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MUSIC, VAUDEVILLE AND SPORTS MINGLE ON AIR WAVES TONIGHT
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N. I HOLDS
LEGION
NIGHT
WCAP to Rebroadcast Pro
gram of WEAF—Noted
Artists to Be Heard.
An unusually good program
from WEAF will be rebroadcast
by WCAP tonight, featuring New
York American Legion night,
with such well-known artists on
the program as Fannie Hurst,
magazine writer; Louise Bartlett,
concert contralto; Thais Magrane,
actress and dramatic reader, and
Christian Holtum, baritone.
Robert S. Patterson, New York
county commander of the Amer
ican Legion, will make a brief
address, opening the program.
To Give Opera Recital.
Charlotte Lund, music lecturer,
soprana and author of “The Opera
Miniature Series," also will be on
the program, rendering an opera
recital consisting of compositions
of Jules Massenet.
The out-of-town program is varied,
vaudeville, prize fighting and musi
cales being prominent n the pro
grams. At Springfield, WBZ,
Harold (Jingo) Kelly and Tom Mc-
Nally Will present a sketch, "The
Battle of Too Soon,” in which they
starred for years. The act has
been specially rewritten for radio
transmission so that nothing will
be missed by the unseen audience.
Added attractions on the Spring
field program are Charles Ruddy,
pianist and musical director of
••Little Nellie Kelly” company, and
Lee Voudrey, violinist, who will
S resent a program of popular
uets.
WOR, Newark, has another con
sistently good brogram, featuring
Halsey Miller and his orchestra in
the "While You Dine" periods. Mil
ler’s' inimitable style has brought
forth enthusiastic response from
many of the Newark fans. The
afternoon program from WOR feat
ures Bula C. Blauvelt, pianist-com
poser, a graduate of Guilmont Or
gan School and the New York In
stitute of Musical Art, in a pro
gram of classical numbers.
For Fight Fans.
All fight fans will undoubtedly
tune into WSB, at Atlanta, to hear
the ringside account of the Young
Btrlbling-Shade boxing bout The
fight starts at 9:80 o’clock eastern
standard time. Atlanta is putting
on the usual transcontinental
radiowl entertainment, at 11:45
o'clock in the evening.
Shrlners may tune into WOR,
Buffalo, at 8:50 o'clock to the
musical program of the reception
at Hotel Statler given by the Lake
Erie Commandery Number 20.
Knights Templar of Buffalo, to
Royal Arch Masons. The program
will feature a shrine quartette.
Many good musical programs are
In slgnt around the Jlal. Some of
these are: the Murray Horton Dance
Orchestra, WLW, Cincinnati, the
University of Chicago (Mee Club,'
WMAQ, Ev'jrotte Tryon’s Melody
Lane Da.ice Orchestra, WJAX.
Cleveland, and the usual late eve
ning program from Edgewater
Beach Hotel, In Chicago, WJAZ,
from 11 to 8.
HONDURISSET
HEARD D. G.
' PROGRAM
L. F. Carleton Caught Waves
1,800 Miles Away on One-
Tube Radio.
A Washingtonian, born and
raised here, but now residing in
Honduras, has written to the
Radio Corporation station WRC,
that he received its broadcast on
a one-tube set. The leter follows:
"Dear Sirs:
"I wish to acknowledge the re
ceipt of a part of your program
broadcast on the night of January
16. The signals were pretty loud
and distinct, but not very clear.
Owing to code interference I could
not hear the time the announcer
said when signing off.
"I am particularly interested in
hearing your station since I was
born and raised in Washington.
"My set consists of a home as
sembled Inductance, variometer,
.001 variable condenser, U. V. 199
detector and Baldwin type C.
headfones. The aerial is single
wire 100 feet long and thirty feet
high with a lead-in of seventy
five feet The ground is an or
dinary ground-rod sunk six feet
in the earth.
“I would appreciate it very much
If you could send me your schedule.
"Respectfully,
"THOMAS F. CARLETON.
"P. S. Cuyame is about twenty
- er twenty-five miles southwest of
Puerto Cortes, Honduras."
