Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-16
failing the, World by Radio.

NEW YORK CITY, March 10
New York is under the spell of a
new fascination these days. 1t has
gone in for radio phoning. Suddenly
everybody has begun to talk radio,
play with radio and invite you to
studio ether-tapping parties. n
once so popular ouija board is now
a back number when it comes to re-
ceiving weird and amusing messages.
Instead, the family gathers about Its
little radio-receiving apparatus and
listens to the varied program OF
music, lectures, news. dispatches n
children's bedtime stories nightly
broadcasted by the large commercial
radio companies.
Although this ETHEREAL entertain
ment has been popular for some time
1t is only within the past two or three
months that the passion for radio
has become acute, 100000 new re-
| ceiying sets, it Is said, having been
installed in that time. Recent estlm-
ates show that, approximately 7OO,-
900 American homes, schools, ana
churches, halls and office buildings
are now equipped as receiving sta
tons, while the Federal Government
has licensed more than $4,000 t
lions for transmitting messages OF
one kind and another.
Every evening at s o'clock, thous-
ands of amateur radio operators,
scattered all over New York City,
New Jersey, Long Island and up thru
New York state, start twtrling the
curious knobs on top Of their radio
boxes; adjusting their h~eadpieces,
and listening to the loud, clear
sounds of a photograph record
which Is being played many miles
AWAY. They continue to listen in
tensely and rapturously, not because
they find the record so edifying ut
would sound much better played on
their own phonographs) but because
it is so delightfully."- uncanny to near
it from such a distance over the
radio-telephone.
Static Mars the Music.
"Oh." exclaimed a young woman
br~eathlessly, the other evening, as
she sat for. the first time with the
receivers in her ears, its quite clear
and 1 can even hear the scraping
sound of the record. It's Caruso.
He's singing Ave Maria Where Is
It coming from? Trenton? Think
of that-Trenton! And he's been
dead all these months, yet here Is his
voice singing to us and perhaps TO
thousands Of others way out there
In the night. Perhaps his voice can
be heard all the way over in Italy,
where he lies buried-do you sup
pose SOP" -
eyes" said the owner of the radio
boz, perhaps it could, if sent from
one of the big broadcasting sta
tons"
II wish the sound of the record
were not SO terribly loud, though"
complained the young woman.
'Sometimes 1t browns out h song.'
,saThat is not the sound of the c
ord, you hear" the owner laughed.
THAT is what We call old Man
Static Sounds like frying bacon on
a red-hot fire, doesn't it? Sometimes
I, it's much worse than it is tonight.
hut it's always pretty bad. One OF
the mean features the radio inven
tors have not succeeded in overcom-
ing"
"He's finished" interrupted the
Young 'Now they're put
ting something else on. A mans
voice. He is giving h letters OF
his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. can't
quite hear the last letter. He's read
ing some news, all about Lloyd
George in England, and now it's
about a rum schooner found off the
coast OIL didn't get that-oh, yes;
he a y it will be cloudy, with east
erly winds tomorrow. Goodness,
there's your friend, Static. again
it's quite d~eafening. isn't it? All,
here's some more music, but now
they are playing two records at once.
and it sounds frightful. One is a
Jazz record, and the other is Testi's
'Goodbye.' It's all right; the jazz has
stopped. / suppose the Goodbye
song ends this particular program,
doesn't it?"
probably" assented the owner of
the apparatus, taking the headpiece
from the young woman's head, "but
something else from some other
quarter will doubtless start up in a
few minutes. The ~broadcasting goes
on all evening. The most interesting
thing. though. is to get on the high
wave-length where you can hear the
wireless telephone spark signaling