Arizona republican., 1911-04-01
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
 ORGANIZE NEW CLUB
ENERGETIC YOUNG MEN OF HIGH SCHOOL TAKE UP WIRE
 LESS TELEGRAPH.
Two Stations Already in Operation Will Install Others From
 Time to Time.


 city of Phoenix will hereafter convey
 wireless messages from various re
 ceiving and sending stations in
 stalled by boys of the high school
 who have become permeated with the
 wireless fad. Several members of
 the school are so taken up with the
 idea that a meeting will be held this
 morning for the purpose of organizing
 a club, which will probably be known
 as The Phoenix Junior Wireless
 Club" Provided the plans of the
 club promoters are realized every
 member of the new organization will
 put in a sending and receiving station
 at his home. from which he will con-
 municate with the other members
 who will take interest in receiving
 his messages.
 The idea for the proposed organiza-
 ton originated among three young
 men of the high school who found,
 by reading technical magazines and
 various books treating on the sub
 iect. that it would be possible to uti-
 lize any windmill, pole or roof tree for station, and they immediately proceeded to erect stations at their homes. with the result that there are at present two stations in operation, both well equipped and fitted up for the transmission of messages. One station is located on the windmill of the E. B. O'Neill ranch on the Cave Creek road. forty feet above the ground, which has proved a sufficient altitude for sending and receiving. This first station was erected by Robert Landgrebe, who came from Los Angeles last September with the idea for a wireless station for eX- perimental purposes, and young Land grebe has shown commendable dis patch in putting his idea into imme- diate and practical application. When he arrived here he met Russell Pea body. who had exactly the same mo- ton. and the two boys talked the thing over with the result that Pea body working with Leslie De Mund, another high school boy who became enthusiastic over the innovation erected a station similar to Land grebe's on the roof of his fathers house on Second avenue. so that daily messages were interchanged by the operators at the O'Neill ranch and Peabody's residence
 The code used by the high school operators is the continental telegraph code, which the young men have learned sufficiently to operate their instruments for the transmission of intelligent messages. Provided the proposed club is given life the same code will be used by all the members. | and the two stations first erected l will serve as models for the others to | follow
 A meeting is called this morning | to take place at Peabody's residence. | and all boys who desire to become | members of the organization are urged to be present. The invitation is | made more general by requesting all | boys, whether high school or not, to | come with their own ideas on the | subject under consideration, if they | have any, or if not to learn from the other fellows who have made it | their business in spare hours to pick up practical information con- corning the installation and operation of wireless telegraph instruments. It is expected that the club will have a good membership. and that the idea of putting in the stations for com munication from house to house, and from city residences to ranches, will meet with an enthusiastic reception by the body of the students Chums will be able to affiliate after school hours if the organization has the success it merits, and innumerable schOolbOy secrets will be flashed over r head to delight waiting friends. Moth ing has been intimated as to whether the girls of the school are to be taken into the new club, but it is presumed that the young men will disaprove of their being taught anything on the subject. as an intercepted message. perhaps concerning a recent crush of a sentimental schoolboy on a school mate. might come to the hands of the young lady herself with disastrous result
 The organization of the wireless club speaks well for the enterprise and push of the boys of the high school, who.~ are proving. by the initiative with which they are taking up the idea. that they are not behind the high school students of other cities. whise investigations into the great discoveries of modern times and whose knowledge of their practical application and uses results in last ( ing good to all concerned. The 'Phoe- nix Junior Wireless Club ought to have the support of parents. and it ought to meet with the approval of the teachers of the schools, repre- senting. as it will commendable de- sire among students to gain practical of important modern in- vention