This reception was over a distance
of approximately 1,800 miles and
while not a distance record, is par
tcularly interesting, since, stations
fn the tropics have dlfflcuty in hear
ing on account of the heavy atmos
pheric electricity which is always
present.
Danger in Moving.
The danger of moving or remov
ing ' radio tubes while the filament
current is turned on is not realised
by most set users Remember also
that when lighted, consequently hot,
the tube is sensitive and jars and
thumps. Fracture or bending of
the hoatod elements jg possible.
HERE ARE THE WINNERS IN TIMES’ RADIO AERIAL CONTEST
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tional Railway to Talk Over V EaMfl F< ? tb _*" . J, £
Wireless Weekly. 1 k, by Powerful Stat.on-Stu-
dents Break Record.
Henry W. Thornton, presiden*
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Uonaf RaUway* Company long- Bk V ... i The above photos show the net- at Princeton next fall will be broad
XHd U^n ny th‘e he woTd, i k aeruig on the nx)f of cast with a 1 000 watt generator
revealed In an address in New "el "" // X ’ of the wings of the Clifton Ter- of send ing the
he r tlll la^fve W Mrsonal P instructlon e at ' '■ . ■ y race apartment House, which con- by President Harry J. Hemphil
l£st on£ a week to each of WO. ft-X ** B totoß th,r^ M °°‘’ ,de TnSty e 'ar. T W to fm
000 officers and men over the _wlre- l\ XS \ - Th< T fth? RJStter. t<
less telephone. He will send his J X g * ste<l - The block wlth • ev ® ntT - complete the equipment already ii
v to t £ elr , °.r* ‘“T’SJ’T" >1 T X Six aerials in which the apart- the hands of the University Radii
tered throughout the vast Dornin- X. x . n„b
of ( " .. ~.. 1 I / ■■UAlk nt house »lands w M « J The undergraduate station, whicl
The Canadian National Is the V I m * ie most aerially congested j g ranked among the first ten non
first railroad to use broadcasting block in the city, from replies professional stations in the coun
A? a w? submitted in The Times Aerial Con- try and last year broke the nations
promoting the loyalty of its men. i nu >, u .hn«- n n v record for volume message
Sir Henry, who was born in this test. In the Inset is snown is. r. transmitted, is installing new ap
country, spent twenty years in the | i.l . , L Taylor, Jr., 1315 Belmont street paratus of the latest type and wil
I^J^ v A m e rh C n a r I t- r^f r onl™Hnn northwest, winner of the contest concentrate in distance tests thi
was largely In charge of operation ?rf ifi>ftfffff ffft • LH ffl (ff f Kt Httlf I* (1 ((I !* *ka aerials in thia year.
of English railroads during the who counted the aerials in this ~ ~ >'
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RAILROAD READ
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Bl RADIO
President of Canadian Na
tional Railway to Talk Over
Wireless Weekly.
Sir Henry W. Thornton, president
and chairman of the Government
owned and operated Canadian Na
tional Railway Company, the long
est railroad system in the world,
revealed in an address in New
York last week a plan whereby
he will give personal instruction at
least once a week to each of 100.-
000 officers and men over the wire
less telephone. He will send his
voice into their own homes scat
tered throughout the vast Dornin-
Jon of Canada.
The Canadian National is the
first railroad to use broadcasting
for stirring the enthusiasm and
promoting the loyalty of its men.
Sir Henry, who was born in this
country, spent twenty years in the'
employ of American railroads and
was largely in charge of operation
of English railroads during the
war, implied that without such a
system as wireless, Government
ownership and other large amal
gamations in the United States
would fail.
In his talk before railroad men
and investment brokers, Sir Henry
said:
<- "We are establishing a chain of
broadcasting stations from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, so that the
higher officers may keep in touch
with the entire properties.
“If I can get the 100,000 officers
and men whom we employ thinking
along this line, they will become an
irresistible force for success. That is
90 per cent of administering a
railroad property."
I Local Broadcast
NAA—Naval Radio Station,
Arlington.
(5,950 Meters, C. W. arc.)
1:20 p. m. —Fruit and vegetable
shipments.
