The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-03

Neo'GeSl shut up IKE u cianl,
were few, not many deep easy chairs.
But the most important piece of for
| unture which interested Garrick more
than anything else, as the attendant
conducted them in, was the cabinet
containing little lamps and plenty OF
switches and wiring, comprising what
| Is known as the modulating equipment
II was a wooden framework covered
! with copper screening TO prevent the
| delicate apparatus from being disturbed
| by electrical and magnetic influences
within the room itself. Various con.
ductors connecting up the cabinet and
the transmitter were sheathed in beau.
tiful, bright and neat woven copper
| sleeves or tubes for the same reason.
There's the little transmitter, mount
ed on that portable stand" pointed out
| Dick 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 ele.
ments of actual transmission When
this studio is to broadcast II is connect
ed by this switch over here with the
radio station upstairs. Here's "a wire
| telephone to 1t, too"
Garrick hardly needed to be told He
had seen it once before, the radio tele.
phone transmitter which consisted of n
cabinet closed in by iron grill work to
! prevent damage to the delicate vacuum
tubes. five of them for the normal op.
GRAFTON. At the extreme end of long
operating desk or table was the trans
mitter. On the table were ordinary
telephone instruments, radio apparatus,
n receiving set with amplfiers, tele.
phone head sets and loud speaking
device by which the operators could
hear the speech or music rendered down
stairs, only here actuated by the long
distance receiving set.
Now, here's the phonetron-the dish
basin some people call IT. pointed out
the attendant, who had been looking
at his watch and schedule to determ.
inc when would be the best time Ia
broadcast the alarm Garrkk had i'm.
pressed on his mind
Garrlck looked curiously at the little
hole in cylinder dangling from an
adjustable stand in front OF him.
rs 1t about the right height? You
prefer TO stand? All right How's
that? Now, don't forget-talk directly
into that little hole--good and loud
Keep up your voice. About three inches
away from the transmtter There
Now. wait until | tell you"
The minutes seemed eternity to Dick
Would It never be possible for Garriol,
to soar on wings OF wireless to the sue
cessor OF Ruth and Vira2
"All set?" The attendant called, lets
gor'
Ruth Walden and Vira Gerard OF
Nonowantuc. Long Island. were kid
naped in a house boat, the Sea Vamp.
from Duck Harbor. Long Island. tonigh,
about 3 o'clock"
The attendant nodded to Garrick that
ON WINGS OF WIRE GAL
In his opinion he was no novice in
handling the affair.
Slowly and distinctly Garrick launch.
ed into brief description OF the house
boat and followed with a detailed de.
scription OF Ruth and vira and his
own suspicion that the Sea Vamp'
was now somewhere IN the Sound. prob
ably on It's way east.
Garrck finished. There was a ST.
lence. He looked about stupldly. No,
that he could have expected anything
else than silencme. Yet Il was weird
uncanny Flo had spoken TO mute
and invisible audience. Was IL one, n
hundred. a thousand a hundred thou.
sand9 No one could do other than
guess.
Always the radio II a temper1mental
thing, that Is, II you can say inanlrnate
things are temperamental: there's a
natural deprivity about e. But think
conditions are fine. Just now"
Garrick turned. IL was Professor
vairo who had just heard no was theirs
and had hurried into the building a,
the news. II has worked best when
nobody was around 10 appreciate II
and not 40 good when TIA on parade
The radlophone with its delicate tubes
and controls sometimes lies down on
the Job at tho wrong moment. But we
don't have much of that trouble here"
Hasty inquiries and a promise 10 put
tho whole OF tho Rock Ledge equip.
ment at their disposal followed.