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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
Atlantic and Pacific Covered
Bv Big L. s. Radio Stations

In 1899 the year following the Span
ish-American War, Marconi brought to
this country from Italy sets Of his
wonderful new wireless apparatus, the
immediate purpose being to use them
in reporting the international yacht
races that year. The Navy Department
appointed commission to observe and
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28

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New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
" hat Is q & Battery?

Question--There has been some talk Of
introduc.n ne hash light coll into the glid
circuit: fow is this done and what IS the
result t'--i. c.
Answer The flash Light cell in the
grid circuit is not at all necessary.
Such q battery is known technically as
the "C' battery, and it is used in some
cases to give q negative bias to the
detector. 1t takes the place of the
more elaborate circuit used in the ex-
tremely sensitive sets. 1t Will not be
necessary with your set
New-York tribune., 1922-05-28
How TO Use Radio Frequency

N@ueston-1. In using radio fre quency
arnplihcation does the ticlelor or plate vario-
meter come after tho plate Of the first
stage Of aInplidcation or after tho dctector
. How could make nay loop to receive
@bp tnetorsH What capacity variable con
denser should I use g. with two-stal:e
radio frequency ampliAer 81 detector and
| he abla to get VIZ OF WGY loud enough
to operate a loud speaker? ! am located
and y batteries be used for both radio
ana audio- Frequency amplfcation? Can
no volts u. G. be used on the plato cir
cult Of the anpliher tubes II supplied by Il
a. SO, as a matter of interest. that on ar
ojher set here we cannot hear with the
phones in series, but with the two pairs in
parallel We hear better than with either
Answer-1) The ticker or plate vario-
meter, whichever is used, will in this
case, come after the detector tube, as
in the regular regcnerative set. 1t
only can be operated, however, by
using separate potentiometer across
the A" battery (2) A loop aerial for
this purpose should be constructed
with a four foot square loop contain
ing SIX turns Of No. IL wire, snaced
one-half inch apart and so arranged
that taps can be taken off almost any
where on the loop. Use a Dos mfd.
condenser across the terminals of this
loop. 60 Radio frequency amplifica-
tion on short waves is such q proble-
matical proposition that ! should not
like to predict what results could be
obtained with it. However, do not
see any reason why you should not be
able to obtain results at your distance
from Newark with such a set as you
have described. (4) The same bat
teries can be used for all the tubes.
with the exception. of course, that you
must not use more than 2212 volts
on the datector tube. If you use the 40
d. c. line for the plate circuit of your
bulbs. [ would not advise you to use
this current. unless its installation
were supervised by thoroughly com
petent radio experimental. (5) In
connection with your experience with
the telephone receivers. YOU have un-
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

What did do after got to this coun-
try?" he asks.
well, l recollect that my brother got
me a place, with a fair wage, on a farm.
farm did he call It? A place of two
score acres small; on Fourteenth street,
would you believe? Neither sheep nor
goats, but belike a COW or two. Neither
corn nor rye did we raise there, but only
vegetables. kept my place there so long
that the buildings began to rise up about
It,. I don't remember clear exactly. Yes,
1t was called the Spingler Farm, from the
name OF the master. II ran across what
they call Union Square and Joined another
farm, q bigger one, that was known, as 1
remember. as the Brevoort.
Beyond that. on a road they were calm
Broadway, mind another little farm-a
place with COW and hens. They had
built big ugly house on 1t. They called
II the Goelet house. went to look at 1t
last year but It was gone. But .ae old
place ] knew as a lad was still standin'
blocked up with buildin's all around It,,
but | knew It well for the Spingler house.
It had another name, too. ] forget"
The name Van Beuren was suggested to
the old man.
AYE, he was the master, Van Beuren.
mind son was born and named Fred
erick. Twas me that learned Frederick
how to milk a COW. I had been workin
on the place ten years when the lad was
born. The fifth generation, they said he
waA And was workin' on 1t when he
married and brought his bride there. He
became my master in his turn, and when
son was born they named him the same
as the father"
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

