The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-08
RADIO TALK FILLS
AIR OVER THE CITY
All Goes Well Until q Sub
marine Turns on Its
Photograph.
TUNE REACHES DIRIGIBLE
Those Who Cannot Go Aloft
Get All the Sensations In
side the Garden.

The air was full of talk yesterday
afternoon, for when the wireless tele-
phones at the Sixty-ninth Regiment
Armory and Madison Square Garden.
where the Aero Show Is established, be-
gan exchanging aerial yarns with big
navy dirigibe which fioated UP the Hud-
son River the Rockaway naval aerial
station butted In. and then a ship some-
where around the harbor began talking,
and to cap the climax a submarine. the
Q-49. failing to make itself heard,
turned on its monograph and flooded the
atmosphere with what was said to be
music.
Amplihers. which magnifed the sound
to train announcer volume, were switched
In at the Garden, and as result the
crowd at the Aero Show were treated to
a dissonance comparable only to
League OF Nations debate in Chinese.
The dirigible, which bore UP under the
cryptic name 1S-B. left Rockaway Beach
about 30 p. M. with Capt. Noble Z.
Irwin, Director OF Naval Aviation. and
Lieutenant Commander Harold w. Scho-
field on board. All on the ship were navy
men. and as a result the dirigiole was
steered carefully up the channel OF the
Hudson, for no navy man likes to fly
ship with anything but water under
meath him. 'Tisnt natural, they say
Which is the reason. by the way. that
the people running the Aero Show. the
same being the Manufacturers Aircraft
Association, have not yet been able 10
coax a navy dirigible to amble over to
the Garden, let down a rope, hook up the
aerial mail and carry IL over to Mineoia
in time for the Washington aerial ex-
press. But they still have hopes.
Boosting the Army Game.
The dirigible did not succeed yester-
day from it's perch in the air over the
Hudson at Twenty-eighth street In hear
ing very much of the gossip distinctly
which was not to be remarked at con-
sdering the noise the submarine was
making with the tricktrola. Lieut.. C.
c. Shangraw and Lieut.. r. b. Wooltold
who we're at the talking end of the tele'
phones at the Garden and armory. sue
ceeded in saying a whole lot about the
show and the army. particularly the
army.
Lieut.. Shangraw announced yesterday
that to-day or to-morrow--for the expo
sition will be open on Sunday-or or
the next clear day Lieut.. J. L. Adam;
would fly over from Hazelhurst Field &c
the Garden and, under instructions b.
radio telephone, do n nose dive, zoom
tail spin. reverse loop and other stunts
Nose dives, ICONS, tail spins. reverses
loops and other stunts are getting
mighty common around the Garden anc
ar1nory since visitors have been patron
| izing cid DR.. Ruggless ORIGINATOR. whici
gives the venturer all the sensations o.
an aviator In his cockpit 10000 fee
above the earth while the venturer VI
| only three or four feet above the floor
| The device. which was used eXtensivel!
| for training young aviators. revolVe
| forward sidewise, back. down, up ant
| all the combinations OF these movements
under the control. or lack OF control o
the man inside. or Of the instructor
who Is seated right side up at simila
controls on the ground. In one way 1t il
better than an airplane, for when i
| strained a wire in its electric contro
yesterday after hard afternoons worl
whllling people around Doc Ruggle
| bopped out, turned It upside down an'
had it all fixed in a jiffy, Aviators d.
not usually hop out of their planes an'
turn them upside down when anything
goes wrong. In any event they do no
| hop back again.