Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 13

Decatur Herald, Features, Society Household Exchange Embroidery Design Farm News, Markets VOLUME 33, NO. 298. DECATUR, ILLINOIS. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1914. PRICE, 5 CENTS World's Wireless Message CONNECTING WIRELESS LINK BETWEEN DECATUR AND FAR-DISTANT POINTS OF CONTINENT DANES EXCEL AS CIT1 BUILDERS Copenhagen, the Capital, Extend ed According to a Definite Plan.

In Decatur Boy's Back Yard Station Here Perfected to Such Extent that It Is of Commercial Value and Can Receive and Send Messages Long Distances Receives Time Signal from Arlington. The NEWS BY WIRELESS HAVE MANIA FOR PARRS Buildings are Trim and Substantial and Streets Broad and Smooth. 1IREL.ESS telegraph messages are received from distances as great as New York city. Key West Florida, and even from the big ocean, liners out in the Atlantic by an outfit owned by Harold Burg, 865 South Maffit street, Decatur. The station is practically complete in every particular, and is as well- equipped, at least as far as the re-; celving end goes, as many commercial Bfotltnn tx-MpTi tiaw the entire sea I coast and many inland cities.

Although there have been many amateur wireless stations in Decatur at different times, in no other case has the appartus been so far perfected as to give as satisfactory results with long distance messages. The capacity of the receiving instruments in Mr. Burg's station is limited only by the height of his aerial, which when extended as he expects to have It ultimately, will enable him to "Pick up" any station in the Uuited States, and vessels far out in the oceans. The World at His Feet. Listening to the busy hum.

of the hundreds of stations scattered over the entire Eastern and Central part of the country, one cannot help marveling at the romantic qualities of an invention which will enable anyone to watch the happenings of a world through the medium of a few wires stretched above a back yard. Each night may be heard the numerous press service stations in New York City and elsewhere, now busy Flashing out through the air for all who can understand, the latest developments in the European war situation; the scores of commercial stations transmitting everything from baseball scores to the usual run of business messages; the huge government stations sending out periodical time signals for the guidance of vessels; and the many naval stations busy with orders for a widely-scattered fleet, and untold amateur and ship-board stations. Probably the first example of a practical news message ever written tor a Decatur paper and transmitted to this city by wireless is that from H. J. E.

Knotts, editor of the 'State-Center Record' of Illiopolis to The Herald, which was received at the Burg station this week and is reproduced here. Mr. Knotts operates a wireless station in connection with his station in Illiopolis and communicates nightly with Springfield, Decatur, and many other surrounding towns. As, sending and receiving instruments in Harold Burg's wireless outfit, located in building at 865 South for the sending outfit to the tuning coil of the receiving end. At the left end of the table is the switch board for the various city electric light current connections.

The big transformer uses so much current that all of the electric lights of the neighborhood are somewhat dimmed when it is operated. There are in addition many smaller and more intricate instruments not shown in the picture. Messages are transmitted by means of an ordinary telegraph key, provided with extra heavy parts, and a code of short and long buzzes is used, which is practically the same as the morse code used by all telegraph operators. the closest high-power station, his is one side of the little building is ONE OF be refilled by the city. The work is expected to be completed within a few days.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week ther are no picnics scheduled for Fairview park. "On Wednesday the Long Creek Anti-Horse Thief Association hold their anutl picnic and on Thursday is the Grocers picnic the largest affair of the year. It is expected that more than 7000 persons will visit Fairview oi that day. On Friday the St. Peters A.

M. E. Seeing Circle will have the park and on Saturday, the County W. C. T.

U. hold their annual picnic. This is also expected to be. a large affair. Reunions Xext Week.

On Tuesday of next week, is the Davis-Campbell reunion and on Wednesday is the Bear-Conover reunion. On Thursday afternoon the 116th. 111. will hold their annual picnic, and at about in tho aftprnnnn thp. Loc-an eoun ir will tol-o phnro-o Jif th nark Herald, Decatur, 111.

Progress on the plans for the M. W. A. picnic at Illiopolis, Thursday, August 27, are going ahead so nicely and the labor and details are working out with such precision that there is no doubt that the 1914 picnic will draw double the crowds of any similar event held here in the last twelve years. The committee on amusements has arranged new features and the immense program will be carried out to the letter.

