New-York tribune., 1922-10-27
il,,lne Radio
is Tell Fans of
chicago Game
.,ntL loud Speakers to Bring
play by Play Story of
princeton-U. C. Contest
4 City Hall Park Crowd
|f,Inons to 'sI.isten In"
x,.,ern Electric viii Catch
Actual Sounds of Big
Conflict by Direct Link

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4. ssorv of the football game be-
8, Princeton and Chicago Univer,
to.mosrow afternoon is to be
's.aeass directly from Stagg Field,
si,.so, by the Western Electric sta
$ WgAF in sthis city. and The
s.,sane gill reproduce it for New York
-. For this epoch-making event in
Ar. hissory half transcontinental
,.is,hons system is to be connected up
! yrAr by the engineers of the
AMERICAN Telephone and Telegraph
compsny 80 that million people in
i, East may listen to the progress of
;ss struggle.
Tie Tritune has arranged with the
yestern Electric Company 20 repro
ge The story of the game and the
sstring Of the crowds on such q scale
| III fully 10000 persons in City Hall
III esn hear them.
Commencing at 2 o'clock tomorrow
a.-naon. the big motor truck contain.
! .sths mobile public address system
srssped by the engineers Of the
ssern Electric will be stationed out
athe Tribune Building. 1t will pick
tlhe currents radiated from WEAF
stten amplify them million fold
! ssre placing them on the gigantic
id speakers which will be erected on
\ third floor of the Tribune Build
1a
he volume from these loud speakers
be sufficient to threw the voices
s!ts crowd in Chicago clear across
g Hall Park, so that any one stand
gen Broadway will be able to hear
sry syllable clearly and distinctly.
1 III only viii the cheering of the spec
zars in Chicago be clearly repro
sssd, but the music of the band and
Ii college yells will be heard. while
ANs it all will come the voice. Of
"a Falzer, of Newark, describing
gA play as it is made.
Traffic Rules Provided
ID order to make the venture COM
s..ly successful Borough President
FgHfs Miller has issued the necessary
srnits, and the policing arrangements
asand City Hall Park will be in charge
Police Inspector William f. Cole
sin At 2 o'clock the system will be
ns into operation with preliminary
zssical selections, which will last until
80 o'clock. At that hour the trans
saatnental line will be hooked up, and
esgription of the crowd in ST. gg
Fed Chicago, will be broadcast direct
IRON ne stadium. At 8 o'clock the
saus iiself will be heard.
Mlsis the first time in history that
Mdio station has been operated by
N1ate control over such distance.
asy remarkable engineering feats
ue been accomplished to make it pos
Gle, and a considerable amount of
acial equipment installed.
The microphone into which Mr.. Fall
I, Will speak at Stagg Field will also
Ek mp ali other sounds in the stad UNI.
swilf PISS them to q preliminary am
aher, which will build them up before
hey are placed on the t~anscont:nental
inc in the repeater station at Morre |
Park just outside Chicago. Thence the
ulce currents will be carried to SIM
ar repeater stations at Beaver Dam,
ghio; Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and fin
lily In this CITY.
Transmission To Be Instant
These voice currents will modulate
and control the powerful radio trans
hitting apparatus at WEAF automati-
ally and instantaneously, so that the
crowd in City Hall Park win hear the
crowd in Chicago the exact instant it
breaks into roar of cheering.
The apparatus on the motor truck
ineiwles the latest development in
saaio-reeeiving equipment and is un-
a,ouetedy the most powerful mobile
pant IN existence. The radio cur
ients vii! be picked up on loop aerial
sna sls amplifed by tiny peanut" vacuum
.apes before being placed on the
peWef amnlifier. The operators are
raul na1 (aSlimp) Sheridan, Charles
,bud') Boulter and Smiling Joe"
.WLlnger The demonstration will be
nsu;i n.uel ;, the direct supervision Of
~ y is tbs same apparatus that car
~. a.a lhe voice of Governor Miller TO
Suuaands of listeners in his address at
sasase s.a.,.. IN a driving rainstorm re-
~ sals. II was also used at the Ameri-
~ legion games in that city and car
A. sne voice of General Pershing to
,',.,,a assembled multitudes in the
s.slii ssli be used tonight in the Hot II
is,as isasstvania at Penn State reunion
M, s, gwen by the New York alumni
spaurr' university. On this occasion
~ VIII send out a special program.