The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-03
HACK BTNNS, FIRST HERO
 OF THE WIRELESS IS 3O>>
 YEARS OLD TOMORROW

He is only a neWspapsar repoElSEs and before that he was a wireless tel. 4~era,T1 operator. but his name is en- Aro1led on the immortal list of the eworld's heroes4Jack Binnss the first to save sinking ship by sending a Fec O. D." call by wireless. But for 41ack Bfnns' steady hand and Mar #cond.s great invention. hundreds of Hives would have been lost in the d1s- Easter which befeI1 the White Star lin Ser Republic in January, 1903 It was 4f1ae first time that the wireless had Fine opportunity for human service on . grand and spectacuIar scale, ands kfhanks to Jack Binns. it did not fail
 John Robinson Binns is the full name Of the drgt hero of the wireless, kand he ig an Engllshman by birth AThat he 1g an American by adoption r1aavf1oe due to the fact that he was hborn1 on the Fourth of July, but it is Emore likely that the real incentive vvas Miss Alice A 1Eacnifc, of Brook flyn, who last month became Mrs Binns.
 TsrIx Binns will celebrate his own < bfrthday. the thfrt1eth, as we'll as the EsnataI day Of his adopted country on b4Iais. Fourth of July He was born in a klftt1e cottage near Briggs. York shire. July {, 1884 A few days la z ter his father, an engineer, died, and vvitfinsa year his mother a Yorkshire girl. followed him to the gTave. The orphan. an only child, was adopted sby his Grandmother Binns- As lad She was given a. fair educatIons and rtas fond of all sorts of sports. At Fourteen he went to work in a. kS7raug gaa4srnan's office, but he soon be- kcanne interested in telegraphy, and a efriendly operator volunteered to act t7ae nnastered the code and could send Every well
 n his flftsenth year the lad was Isthrogvn under 8 train, and two cars Fran over his right foot and leg. At kffe hospital his life was deSpaired ofs las his temperature reached 107s a tnew record A newly discovered 4se- Exura which had never before been Fused on a human patient was tried ess a 1astkresort, and it saved his life. kAlthoughfnine pieces of bone were ta- kaxen from sBtnns' leg, he recovered the EfuIE use of that member. The bones Enc preserved i'm alcohol, but they were Host in the HepubEfc wreck
 After several years as a railway rfele9raph operator he entered the em- EpIoy Of the telegraph department of ths British Post omce- A little later lhe escaped from a. burning building s5ust a few seconds before the roof Topped in, and from that time he has kbeen known as Lucky Jack" Tn f19o4 he entered the employ of the 11arconi Company and his first as- ksfgnm ent was with the, Kaiser Will ahelu der Crosse His first trip was
  ling a beginner, and Jack was put of Tat Southampton. In 1905 he made @ afew trips on the Grosser Kurfuerst, land was then assigned to the BIuecher
 which made ports from Spitzbergen knear the North Pole, to equatorial America He met many distinguish ted men on these voyages While or E4he President Grant the wireless man Fhad many conversations with ME kTaft, then Presfdent-elect.
 In 1908 Binns joined the Republic and in the disaster of a. few months k1ater he again deserved the title Oi kssI.ucaxy Jack After the Republic disaster he received many offers to gC Ion the vaudeville stage, but he show. led his sound sense by declining then Ea11. On the Adr1atic he was under tCapf Smith, who later lost his life 1T i4he Titanic disaster. Then he me s1Giss Macniff, and the sea lost it's at sfraction for him. He decided to be
 corne a newspaper reporter, and or sffe day before the Titanic disaster ht Ientered the employ of a. New York pa Eper His knowledge of condition lenab1ed him to make valuable com
 l1nents on the greatest Of all disaster lat sea. Last month MT. Binns ant
 Miss MacniT were narrfed-ant
 t1hose who knew the young lady de
 clared Lucky Jackt''