The old gatekeeper was asked to tell Of
the son.
IL don't recollect," he said. I'm not
sure of any of It. 1t was while I was
workin' on the Spingler Farm that took
a bride for myself and that my son was
born"
The Spinger house, or the Van Beuren
house as It is better known, now stands
at 21 West Fourteenth street.
The centenarian thought for while, as
II trying to make himself remember.
"It was wild thereabouts," he saia..
wild to the north and to the south. There
was few houses on the road they're calm
Fifth avenue, but the houses was grand
ones. The family l was workin. for had
friends on Bleecker street, where my
brother drove a coach. Times he put me
in livery and drove far down to Walker
street. where grand people lived.
But 1t was wild where the monuments
now stand, Washington Square, and little
bit of river ran through 1t, with all the
rest sand and brush. / took my daughter
down to play afterward, but the river had
dried up. That was while before | got
this job. DR.. Fred Van Benren got me the
job at the cemetery after the civil war.
But recollect ridin' on a horse from here
ur to that little river that dried up. 1t
took me nearly day.
Once drove with my brother far up to
the west and the north to fine house with
fine trees In its yard. They called 1t the
Apthorpe House. It was on the Blooming
dale road; and all about 1t were huts that
the squatters were putin up.
II worked for the Van Beuren family
right on through the war. l haven't got
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Amdfpd years ago, m1mlms7"

ali my dates exactly clear: but can recol-
lect the young gentlemen of those days
comm to the house on horseback and the
young ladies comm In coaches and car
riages. Finest horses l ever saw. / re-
member a dark, slim young gentleman,
with black, wavy hair, who used to ride
by once In a while and occasionally come
in. He was Mr.. vanderbilt-Mr Cornelius
Vanderbilt. He could ride horse like
gentleman should ride. Then there was
James Fisk, and sometimes l would SEE
"a Mr. Tweed, who was something in poll
tics, forget just what"
Just few years ago Mrs. Mary Spingler
Fonerden (originally Won Erden) died at
the age of 80 in the old Van Beuren house.
After Fourteenth street had grown up
about the old home and its gardens. when
Macy's Red Star was in its ascendancy at
Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street, there
were always groups of people standing
staring at farm, with COW and vege-
table garden, flower beds and hens, in the
midst Of a booming city. And when Mrs.
Mary Spingler Fonerden Van Beuren went
out In her closed, glass incased, air proof
carriage, with liveried coachman and a
span she was followed by a crowd, for
such an old fashioned outrigging as that
was a novelty in that latter day.
James Murrays' little great-granddaugh-
ter came to walk with him to the home of
her mother. He lives with his grand
daughter, a widow who has grown and
married children. AS they walked down
Amsterdam avenue the old man turned
to say:
"'Tis not that / need the child. It's to
keep her out In the air that her mother
sends her.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
RECOLLECT when / was seven.
That's hundred years ago. 1 rec

,.T RECOLLECT when / was seven.
That's hundred years ago. rec
ollect leavin' home with my family
and comm to this country on a ship. Our
home was in County Longford, Ireland.
That's long time ago, but somehow l
remember the old home and the comm to
this country better than remember things
that happened a long time after"
James Murray, 1O7 years old, was stand.
ing at the gate of Trinity Cemetery. remi.
niscing. He has been the guardian of that
gate for little more than fifty years. And
every day for all that time. rain, snow or
fair weather, James Murray has been at
his post. He Is not as spry now as he
once was. His memory falters a little In
spots that take In decades. But much he
does recollect, and some OF that is enough
to make picture OF old time New York
New York city as It was more than fifty
years ago.
James Murray was not always gate
keeper Of a cemetery. of course. Before
hs went to his post there he had known
more interesting days. But be denies 1t:
he affirms and insists that he sees q great
deal now that makes life worth the trouble
Of living II, and as he stands In the ceme-
terry gate he fourishes blackthorn stick
and puffs fiercely at the oldest and foulest
pipe at large, protesting that the days Of
old we're not better than days now.
The pipe and the blackthorn stick are
mementoes Of Ireland. They were his
older brothers. property, and they came
from the old country hundred years ago.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
Breakfast in New York,
Luncheon in Washington,
Dinner in Chicago, Wholly
Possible BY AirpLane
Development, with Real
MQrpeLS to Come