2:00 p. m.—Fruit and vegetable
markets.
3:45 p. m.—Closing livestock.
5 p. m.—Hay and feed market
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
8:50 p. m.—Daily market, grain.
10 p. m.—Weather forecast.
(435 Meters, radiophone.)
12:15 p. m.—Livestock markets.
1:45 p. m.—Fruit andvegetable
markets.
3:00 p. m.—Livestock.
3:45 p. m.—Wather report.
4:05 p. m.—Hay and feed.
4:25 p. m.—Dairy products.
(2,650 Meters, spark.)
12 m. and 10 p. m.—Time sig
nals.
10:01 p. m.—Weather report, ship
orders, naval press news.
WCAP—Chesapeake & Potomac Tel
ephone Company (469 Meters).
7:80 p. m.—John Allen Spooner,
tenor, accompanied by Mrs. Spooner.
Program: "Julia’s Garden” (Rogers),
"Coleen a’ Roon” (Strickland).
7:40 p. m.—Mme. Charlotte Lund,
soprano, assisted by N. Vai Peavey,
pianist and barytone. Opera recital
of "Thais" (Massenet).
8:10 p. m.—John Allen Spooner,
tenor. Program: "Irish Love Song"
(Lang), "Last Hour" (Creamer).
8:30 p. m.—Winifred T. Barr
pianist.
9 to 10 p. m.—American Legion
night program, under the auspices
of the New York County Organiza
tion. The following artists will as
sist: Christian Holtum, barytone;
Louise Bartlett, contralto: Thais
Magrain, actress and dramatic
reader; Fannie Hurst, well-known
woman writer.
WRC—Radio Corporation of
v America.
(469 Meters.)
8 p. m.—Fashion developments of
the moment, by Agnes M. Callen.
a 8:1 2. P ™ m /T Bong r®cltal by Stella
Angell Fletcher, dramatic soprano;
Mrs. Chester Adair at the piano.
Progam: Aria from “II Trovatoro"
(Verdi), "Mattinata” Tosti).
8:25 p. m.—" Health and Beauty,"
by Grace Peters, manager for
Elizabeth Arden.
8:85 p. m.—"A Universal Lan
guage." by the editor of the Inter
national Interpreter. ,
8:46 p. m.—Bird imitations, by
Isabel Goodhue.
8:55 p. m.—Song recital of old
melodies, by Stella Angell Fletcher,
dramatic soprano; Mrs. Chester
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
PROGRAM OF DISTANT STATIONS
»
Eastern Standard Time
12 to 2
12:00—Luncheon Music, Wanamaker’s, Philadelphia WOO 509
12:05—Musical Program. Baltimore WCAO 860
12:10—Daugherty’s Orchestra, Pittsburgh.. KDKA 326
12:15—King’s Chapel Service, Boston WNAC 278
12:80—News, etc., Pittsburgh , WCAE 462
Organ, Hotel ftatler, Buffalo WGR 819
12:35—Surprise Program, Minneapolis WLAG 417
1:00 —Organ Recital, Karl Bonawitz, Philadelphia WIP 509
Meyer Davis Bellevue Stratford Orchestra, Phila...WFl 395
Shepard Colonial Orchestra, Boston WNAC 278
Chimes Concert, Davenport WOC 484
I:Bo—Mass. Merchants* Assn. Luncheon, Boston WNAC 278
Address, DeWitt McMurray, Editor, Dallas WFAA 476
2 to 4 v
2:oo—Music and Address, Schnectady WGY 380
2:30 —Rita Barrios, lyric soprano, Newark WOR 405
2:45—8u1a Blauvelt, pianist, Newark WOR 405
3:oo—Popular program, Paul Whiteman, Philadelphia.... WIP 509
Vocal Concert, Philadelphia WFI 895 *
Woman’s Club, Minneapolis... WLAG 417
June Walker, telling of stage experiences, Newark.WOß 405