Provisions greater than ever before are being made to accommodate the anticipated throngs and. everyone who comes this year will find amusement plentiful. State Center Record N. SS Illiopolis, 111. of course the one most heard, by Mr.

Burg in Decatur who carries on a conversation with him every day. Hear Other Stations. Other stations which are heard by Mr. Burg almost every night are the big one at the Illinois "Watch factory in Springfield, the many Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit and other Great Lakes commercial stations, New Orleans, the United States Naval station at Key West, Cape Hatteras, N. Cape Cod, and the huge wireless press service station of the New York Sun which is located at Sayville.

Long Island. The messages from the different stations are distinguished by their call letters which are sent at the beginning and close of each message. The call letters are listed in a register of wireless stations which is published quarterly. After hearing a station a few times, it is easy to tell it from any other in a radius of thousands of miles, owing to the different pitch or tone of the spark used in each sending station. The big stations can be distinguished usually by the shrill, vibrant notes which resemble the high note of a violin and which have a needle-like, piercing quality which can be heard at all times above the cackle of 'static' or the sounds of atmospheric electricity.

Erected Small BuildinK. Mr. Burg's station is located in a small building erected at the rear of his home, where it is free from jars or other outside noises. A long table which extends the entire length of THE FINEST FEATURES OF children. It has a way of making 'em over renovating 'em, as it were put- ting new life, new color, new blood into them, and at the end of two weeks sending them back, fed up, rested up, tanned, vigorous, possessed of a resistance to winter ills that attack them in their miserable homes and well of ideals.

Step into the home of one of our poor families for a moment. Here's mother in the overheated kitchen almost sweating her life tlood away at the wash-board. In the corner is a dilapidated go-cart. Inside is a wee wan baby moaning in fever, flies about it adding to its evident discomfort. Here at the table picking at a meager breakfast, black coffee and bread, are the others, three tots from three to twelve, pale, thin, dull-eyed.

Mother's a widow trying to do her own washing before she goes to the office building where she scrubs the white marble floors and scours big bronze railings a strange contrast to conditions at home. Do such as these need summer outings? How could we refuse "to grant them! Must Refuse Some. "We shall have to if more money is not forthcoming for the work. There are thousands like these, waiting "Will you help us to send this mother and sick babe to our convalescent hospital out in. the.Woods? Will you give a few dollars to send those three half-orphans out tda farm for two whole weeks of unmixed joy and bliss? Our outing visitors find new heart throbs every day in.

these pathetic homes. Need we say more? The United Charities conducts the' crystal which is sensitive to the faintest ether waves which transmit wireless messages. Aerial on TeleiiUone Pole. In the center of the switch board, above the table, is the big aerial switch which connects either the sending or receiving outfits with the aerial, strung from a telephone pole over the back yard. At the right of the table is the step-up transformer which transforms the ordinary 110-volt electric current into a high tension current of such high potential that it creates ether waves which will travel for fifty or more miles.

Besides it is a plate glass condenser, and above is the helix, which corresponds you are getting big dividends on your investment. Boyx Having Great Time. A letter from Mrs. L. C.

Hall, who has two of the four Klecinski brothers at Pierson. tells of their fine times there. She writes as follows: "The fresh air boys near Pierson seem to be enjoying every hour of their stay. All four are well and hearty, and with the automobile, buggy and horse back rides, and with fried chicken, ice cream and water melons, thev do not want a much better time. All four attended church at Pierson last Sunday and took at Mrs.

Frank Meece's home, where two of them are staying. All four take dinner at Mrs. Hall's next Sunday (today). Little Eddie put his arms around Mr. Hall's neck and said, 'I will be good if I can come back next "He is not quite six yet, but Is bright and witty.

We are proud of them, they are all four exceptionally good boys." WATER TO DEPLENISH NELSON PARK LAKE Pipe Line Laid to Prevent Fish Dying Will Bring Supply From Waterworks. The water in the lake at Nelson park has become so low in the last few days that there was some cause for fear of the fish dying. A pipe line now being laid from the city waterworks to the lake and the basin will BY XV. F. H.

