Blake; an
T. ho being q surgeon and an 9ur}st. ma
o rraUv eaid-''Whv don Z You use
4 real carp
S-oh an idea never had. and probabI
rovar conId. have occurred n Bell: h1
: he accepted It with eagerne,,S. =