The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-05
CIV. Howell Cullman, in Boston Globe) ,
you are getting closer-keep off!

gu are gettlQg ClOSeT-keep Oh
You are getting closer-keep off!
You are getting closer-keep Off"
After weary hours of strain in the
long vigil on a storm tossed ship at
sea, family and mysteriously out of
the inky blackness comes to the pilot
these whispered words, repeated at
intervals by human voice.
Instantly he changes his course un-
til the voice dies into a hush and
finally is lost into the waves, for the
sound of the titans voice only reaches
the few miles beyond him marked by
vocal warning all is safe.
Wind and weather may drown out
SIRENS warning screech, but only
uninterrupted lightning will wipe out
this call across the deep
Ship a Toyshop Of Devices.
While the valiant fought in France,
the genius Of the country toiled at
home. Those who served in Washing
ton said that Edison was the first to
greet the guard at the navy
annex in the early morning and the
last to pass the sentinel late at night.
In other parts, wizards worked quietly
away on wheel sand gears, with no
recognition, for their very industry
was secret.
Then suddenly, the war ended, a
series Of wonders were made public
which leave men dizzy with their
brilliance. So marvellous and yet SC
simple are these inventions that the
whole science of navigation on ship
board is revolutionized and today a
ship is a toy-shop of devices.
Thpn S1ddap1v tho wizards of III
electrical and mechanical world
blazed forth constellation of inven
tions which was to make more than
one man who goes down to the sea in
ships arise up to call them blessed. a
ship steers straight for the very dan
ger it wishes to avoid Liners setting
out for Europe lay out their course
for Nantucket shoals. graveyard
where many a proud ship has missed
| her mark after a blue water voyage
! Lighthouses and lightships marx
| danger points.
Terrors of the Fog.
Only the skilled navigator knows
the real terror of the fog bank which
reflects sound and makes the the sig
nal appear to come from direction
| opposite; the deadening effect O.
snow on sound. the deception of dis
lance over water; the changing chan
nels. the instruments useless withou
the sun and stars, and at best leaky
with errors. including the human fac
! tor.
Observation-Disclosures, mavelou:
and yet withal simple-have lifted
this high tension from the men who
feel the responsibility on their shoul
ders for 10000 lives and $1,000, 00'
cargoes. First in general interest Il
the radio telephone. On board thu
Kentucky last year, as she steamed VI
from the Gulf of Mexico into the tortu
Gus channel of Pensacola, the captain
stood tense on the bridge. Ahead
three miles. the kearsarge lay safel.
anchored in the harbor.
Connect me with the Kearsarge,
! the captain ordered. as the navigate
studied the charts and buoys, and tn
propeller churned the mud of tn
| bottom.
The officer of the deck stepped tt
the telephone on the bridge and aske
the central operator down in the bow
els of the ship to get Captain Gelm, c
the kearsarge, on the wireless tel'
phone.
Talking Across the Water.
Soon the phone of the bridg
rang with the announcement that Cal
tain Gelm was speaking.
The following conversation, epocl
making, took place across the miles
water:
Captain Gelm? This is Capital
Morton, standing in"
Hello, captain, have you had goo'
weather."
"First-rate-how is my course?"
Right rudder, handsomely, CAPITA
Morton"
Captain Morton gave the ord
right rudder, handsomely" to h
men at the wheel.
How am l heading now, Captai
Gelm?"
STEADY as you go-plenty of waite
off your starboard hand there-shoa1
to your port hand. At two more ship
lengths give her more right rudder-
now turn her"
Then Captain Morton rang off. Hi