gator, telling him precisely the direction
of the landing field and enabling him to ny
without worry even though cloud banks
below cloak the earth from view.
AS the express plane shoots along the
passengers. bored as people do get when
ever they are being transported, whether
it be by stage coach, liner or train, amuse
themselves by watching the earth below,
which moves so slowly that the plane seems
to crawl, or in reading, writing, playing
bridge or strolling about. A railroad train
ia necessarily narrow affair, but the air
plane of tomorrow knows no space limi-
tations.
But the airplane is only one of two great
.types of flying machines. Dirigibles, too,
will play their part, moving not so swiftly
as the rushing planes but carrying greater
loads of freight and passengers and utillz-
ing the earth air currents as do the planes.
May Use a New Power
IF Science Works 1t Out
All this is built upon the assumption
hat man will merely perfect what he al
eady has in the way of motors. airplanes
lumber of sources comes the suggestion OF
, new source of energy, humber even than
he petroleum that was such nuisance for
so many years before 1t was made valuable.
This Is the power Of the atom, power pent
I'D so narrowly that the energy In PIN
,oint If released would destroy the WOOL
worth Building. How big will the world
be when the mightiest force yet known TO
man, atomic energy, is put to work In
place of weak gasoline?
Much work has been done upon the prob
lem of releasing atomic energy and making
It mans latest and greatest slave. Re-
search workers at Columbia University re-
Gently have come far on the path to the
unloosening of the energy contained In the
invisible bits Of which elements copper,
hydrogen, sulphur, &C., are made up once
that energy can be released man Will fnd
an engine that will make the power drive
plane or steamship.
Sir oliver Lodge. the English scientist,
expressed the belief that the human race
Is on the very verge of discovering the
secret of the atom, and at the same time
made known his own hope that the discov
cry should not be made until men are
morally fit to use 1t. and will not convert
It into an Irresistible weapon which would
wreck civilization.
Although the airplane at present and IN
the future will be the principal means OF
reducing the time element in the crossing
Of space, the railroad in the past has played
a great part 1t is hard to imagine
United States of such an expanse yet OF
such singleness OF thought, purpose and
feeling without the iron rails which bind
New York and San Francisco together and
make them less than week apart.
The Mormon settlers Of Utah and the
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

49'ers OF California are in a position to ap-
preciate most fully how much the continent
has diminished in size since they toiled
westward with their hand carts and prairie
schooners
In water transportation, too, space is
no longer the important factor, the tyrant
that once bounded unfortunate seamen.
Seamen are no longer unfortunate, espe.
cia,ly on the modern oil burners like the
Cunarder Aquitania or the White Star
giantess Olympic No voyage can be a
long one when the fastest ships cross an
ocean in less than five days and slower
freighters count themselves disgraced if
they delay longer than fourteen.
All these great gains. however, are gains
in transportation. In the carrying of peo-
pie or packages from place to place the
tyranny of space has been reduced to a
milder rule. But in communication, the
carrying of thought from place to place,
1t may now be said that there is little
space, and soon there will be no such
tLing as space. W.
Wireless Phones So Light
Police Will Carry Them
OF all the stories concerning the marvels
of the telegraph, the telephone and radio
one little item which came the other day
from Chicago is most significant of all.
It told of how the Chicago policemen were
tc be equipped with portable wireless sets
So that at any time policeman on his
beat might be called from police head
quarters.
The telegraph and the wireless long ago
made oceans and deserts powerless to stop
thought, but once off the wire or out of
the ether there was a delay. Messages
then must travel by hand, as the messages
OF the Romans travelled, until they reached
the receiver.
In view of the development of portable
redio apparatus and the manner in which
the radiotelephone has been improved can
it be doubted that before the century ends
a man in his automobile on Riverside
Drive can converse direct with his wife
in her stateroom on the air liner Meteor
nearing London or with a business asso-
ciate who is being yhisked in an elevator
to his office in one of the skyscrapers of
Chicago? Development will do 1t.
What would be the sensation of Span
ish sailor on one Of the galleons of the
Great Armada II, when he saw the English
coast, he discerned roaring speeding
something which rushed through the air
above him, let fly bit of metal and left
his great ship in splintered wreckage?
Would such thing be more impossible to
him than is impossible the idea to us that
the time will come when the world will.
be as swiftly travelled around as New York
State may be crossed at the present time?
Columbus crossed the Atlantic in seventy
days. Alcock did 1t In one.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29

