WIRELESS CHAT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC,
NEW YORK WOMAN'S TALK TO LONDON.
EVERY WORD HEARD DISTINCTLY. A special correspondent of the Daily, Vail wrote
on May 8th:-Yesterday afternoon, at the invitation of the British Post Office, I went to the Landon Trunk Telephone Exchange in Queen Victoria-street, E.C., and enjoyed a two- minutes wireless telephone conversation across the Atlantic with Miss Mabel
York.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 1015, 19.6
KEEPING FIT AT FIFTY.
(UV A PITYSICIAN- Į
No one has yet found the elixir af. life, but we have made grent progress in the science of keeping young?
The span of life is increasing with the Cave-men were old.at lapse of time, forty and died at afty. In the Middle Ages life was longer by about ten years. To-day the average man should be in his prime at fifty and still active seventy.
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At fifty the business man who has won Abbott, of the Ilarid newspaper. Sewuess is inclined to relax too quickly. If he does not resist the comforts of wealth he will become unft in the fifth decade of life. He will rust out, instead of wraring out.
It is the first time in the history of wireless telephony," said one of the GP.Q. wirelem experts, "that a group of people in this side of the Atlantic have been called together, at a definite prearranged hour, to carry on two-way wireless conversations with another group gathered together in New York
When my time came to take my first
Transatlantic wireless call 1 entered an ordinary telephone box, and called with out raising my voice, Halla, New
York"
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sent 02:
The common causes of decline in health nt fifty are: (1) failure to digest, (2) weak blood flow. (3) germ-poisons in the bowel, and (4) want of sleep.
Failure to digest results from faulty diet, eating too much, or both. There is an apt French saying that man digs his Alter forts we grave with his teeth. should cut down our butcher's bill, omit sweets from the daily diet-sheet, and be cautious about afternoon-tea. A good breakfast, light lunch, and early dinner
is a safe programme.
Weak flow of blood often means
My voice traveled 50 miles by landline to the great (1. P.Q. radio sending-station flabby heart. The heart is a muscle. All muscles grow stronger by use Daily at Rugby. Here it was -magnified exercise of the body strengthens the heart 200,000 times" and
its long and increases the blood-current. Walk ing is the best exercise for the middle journey across the Atlantic on a wavenged. Five miles every day suffices, for -length of 5,770 metres, being received at health,
the United States wireless station t Houlton, Maine. From there, by land: line, it went 600 miles to the long-dis Lanée telephone headquarters of the American Telegraph and Telephone Co. at 24. Walker-street, New York.
3,450 MILES.
Immediately after I had spoken heard a perfectly clear feminine voler
any:
New York answering" That voice had been transmitted by lund-line 70 miles to the sending-station of the Radio Corporation at Rock Point, Long Island, and from there 3,300 miles by wireless, on a 3,900-metres wave-length across the Atlantic to a G.P.O. receiving station at Wroughton, near Swindon. From there it had come by land-line for O miles into the Trunk Exchange in
London.
The following Transatlantic wireless conversation then ersued:
This in fr. Harry Harper of the Daily Mail. London, speaking: Can, you hear me?
Perfectly. It is Miss Mabel Abbott. of the World, New York, this end.
What is the "weather like with you how? Here this afternoon it is mild
and overcast,
With us in New York this morning i there is a hours difference in time Between London and New York] it is raining cats and dogs,"
We have just had funch over here in Landan, but, of course, it is only just after breakfast with you.
Yes, that's no-
50TH ANNIVERSARY. Here in London we are commenting on the fact that this unique Trans atlantic talk is taking place during the year which is the 50th anniversary of the first telephone patent-taken out by Dr. Graham Bell.
We
Yes, that's most interesting. were talking about that here in New York only a minute or so ago.
I suppose our next wonder will be when we shall be able to see each other, as well as talk to each other, across the Atlantic.
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Yes (with an amused laugh that came perfectly nernes those thousands of niles of ocean] that no doubt will be what we shall be called together one day to celebrate. I believe that great progress is now being inade over here in that field.