Detroit News Orchestra, Detroit WWJ 517
8:80 —Rita Barrios, soprano contralto, Newark.... WOR 405
News, e(c., Pittsburgh WCAE 462
3;35 —Studio Program, Chicago KYW 536
Lyon and Healy, recital, Hall, Chicago WMAQ 448
3:4o—Daylight Concert, Minneapolis WLAG 417
3:45—8u1a Blauvelt, pianist, contralto, Newark WOR 405
4 to 6
4:oo—News, etc., Montreal .........CKAC 425
Tea-time Music, Hotel Statler, Buffalo WGR 319
4:Bo— Musical Tea. Montreal CKAC 425
Educational Program, Davenport WOC 484
4:4s— Talk, Edward L. Green, Boston WNAC 278
Grand Organ and Trumpets, Philadelphia WOO 509
6:oo— Afternoon Program, Louisville WHAS 400
WLAG Players, Minneapolis WLAG 417
Topics of Interest to Women, Cincinnati WLW 809
s:Bo—Gunn School of Music, Chicago WMAQ 448
s:ss—Short Stories for Small Children, Toronto.CFCA 400
6 to 7
6:oo—Bedtime Stories for Children, Philadelphia WFI 395
News, etc., Atlanta WSB 429
Produce, Stocks, and News, Schenectady WGY 880
g ; 05—WIP Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia WIP 509
6:ls—Dinner Concert, Ft. Pitt Hotel Orchestra, Pittsb’g.KDKA 826
Halsey Miller and Orchestra, Newark WOR 405
6:30 —Meyer Davis Bellevue Stratford Orchestra, Phila...WFl 395
Kiddie Program, Bonnie Barnhardt, At1anta........W58 429
Children’s Stories, Minneapolis WLAG 417
Shepard Colonial Orchestra, Boston WNAC 278
Dinner Concert, William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh. .WCAE 462
“Man in the Moon Stories for Children." Newark...WOß 405
String Trio, Ten Eybk Hotel, Schenectady WGY 880
Vincent Lopes Orchestra, Buffalo WGR 319
6:4s—Chimes Concert, Davenport WOC 484
7 to 8
7:oo—Uncle Wlp’s Bedtime Stories, Philadelphia ..WIP 509
Talks, Springfield - WBZ. 337
"Habits of Fish,” W. C. Vogt, Minneapolis WLAG 417
Kiddies Stories, French and English, Montreal... .CKAC 425
Halsey Miller Orchestra, Newark WOR 405
Adair at the piano. Program: "Her
Bright Smile Haunts Me Still”
(Wrighton), "Twickenham Ferry”
(Marzials), Far Away" (Lindsay).
4:10 p. m.—" St. Andrews; Capital
of Learning and Golf." by- the Na
tional Geographic society.
4:20 p. m.—Song recital, by Nina
Bergolesi, soprano.
5:15 p. m.—lnstruction in inter
national code.
6 p. m.—Stories for children, by
Peggy Albion.
6:20 p. m.—" Thomas Jefferson
and Monticello,” by Mrs. Min
negerode Andrews, president of the
National Monticello association.
WMU—DoubledayHill.
4:30 to 640 p. m.—Musicil selec-
VACUUM TUBES ARE
EXTREMELY DELICATE
Vacuum tubes are extremey deli
cate. B battery or any other ex
ceslve current applied for a frac
lon of a second to the filament
leads will burn out your tubes. A
great many have had this experi
ence, and it is likely to happen
again at any time.
Perhaps you, in a hurry, put the
I b * tt ? ry wh ®re the A battery
mould be, hook up the loud speak
»r, turn to your guests and Inform
hem they are in for a treat. You
V,™ 0 " / our batter y switch and
>ll the tubes blow out.
