Evening star., 1925-03-05
SPEECH BROADCAST
WITHOUT BREAK
Perfect Transmission Of
Presidents Inaugural Ad-
dress Is Reported.

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broadcasting yesterday of President
Coolidge's inaugural ceremonies from
the east Rortico of the United States
Capitol, according to @. Wi1fred John
stone, publicity representa- tive of the
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Not break occurred, he said. in the
long telephone circuit which zig
Jagged its way across the continent,
connecting the 21 high. powered radio
stations with the battery of micro
phones on the inaugural stand AS
result every word and infection of
the Presidents incisiye voice was
heard clearly and distinctly by the
vast radio audience, scattered from
the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
A vast invisible audience, estimated
at 25,OOO,000 Americans, visualized
the event on the east portico of the
Capitol through the vivid word pic
lures or two radio announcers. These
millions. grouped around radio sets
in every type of American home. also
heard Mr.. Coolidge solemnly repeat the
oath that binds him four more years
or heavy responsibilities. as well as
every word of the inaugural address
and the martial music of the United
states Marine Eand
Two Chains of Stations.
Two separate chains OF high pow
cred radio stations. interconnected
by special long g-distance telephone
circuits, carried the inaugural cere-
monies from sea to sea and border
TO border The American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. had the longest
INK with 81 stations, reaching from
New forg in Zigzag course across
the continent. Four stations, includ-
Ing Washington's WRC, were in the
Radio Corporation of Americas chain.
In the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co.'S nation wide link
were WEAF, New York; wEEI, Bos-
ton; WAR. Providence: VITO. Hart
ford: WOO, Philadelphia; WCAE,
Pittsburgh: WGR, Buffalo: wFBL,
! syracuse; WEAR, Cleveland: wLW
Cincinnati: WSB. Atlanta: wWJ, De-
'roit: WMAQ, Chicago; WDAF, Kan
sas City; WHO. Des Moines; wCCO,
Minneapolis: KLZ, Denver: XII. Los
Angeles; KPO, San Francisco: XIX.
Oakland, and WCTS. Worcester, Mass
Besides WRC. the Radio Corporation
.hain included WIZ. New York; wGY.
Schenectady, and wBZ. Springfield
Stands In Glass Case.
Graham McNamee, WEAFvs popular
announcer. in a glass-incased booth
directly behind the inaugural stand.
described the ceremonies to the great
audience served by the stations on
the coast-to-coast hook-up. About so
feet away Norman Brokenshire, the
star announcer of station WIZ. told a
similar story to the thousands listen
ing in on the stations linked by the
Radio Corporation of America.
While taking the oath of office and
reading his inaugural speech Presi-
oent Coolidge faced a bank of six
mlcfophones. Two led to the remote
control and amplifying apparatus
mounted on a truck beside the Capitol
steps, which flashed the proceedings
10 New York for nation wide distri-
oution; two to the Radio Corpora
tlon OF Americas special pick-up ap-
paratus, and the other two to the
battery of public speech amprifers.
Whicn hurled the Presidents voice
Iar beyond the mass of humanity
)ammed in the Capitol grounds.
ohcials or the two companies which
broadcast the inaugural had prepared
Tor weeks for the event.
Network of Wires.
Engineers were at work at the
Cap1toi a week ago. installing the
necessary transmitting apparatus. A
network of wires under the Cantor
steps and the mobile broadca sting
equipment on the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Co.'S truck were
the only visible evidence of the re-
suits of their labor.
Two complete telephonA circri..
stretching from the Atlantic to the
tacihc, were connected so that in the
case or emergency the other circuit
could be switched into the system
without interruption. TELEGRAPH oper-
ators were on duty at each station
also at the ampliher and repeater
points along the line, to correct anv
trouble detected by the monitoring
engineers.
Work of McNamee.
McNamee, who did the announcing
for the stations in the A. 7. and r
link, has become the idol of radio
fans throughout the United States
within the comparatively short period
of two years. 1t was his voice that
told vast radio audience on Decen1-
ber 4, 1923, that they were to hear
for the first time in history Presf-
dent Hard1ngs annual message to
Congress. 1t also was McNamee who
reported for the radio audience the
proceedings at the Republican and
Democratic conventions, the world
series and other notable events that
have been chronicled in radios his
tory in the last few years.
While not as familiar, perhaps as
McNamee, Brokenshire also has re-
ported many outstanding events for
the Radio Corporation of America
stations. A. o. n. has been his cryptic
nickname on the air, Brokenshire
was the assistant announcer at the
Democratic national convention last
Summer.