We then went on to chat about the prospects of an airship service across the Atlantic, and Miss Abbott confirmed the report, which I said I had heard, that the new 0,500,000 cubic feet gas capacity American airship is to be used in an experimental aerial service be- tween New York and London. From this we were getting on to the subjeét of radio-controlled aeroplanes when an official voice interrupted us, in the same way as in any ordinary telephone call.
"Your 2 minutes are up," said this voice, inexorably,
Good-bye, Misa Abbott I called across the Atlantic.
"Good-bye, Mr. Harper. So pleased to have spoken to you,' came the clear reply. And then there was vilener.
VOICE SỰT RAISED.
Our conversation had been carried out without a bitch. No. atmospherica had troubled us.. At the start I had been told that Ionight need to raise my voice, but I found there was no need to do this. And Misa Abbott's voice came over with- out my having to ask her to repent & word. Our Transatlantic wireless talk had been clearer than are many ordinary telephone conversations.
After leaving the box I discussed with officials the commercial possibilities of Transatlantic wireless telephony. About
When germs tulge in the abilemen their poisons spread through the whole body, causing injury to arteries, nerves, and brain. These poisons produce gout, Exercise prevents this poisoning. rheumatism, neuritis, and mental duiness. The muscles of the abdomen should be given constant exercise to make them firm and reduce stoutness. The sitting posture of the deak-worker renders these muscles lax and weak.
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Less sleep is needed at 6fty than at twenty-five. Six bours in one spell is rough for anyone, whe does not work hard all day. Night-sleep is ten times better than that which comes with the milkman in the morning. To induce sip we should have a quiet airy room. go for a short walk in the open-air after dinner, keep a clear conscience, And take a warm drink in fore getting into bed.
Much has been said and written about gland-treatment in restoring youth. The thyroid crate is now on the wane. In many mrsons of middle age there is weak nction of the thyroid gland For these,
land extracts will renew fitness and, supply vital force.
There is no secret in koping fit ut <y. We should simply avoid the trains of youth without yielding to the inaction of uld age.his.
TSAR'S CROWN JEWELS.
BOLSHEVIK TRICKERY,
The Riga correspondent of the Chicago Tribune wired last month:---
REX INGRAM.
£500,000 VIS. FIRE.
THE GREAT PRODUCER AND HIS MOST CONSPICUOUS MANSION IN
METHODS. ·
NEW YORK.
Tyron Hall, the most conspicuous chateau in New York, was destroyed by
fire last month.
A gigantic structure, with turrets,
[BY THE ET. HON 1. P. D'CONNOR, Mr.] He is quite unexpected. Unexpected not in one way but in every way. There
not a single anticipation you have conical steeples, and oriel windows, it formed of him that he doesn't falsify. stool on the second highest hill in Man- You expect an American; you find an ¦ hattan Island overlooking the Hudson-- Irishman. You expect a middle-aged on the site of Fort Tyron, where Wash- man; you find a boy. You expect a man ington made his strongest stand against
British troops on August 29th, 1776.. who had started on the humble boards of a little music-ball and from a long line òl
The house was built 5 years ago and was sold with its 52 acres of ground some time ago to Mr. John D. Rocke feller, jun, who offered it to the City of New York. The offer lapsed through inaction and the château was occupied by Mr. Partos, a rich patent medicine
manufacturer,
The lane made a magnificent spec. tacle, attracting vast crowds on both sides of the Hudson River. Owing to lack of water power they could not be ex- Enguished, and the building and trea sures, valued at £500,000, were ruined.