\ Save yourself from embarrass
sient, save your tubes and money,
Th* National Daily
7:ls—George Osborn’s Orchestra, Minneapolis WLAG 417
Address, Relief of German Children, Pittsburgh...KDKA 826
7:3o—Bedtime Stories for Children, Springfield WBZ 887
Tryon’s Orchestra and vocal artists, Cleveland. .WJAX 890
Mt. Royal Hotel Orchestra, Montreal CKAC 425
Uncle Kaybee, Pittsburgh WCAE 462
"Preserving Your Teeth,” Pittsburgh... KDKA 326
News, etc., Chicago KYW 586
Digest of Day’s News, Buffalo WGR 819
7:45 —Special Musical Program, vaudeville, Springfield.. .WBZ 387 i
Children’s Period, Pittsburgh KDKA 826
Chamber Music, Shenectady ~...?WGY 880
7:so—Sport News. Davenport WOC 484
. Children’s Bedtime Stories, Chicago KYW 536
8 to 9
8:00—School of Music, University of Illinois, Urbana....WßM 860
Musical Program, Toronto CFCA 400
Elliot Lester, dramatic critic, Philadelphia WIP 609
Warren E. Foote, Talk. Philadelphia WFI 895
Hotel Gibson Orchestra, Cincinnati WSAI 309
Boston American Band, Boston WNAC 278
Tryon’s Orchestra and vocal aritsts, cont., CIeve..WJAX 890
Market Reports, Pittsburgh KDKA 326
Clyde Doerr’s Orchestra, Chicago KYW 586
Babson report and chemical talk, Chicago WMAQ 448
Chamber Music, cont., Schenectady • WGY 380
Musical Program, Lockport. N. Y WMAK 360
B:ls—Philadelphia Police Band, Philadelphia WIP 509
"Resolutions,” one of Franklin's virtues. Pitta...KDKA 326
8:30 —Banking Talk, Philadelphia WFI 895
Out of Town Studnt Night, Louisville WHAS 400
Farm Lectures, Radio Drama, Minneapolis......WLAG 417
Studio Entertainment, Montreal CKAC 425
Musical Program, Pittsburgh WCAE 462
Concert, Pittsburgh KDKA 826
Choir, 850 voices, Baptist, Fort Worth WBAP 476
Christian Endeavor Program, Chicago..... WMAQ 448
Detroit News Orchestra, Detroit WWJ 617
B:so—Reception, Hotel Statler, Buffalo WGR 819
9 to 10
9:00—“In Honor Bound,” radio play, Philadelphia WIP 609
Orpheus Plectra! Orchestra, Philadelphia ..WFI 896
Address, "Sociology," Cincinnati ....WSAI 809
Bedtime for Grown-ups, Springfield WBZ 337
Temple Quartet, St. Louis KSD 546
American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago KYW 536
9:80 —Lecture, member of faculty, U, of 111., unlv. news. .WRM 360
Hotel Gibson Orchestra, request numbers, CInn..WSAI 809
Ringside account, Stribling-Shade fight, Atlanta... .WSB 429
Musical Program, Chicago KYW 536
QMAC Orchestra, Chicago QMAC 448
Musical Recital, Dallas WFAA 476
10 to 18.
10:00—Vocal and Instrumental cortcert, Cincinnati WSAI 809
10:10—Popular Songs, trio, Philadelphia WFI 895
10:15 —Ted Weems and L'Aiglon Orchestra, Kerr's Orch..WlP 509
University of Chicago Glee Club, Chicago WMAQ 448
10:30 —Mt. Royal Orchestra, Montreal CKAC 425
Special .Late Evening Concert, Pittsburgh KDKA 826
Will Foster, organist, Ft. Worth WBAP 476
11:00 —Murray Horton Dance Orchestra, Cincinnati WLW 809
11:00 to B:oo—Regular Late Evening Musical, Chicago... .WJAZ 447
11:46 —Transcontinental Radiowl entertainment, Atlanta. .WSB 429
12:00 —Orchestra Recital, Dallas WFAA 476
12:80—Helene Helwig, soprano and others, St. Louis KSD 546
These programs are subject to change.
by buying a few safety fuses and
inserting them on the filament
prongs of each tube. Mark the B
battery wires plainly.
Radio Weather for
Tonight
Reception from dis
tant stations tonight
will be good, with
best results in the di
rections of north and
south.
TCEBOAT, JANUARY 28, MM.
The above photos show the net
work of aerials on the roof of one
of the wings of the Clifton Ter
race apartment House, which con
tains thirty-six outside aerials.
The other wings are equally con
gested. The block with seventy
six aerials in which the apart
ment house stands was reckoned
the most “aerially” congested
block in the city, from replies
submitted in The Times Aerial Con
test. In the inset is shown B. F.
