Evening journal., 1921-12-28

GROWING FAST.
You Can Install Radiophone
For SIS and Hear Con-
certs or Sermons
BOYS MESSAGE is
SENT ACROSS OCEAN
BY ALExANpER HERMAN.


NEWARK, N. j.. Dec. 2S.-Mary
Garden singing. in a dish pan
Christmas carols. on a chicken
wire
The preachers sermon, down
water pipe
BY radiophonel
DO you know that while you are
sitting in the parlor playing cards
after dinner
Your next door neighbor may lie
sitting at home hearing the Chicago
Grand Opera?
The air about you is buzzing with
CAB for miles around?
More than 100000 persons are
getting news of the world through
their bed-springs, radiators and
drain leaders?
Sick persons in the hospitals are
cheered by comedians far away2
This goes on every night all over
the country
Riding on a s6O-meter wave length.
concerts, church choirs. lectures.
market reports. come through the
air for hundreds OF miles.
Listening in is easy.
There is not much TO it-just a
small box the size of a distionary,
several wires, and the usual house
trimmings - radiators, bed springs
and fire escapes.
Since the development in the war.
TIE radiophone has been popular
ized. A receiving set can be bought
now for fifteen dollars.
'The bug has got them all" said
c. b. Popenoe, supervisor of the
largest sending plant here. "City
folk, farmers, grownups. children
all are listening in"
A clamping of the ear piece, an
adjustment Of the detector. and the
world is brought into earshot.
Rigging up is simple" explained
1.-THE expert. while il is better to
have the antenna - the wire tkat
catches the message - strung out
side. il is not necessary. It can be
hung on a loop-behind a picture
frame"
1T may be grounded to a wafer
pipe. radiator or other house fix
ture."
A bank official who was i'll in a
hospital connected his phone to a
bed spring and water pipe
In a home in Hillside, boy rugged
up his set to a dishpan.
Each nigkt these fans listen into
the program radiophoned from the
studio at the W ] z station-atop
of a large electrical plant. The serv-
ice is free.
It begins at Z O'Clock. After a
summary OF the news Of the day,
the Man-in-the-Moon reads h / s
stories. Then comes a concert for
an hour. followed by the report OF
the weather.
During the day there are special
news reports.
Every quarter Of an hour there is
stop for three minutes.
This is to listen for S. o. s. calls
One of the most enthusiastic radio
fans is Alfred W. Sturr, 19 years
old. He was the first amateur tc
sent a message across the Atlantic
D 1T wasn't hard" he said. Il had
, my instrument clean 200 meter
, wave length - and had 1t adjusted
right I sent the word test and
= my number.
"P. F. Cooley. over in Scotland
caught my '1AAY' in a fash"
"As soon as 1 get the price, Tn
going to rig up a radiophone sending
7 set. 1t is too expensive now.
"But listening in Is cheap.
zone can hear both phone an'
telegraph tickings on the receiving
g instruments. But YOU can't broad
( cast on the same wireless"
0 Messages from Newark have beer
r heard in Topeka, Kans.; Key West
T Fla; Prince Edward Island. Canada
d and out at sea.
o In letter to the station S. F
d Nelson. radio operator on tn
"Hera." an oiler, wrote:
n "Got in on time to hear 'Anni
It Laurie. We were 1912 miles out"
h It is expected that new station
d will be opened in tre far west soon