The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-23
RADIO TO RUN
TRAM CAR IN
HEART OF CITY
Master of Wireless Will
Perform Amazing FeatS
Here Next Week.
NO MoTORMAN ON JOB
Autos to Move Downtown
Without Chauffeur at
Wheel.

Two open air ueInOIlSJrdClOIlS OF
spectacular wireless wonders which
no other man ever has duplicated
will be given in Indianapolis next
week by Maurice j. Francill, world
renowned radio engineer and inven-
tor, under auspices Of The Times.
One will be the operation of a
trolley car without motorman, or
conductor, in Illinois street, from
Georgia to Ohio streets. The other
will be the operation of three driv-
erlesS automobiles-two of them at
the same time--in North Meridian
street, between Washington and
Monument circle.
Permits for use of these thor
oughfares for these thrilling dem
onstrations were issued Thursday
afternoon by Police Chief Claude
Worley. Both experiments will be
free. The public is invited to at
tend, and thousands of spectators
are expected. The street car will
be run by radio control at 1915
p. m. Tuesday. The automobiles
will be operated at 1915 p. m. Fri
day.
FrancilL will be in Indianapolis
all next week, starting Sunday,
when he will open his engagement
as the supreme attraction at the
Lyric theater. Four times each
day, on the Lyric stage, he will
give an amazing exhibition of his
skill in radio control of power and
in light ray and sound wave ex-
periments.
viii Operate Autos.
Among other things, his stage
performance will include operation
OF one or more standard, stock mod
ell Hudson-Essex automobiles, by
wireless wave control, without driv-
ers, or touch of human hand.
Through the medium Of his cleo
tro-magnetic impulses, or radio
waves, he will perform virtually
every operation of the cars that
chauffeurs behind wheels could ac-
complish. Yet there will be no one
in the machines. Wireless alone
will be employed.
The cars Francill will use will be
standard stock model Hudson and
Essex machines, loaned to him
through courtesy of the r. v. Law
Motor company, 1919 North MeriC
ian street, distributors, cooperate
With associate dealers of that cor
Germ.
Francill selected Hudson Essex
machines because Of ease and flex-
Utility of engine movement and
other mechanical refinements. What
he accomplishes with the autos he
uses, he can duplicate with any
others Of that make, he declares,
because all such cars are uniform of
performance.
Wonders on Stage
On the Lyric stage, in addition to
the radio-controlled autos, Francill
will operate by wireless direction
fourteen-foot miniature battle
ship that has been proclaimed uni
versally to be masterpiece of Sc
lectivity and wave detection.
BY wireless waves, alone, the wiz
ard will steer it in any direction he
desires. He will fire cannon singly,
or in volume. He will flash lights,
sound sirens and horns, control
searchl hts, play a photograph
that represents the ships band, re-
lease toy balloons, and do many
other remarkable things.
In addition to operating the wire
controlled street car Tuesday at
noon and the three radio controlled
automobiles Friday at noon, it also
is planned for Francill to give a
number of other public demonstra-
tons of his skill, under auspices of
The Times. Among these, will be in
cluded appearances before the stu
dent bodies and faculties of several
Of the city high schools.
Francill is recognized by scientists
as probably the greatest living au-
thority on the application of radio
remote control to motive and other
form of power. He has made more
history than any other person in
his particular realm of research, ex-
Pronunciation and invention.
First in His Field
He is the first person to operate
by wireless a steam locomotive,
trolley car, or train of trolley cars,
one or more automobiles, industrial
plants, printing presses and other
mechanical devices. He also is the
first person ever to bake bread or
freeze ice cream in this way and he
has done many other amazing
things through the medium Of his
wireless waves.
At every exhibition, whether on
the stage of the Lyric, or in free
public program, Francill will visual
ize to his audience both the sending
and receiving of his radio impulses.
He will be within plain view of
every spectator at all times and will
fling his wireless waves from a
miniature broadcast station, or
transmitter, weighing only three
and one-half pounds and held in his
hands, or in the hands of some
auditor.
All the marvellous feats that Fran
Gill will perform while here will be
published exclusively in The Times.
Read about him daily in this news
paper, see him on the streets, visit
the Lyric, and view the wonders he
will perform there.