The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-12-09
A BUTTE MAN and
HIS RADIO-PHONE
Sits Comfortably at Home and En-
joys and Concerts From As Far
Away AS Germany.

The marvels of sound transmits
sion are becoming commonplace in
the home of Frank Gray, 1855 Howard
street, Butte, Montana, where each,
evening Gray's radioph1ne puts him
in touch with entertainment all over
the west, enabling him to hear the
most eminent lecturers, the profounest
pulpit orators, the highest type of
concerts, just ordinary jazz stuff
and so on.
Sometimes Gray calls in a 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 Paramount
dance orchestra in San Francisco.
Everything from the semi-classical
to the latest in fox trots was in
cluded in the hotel orchestra program
and if it hadn't been for the "static"
and the inquisitiveness of same kid in
Marshalltown, Iowa, the music from
the phone would have been loud
enough and clear enough for dancing.
But the program at the Paramount
hotel in San Francisco wa only one
number on the program to which MI.
Gray, his wife and four others listen
ed. There was also a Victrola con
cert by a firm in Los Alvos, Cal,
which manufacturers wireless equip
ment, and there were lectures on
Business Conditions in the West"
and on "The Progress of Electrical
Industry" by two San Francisco men.
Gray's radiophone is, to the novice,
a 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 a
queer medley of shrieks, whistles,
gurgles and groans that can be heard
in all parts of the room.
He turns another knob back annd
forth for a few seconds. Then-"The
number of the last record played was
a Victor record, 1888. The next rec
ord will be cloves Garden of Roses"
by John Mccormick, tenor, with or
chestra. Zone 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 case of necessity he could do
without a clock, and use the time sig
nails sent out from Annapolis and
Denver.
He can prepare for storm and ex-
IRENE weather changes. Weather re-
ports are sent out several times dur.
ing the day. % .%s-"n ~"
He gets foreign and national news
hours before it is printed in the pa.
pers. . .
He need not go to church IN, Sun.
day, for usually there is some preach.
err in the United States who gives his
Sunday sermon through the wireless
telephone, and takes up no collection
And then, by way of variety, he
can invite his friends in, as he die
last Saturday night, and listen &c
Schumann-Hei as, she gave he,
concert in San Francisco.
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. If Gray were to
issue a news paper containing some
of the messages he gets, the publica.
ton would likely include items like
these:
That the weather in Carnarvon
Wales, was rather stormy last night
That a prominent New Yorker ant
his cook are rather intimate.
That the baby Of a radio-phone op'
~erator in San Francisco Is now re.
covering from the Group.
That a lady in Marshalltown, Ia.
will quit her grocer if she doesn't gel
better service.
And many other things which hat
been bettee be left out.