The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-03
Equipment For
 Radio Causes
 New Industries

l Chicago, May 3+A new infant in dustry. the manufacture of radio | equipment, has sprung up with an | amazing growth within year and l much of it within a few recent wS2hS. | From a few manufacturing shops a year ago to thousands now, an in | chease of 60,000 per cent. ill demand in two years; a business in when both boys and great manufacturers are taking profits; all this is the TO- 1 nance of the new industry. . The demand which called 1t into existence is at present as tremendous as it has been sudden. The new small concerns manufacturing rad1J supplies are estimated by the Radlo Corporation of America as numbering thousands. Figures of the same cor poration show that whereas two years ago 4.ooO tubes a~year were odo in, oeo deo tubes tubes a 1ri month will be called for. Reports gathered from lsImber Of states by The Associated Press show that many boys and other amateurs are constructing and selling outfits. Three years ago three boys in Chi cago 16 and IT years old, began to make radio outfits. They are now 1n- corporated and carrying on large business. Their success indicates the alluring possibilities in this new ln- dutry of adventure. Its alleged haz- ards were pointed out in the predic-
  and larger electrical supply houses that if all the concerns now. engaged in making radio equipment should re- main in the enterprise, before long parts would become a drug on the on the market and that by October l the makers of complete sets would ac- lively be soliciting business.
 That such a situation would be reversal of present conditions is I1E1j- cated in the report of another large supply house that it is two months be- hind in filling its orders and word from all parts of the couitry Of d great shortage in apparatus. The huge demand is asCrIbed to the prac- tice of free broadcasting.
 There are now 6OO,OO0 receiving sets in the United States, according to the estimates of several companies. Of these 100000 were said to be in the middle west, and ,O00 to 25, 900, ac- corGing to varying estimates, in Chi cago.
 Dealers declared that the sudden ness of growth of this infant indus try and the fact that the number of plants varies from day to day made it impossible accurately to guage it's proportions. One dealer said that it was impossible to estimate with any certainty the extent of the demand, inasmuch as buyers in their eagerness to get equipment soon as possible are placing orders with dozens or dealers at once. and purchasing from the first dealer who is ready to de- liver. For that reason, it was stated, what might seem to be a demand dn- volving S30,000,000 might resolve it. self into a demand involving $2,00O,- 900.
 "There are more bootleggers in the !radiC business than in the whiskey business" one dealer asserted. "Peo- fple get hold of parts and sell them for exorbitant prices; I have known a single tube which is regularly sold for S5 to bring S15. Some of these spurious dealers come in and try to ~I- 4l, -&c-
 An electrical supply house at To- ledo, O., has begun to install what it has announced will be one of the most complete radio manufacturing employ 100 workers at the outset and more as the department is enlarged, and plans for daily capacity of 500 complete radio receiving and trans county, 1t was estimated. several thousand sets are receiving daily weather, market and other reports broadcast from various cities through out thu country. Six concerns are manufacturing radio equipment in Cincinnati, O.
 There are eighteen regularly estab- hshed concerns in Chicago manufac- turing radio equipment, aside from many boys who assemble parts and distribute the sets thus constructed among their friends.
 There are 2O4 companies in Mis. sourI manufacturing radio supplies or these eleven are in St. Louis. In St. Louis a twelve-year-oId boy, twenty five business men. several automobile mecha mics. one plumber, one butcher, and several high school pupils, are making and selling radio supplies during their spare time.
 About 25 boys are constructing and selling radio equipment in Milwaukee, Wis. They sometimes receive $50 or higher for their outfits, it was said The large department stores of Mil waukee are handling sets. and one of them has a large window trimmed to represent a family sitting around room listening to a radio concert.
 Dallas, Tex, reported 4 dealers in radio eQuipment one of them which sold such supplies exclusively. having built up its trade within the last few months. Madison. Wis, reported that a new radio store has just been open ed there and is alrsady widely patron ized-
 A few centers reported that no manufacturers had g -abished them selves in their vicinity so far. but that dealers were anxious to handle equipment when they could get it. In Louisville, K, equipment is sold by dealers in parts and experts are required to assemble it. One auto mobile concern there has undertaken to assemble parts, as a side line
 Two new factories have just been organized in Kansas. one at Wichita .,~ nn-