Taylor, Jr., 1815 Belmont street
northwest, winner of the contest
who counted the aerials In this
block.
TALK ON NORWAY LISTED
FOR WOR RADIO STATION
Wirt W. Barnits, travel lecturer,
who has recently returned from a
tour of Europe, will broadcast a
talk on Norway from Radio sta
tion WOR next Saturday afternoon.
He will relate adventures of singu
larly interesting nature and de
scribe the wondrously beautiful
fjords that indent the Norwegian
coast. <
Immediately following the talk by
Barnitz a program of Norwegian
songs will ba readered by Hodwig
Dahl Mason.
WORLD TO GET
PRINCETON
GAMES
Football Will Be Broadcast
by Powerful Station—Stu
dents Break Record.
The Yale-Princeton football classic
and many other big games played
at Princeton next fall will be broad
cast with a 1,000 watt generator,
capable of sending the accounts
around the world, if plans outlined
by President Harry J. Hemphill
materialize. The alumni of the
university are to be asked to fur
nish | the powerful generator, to
complete the equipment already in
the, hands of the University Radio
Club.
The undergraduate station, which
is ranked among the first ten non
professional stations in the coun
try and last year broke the national
record for volume of messages
transmitted, is installing new ap
paratus of the latest type and will
concentrate in distance tests this
year - . n.
i Last year, working day and
night, the student club was the first
amateur organization : to pass the
1,000 mark in messages transmitted
in a single month, with a total of
1,226 messages for December, 1922.
During the trans-Atlantic test for
amateurs last year, the Princeton
station was heard in Switzerland
and throughout Continental Europe
as well as in Central America, and
and much more can be expected
with improved euipment.
Founded ten years ago by under
graduate radio “hugs.": who con
structed tbe first crude station
: themselves, the University Radio
I Club has grown rapidly until the
(present membership numbers ap
proximately fifty students intensely
interested in wireless transmission.
The club holds an experimental
license issued by the United States
Department of Commerce, permit
ting unlimited research work, and
the station, situated in the tower of
the Science building, is constantly a
scene of various experiments, fea
turing unique hook-ups and un
usual antennas. BXM is the call
number under which the station
operates.
Romping Around
the
Radio Dial
By Listner-In
Silent Night.
It was just a dumb, black box.
And full of a lot of wires, screws
and junk.
The world was a mUUon miles
away, with its music and lectures,
opera and plays. There was noth
ing but silence everywhere.
We twisted ope of the dials that,
stud the front of this black box of
ours. But the mage noises that
usually flow into our ears were dis
tressingly absent. We twisted an
other dial and were met with more
of the awful silence.
Tbe room took on an atmosphere
of desolation. We were completely
out off from our friends that talk
and sing to us through the air.
Perhaps it was the batteries.
Perhaps a wire come loose.
But we searched for the trouble
and couldn't find it.
It was silent night for us.
With our set out of commission,
we turned to reading all the
journals that have to do with radio
and the new-found mysteries of the
air and electricity.
And what a wealth of type is
being used in the telling of the
radio story!
There were scores of hook-ups de
scribed, scores of discussions and
explanations of the movement? of
the electron and the wave.
Numbers of persons attempted to
predict the future of radio and
broadcasting.
And so we read on and on, late
into the night, forgetting for the
time tbe programs in the air.
But we’ll see that the set Is
fixed by tonight.
N. B. —We had hoped that one of
our colleagues would be able to re
port on some of the activities in the
radio night. This colleague had
bought this first set yesterday and
was looking forward to the evening
76 AERIALS
BRINGTHE
PRIZE
B. F. Taylor, Jr., Outstrips All
Contestants With Clifton
Terrace Block.
B. F. Taylor, jr., ISIS Belmont
street, who counted seventy-six
outside aerials on the city block
bounded by Clifton, Belmont,
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets
northwest, walked away from
competition to win the Radio
Editor's prise of $lO in the city’s
first aerial counting contest. The
next largest number reported in
the contest was forty-one.
Real Aerial Congestion.
