The New York herald., 1922-06-27
RADIO FOR YOUR CAR
SUCCESSFUL ON RIDE
Tells Leonard BrittOn
Fight Returns on Tour
Around City.
HID UNDER FRONT SEAT
Antennae Concealed So as
Not to Mar Appearance
of Top of Car.
GROUND DESPITE TIRES
Airplane Principle Employed
to Complete Circuit for Ap-
paratus in Motion.

A party of motorists, travelling
about Manhattan last night, sitting
comfortably on cushioned seats, far
away from the fetid air of the ring
side, heard an unperturbable announ-
Ger describing the Leonard -Britton
fight, blow by blow, round by round.
They heard the screaming Of the
ringside crowd at the Velodrome in
c25th street. near Broadway. and the
Jumble Of imprecation and exultation
as the referee declared Britton the
winner on a foul.
The second round ended as the car
was rolling along Morningside Drive
past the Cathedral of st. John the
iDvine. It was pleasant to know at
this point that Brittons seconds were
sponging his face and that what had
seemed to be grievous wounds proved
to be merely scratches.
The radio adapted to the automobile
SO that constant communication Is pos
sible while the car Is In motion Is the
latest wonder of the wireless. 1t was
tested for the first time last night.
and reporter for THE NEW YORK
HERALD who was invited to be wit
ness can testify to thrill
All Apparatus Concealed.
The automobile is a stock five pas
senger eight cylinder Lincoln touring
car. When first sighted 1t was standing
In front Of the apartment house at 420
West 116th street, where lives its owner.
John H. Hayden, vice-president OF the
Independent Wireless Company of IS
Water street. The reporter was in
vited to inspect It.
The machine did not betray in any
way the fact that 1t was equipped with
radio. The antennae are concealed In
the canvas of the one man top. The
instruments are hidden beneath the front
seat. A door at the feet Of the occupants
OF the back seat is opened to expose the
receiver. There Is no connection what
ever with the ground.
Equipping motor car with wireless
has been tried before. the reporter
learned, but a ground had to be es-
tablished by dropping wire and a
spike to the pavement, and this could
be done only when the car was standing
still.
In Mr.. Hayden's car the steel of the
chassis supplies all the ground" there
is--all that is necessary, despite the
insulation provided by the rubber tires.
1t Is translation Of the principles Of
airplane wireless to the uses OF the
motor car, with this difference The
radio equipped plane usually has a wire
antenna stringing out behind, while Mr..
Hayden's car has not.
Mr.. Hayden drove his guests to River
side Drive and up as far as 18th street.
where he parked opposite Trinity Gene
terry. The engine was stopped. This was
to be the first of the tests. for the auto
mobile. with its all rubber contact with
the earth. offers obstacles to successful
wireless operation even when II Is stand
ing still. Other experimenters have
partly overcome these by affixing masts
rising two or three feet above the top
Of the car and stringing wires between
them. The principal objection to this is
said to be unsightliness. In the back
seat Of Mr.. Hayden's car sat Everett A.
Brown, a radio engineer now with the
Independent Wireless Company. In war
time chief operator of the American fleet
of destroyers working out Of Queens
town, now Cobb.
Hears schenectady First.
Mr.. Brown, STOPPING. opened the little
door under the front seat and with
right and left hand turned two knobs
this way and that until something
somewhere began squealing. AS Mr..
Brown tuned his instruments for the
$50 meter wave length the squealing
mounted the scale and gave way to a
bass voice singing In Italian.
NO" said Mr.. Brown, I'VE don't
want you. Schenectady. What we want
just now is Newark"
Brown tuned again and WIZ, which
is the Newark broadcasting station.
came In. An announcer. speaking as
clearly as any telephone voice you ever
heard. was saying that the Plandome
singers. twenty-five voices. directed by
Burnet c. Tuthill-Plandome being q
village on the north shore OF Long
Island-were about to sing "Old King
Cole" and "The Peanut Picking Song"
This they did. and as the reporter's
wife Is one of the Plandome singers.
part of the audience in the automobile
in Riverside Drive was particularly criti-
cal: The headpiece with its two receiv-
ers was passed from ear to ear. Mr..
Hayden and his guests gave Plandome
their imprimatur OF approval, and were
ready for the prize fight.
Mr.. Hayden was eager TO give MS
friend, Joe Bernstein. former lightweight
prodigy. a treat. Joe was at Amster-
dam avenue and Eighty-cighth street.
On the way the party stopped at Mr..
Hayden's home and another battery was
attached to the wireless outfit and a
magnavox horn took the place OF the
headpiece. IL was explained that an In
dependent battery Is necessary for COM
munication while the car is in motion,
for the regular battery Of the car--the
first one used last nlght--receives and
transmits to the diaphragms the vibra-
tions Of the ignition system.
These changes having been made, Mr..
Hayden drove east to Morningside Drive
and then south. He ran the car slowly
at first--not more than ten miles an
hour. The horn began spilling the words
CT the announcer at the Velodrome. The
fight was in the second round. As the
car passed 114th street he was saying
that Leonard had just landed two ligh'
lefts to Brittons jaw and that Britton.
although staggered, did not seem par
ticularly dazed."
THE round has ended" the announcer
said as the party crossed 113th street
',rho man bava gone 10 their corners