Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-14
MAN AND WIFE FLASHED ELECTION RESULTS $
| FROM EVENING LEDGER TO SHIPS ON OCEAN 8.
IN. R." and "Mrs. N. R" "
His Equal on Wireless
Spread News Broad
cast
Hard Work, but Worth
1t, Says First Woman
to Get License

Through the teamwork Of man and
woman the entire eastern half OF the
United States and hundreds OF ships at sea
were kept in instant touch with the presi-
Dental situation day and night during the
notwithstanding" days and nights which
followed the close of the ballot-boxes on
election day.
The teamwork was done by Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank b. Chambers known TO wireless
people throughout the country as Mr.. and
Mrs, IN r." 2O46 Arch street who con-
verted the Philadelphia EVENING LEDGER
election reports into a series of dots and
dashes so they could travel through the air
In the infnitesmal fraction of second.
THANKS and congratulations on the way
Mr.. and Mrs. y. r. sent the EVENING
LEDGER reports have been received from
as far west as illinois, from all parts OF
Pennsylvania and New Jersey and from
many ships at sea, according TO Mrs. Cham
bers, who Is more than enthusiastic about
the pleasure she and her coworker, her hus-
band received from getting into communi-
cation with new realms.
we are delighted with the way people
appreciated the news we we're able TO send
them through the Information we received
| from the EVENING LEDGER" said Mrs
| Chambers today. "Of course, II was hard
| work, but It was worth t. The farthest
| West we heard from was Ivy, which is
| somewhere in Illinois Many Of the peo-
| Pile we talked 10 told us that the EVENING
| LEDGER wireless reports were the only
methods Of communication they had to find
out the latest news about the election. Hun
| dreds of people throughout the country Sc
| cured their Information in small towns
| through the private wireless operators who
caught our flashes. We sent them every
| fifteen minutes l Just wish you could
hear the thanks we received for what wo
| did"
Mr.. and Mrs Chambers do not have a
| commercial wireless station. They are the
| owners OF the F. Il, Chambers & Co, manu-
| facturers of wireless telegraph instru-
ments, and they just have the wireless sta.
tion for their own pleasure.
FIRST WOMAN WITH LICENSE
Many persons, Of course, will be sur.
| prised to know that there is woman in
| Philadelphia who was the first woman in
| the United States 10 secure license "a
| operate wireless station. Few of them
know that this woman, Mrs. Chambers, OF
Mrs. n. r., for n year and n half was the
only woman in the United States with that
honor and that today she is the only
woman member OF the Wireless AssoClat ior
of Pennsylvania To the layman the tern
Mr.. and Mrs. n. r. is a mystery. Mrs. n
r., who is no other than Mrs. Chamber,
herself, said that years ago, when she frs
secured her license, in the days before tn,
Government gave out special codes FOL
wireless signatures, her husband chose tn,
signal IN r." because he had come from
| Norristown Now the Chambers station
number is 3 &c, meaning it is in the thirC
wireless district, is an experimental sta
ton and c is the third or c experimental
station in the district.
Mrs. Chambers and her husband hav,
been married fourteen years, but they ar,
still inseparable. Mr.. Chambers never goe
anywhere without Mrs. n. r., and refuse!
to study anything take up any new
project in the radio company without tn,
Mrs" 1t was because of this feeling o