Copenhagen, July 14. Is the most polite city In also one of the gayest. This Europe, Of the 237 or more ambitious municipalities that like to be known, as "Little Parlses," Copenhagen deserves to stand well up in the list. Every hotel and restaurant has its sidewalk cafe and here the well-to-do Danes sit from 9 a. m.

to 2 p. m. sipping wine and drinking Pilsner. The less fortunate go to the TIvoll where for the price of five cents they hear symphony orchestras, band concerts, and opera singers, and see vaudeville and variety shows. Think of living way up here in Scandinavia and being deprived of the comforts and Joys of civilization! Politeness Contagious.

But have called Copenhagen polite. Politeness is contagious and we brusk Americans who make short work of the forms of courtesy, soon after arriving find ourselves tipping our hats to the store keeper who sells us china-ware, to the bell boy who takes our bags, and to the station master who directs us to our train. You even see the hotel porters and the taxi-drivers raising their caps to each other. The street car conductors, the train guards, and the policemen are all courteous and attentive and especially attentive to foreigners. For instance, the railroads charge an excess fare for riding on express trains and impose a fine upon a passenger having a local ticket who by accident gets upon an express.

We made the inevitable error which resulted in a consultation of the whole train crew none of whom spoke German, with our German speaking interpreter who does not understand Danish. In desperation they finally called the station master, a handsome soldierly-looking fellow who explained the situation in a minute, collected the excess and curteously remitted the fine because we were foreigners and did not understand the local customs. A Convenient Dignitary. In America we laugh at the idea of a station master being a government official, and deride gold lace and side arms, but these semi-military functionaries do not appear to forget that their duty is the serving of the public, and they do it cheerfully and with very little red tape, whatever may be said of the gold lace. But Copenhagen is not only gay and polite, it is beautiful.

It reminds me of Detroit, although it is three times as large and began to plan for its beautification a half century before Detroit was heard of. I wish that Commissioner Becker could see these asphalt streets, smooth as glass and without a crook or depression in them. We are told that in these northern latitudes where there is little hot weather asphalt stands up better than In the States. For another thing, almost all traffic is on rubber tires. The horse-drawn vehicles are little light wagons, almost toys, and the city is so spread out that there seems to be no congestion as there often is in our American cities with one or two principal streets.

Bicycles Are Popnlar. must be because of the fine It streets and the absence of hills tha.r There are said to be 25.000 hw.i In Copenhagen. I suppose the number of taxies is somewhat smaller but you never have to wait for kind of conveyance. Perhaps it is the keen competition between so many of them, that makes the rates so small. In America we usually have the idjea that the driver is trying to do us-here you are convinced that he has made a mistake In your favor.

It is so cheap to ride that walking hardly pays. My driver the other night took me on a half-hour's joy ride all over the city and through the parks and I paid him less than 80 cents. At that (Continued on Pajre Seventeen) STAY Helen Letourneau, who was a guest of Mrs. J. E.

Huff, Vandcr-hoof street, enjoying cool breezes in the comfortable porch swing. for their annual outing. On Friday bicycle riding is so popular with wo-the last date spoken for during that men The numbers of them that come week is the Davis-Baker-Montgomery pedaling down town to work or on reunion shopping expeditions, and who glide around with their escorts in the long MISS MARY RODGERS the halcyon Table and Switchboard showing Maffitt street ered with the instruments, while practically all of the space on the wall above, and on the one-panel switch board is occupied by the wiring, switches, and still other instruments. With few exceptions, such as the tele phone headpiece and detector, the instruments were all constructed by Mr. Burg himself but the quality of work manship is such that they can scarcely be told from factory-made apparatus which is sold at fabulous prices.

Mr. Burg estimates the value of his equipment in the neighborhood of $400, and he is not yet satisfied with it. At the left side of his table is plac ed the big tuning transformer which HERALD FRESH AIR PICNIC Told by Miss Esther Requarth at Circle. most comprehensive summer outing work in the United States in an effort to offset the effect of unwholesome city life upon the poor; 12,575 persons were benefited last summer. Its Own Cnmps.

