Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-04-08
SAINT MARTINS
COLLEGE ENJOYS
MUSICAL CONCERT
Camp Lewis Entertainment
Enjoyed at Lacey
by Radio
USE REGULAR ARMY
WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Fourteen Selections Are Played in
Concert Lasting One
Full Hour

Neville Benoit Of Camp Lewis the
800 students as we'll as the faculty
OF st. Martins College at Lacey were
treated to the unusual event of a mu-
sical concert by radio. Arrangements
had been made by Father Sebastian
who has charge of the college wire
less plant. whereby the music az
picked up by the wireless outfit, could
be distinctly heard by the crowds
gathered about the radio station. A
large horn to which was attached a
special sensitive phone was used in
connection with the set of new appa-
ratus lately installed in the Lacey
station. With this horn in place the
muse and the voice could be plainly
heard and understood at a distance
of 200 feet. The instrument used al
Camp Lewis was the regular army
wireless phone, an instrument that
proved its worth during the war
This particular outfit is known as the
ground station Of airplane wireless.
The concert started at $3.50 p. m.
and lasted one full hour. During this
time IA selections were played, the
pieces being interspersed with short
addresses made by the camp operator
Sergeant Benoit. The usual method
Of procedure in giving these concerts
Is to attach graphophone to the
wireless phone transmitter, and the
instruments, both at the transmitting 9
and receiving ends, are so efficient
that the various selections, whether
vocal or instrumental, are reproduced
as clearly and as strongly as though
they were heard from the graphic
phone itself.
This is not the first time that the
Camp Lewis music has been picked uI
at the College station. as on num-
berless occasions parties gathered In
the radio station have listened tC
Sergeant Benoit's selections. It Is
however, the first time that an at.
tempt was made to have as large 9
number as 800 listen to the music al
the same time.
A strong wind was blowing at the
time of the concert which somewhat
hampered the hearing at any very
great distance, and 1t is believed thai
had the night been perfect calm the
music would have been audible al
twice the distance at which it was
heard on Monday evening. This first
open-air concert by radio was pri
marily an experiment, the success at
tendant upon it, however, is very en-
couraging and arrangements will be
made with the camp operator for 6
repetition of the program some othel
evening.
Last month much new apparatus
was added to the College station ant
through the liberality Of specia
friends of st. Martins located in Tia
coma and Seattle, the college is nov
in possession of the finest apparatu
obtainable for amateur radio pur
poses. Added to the extensive lis
of world stations heard on the colleg
instruments Of late, is now added th'
big wireless station at Lyons. France
which may be easily copied almos
any afternoon. The sending appa
ratus Of the college is at the sam
time stretching out its working radiu
as announcements in a Pacific coas
radio magazine state that signal
from st. Martins radio station wer
picked up and read very distinctly b.