New Britain herald., 1920-11-11
FORMER LOCAL BOY
 WORKS IN WIRELESS
A. H. Eagerly Writes to Man Who
 Recruited Here

NJ. $. Brainard. who acted as re- cruiting cer for the L. s. Navy in this city during the first few months of 1917 and who was afterwards in France with Navy forces has received the following letter from A. II. Edger- ly who was formerly a local boy. Mir. Brainard has now resigned and is with the Crocker-wheeler company. cleo trica1 manufacturers, of New Haven. The letter IS.
 U. S. :. Newport News PM. San Francisco
 November :, 1920. Dear Friend:
 received your letter last night. l am glad to sec that you are still alive and kicking. I thought that you must have croaked or something because l wrote you couple of letters after you said you were in the hospital and when I didn't get any answer began to think that you had croaked.
 am on n cargo ship making trips from san Francisco 10 Manila via Honolulu and Guam. It takes three months to make a trip over and back. 1 have been on this ship for over thir- teen months and have made three tflpN AO Tar. we leave on t1e HGAt trip on the fifteenth of November.
 I have eight more months to do. My time Is up the tenth of July. My enlistment was changed to D. O. w. but r didn't have enough so I ex- tended 1t for two years but I am pretty near through with 1t now: about two more trips.
 What kind of q job arc you holding down now? By your card it looks as though you were the president of the company. What kind of a branch has the CIV Co. got in New Haven? I never knew that they had a branch there before but there are great many things that doa't know.
 haven't been in Connecticut for nearly two years. It seems as though it was about ten years and I will not bc able to go east for eight months more. Who said the last year passed the quickest?
 After I left the SoIace served about a year on the Supply perhaps you remember her. she took the Ves- tars place as train flagship. and I stayed on her until she went out of commission in Mare Island September 1919. I didf't get along very we'll on her and I asked to be detailed to the dynamo room. I couldn't get along with the chief radio or the radio of ficer so I thought that was the best way to get away from them. I had to go back in radio when the Supply went out of commission because garg- cts were rather scarce then. I think that I like radio best in the navy anyway. I had lots of excite lent when on the Supply. lodging the brig. I didn't dodge 1t once, had five days of rest and a good quiet place to sleep but the bill of fare could have been improved whole lot. The reason I didn't dodge the brig that time was because I made n mitake between n P and b in those calls they had during the war. the letter figure letter kind. We were in Guantapamo then and I remember those radio towers very we'll, but the picture is split up Into about nine sections.
 have a two kw. set on this ship but we have done some pretty good work with it I think. The best dis tances have been: Snka. 2.5oo miles. Marc Island about 210o miles and Pearl Harbor 304o miles. don't think that is so bad for two kw. We have two receivers, an audion and a two step amplifier. We can hear VII over by Guam and WIG heard POZ few hours before WIG crossed the 1soth meridian.
 Write and let me know what kind getting along. Mail will he forwarded to Honolulu and Manila.
 So long.