Contrast the luxurious
interior of a modern
passenger airplane
with the ancient camel
caravan of Biblical days.
Note the speedy machine
above and the stunt
flying girl at right
cockpits in the fuselage for passengers and
the landing gear below.
In the place of all these is simply the
great, smooth. thick wing, gliding through
the air with minimum of resistance, with
every part of the body acting as lifting
surface save the propellers along the for
ward edge.
Within the wing Is everything-a navi-
eating chamber for officers, a central
motor room supplying power to the various
compartment for gasoline, a
hold for freight. space for the retractable
landing gear and accommodations as lux
urious as those of the steam yachts of to-
day for passengers. ,
The same air compressor which at high
attitudes supplies air to the motor supplies
also air to keep the interior of the express
at the proper pressure for comfortable
The flaming exhaust supplies
heat.
The New York herald., 1922-01-29
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but an air current. like Gulf Stream of
the atmosphere, which, miles above the
earth, blows constantly at speed some
where between one and three hundred
miles an hour.
Major Schroeder established a worlds
altitude record in 1920, record since
broken, by rising six and half miles
above the earth. He almost met death
In drop earthward caused by loss Of
consciousness when his oxygen supply was
cut OFF, but he brought back to earth with
him what some scientists regard as the
positive proof of the theory of great air
currents betting the earth. One Of these
currents blows always from west to east
and above this is another current blowing
in the opposite direction.
1t was on the basis of attaining great
attitudes and then utilizing these swift
air currents that Major Schroeder made
his bold predictions of crossing the con-
tinent In single daylight fight with the
planes and equipment of the present time
There are many disadvantages to be over
come, such as a temperature his instru-
ments recorded as low as 67 degrees below
zero, Fahrenheit and a decrease of air
pressure from 14.7 pounds to the square
inch at sea level to three pounds at the
height of his climb Major Schroeder esti-
mated that by flying at height of 10000
feet it would be possible to fly from San
Francisco to New York In ten hours.
Vast Possibilities Outlined
Of Future AirpIane Work
If progress in aeronautics continues as
rapidly in the next eighteen years as Il
has in the last eighteen years since the
Wright brothers astounded the world by
flying S52 feet over Kill-Devil dunes, In
North Carolina, who can say how small
the earth will seem? Men have already
flown 1000 miles without stopping and
have beaten the Wright brothers record
OF fifty-nine seconds in the air by more
than twenty-six hours. And the men who
did this, Eddie Stinson and Lloyd Bertrand,
feel that the record of their j. L. mono
plane will need defending before very long.
With slight knowledge Of present air.
planes and the present trend of thought Of
aeronautical engineers throughout the
world-of Fokker Of Holland and Looming
Of the United States, for instance-it is
not difficult to imagine the flier which will
soon, in place Of the Twentieth Century
Limited. hurl time ridden business men
across the country.
1t is a monoplane, this twentieth century
express. In flight It is single, thick
wing of metal some strong aluminium al
10y, tapering from its stout proportions in
the middle tn fairly thin wing fins A tail
also tapering, stretches out behind. Gone
are the inefficient double wings of the bi.
plane, with their clutter of speed slacken-
ing struts and wires. Gone. too. are the
engines mounted between the wings, the
, 1922-01-11
CROWDS TURN OUT FOR
SPORTING GOODS SALE

