The New York herald., 1922-01-22
Wireless Concert
for Hotel Patrons
at atlantic City
President Harding to Send
Greeting and Open New Sys-
tenn at z-CarltOn.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., Jan. 2l.--Presi-
dent Harding's voice will be heard to-
morrow evening and win formally open
the wireless telephone system that has
just been installed in the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel and which eventually will connect
the hotels of the Rltz-Carlton system
throughout the world.
The President, seated at his desk In
the White House. will make brief adj
dress to the invited guests and news
paper men who will assemble at the
Ritz-Carlton tomorrow night in the
Presidential Suite" so called since it
was occupied by the President and Mrs.
Harding late last year.
The wireless telephone equipment at
the Ritz-Carton has been installed under
the direction of Albert Keller, managing
director of the RitZ-Carlton system. 1t
is powerful and complete with tuner,
detector and three stage amplihers.
Ralph b. Parke, an experienced oper-
ator. will have charge of the station,
which is 400 feet above the Boardwalk
atop the hotel.
The opening program will begin at
$3.50 o'clock. Following President Har-
NAH6 . SittNllAS Ait SuCStS Will near d
concert of the Westinghouse Electric
Company's band in Pittsburgh There
VIII be an address OF congratulation to
Gustave Tott, manager of the hotel, who
will represent the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Company. The guests then will hear
Transmitted the services of the Calvary
Baptist Church in Pittsburgh.
E Individual Service.
Amplifers soon will be placed in the
hotel in order TO enable the patrons to
be entertained with various transmits
sions. especially of music. from all parts
OF the United States from Canada, South
and Central America, probably from
Europe and from ships on the high seas.
The orchestra of the hotel will in turn
entertain listeners in other cities and
the passengers aboard ships en- route to
and from Europe. Individual service for
the patrons also will be afforded
Eventually Sir William Harris, head
of the Ritz-Carlton system, and Mr..
Keller plan to establish "A similar equip
ment mall the hotels of the Ritz chain.
Thus soJourners at the Atlantic City
Ritz may in time talk with relatives
or friends In the Ritz, the Carlton and
the Hyde Park IN London, the Ritz in
Paris, the Plaza ir Buenos Aires, the
Ritz in Madrid, the National in Lucerne,
the Excelsior in Rome. the Excelsior in
Naples. the Royal and the Splendide in
Evain-les-Bains and the Ritz-Carlton in
New York.
The bill introduced in the New Jersey
Legislature by State Senator Charles d.
White of the ownership management OF
the Marp o-ough- Blenheim Hotel here
providinp fo- the inclusion In the State
highway system of the Shore road in
HE A c..
Point VIII, II enacted into law be a
real boon for motorists from New York
who come in their cars TO this and other
seashore resorts in South Jersey. This
section of highway Is an important link
in tourist chain to several oast resorts
from New York. Senator White and
other prominent residents Of this section
OF the State are desirous OF seeing the
State Highway Commission improve the
ten miles or so of roadway in this
stretch along the lines laid down in the
bill enacted during the term Of Gov.
Edge. now United States Senator. whose
residence here since boyhood made him
familiar with the great value OF good
roads to New Jersey. especially in the
southerly section. where most of the sea-
shore resorts are located. The Shore
rpad was not included in the State high
way system
A new theater will soon be built on
the old Ocean Pier. which is undergoing
reconstruction. The pier was partly
destroyed by a fire that ruined two
blocks OF Boardwalk buildings in 1902
and was only partially restored. For
years the pier has bee,. an eyesore TO
the hotel men In tho center of the re-
sort. Several times efforts TO have II
taken over for convention hall purposes
have been exerted. but just as that
Vision was about TO become substantial
this country entered the World War
and the project had to be abandoned.
Mr.. Joseph Walton Mott, manager OF
the Traymore, Is president of COM
pany of hotel men that now owns the
pier.
The members of the Avenue Hotel AS
ISOLATION. which comprises proprietors OF
hotels Off the boardwalk. are planning
for state hotel exposition to be held
here. The Fredonia. the Continental the
Holmhurst. the Morton. the New Eng
hand. the Wiltshire and other hotels
will participate In the event.
Arrivals at the Hotels.
Among the New York visitors at the
hotels during the week were:
Tray7nore.--Mrs. @. r. HILL Miss Jane
Hess. Or w. n. Davidson. Mr.. Edward
A Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Reed, Mr..
Joseph Mezzacapo, Mr.. George w.
Schenck, Miss Florence du Pont. Prof.
Charles Munter, Mr.. and Mrs. John j.
Bradley, Mrs. Martin V. Kelly, Ne.
Dwight Taylor, Mr. J. T. MacMasters,
BROOKLYN; Mr.. G. y. Sullivan. Mr. Jo-
seph Hudnut. Mr.. A. c. ID. Foster Miss
Jane Karol. Mrs. r. S. Beecher. Mrs.
G. X Robinson. Brooklyn Mr. and Mrs.
T. III. Hall. Miss Gertrude Singer and
Mrs John Moody.
Ritz-Carlton-Mr and Mrs. William r.
Dewart, Miss Mary Dewart. Mrs May
Christie Kline. Mrs. william McMutrie,
Mrs. James Mclean. Mr.. Allen J. Ap-
pieton, Mrs. T. NJ. Leslie, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. n. Barrett. Mrs. r. s. Steinhardt,
Miss X NJ Johnston, Miss Muriel
Hedges. Mrs George B. Hedges, Mr.
and Mrs Howard Vogel Mr.. Arthur j.
poernbarge, Mr.. Alexander @. Psakl.
Mr.. o. Il. B. Kline. Mr.. and Mrs. @. A.
Mcdonald. Miss Florence Wende, Mr..
Edward J.. Durkn, Mrs Waldo Emer-
son, MIR. and Mrs. O. J. Beineke. Mr..
Franklin r.. Karples. Mrs. Blaine Ewing,
Mrs. John Victor and Mrs. Andrew
Mango.
Marlborough Blcnheim Former Su-
preme Court Justice and Mrs. Almet r.
jerks and Miss jerks OF Brooklyn; Mr..
and Mrs. !. S. Carlson, Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas L. Patterson. Mr. and Mrs.
Washington Content, Mrs. Edwin NJ.
Carlin. Mrs. May Oakman and Mrs G.
O. Buffers, Mr. and Mrs. John Covington