The Washington herald., 1922-08-03
PLANNING TO HUSH
PHONES 2 MINUTES
AS HONOR TO BELL
Company Orders Flags at
Half Mast Until After
Funeral.
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terday morning at his summer
home at Benin Breagh, near
Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
Although he was rs years old
and had been in poor health for
the past few months, he was not
considered seriously i'll and his
death came as shock to the fam
lily and to friends. He was at
tended toward the end by DR.. H. H.
Kerr. of Washington. a cousin of
Mrs. Bell, and by a Sydney physi.
clan.
Mrs. Bell. a daughter. Mrs. Marian
Hubbard Fairchild and her hus-
band, David G. Fajrchild, of WASH
ington, were with DIR. Bell when he
died. Another daughter, Mrs. Gill
bert Grosvenor, wife of the presi-
dent of the National Geographic
Society, is on her way to Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. with her husband
to, attend the Congress of Ameri-
canists. The Grosvenors were noti-
fed Immediately by cable of the
news.
DR.. Bell will be buried on top of
Mount Benin Breagh. according to
his wishes.
Friends Are Shocked.
Friends and associates of DR..
Bell not only in Washington, but
all over the United States. were
shocked by the unexpected news
of the great inventors death. Tele-
grams of coincidence poured in upon
terday. The message sent by Presi-
dent Harding expressed. a universal
sentiment in a communication to
Mrs. Bell:
"The announcement Of your emf
nent husbands death comes as a
great shock to me. In common
with all his countrymen, / have
learned to revere him as one of the
great benefactors of the race and
among the foremost Americans of
all generations. He will be mourned
and honored by human kind every
where as one who served 1t greatly,
untiringly, and unselfishly.
(Signed) "WARREN G. HARDING" /"
Bells early training and sur
roundings were such as to fit him
snperbly for the great invention of
the telephone and the other note
worthy accomplishments of a SIM
gularly successful and important
career.
Born I'm Scotland.
He was born in Edinburgh, Scot
and. March 3. 1S47. the san of Alex
ander Melville Bell, a lecturer on
elocution in the university there.
and the inventor of the Bell sys-
TEN of visible speech. Educated at
the Royal High School in Edin-
burgh. he also learned much from
hi0 fothar nh -
the physiology of speech. His
mother was q. talented musician ana
painter.
In 1865 Dr. Bell went to London
and became student, first in Uni
versity College and later In the
University of London. He became
expert in correcting speech defects
and teaching the dumb to speak.
The Bell family crossed the At
lantic in August. 1870. and settled
In Brantford, Ont. In 1871 DR.. Bell
went to Boston as lecturer ON vocal
physiology, and while there invent-
ed the speaking telegraph.
He had long experimented with
telegraphy. and through his knowl-
edge of voice phenomena was able
to devise. the means of transmit
ting the sound of the voice over
what Is now kuoWH as the Iele-
phone. The first device of this kind
was made in 1875 but DR.. Boil did
not patent IL until II was greatly
Improved In 1876. At that time 1T
was demonstrated at the Philadel-
phia Centennial and attracted atten-
tion as a novel toy.
Feresaw Enormous- Future.
DR.. Bell. however, early foresaw
the enormous future development
that was to make his invention the
everyday necessity of the civilized
world. BY 1880 the scientific world
agreed that talking by telegraph
was practicable. and the Volta So
ooo-Franc prize was awarded the
inventor. From that time on the
progress of telephony has been
rapid and steady.
c.her important contributions to
science made b. pr Bell Include