Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-20
All HERE IT Is!
Wireless Telephone Makes voies Au-
dibIe for Is Miles.

dtble for % MILES.
A mysterious voice that has been
waited on wireless waves over the wa
ters between here and Maine for the
last two weeks was found yesterday to
have been that of Irving yermilya,
Marcom operator aboard the steam
ship Northland, which plies between
here and Portland.
He has invented q wireless telephone
which he says will easily carry his
voice in audible tones rs miles. and
that the apparatus costs only 500.
When the Northland docked at the
foot Of Murray street yesterday after
noon, Vermilya, who Is only "a years
old, was found in the vessels wireless
house carefully hiding his telephone
apparatus preparatory to going to his
home In Mount Vernon, for dinner. He
explained that he had telephoned his
wife while coming up the sound short
time previously that he would be home.
"On all our last trips" he said, Il
have sent the captains messages to the
regular shore stations by telephone.
The other day, when passing Vineyard
Sound Light Vessel, relayed a call to
a revenue cutter, that a schooner was
ashore on Handkerchief ShoaL"
Wireless operators Of vessels along
the coast have been puzzled beyond
measure by voice coming from
space Love messages, business talks
and music have reached their ears.
Even amateurs ashore have caught the
voice. The young operator and the Of
ficers OF the Northland have had much
amusement Several days ago the op-
orator at the Sea Gate station nearly
dropped out Of his chair when. instead
Of a series of dots and dashes, a voice
came out Of his receiver: "Northland
will dock at p. m"
The operator looked about to see II
any one was playing trick. Finding
himself alone he flashed a call to re-
peat the message. Back came the dis
tinct reply: "Just thought you might
be lonely and I would say hello"
Vermilya told how he had telephoned
to his wife. Wireless operators on
ships in nearby waters. as well as those
on board vessels in port who happened
to have their receivers to their ears
shortly after o'clock yesterday after
noon may have heard voice saying:
Hello, dear! Are you showed in?
It wasn't as rough over Nantucket
Shoals this morning as we expected.
Save something good for dinner. VIII
De home at o'clock"
II the thoughts Of many operators
had been tabulated they probably
would have been something like this:
There's that voice again! Wonder
where 1t comes from?
Vermilya would not divulge the
workings of his telephone, but he said
it was simple thing"
But I've had lot Of fun with II"
he added. II can easily send my voice
rs miles Once when the Northland
was in Portland l began singing into
the transmitter and after / stopped I
picked up call from the operator OF
the Calvin Austin, at Eastport, 15O
miles away. He asked me to sing some
more. He did not know who I was or
where my voice came from.
II don't always talk or sing. Some
times I switch on a phonograph and
play opera airs. Once in while
send out story or joke through tho
fog and mist. On our last trip to Port
land I had the phonograph working.
After I'd shut 1t off an amateur opera
tor on shore wirelessed:
PLAY it again; mother wants to
hear it.'"-New York World.