Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-16
PASSION FOR
RADIO ACUTE
IN NEW YORK
TELLING THE WORLD BY
RADIO.
BY FREDERIC j. HASKIN,


New York City, March 15.-New
Y ork is under the spell of new
fascination these days. II has gon'
in for radio phoning. Suddenly.
everybody has Legun to talk radio,
play with radio and invite you to
study ether-tapping parties. The
once so popular ouija BOARD is now
a back number when 1t comes to
receiving weird and amusing mes
sages. Instead, the family gathers
about its little radio-receiving APP
paratus and listens to the varied
program of music lectures, news
dispatches and children's bedtime
stories nightly broadcasted by the
large commercial radio companies,
Although this ETHEREAL entertain
ment has been popular for some
time, it is only within the past two
or three months that the passion
for radio has become acute, geo.
GEO new receiving sets, it is said.
having been installed in that time.
Recent estimates show that APP
proXimately 100000 American
homes. schools, churches, halls and
office buildings are now equipped
az receiving stations, while the
federal government has licensed
more than $4,000 stations for trans
hitting messages of one kind or
another.
Every evening at o'clock,
thousands of amateur radio opera
tors, scattered all over New York
City New Jersey, Long Island and
up through New York state, start
twirling the curious knobs on top
Of their radio boxes. adjusting
their headpieces and listening to
the loud, clear sounds of a phono-
graph record which is being
played many miles away. They
continue TO listen intensely and
rapturously, not because they find
the record so editying (it would
sound much better played on their
own phonographs) but because 1t
is so delightfully."- uncanny to hear
it from such a distance over the
radio-telephone.
Static Mars tho Music.
ooh" exclaimed a young woman
breathlessly, the other evening, as
fllT otik IOi iilE III 81 NIillt Will lG1t
receivers in her ears, cts quite
clear and l can even hear the
scraping sound OF the record It's
Caruso. He's singing Ave Maria
Where Is 1t coming from? Tren-
ton? Think OF that-Trenton
And he's been dead all these
months, yet here is his voice sing.
ing to us and perhaps to thou
sands of others way out there in
the night. Perhaps his voice can
be heard all the way over to italy,
where he lies buried--do you sup
pose so?"
yes" said the owner of the
radio box, perhaps it could, if
sent from one Of the big broadcast
ing stations"
az wish the sound Of the record
were not so terribly loud.
though" complained the young
woman, Sometimes it browns
out the song"
THAT is not the sound of the
record you hear" the owner
THAT is what we call
old Man Static Sounds like
IfSlnB bacon on II leu-nOt lire,
doesn't it? Sometimes it's much
worse than it is tonight, but it's
always pretty bad One of the
mean features the radio inventors
have not succeeded in overcom-
ing"
Hes finished" interrupted the
young woman. Now they're put
ting something else on. A mans
voice. He is giving the letters
OF his station--KG something's
can't quite hear the last letter.
He's reading some news. all about
Lloyd George in England, and
now it's about a rum schooner
found off the coast of didn't
get that--oh, yes. he says it will
be cloudy, with easterly winds to-
Goodness, there's your
Static, again-it's quite
deafening, isn't it All, here's
some more music, but now they
are playing two records at once.
and 1t sounds frightful One is
jazz record, and the other is