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There is another important One more feature alone needs way, those members number more plank in that polley which must to be mentioned and it has to deal than 110,000. In surmounting be mentioned and that is the co-with the value of radio in the this difficulty radio has played its operation of the radio department administration of the railroad. part in the administration of of the company with national It is doubtful if. many Canadians the Canadian National Rail-
intervala: welfare campaigns, Tho value of understand the magnitude of ways, Atrogolar this co-operation was splendidly their National Railway System.officers of the company, Including illustrated last spring during the Nearly everyone knows it com-the President and his executivos, "Forest Fire Prevention Wook" prises more, than 23,000 miles talk to other officers and em- That wook short talks on the need of operated track and that it ployees from a broadcasting With the opening of the new neglected. Difficulty was expori- of protecting Canada's foreste, touches overy province, every station. The result has been a broadcasting enced at first in securing the types from destruction by fire were capital and every important city strengthening of morals, the Moncton radio atation on Friday, November of sets necessary for the success. broadcast from every station then and town. But fow understand strengthening of an intimacy be National ful reception of concerts on board in operation.. In this work men what this 23,000 miles mean. Fow tween distant but co-related por- 7th.. the Canadian
a moving train, but this difficulty high in the public life of the know that to travel every foot of tions of the system that is most Railways completed the ninth
ministers, that track it would be necessary beartening and a general im- link in the greatest chain of has been overcome and to-day, all Dominion,
in the of the 16 transcontinental trains ministers, promiors of provinces, to romsin for practically three provement in service that is re- broadcasting stations world under one management. needed for the eastward and directors of forest service for the weeks on a train travelling with flooted in the increasing patronage. One more link-Vancouver-re- westward daily movement of pas-government and leaders in the pulp out a stop at the rate of 50 miles and favour of the travelling and mains to be added, and then the songera between Montreal and and paper and lumber industries an hour. That being the case the shipping public..
the Vancouver, have been equipped of the country gave their services. you can work it out for yourself chain is complete from
with receiving sets. Two of the The result was really amazing. if you don't believe the statement
GERMS ON SEEDS: At'antic to the Pacific.
All this has not just happened, trains operating between Mon- Forest fires along the lines of theit is not hard to conceive that National Railways some difficulties are experienced
Examining soods of poppy, rice This radio service of the National treal and Quebec have boon Canadian
those charged with the and other plants, G. J. Fowler Railways of Canada, unique equipped also and the next train and with more than 9,00 miles by among transportation service, is to receive attention will be "The of such territory they serve a administration of the property, and Miss R, K. Christie have the outgrowth of careful experi- National" which operates bo- greater forested ares than any in maintaining that persona found certain bacteria in them mentation, careful thought and tween Toronto and Winnipeg railway in the world except the touch with all officers and em- or attached to them. much hard word. Yet the Eventually every important train trans-Siberian forest fires along ployees which is essential in bacteria soon to be always asso- on the System will have radio these lines showed a decrease insuring the success of the enter ciated with the soeds, and 10 bé organization has been, so com- plete and the plans so perfectly receiving sets. These sets are of more than 50 per cent, and a priss. It is beyond the ability of helpful in promoting the growth a buman being to meet personally of seedlings, although they have compartment most encouraging decrease re-
bo not all Inid, that in only a matter of placed in the eightoon months this feature of observation cars on the trans-suited throughout the Dominion every member of such a wide been proven to
flung organization and, by the essential to germination, and on as a whole. service offered the public has continental
Here then, are some of the .of car library parlor developed from an idos to its tho
the Montreal Quebec trains. They general policies of the company present physical magnitude.
