The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-12-16
RADIO MESSAGES
FROM ALL WORLD
HOME OF FRANK GRAY, BUTTE,
ENJOYS UNIQUE AND WORLD.
WIDE ENTERTAINMENT.
Listens to San Francisco Jaxs Orches.
ira, and Lectures From Other Far.
Away Places; Some Of the Queer
Messages His Instrument Cap
lures.

The marvels Of sound transmission
are becoming commonplace in the
home of Frank Gray, Of Butte, where
each evening Gray's radiophone puts
him in touch with entertainment all
over the west, enabling him to hear
the most eminent lecturers, the pro-
ioundest pulpit orators, the highest
type of concerts, just ordinary jazz
stuff-and 50 on.
Sometimes Gray calls in q coterie
Of close friends to enjoy the marvels
provided by the phone. He did so
the other night and entertained them
with the music of the Hotel Fairmont
dance orchestra in San Francisco.
Everything from semi-classical to
the latest in fox trots was included
in the hotel orchestra program, and II
it hadn't been for the static and the
inQuisitiveness of some kid in Mar
shalltown, Ia, the music from the
phone would have been loud enough
and clear enough for dancing.
Queer Arrangement Of Knobs.
But the program at the Fairmont
hotel in San Francisco was one
number on the program to which Mr..
Gray, his wife and four others lis
tened. There was also a Victrola
concert by q firm in Los Alvos, CAL,
which manufactures wireless equip
ment, and there were lectures on
Business Conditions in the West"
and on 1.-THE Progress of Electrical
Industry" by two San Francisco men.
Gray's radiophone is, to the novice,
q queer arrangement Of knobs, lights,
levers and switches. He has mounted
all his apparatus, with the exception
of his poles and aerials, on an ordi-
nary office desk.
He sits down before it. He turns
a knob. Then from the magnavox,
used to magnify the sound, comes q
queer medley of shrieks, whistles,
gurgles and groans that can be heard
in all parts of the room.
Cost Him %, 600.
He turns another knob back and
forth for few seconds. Then-"The
number of the last record played was
Victor record, 1898. The next rec
ord will be Loves Garden of Roses"
by John Mccormick, tenor, with or
chestra. One moment, please" And
the evenings entertainment is on.
Although his apparatus cost him
almost $4,000, Gray figures that it is
cheap, considering its worth.
For In case Of necessity, he could
do without clock, and use the time
signals sent out from Annapolis and
Denver.
He can prepare for storm and ex-
treme weather changes. Weather re-
ports are sent out several times dur
ing the day.
He gets foreign and national news
hours before it is printed in the pa
pers.
He need not go to church on Sum
day, for usually there is some preach
er in the United States who gives his
Sunday sermon through the wireless
telephone, and takes up NO collec-
ton.
And then, by way Of variety, he can
invite his friends in, as he did last
Saturday night. and listen to Schu-
mann-Heink as she gave her con-
cert in San Francisco.
Much Gossip Comes
Gray has received messages from
as far away as Germany, and has
been "heard" in northern Mexico.
He gets gossip from everywhere in
the United States. II Gray were to
isue a newspaper containing some of
the messages he gets, the publication
would likely include items like these:
That the weather in Carnarvon,
Wales, was rather stormy last night.
That prominent New Yorker and
his cook are rather intimate.
That the baby of radio-home OPP
orator In San Francisco is now re-
covering from the Group.
And many other things which had
been better left out.