Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-27
We oUT-vERNE JULES TO-DAY
New Marveis Of Radio TfansnnIsslon
Are In Every Paper We Pick Up. :
A Doctor Who Treated a Patient
Three Hundred Miles Away

! Three hundred Miles Away
CCARCELY day has passed during the
~ last two or three months without seeing
recorded In the newspapers some new marvel
achieved by the comparatively young science
of wireless transmission.
The new United States high power sta
tion in France opens with power that en-.
circles the globe, with a radius Of 10000
miles each way; the old battleship Iowa
starts on q. cruise during which she will
not have a human being aboard, all of her
functioning being controlled by radio energy
from another ship; Nine. Melba sings and
Sgnor Marconi. the inventor, aboard his
yacht of the Italian coast, dances with his
guests to music played in London and trans
mitted by wireless through the marvel of
the audion valve aud sound amplifiers;
merchant of London. sending a representa-
tive to Paris by airplane, receives news
that changes his plans, and communicates
with his agent in the air by radio telephone
and gives orders that mean a greatly en-
HANGED profit on the undertaking.
All of these are the high lights of radio
progress-.the sensational things that mark
fresh developments In n science that Is
fraught with almost infinite possibilities for
the future.
But, with the ordinary installations that
are now found on board the most unprepo-
sessing looking tramp ships, wonderful things
are being done almost daily without being
recorded in the papers for the simple reason
that the wireless operator has come to look
upJn % .ne',i as al a par' vi the uay work
sati,n ,yith his Friends 81
1hiEhE mas recently returned to Pbia-
l. dcphia an operator who made a long
voyage and whose ingenuity was the means
of saving the life Of q woman passenger in
rather an unusual way. He was on n cargo
ship, bound north from Montevideo for
Liverpool. At the Uruguayan port friend
of the captain had asked him to take a
woman and her little baby with them and
the captain had consented, though both
women and babies are unpopular on board
the average tramp.
Two days out from port the woman be-
came seriously i'll. The captain did what
he could for her with the books of medical
lore ordinarily supplied to merchant ships
and with the small stock of remedies which
the vessel carried.
But the woman grew steadily worse and
developed a fever SO high that the captain
became alarmed. They were then near the
island Of Fernando Norohna, off the tip of
Brazil, convict settlement that has no
inhabitants except the prisoners and their
guards, and the master of the ship sent a
message to the station on the island asking
whether they had doctor and whether the
ship would be allowed to put in there. But
physician on the island.
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THE cantain wos at his wits, end for the
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WOMAN uon1itloh ,i Was most grave anu
ne huu no nleuieal hn1"ie9ge Si 70 cope WIN
,iaiauy "nose s nature ne uiu NOT unaerstahu.
II. IL 'his pIeGicaen., p, ..S, the 9perator came 70
MN ann Sa'u' Sap.an' am In wiIs'ess
SJ toueh Nun III, passenssJr snip snip uoou' e tntee
nunureu nliigs away ahu theN nave aoS.or
on Doaru; nave eot MN Ihio 5ne Wireiess
Iooln anu ne says, ~ 70" VIII Iescrloe tne
@omtn synptGhs 10 nlri ana tel MN What
you na'e peen ooins ior Nner' nc VIII aa'ise
You;
Inc GaP'uln M ut once went INTO tne raalo
CABIN wltn tne oPera'or ana ne anu tne uls
tMant M ph!s speht Ieariy tMo>houIs e2
:hansns Iues'iohs anu answers, auslce anu
lii!ornih'loni ii t AT .se ena oi tHat time uhs
en- @ hau th pd;o; WIFI hu. ne, Soau u
III III. ~ IN III ~ p .. -. 80, Sn''' anu iu''
me next hishti the operator once more
sIin and the "contn;n renorted tho not;ant,s
temneroture nulsa and other svmntoms
Annthar nrescrintion and further ;nstrnc.
t;nns for treatment and d;et foIiowad md
sn for five consecutive nights tbe nbvs;c;an
an Tho l;nor boId n consrItation With his
natient and at the end Of that time she
Was we'll enough to he ont of he'd and about
the decks
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