The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-22
A New Motor
TT GIVES A NEW NAME TO THE
 GRAPHOPHONE = THE ELEC-
 TROPHONE SUCCESSFULLY SHOWN LAST NIGHT AT THE HOTEL STRATFTELD TO A SMALL BUT SELECT AUDIENCE.

A musical machine of the phono- graph family was exhibited last night at the Hotel Stratfield Many rec ords were played in a faultless man ner and there was singing by Mrs. Julia M Dungan, a violin solo by Frank w. Rock and a whistling solo by Miss Elizabeth F. Eaton, all of which were reproduced on the EaecT trophone to the great delight of an audience almost wholly made up of experts. MT. Phillips told of his in vention, speaking as follows:
 This musical instrument which you have been invited here to see ana hear is called the Electrophone, ana there is nothing especially new about it, the reproducing parts, in all thelr essential features being the latest de- velopment of MT. Thomas H. Mac donald's genius. He was assisted py several talented men with whom ne was associated and whose skill Tn car rying out the details of the new thoughts with which his active mind was ever teeming is we'll understood by all his friends. The duplex motor idea is new only as applied to the re- production of sound. It is really part of the Phillips System of Tele- graphy, my principal invention, not yet in permanent use by either the Western Union or the Postal Tele- graph Cable Co.,, but liable to be upon short notice Both companies Know it's merits and it is only a question of patience. I must bide my time. Morse. Bain, Hughes, House-ails or the great telegraph inventors had 10 put up with delays, and some of them with rebuffs, I have had none put the pleasantest negotiations with the telegraph people and I am entirely confident that the Phillips System with all of it's ramifications-call Ill boxes, burglar alarms for country banks. post offices and stores will pc in. operation bye and bye-maybe be when I am gone. But I have son, a wide awake newspaper writer, ana he is sure to follow up and complete in the final analysis the things that I leave unfinished.
 When I was demonstrating my au- tomatic telegraph system between New York and Chicago on the lines of the Postal Telegraph Cable Co.,, we were bothered with what in the lan- guage of the soldiers of the wire are called bugs" and there were a lot of them. t.bug' is an elusive trouble that has to be located and eliminated and until it is disposed of you are in the position of the trusting and spor- ty individual who has his money on a horse that doesn't start. first heard the term used by Edison very close upon forty years ago-thirty- eight years ago, most sassuredly. was one of the telegraph operators se- lected to demonstrate under Edison's direction, that four fairly good cir cults could be got out of one wire by means of his invention known as the quadruplex.
 The irregularity of the signals, as received over the wires of the Postal Telegraph Cable co. and their conse- ouent mutilation when passed over the. line at a high rate of speed, per plexed us and I was so disgusted that took my system out, temporar- ily. for I had discovered after much very embarrassing backing and filling that the electric current was a home production in that it was manufac- tured right in the Postal Telegraph building at 253 Broadway New York. For Illuminating purposes nothing could have been finer and the lamps gave no hint that the current defect ed an iota from absolute Steadiness. But for my purpose it was a most ir-y ritating handicap. Most of the ex- perimentation was done after 3 D. m. and as the tenants of the building be- gan closing their offices and turning off the lights the current that was supplied to those who remained was of varying power
 My instruments kept going faster and faster and then as some one re- turned in the evening to conclude his labors the current would be slight ly reduced, and our work showing signs of irregularity somewhere, we would hunt for the bug in our in- struments, in the repeaters at Mead vile, Pa, and everywhere but in the right place. We invented governors without end, but they were futile. We had no reason to suppose that the electricity supplied was not the reg ular Edison street current and before ave found it out I had narrowly es- capped Bloommgdale and my principal assistant had been as cleanly bereft of his hair as Samson was under the delft touch of the entrancing Delilah. But Samson was a man who came back as all of you know, of course, and he had his cranial foliage in full fruit and flower when he returned however defective his visition may have become? But my brave lad is
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