Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-12
Broadcast Events
Carnival Week by
Bristol Apparatus

Final arrangements have been
made with the Bristol Recording
Company Of Waterbury, Conn, for
the erection here, on carnival week
Of an announcing apparatus which
will broadcast the progress of events
to all parts of Ganneston Park and
about the grounds in front of the
State House.
Friday morning Hon. w. H. Can
nett, through whose generosity the
apparatus is being brought here. in
company with Blaine Owen and sew
eral other members of the carnival
committee went to the State House
grounds and there in company with
Superintendent Brown made ar
rangements for the installation of
the various pieces of apparatus
which will be necessary to broad
cast Governor Bakers coronation
message and the music which will
be introduced to make the occasion
merrier.
1t has now been decided that the
King and Queen Of the carnival will
stand on the steps nearest to the
front entrance to the Capitol and
will there receive from the hands
of Governor Baxter the crowns that
will designate them as the official
ruling spirits Of the carnival. When
Governor Baxter gives his corona
ton remarks he will speak into a
transmitters which will, in turn, be
connected to series of ten ampli-
flying horns. These 10 horns will be
erected at intervals of about 100 feet
about the approach to the throne
and also along the sidewalk in front
Of the Capitol.
After the ceremony on the steps
of the State House the attention will
be drawn to the hockey rink in the
State field where the Rotarians and
kiwanians will have their rope pull,
where the hockey games will be
played and where Russ Jones will
perform on his magic skates.
In order that the spectators at
these interesting events n.y have
additional entertainment it is hoped
that it will be possible to transfer
the horns and simplifying device to
the ice rink and there use them for
broadcastinS other announcements
and music.
On Friday the entire broadcasting
outfit will be transferred to Cannes
ton Park where it will be used to
announce the events that will be run
off on the ski jump and on the ski
kJOrlng course as well as on the ice
pond at the foot of the ski jump.
The simplifying apparatus will be
installed in the rooms under the
ski jump and the announcer will
| stand outside the jump giving the
names of all contestants. the WIN
ners of the different events and the
record established. The simplifying
horns will broadcast the results of
the different events to ten widely
scattered points in Ganneston Park.
One line of announcing horns will
extend in direct line from the ski
jump to the shore of the artificial
pond at the foot of the hill and an
! other line of horns will be strung
along the roadway leading from the
Western avenue entrance of the
park to the ski jump.
SO far as is known the recording
and broadcasting apparatus that
Will be brought into play at the car
nlval is the first of its kind to be
used in Maine and is among the few
of its kind to be used in America.
Mr.. Gannet saw the apparatus in
use at the Hartford aviation meet
last fall and became so much i'm
pressed with it's value for ANNOUNCE
ing events over wide area that he
was determined that visitors at the
Augusta carnival should have the
advantage of the invention.