The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17

good looking, dark haired young
man lives in Gloucester. Mass; and
day after day makes incessant. i'm
ross,hl.-to-undcrsta tests on a
seemingly conglomcrate mass of
electric coils and batteries that fill
his workshops.
Ua head is well modelled, his eyes
ar, keen, his features are regular
and well drawn. his expression Is
forcofuI Gloucester natives point
10 his home as one of the show
plac,s of the little Massachusetts
town.
"Who owns it," visitors ask.
THE biggest young man Of the
day" is the answer. John Hays
Hammond, jr."
It's a large title-'the biggest
young man Of the day''-but John
HAYS Hammond. jr., probably will
III as well as any young man Uncle
Sam can produce. At 33 years old
he is an engineer of renown, a wire
less expert OF the first water, az
inventor, who has accomplished
revolutions in the world OF elcc'
tricity
Every big nation in the world Is
vstching Hammond" the Glouces'
ter people boast. "Hc has invented
devices that other world powcr'
have offered millions for, but he ha!
sold them to the United states for d
comparative song"
All that is the truth-althouGf
- songs" in some instances, have
mounted into the hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars. But money Is the
least uf the worries of John Hay'
Hammond jr His father was al
internationally known engineer; the
son is the same, and money is a!
much a part OF young Hammond
possessions as the Junior" which Il
attached to his last name.
When New York Heard About Him
More than seven years ago, II
March 1914, to be exact, New Horl
began TO hear that young Mr., Ham
Upnd was running boat in anC
OUT ~ Gloucester harbor without {
man on board.
He's doing II all by wireless.
tho report reached Manhattan. "H
or some Of his men sit in lookou
station on shore and guide the yes
sol in and ont through the most tor
tuous shipping without the least bi
Of trouble"
How do they do it?" incredulou
New workers. asked.
BY wireless" came the answe
again. Hammond presses on
KEY "A spark flashes and the boa;
perhaps two or three miles out a
Sea, does the rest"
cleveland Moffett. a man who no
on HFFlGF a t,1g Gnganan htt
write about It Interestingly, was sen
for
'Go down 10 Gloucester and GO
what that 25-year- kid of Ham
mond has got" n magazine edlto
~many Wild tales out of there to le
'ho'e crazy sailors get past wit
everything. II Hammond has any
lh'ng worth while. give him tn
so"
Moffott went down to CLIQUE ester
oiinhoi into the lookout tower on
,,.Fh' ana found Captain Rehr of tn
.n'ed states army pounding a Ike
ana looking through binoculars a
u'oEcest"r harbor at the same tim,
See that boat out there" Beh
u'ta1d"d, pointing to a small crat
na' carried two 40-foot masts. on
a. n.r bow and one AT her stern.
Yes Moffett nodded.
which way do you want me I
make her goP"
Turn her to the left" Moffc
ha7ardcI.
hrnr touched a sending key wit
"H NnrDr and the craft veere
Sharply 10 the left.
M.ttctt was almost dumhfoundcC
-, Wen Bohr demanded dtter
mn''' Aren't you going to give m
any NOR" o-ders?"
asked '"'"' "o'''
lou. J run her into shore II yo
aoht switch her back towards tn
wy tn" harhor again"
,,.sA,il right" Moffett said. "Vee
+ me army man touched anothe
b,.' dAd the boat, as though guide
~ an a!l-enveloping hand. turnc
oS,a.e rlsht and headed for the ope
ocean again.
b,nleHr poered intently through HI
sa.I ''D' Niars and swept a massiv
lee, i% might in front Of him to tn