The opening OF the 21-day benefit
selling drive launched today by tho
Casper Sporting Goods company cor
ner OF Second and David streets, wit
ne=sed a large crowd OF bargain seek
ers which augers for the success q
the sale. said by the management to
DO one where prices have been u to
a whisper"
The cut includes a $4,000 stock Of
sporting goods. auto tires. tubes. car
parts. riles. tents. etc. and is to be
moved in order to make room for new
spring shipments.
Ons Of the features OF the sale is the
giving away free a s125 Brunswick
phonograph- Every dollar purchase
counts toward getting this machine.
particulars OF which are furnished at
the store This morning a $50 Sc. o.
Rogers silverware was given to one
Of the first. SO people entering the
store.
, 1922-01-11
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. George Flanagan
havc moved from their apartment in
the Crude and are now at their now
residence. i1o3 East Second strtnt,
where they VIII be at home to n wide
circle OF friends.
Mrs. r.. j. Fuch is spending tho
week in New York on an extensive
buying trip for the Fuchs and COM
pany ladiea ready-to-wear store on
Second street The spring models arc
being shipped in every day.
Ex-Governor and Mrs. Mrs. b. b.
Brooks have returned to their hone
in the Biackmore apartments from
thc Home ranch where they spcnt sew.
eral days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Mraquardt have
returned to their residence hero after
spending the holiday season in New
York City. They report a splendid
visit in the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Nesbitt OF Lcns
Beach. Cal. have arrived here and
will visit with friends for several
weeks. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Nesbitt
were former residents here. and are
now on the oas on account of Mrs.
Nesbitt.s health.
Mrs. J.. Z. Hanway and Miss Isabel
Hanway arc nicely located in st,
Louis. Mo-. where they will spend the
remainder of this month at least. Miss
Hanway graduated from the high
school course OF the Principal collegr
, 1922-01-11

In St Louis last year. and u visitin
with many Of h1r classmates who AZ
taking the college course.
Miss Hazel ConwsIl. clerk Of ccurL
n reformed from Cheyenn> where
she has been attending to offs-iai In
terests
Miss Agnes Nevins has returned TO
Lincoln. Neb-. where she VIII continue
her work at the state university OF
Nebraska Miss Neyins was forced 10
leave before the close OF the last term
On accoun OF a serious Illness
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Richie. who
have been visiting In he city with tho
sister OF Mrs Richie. Mrs D. W.
Middleton. have returned to their
home in Greybuil. Ms. Rjtchse &C
companied Mrs. Middleton o. a trip
to Chicago. H.. where the ladies' spent
Christmas with Miss Vera Middleton
who is attending the Lyceum conser
vatory.
Mrs. c. H Long has returned TO her
home In Riverton after spending sew
erai days here visiting with friends.
Mrs. Long was formerly a resident
here as Mr.. Long was q prominent
merchant OF this city.
Miss Harion Hazlett of Des Moines.
r~wr Il spending several days here
Visiting at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
+. n-san }. itaziett on West Twelfth
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hiiiiker Of Den
YER have returned TO their home in
Colorado after spending the week Wis
ting with friends and relatives Mr..
Hiniker was aiso attending to bust.
ness interests connected with his oil
interests IN the Salt Creek fields
Mrs. Affamaie Stoddard has return
ed to her home on North Center stree
after spending several days In Nor
ton, Kan. who're h was called by ths
illness of ner fatherinlaw. Mr.. Stod
dard. She left Mr.. stoddard in a much
Improved condition
Miss Mary B. McPake Is leaving
within the next few days for Denver
where she VIII continue her profes
sion as nurse.
, 1922-01-11

ottins business here and sold his
siness about n year ago and moved
o Denver. II Was rumored that Mr.
Garner viii again become \ business
aen OF this city.
J. e Scott OF the Scott Clothing
company has returned from Greybuil
who're he attended, 10 business con
oected with tho firms store there
Henry Lorghurst OF Basin. Is spend
ing sev-RI days here visiting with his
in this city. and attending TO
salty interests here Mr. Longhurst
a formerly a resident in Casper and
$ planning on returning here In the
spring
z. T. williams Of the f. T. WI
iiams OIL company arrived here from
Denver and is attending The annual
of the directors Of the COM
pany which Is being held this week.
d. A smithers. who was called 70
home In sedaita. Mo-. by the sud.
den death OF his mother. has returned
the city and has resumed his posi-.
ton with the Producers and Befiners
company.
]. snedden his accepted a position
In the offices Of tho Producers and
Rcfiners company
Gregory Powell who In associated
18th the industrial relations depart
Of the Midwest Refining company
is in the city looking after business
matters for the day.
Mark U. Weber. treasurer and field
manager q tie Chappeli on company
IL spending the day in Salt Greek
looking after business interests for
the c
Herbert Ladd of the purchasing de
partment Of the Midwest Refinina