are fitted with a number of in- and some of the results." But Radio experimentation on the Canadian National Railway dividual head-phores as well as there is another important result MRY be said to extend loud speaker, those desiring to to be mentioned. It may be back as far as 1902, when
listen to the reception may do termed indirect, but that does not its importance. This Sir Ernest Rutherford, then a
through the phones. All lesson professor at McGill University, hotels of the Systom also have radio polios of the Canadian National Railways has done an carried
the receiving sote. out successfully transmission of signale by wire- There was another important incalculable good in keeping con- All tent those who have to live in loss to a moving train on the feature to be considered. Grand Trunk Railway System theso various stations used dif-sparsely settled districts of tho between Toronto and Montreal. ferent call letters, none of which north and west. There is The Grank Trunk System is now had any relationship to the weight of evidence in the radio part of the Canadian National railway. It was discovered that department of the company to
houses Railways. That was the first Morocca was using the call prove this fact. The majority .in Western pccasion upon which wireless letters CNR and as these letters of farm
аго now equipped had boon successfully trausrait happened to be the initial of Canada ted to a moving train. Nothing each of the words that make up with radio receiving sets. From name of the Canadian CNRC daily quotations from the was done, however, to adapt the the service to transportation uses. National Railways, it was de-grain and cattle markets are It was in the early summer of cided to ask Morocca to re-broadcast and each evening from 1923 that radio on the Canadian linquish these call letters to the one or more of the prairie stations A number of dif-the air holds entertainment for National Railways really came Company. into being. A party organized ficulties were met, and, for a those who have the means to by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle time, it was thought the plan listen. The obstacle of distance į were on their way across Canada would fail, but the co-operation has been overcome. Geography on a special train. The members of the Federal Government, the has been eliminated. The settlor of this party were influential British Foreign office and the on the prairie, the trapper on the citizens of New York, Brooklyn French Government proved suc-mountains and the logger in the and the State of New Jersey and cessful and early this summer woods, no longer has to go to the The city comes to him. it was decided, as a novelty, to the Canadian National Railway city. broadcast them a message of came into possession of the call Only those who have seen for welcome to Canada as their train latter CNR. To these were themselves how the draad of left Montreal and to tell them added another letter indicative isolation has retarded the pro- something of the scenic treets of the place of broadcast. "Mon-gress of our development in our, in store for them on their west-treal has CNRM; Ottawa ONRO; wast and in our hinterland, can ward journey. The observation Calgary CNRC and so forth. understand the tremendous part car of their train was fitted Difficulty arose in the case of that the radio of the Canadian with a receiving set and Mr. Moncton where, had the same National Railways is playing in W. D. Robb, vice-president of plan been carried out, the call the lives of these, the last the Canadian National Railways, letters would have clashed with pioneers. who was keenly interested in those of Montreal. It was decid- radio from a scientific standpoint, ed, therefore, to name Monoton delivered the address into the Station CNRA, the "A" symboliz- microphone. The experiment was ing the Atlantic Region of which successful beyond anticipations Moncton is the headquarters. and in that moment the radio service of the Canadian National Railways was born.
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Briefly and without alabora- tion, this is the history of the eatablishment of the radio broad- It was left to, Mr. Robb to casting service of the Canadian organize the department and to National Railways. But the develop the general line of policy, building of stations and the oquip- He gathered about him several ping of trains with receiving sete capable radio engineers hoaded was only one feature of the work. by Mr. W. H. Swift, Jr., who was There had to be a directing policy' appointed Radio Engineer for the if the service was not to prove a antiro system. Negotiations were hit and miss affair. It had to be, entered into with companies moreover, a policy of real service in Montreal already. operating not merely to the company and broadcasting stations, several its patrons, but to the country at trains were equipped with receiv- large, if it was to justify itself ing sets and on New Years Eve, and to retain its popularity. That 1923 the radio programme of the policy, as it was conceived and as Canadian National Railways be it has been followed, is a policy came an established fact with a of service with a capital S." broadcast from the Northera Electric Station in Montreal, Speakers on that occasion were: Sir Henry W. Thornion, Chair- man and President; S, J, Hunger ford; J. E. Dalrymple and W. D. Robb, vice-presidents."
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PROGRESSIVE POLICY. The broadcast of music and features of entertainment is only' part of the policy of the company. The real policy lios, i the dissemination of information The next stop was the erection about Canada that is calculated of a broadcasting station, in to attract the at ention of capital, Ottawa. This was carried out by of settlers and of tourists. Every programme has on it a short the National Railways and in a few months. Ottawa became the address written with this end in view. Information on the natural sito of the most powerful broad- casting station in the Dominion. resources, the physical attractive- Next came tho ostab ishment of nose, the opportunities to the Bit by Bottlere, the capitalist and the other links in the chain. bit stations
added in industrialist, of Canada "have Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, boon broadcast from every radio Calgary Edmonton, Toronto and station of the Canadian National finally in Monoton, and the Cam- Railways. How wide-flung has pany was in the position of being beon this publicity may be judged able to broadcast east and west from the fact that during tho across Canada at will. There year more than 20,000 applause were special occasions when novol cards bave boon received from experiments wore carried out.overy part of Canada and the The Montreal and Ottawa stations United States and letters tolling: were "tied in" and the samo con- of the reception of broadcasts cort broadcast simultaneously from those stations have been) from the two stations. Before the received from Great Britain, Now establishment of the Winnipeg Zealand and Honolulu, Officers station, Sir Hoary W. Thornton, of the radio department con- aitting in his room in the Fort servatively estimato the nightly) Garry Hotel spoke into the long audience at more than two million and the traffic and distance telophone and his volco people was broadcast instantaneously colonization departments attest from the radio station. in Cal- to the officacy of radio in requesta gary. These were exporimonta for further information as to that showed the way to the radio holiday rosorts and to the opport- world and proved that Canada unities offered the young men on could take the initiative in this the land in Canada. Passengers new scionco. on traine have not hesitated to While this was going on the express their appreciation of the work of equipping trains with entortainment provided them on radio receiving nots was not being route noross the country.
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