The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-21

.,Er. specimen Entries On tho Log
Ihrre Hours at the 'Seonset station.
he .a.de ~ q wireless station il
ris-. fes people ever see What goes
~ u orc - stu more % a mystery. Come
80 with = SUN reporter and spend half
f,~ N one u these stations. the oldest
20, ne meet famous one. and in many
rs 'hs most interesting one in this
-H..'trv
You mus, hook for Nantucket. thirty
o. - out AZ sea AIR when you have
l,rte4 Won will climb aboa rd suffering
,h--.-hno car and cross the island u
S,.>,nset Scouset for Short-a long
,-,.-rev II fully nine miles. though the
ram generally makes IL in half an hour
~..prset IN the summer IL SEA zky
,,-mr. and New York actors In n"
v,r,sr IL - the same minus the actor.
rev sav that In the winter people IN
her right minds don't yearn 70 stay
mere In the summer nobody wants to
- awr Neither will you. but the two
,crsrinE masts Of the wireless station
~, IN the edge % the wide moors will
ts-E-n and YOU will go TO them
Y-g will find a small one story shin gled
r..-ase sitting tight 90 the Rro>nd be-
rrsan ,vo white painted masts wkich.
.rr,.t hundred feet apart. thrust their
..nder shafts isS feet up into the sunht
AZ oregon pine they are three sticks
= each mast. and good Tor twenty or
thirty years unless the heals rot
Great steel guy ropes anchor the masts
he ground You look up through =
network 81 them. with a sprinkling vt
r~re billiards whose use YOU are n learn
ls'sr To prevent these steel ropes from
rlaAlrz up the electric waves and side
,-ar<ing them 20 the ground they ara
k-rAen az intervals nv insulators. that
. few feet Of MANILA rope
your slender wires pass from the peak
- ore mast To the other They are held
anog, foot apart from one another by
.rraaders and ara insulated from each
.lasr and It's steel ropes These four
r-e. are the aerials the strings OF the
we IN which play the invisible fingers
- 80 air electricity
IHE STATION
,-+se another wire &ops straight to the
s-o.nd II - caught there to keep u
from thrashlng around in the wind passes
through several lengths OF insulated
tubing TO keep the ground from stealing
Ne electricity. and then goes through the
side ~ the cottage into the ONCE
4. for you Won enter by an open door
ard End yourself in an outer ONCE con-
tanning a desk a telephone nothing OF
.rAclAl interest You go on into another
nom about nv - feet. with a broad
.or- II shal, or desk across one end II
q smack M against two windows. through
~h,ch you So the hanging wlre from the
SERIALS and beyond that the moors wide
and undulAting and empty
IN. shelf II three feet in width and the
sraoa beneath IL boarded in In revolv-
* ~hair N front ~ IL on fat sofa cushion
srs a slender. keen eyed young man.
whose name turns out 20 be A II Gin
man You arc in luck This u the operator
m charge ~ the station. He happens TO
D.. sitting IN for ono Of the other men
wireless working day - twenty-four
s-urs long and not Ave minutes n that
No goes ny that some one isn't sitting
IN that fat soia cushion looking ont
,--oss the empty moors or into the black
n sat listening. listening with an IN
'sn'ness which must be seen To be- realized
pr some message from far out on the sea
TIA, "a booming on the beach half a mile
- ~ the left
Inc twenty four hour day is divided
mo three shifts sA VI top NJ =P VI
- midnight. midnight 20 A VI This
'a.as three operators. and there is always
o. s,'ra man on the station in case OF
emergency II IL . in the morning when
20 make your visit Monday morning
'~. and that's another piece OF luck
Pc rad b~en Saturday afternoon or even
. no operator would probably have
sar 80 busy ne couIdn { have paid much
s''4n'ion 70 visitors
~a-.rdav night is perhaps the busiest
o. y he whole week Why Because
~...-dav is day when good many
se,~ars sail from New York. and many
r-..a zes are sent IN a ship within fwenty-
. ours afte- n sails SUNDAY ~ not
,a.' Z hay. 20 that practically the only
mess done Monday morning would
30 'rru| straw incoming vessels
. g.. rad reached the stat Ion an hour
80 Won would have seen IN" night
,.ara'r- 20 ~ after telling the new man
--t' -tlr. had reported There ia no par
.. a . re"d - his telling this or anything
s-'.. newman gets u all from he log You
go Cd. - hook wing ~ one end 81 the desk
~ -'.If. II - marked ~ v { = the
.a.'.-s landing for Process Verbal
-as.-uss' II contains carbon copies
.f'.. -s~ord each man is required 70 make
- p'A' happened during his shit, and 10
''~ .a-lv referred 20 az the p v or
-. ~0-e famlharly a. the log
IRE 100
'-sIp~~'sdly enlivening are the pages
= 80 log II contains all sorts OF I'M
srnsr'einess for a man sitting through
's-' hours 81 loneliness - likely 20 con
SO .. 'ha log In lieu ~ other company
'"r'1srablv more than the hare outline
- Sr8' happens
one = the Sronsei men has a turn for
ros'-v and smhrolders his dull record
r'h gems which ~ - 70 b. hoped are
';--"o a'"d A. headquarters Another
"a - humorpusly inclined that Mr.
r. 7rsr has had 10 remind him that the
not comic supplement hut
-"ss document The prize entry
as .." last one made by man sho was
.-' "a"rrR ~ take place with the United