In the block where Taylor found
the record number of aerials is the
Clifton Terrace apartment house,
which is found to be the most
congested area of the city’s aerial
population. _
On one Wing alone, which is
shown in the picture at the top
of the page are thirty-six aerials
forming a tangled network over
the entire roof.
The other wings of the apart
ment house are similarly congested,
and the houses in the rear facing
Belmont street have almost a full
quota of the wires.
Taylor, who is employed at the
Veterans Bureau, is the owner of
one of the wires on Belmont street.
The wire leads in to a little crystal
set which Taylor has owned for
several months.
Runner-up in Contest.
The runner-up in the contest was
Walter B. Chambers, 31 IS Georgia
avenue, who found forty-one aerials
in the block bounded by Ontario
place, Lanier place, Ontario road
and Adams Mill road. The area
contains several apartment bouses,
but none of the size of the Clifton
Terrace. Most of the aerials in
that district are on individual
houses.
R. G. Radue, 1242 Monroe street
?° r 3 h ®? 8t - and Elbert J. Howell,
2919 South Dakota avenue north
east, tied for third honors with
forty-two aerials in tbe block
bounded by North Capitol, First, U
and V streets.
Conn in Fifth Place.
Fifth place was taken by Robert
Conn, 1801 Sixteenth street, who
found thirty-eight aerials in the
.ü bo Y, nded by Sixteenth.
WM^* nth ’ 8 and T north-
WM captured jointly
by Otis -Ross, Eighteenth street
? nd H * roW H - Sheerer,
the Chastleton, who counted thirty
one aerials in their blocks.
Ross’ district is bounded by East
Capitol, A, Seventeenth and Eight
eenth streets southeast, and Shee
rer s by Fifteenth, Sixteenth, R and
S northwest.
2£ a J° r > 131« Shepherd
street northwest, was next with
thirt aerlais in the area bounded
by Fourteenth, Thirteenth Shep
,? nd Randolph streets.
William L. Mullikin, jr., 128
northwest; Raymond A.
Oliff, 1321 Eeventh street north
west, and Kenneth Ellington, 602
A. street southeast, were tied with
twenty-nine aerials.
There were thirteen entries tied
at twenty-eight aerials, ten at
twenty-seven, fifteen at twenty-riv
aud twenty at twenty-five.
To Howard Sheppe, 446 Tenth
street southwest, who entered the
winning block in which the Clifton
Terrace apartment house stands,
there were “about
thirty or thirty-five aerials in the
area, goes the consolation of being
really the runner-up. In view of
tho fnct that no actual count had
been reported by Sheppe. his entry
was eliminated in the final check,
with intense pleasure when we left
him.
B ’J t on,y raPort was three
mashed fingers and not a whisper
from the ether.
We have held for several days*
consideration a query from Q. M. W..
Christiansburg, Va., asking us to
recommend a set or type of set that
will bring in Los Angeles and to
•PPro*imate the cost of such a set.
Without attempting to discrimi
nate in favor of any one type, wo
can only reply from knowledge
gained from practically all dealers
and those “in the know** of what
sets are doing and are capable of
doing.
For fairly regular Pacific coast
reception, it would seem that the
most reliable set would be a super
hetrodyne. But the super is being
favored in all quarters at present,
and although an expensive set ap
•years to be a comer. Many seta,
one tube included—will bring in
coast stations occasionally. But
none so far has been perfected that
will guarantee KGO every night.
Yes, WJAX has no marcheta.
We call attention to the week’s
program from WJAX, Cleveland.
They print the names of all vocal
and instrumental selections to be
played from heir studio every after
noon and evening. The Tryon Or
chestra lists almost fifty numbers
for the week.
And not once is there mention
of ’’Marcheta.’’
A postcard from “X. Y. Z.” bear
ing an Alexandria postmark, is as
follows.’’
“Why pick on “Marcheta?” Don’t
you ever listen to the New York
studios howling out “Hot Water
the Bronx.”
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“If It’i Electrical We De IV
IF IT’S RADIO E HAVE IT I
J. C. Harding & Co., Inc.
709 12th St N. W.
Franklin 7«54.