It has a 20-acre camp on rolling land on the banks of the broad Fox. river. There are 16 buildings, numer- ous tents, wading pool, sheep, rabbits, ponies and cows. This Is Camp Algonquin, 12 miles west of Elgin. On this ground there is also i the hospital for convalescent women, and there are nurses and a doctor.

The United' Charities has another! camp named "Harlowarden." Here are building sand tents. Nearly one hun- dred boys and girls who cannot get in- to other camps because they are suffering from incipient tuberculosis. spend the whole season here, in the. dense woods, in the Forest ot Araen, on Hickory Creek, a. half-mile from Cherry Hill and three from Joliet.

Every week, 170 children go to Camp Good Will at Evanston one of the finest tent camps in the country. Every two weeks 160 go to another big camp called "Arden Shore Camp" on the lake shore at Lake Bluff. Seventeen Hundred to Farms. Seventeen hundred go to farms in five states for two weeks each. Hundreds go to Milwaukee on day outing excursions through the kindness of the Goodrich Transportation conrpany.

while other hundreds visit Michigan City, through the kindness of the Indiana Transportation company. Fifteen railroads give transportation i0 camps and country country towns entertained children last year. 1 saininc" cent" DTorn street I enables him to increase his wave length sufficiently to be in harmony with the biggest stations. The transformer consists of two cylinders, one of which slides within the other, both wound with bare copper wire. Three delicate adjustments vary the amount of wire in the circuit, enabling the operator to pick out any desired station from the multitude which can be heard at all times.

In front of the tuner are the variable condensers, delicate receiving instruments which help to reduce noises from atmospheric electricity and which aid in tuning. On a shelf above this part of the table, and carefully shielded from jars, are the detectors, containing a tiny the Picnic Last Monday Afternoon or Union station almost any morning of the week and watch the "fresh-air" kids on their way to the country. See those happy faces transfigured by the sense of gratitude to their unknown benefactors and get the feeling that SNAPSHOTS OF Showing the little girls, as they looked about half an hour fter arrival from Chicago. is Attentive Group of Chicago Children Listening to the Stories in Fairview Park. Miss Requorth is at the Extreme Right of the Repair Shop For Damaged Children HERALD FRESH AIR CHILDREN DURING TWO WEEKS IS MADE SUBSTITUTE Teacher Appointed as Primary Teacher In Jasper Street School is Grjmied Reqliedt.

Miss Mary Kodgers, who had been elected by the board of education as primary teacher in the Jasper school fo the coming year, Friday, asked Superintendent J. O. Engleman for her release, requesting a position as substitute. Her request was granted. There remains two positions to be filled on the High school faculty, one in the manual training department, the other in the German department.

With dozens of applications for positions in tne grade senoois, superintendent has but one more position to offer. He expects to fill that position this week. Ruth and Edna Ulmenstein, rode all the cows and horses on the Gregory farm in Mt. Zion, where they were entertained. ln-fc.

ionowmg article is written I jby Bernard C. Roloff, superin- ment of the Chicago United Charities, with whom The Her ald regularly completes arrangements for its annual summer's Fresh Air children, who come here to be entertained by local hostesses. Mr. Roloff recently told The Herald that he expected to send out more than 1S.000 children this summer. His ar-J'cle, which appeared in the Manufac- rrr Xews is as follows: fid you ever see a trainload of United Charities kids" in action? They draw smiles from "Brakie" to iroad president, and, as the Chicago Evening Post said, "they leave a trail smiles across the whole state of Illinois." It's tough to be a Tenement Tommy, 'lvlnS in the grime and dusk of a 4rk, third-floor, three-room tenement 'at.

no yard, miles from grass, miles from a wading pool, with no hope of getting a whiff of "sweet clo-ver" in a pasture lot How'd you like to be such a "kid?" you were, wouldn't it feel great if some "big brother" came along, took a Peek at your blistered feet, pale face his hand across those sharp shol-fler blades of yours and said "How'd you like to spend two weeks on a farm, eon?" Gee whiz! but wouldn't you jump at the chance! Here's your opportunity. You're the big brother," we have the "kids" "oys and girls, black and white, thin and pale dozens hundreds thousands. How The Kids Are Renovated. "he United Charities has invented a kind of repair shop for damaged This picture shows the two girls, with their hostess, Miss Geneva Gregory, with their first new dresses..