Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-06

z, JULY 6, 1924.
enthusiast mimic the crushed Dick
and with success.
Guy, I'm dub. In my own line,
too. Never thought of the Rocl:
Ledge hroadcasting station. OF
course xxx can do it!'
There were no formalities neces-
sary at the Radio Central for a COM
bination like Garrick and Dick, who
was a constant frequenter of the
place.
They soon found themselves in a
small room, quite plain except for
the draperies that were artistically
arranged to hide the bare walls.
There were a few plants and flowers
about. also. At one end stood a
beautiful piano of the reproducing
variety. Some of the best known
artists had in reality played on it:
all had played on it through the per-
forated paper rolls. There we.a
monographs of all the standard wet.-
know makes and on the other side
an automatic organ.
A small table with d s.lk.shaded
lamp added a touch Of nominees and
there were a few. not many, deep
easy chairs.
But the most important piece of
furniture which interested Garrick
more than anything else, as the at
tendant conducted them in, was the
cabinet containing little lamps and
plenty Of switches and wiring, COM
prising what Is known as the modu-
lating equipment. 1t was a wooden
framework covered with copper
screening to prevent the delicate ap-
paratus from being disturbed by
electrical and magnetic influences
within the room itself. Various con-
ductors connecting up the cabinet
and the transmitter were sheated in
beautiful, bright and neat woven
copper sleeves or tubes for the SAM
reason.
There's the little transmitter,
mounted on that portable stand"
pointed out Dick. 1.-THE radiophone
transmitter, proper, is located in a
little room under the roof overhead.
There are a couple Of operators, for
it contains all the elements of actual
transmission. When this studio is to
broadcast it Is connected by this
switch over here with the radio sta.
ton upstairs. Here's wire tele-
phone to it, too"
Garrick hardly needed to be told.
He had seen it once before, the radio
telephone transmitter which con-
sisted of a cabinet closed in by iron
grill work to prevent damage to the
delicate vacuum tubes, five of them
for the normal operation. At the ex-
IRENE end of a long operating desk
or table was the transmitter. On the
table were ordinary telephone instru-
ments, radio apparatus, a receiving
set with amplifiers, telephone head
sets and a loud speaking devise by
which the operators could hear the
speech or music rendered downstairs,
only here actuated by the long dis
lance receiving set.
Nov, here's the phonetron-the
dish basin some people call it,"
pointed out the attendant, who had
been looking at his watch and a
schedule to determine when would
be the best time to broadcast the
alarm Garrick had impressed on his
mind.
Garrick looked curiously at the
little hole in q cylinder dangling
from an adjustable stand in front of
him.
us it about the right height? You
prefer to stand? All right. How's
that? Now, don't forget-talk di-
rectly into that little hole-good and
loud. Keep up your voice. About
three inches away from the trans.
mitter. There. Now. wait until
tell YOU"
The minutes seemed eternity to
Dick. Would it never be possible
for Garrick to soar on wings of wire
less to the succor Of Ruth and Vira?
"All set?" The attendant called.
Lets go"'
Ruth Walden and Vira Gerard Of
Nonowantuc, Long I and, were kid
mapped in a house boat, the Sea
Vamp,' from Duck Harbor, Long
Island. tonight, about nine o'clock"
The attendant nodded to Garrick
that in his opinion ne was no novice
in handling the affair.
Slowly and distinctly GarricK
launched into a brief description of
the house boat and followed with a
detailed description Of Ruth and Vira
and his own suspicion that the Sea
Vamn" was now somewhere in the
Sound, probably on it's way east
Garrick finished. There was a ST.
lence. He looked about stupidity.
Not that he could have expected any.
thing else than silence. Yet it was
weird. uncanny. He had spoken to
mute and invisible audience. Was
it one. a hundred. a thousand, a
hundred thousand? No one could
do other than guess.
Always the radio is a tempera-
mental thing, that is. if you can say
inanimate things are temperamental;
there's natural depravity about it.
But | think conditions are fine, just
now"
Garrick turned. It was Professor
Vario who had just heard he was
there and had hurried into the build
ing at the news. "It has worked
best when nobody was around to ap-
preciate it and not so good when it's
on parade. The radiophone with its
delicate tuheS md roYtroIa snpoa