Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-03-28
BEDSPR|NCS USED BY
SOME RADIO FANS'
Others Have Manufactured
Sets With the Aid Of
Tin Cans.


tory. The craze Is everywhere. The
amateur radio fan IA probably more /
enthusiastic and as q result OF recent |
developments. the back yard and roof |
tops have become rendezvous foE
the determined radio bug. However.
bed springs have started to talk for |
themselves. The spring, making
splendid aerial, has been adopted In
many instances, resulting in unusual
success
Louis X. Faivre. Jr.. OF 725 West
Ninth street. several days ago. sue
cceded In listening TO the radio broad
casting station at Schenectady, n.
Y. Faivre took but little pains In
the construction Of his radio appara-
tus After constructing loose
couple. the primary winding. which
WAS wound on a Mothers Oats con-
tainer. and the secondary on n mall
Ing tube. with the aid of a variable
condenser. which consisted q two tin
cans. was all that was needed In
listening to Schenectady. according
TO Faivre.
Henry L. Scott. president Of the
Wilmington Trust co. is another radio
enthusiast. Mr.. Scott has had in
stalled In his home at Reybold.
Westinghouse set with n magnavoux
loud speaker.
\ Grebe radio set has been installed
In the home OF J. Saunders Taylor, on
the kennett Pike.
Magistrate Harry r. S,radley will
have radio set installed I'm his home.
Message From kimball.
A radio message from Dexter s
kimhal. president Of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers, To
the engineers OF America will he
broadcast from the High Power Gen
eral Electric Company station at
Schenectady on the evening uf Tues
day. April 4. Mr. kimball is dean Of
the College Of Engineering at Cornell
University.
The hroadCastins will probably take
place about $50 y. m. Eastern stand
ard time. The call Of the Schenectady
station is WGY and the wave length
Is slightly above 500 meters. Local
sections and student branches ~ the
society in communities where ap-
psratus is available will hold meetings
snd listen in.
During the last eleven years more
than thousand students have been
graduated from the school Of radio
biography at the New York East Side
y NJ. &. A. according 10 A. II. Wilson
educational director.
These thousand men have gone out
into the radio world and have been an
important factor in the rapid develop
ment Of interest In wireless" Mr. vii.
son said. They have become radio
engineers. radio inspectors. traffic
managers. radio supervisors. radio
repsirmen and teachers Of radio. The
great army Of amateur operators now
totals half million IN this country. .
The radio school was started when
ships began 20 install the new ap-
paratus as a safety device and opera
tors were needed. More recently most
OF the students in the school have beer
preparing for land positions In tn,
ever developing system OF communi.
cation.
storage batteries used for radio
work. unlike those in automobiles
need so little attention they are likel,
To he forsotten. Although condition
Of the battery may he kept track O
by calculating the hours used daily
hydrometer IL more positiv,
method az insuring the proper atten
ton.
To brighten up the lives Of thei
crews. the members OF the New Yor
rowooat Exchange have decided TO in
stall radio telephones on their Graf
Two tugboats have already peen equip
ped with the new invention for reiiev
ing monotony al sea. The remainde
will be furnished with the telephone
~ summer. 81 Is sad
Instead OF having to listen 10 IN
ok singing sweet Rosie p'Grady' @
the chug-chug OF the engine all da
long the crews win be entertained b
the ting-aling OF a cabaret orchestr
"a a sermon by DR.. Straton telling no
o.ep they are STEPPED in sin.
The Tice Towing Line OF I Broadwa
first tried the radio telephone on II
tug Nautic While cruising around tn
harbor the skipper and his Gre
listened 20 a concert in Newark Am
plfhere are located in the wiee7hous
and In the engine room. so that bot
the deckhands and the blacE gang ca
sne time without leaving their Job
Across the Continent.
Radio telephony spanned the cont
rem; Friday night for the first time.
legrsm from The San FrancisC
Chronicle received al Schenectady. :
y. announced that the concert give
81 the company's Schenectady static
Friday night was heard perfectly Q
the Pacific coast.
Congratulations" The Chronic
teiegraphed. Your program. Dot
voice and music heard perfectly at Il
Rock Ridge station"
The Rock Ridge station is at Gal
Ia nd. across the bay from San Fran
cisco. Friday nights concert wa
broadcast on 3s0-meter wave lengt
Officials OF the General Electric Con
rany said Friday that never before he
the radio telephone been effective fro
coast TO coast. the previous farthe
rclrf reached from, the /,