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ancestors in the lower walks of the show- man's life; you find him the son of an credite Irish clergyman who has given all his life to his parish and his books. Fin. ally, you expect a man absorbed in the great business of which he is one of the chief figures; enger in the hunt after the millions which it is supposed to bring. and obsessed with its interest, its life, its personalities. You find yourself, with a Dan who is almost indifferent to finance
The war over, he went back to the and regards gigantie wealth as a hind- ranée to happiness and to ideals. You screen, and scented destined to take the place of one of those idols of the film find a mind almost remote from its daily that rescue unfortunate maidens from the concerns. While you expect a dissertarulan or the precipice. But somehow or other the genius of producing came tion on his trade, this strange young man through, and almost in the twinkling of will start on a vivid and even entrancing an eye he got one big job after another dissertation on the merits of the Mahom Horsemen of the Apdenlypse." "one of the medan religion and the beauties of char. most artistic and successful Bins yet pro- actor to be found in the Arabs of Algiers. and Tunis,
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WORKING AT NICE.
Entil be reached his climax in "The Four
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Now he is 'daily engaged in this same work. At Nice, he thinks he has found "the ideal spot for that work, and the place A STRIKING PIGURE.
suits his tastes cad babita-which seil! Most of his knowledge may have been late between careless indolence and fierce p picked up, but he must have done a good work. He takes a swim every morning deal of reading, for he astonishes you by in the sunny waters, lies in the sun, and ☎
hour after hour as he builds up the pic- the width of his knowledge. The other then goes back to work and worry for evening he was dining in a restaurant when two gentlemen who happened to be ture on which he is engaged. Nice gives | Turks were rather surprised to find him him what he had always desired, a place trying to make his way through an Arah near the sea and accessible to the Euro-1 Sun. paper, and were more surprised to find pean as well as the American world. He f Mon. that he was a keen Arab student. When has built himself up a complete studio. he dreams of a rest and he 'very often He has it in a villa in which he does bis Tues. 13 mi longs for rest, for his life is laborious writing and takes his meals. It is char it is always to the seas, to the deserts. ncteristic of this villa that there is not and the Arabs that he turns. He took a single photograph in it of a kinema five months among them, in Tunis and actor or actress. On the walls there are Thar. 15 n Algiers, to recover from an attack of over-beautiful little pictures and some beauti-
ful antiquities, and it is perhaps charąć | Fri. 16 0 28 worked nerves and he longs very often to be there again. He has another unea teristic of him that there is also a green' pected secret and unrealised ambition. If flag with a harp. he could choose his life it would be as a sculptor,
These inner things in his secret soul are written in his striking face and figure. Ile is slight, tall; his eyes are of the deep blue that belongs to his race, surmounted by long black eyelashes and by black hair. The expression is candid, a littl wistful, a little nervous, and a little shy: and in that "expression you find at once the key to his character, and perhaps also the key to his success.
A PENNILESS EMIGRANT.
Why has this young man of 32, who started life in America only fifteen years ago, going there as a perniless emigrant from Ireland, got to the supreme position as a producer
It is a sheer triumph of an artistic tem- perament and an artistic genius. I have tried to get from his associates-he dis- misses with a laugh all questions you may ask him about his art the secrets that bave won his position.
Bolshevik business ethics, which include many peculiarities undreamed of by English business men, have resulted in, the failure of the English and American jewellers syndicates to obtain any This is what they say. First, everything portion of the Russian Crown jewels in the kinema conies to him almost as by which have just been sold in Moscow. instinct. There is no detail in its enor English and American experts arrived mous number of points which he doesn't in Riga yesterday expressing disgust at grasp at once and without effort. Every the way in which the Bolsheviks have little thing engages his mind. While 1 handled the matter. They report that was in his studio I saw him take to task the negotiations for the sale of the Crown jewels were held in a most unbusiness- like manner.
young performer who had mismanaged from the kinema point of view the colour- ing of his face. He stands often, bour after hour, at optical machines to study Explaining the Bolsheviks way of con- and to modify the expression of actors' ducting business dering the recept and actresses the position of this or thai negotiations, the representative of the thing on the scene, sometimes the whole Anglo-American syndiente told me he character of a scene, is changed by some was, after lengthy inspections of the inspiration of a special bit of background. collection, asked to submit an offer. He All this is done spontaneously, without offered hetween £550,000 and £570,000, the hesitation, apparently without oven reflec actual price depending upon another, tios.
and more complete appraisal of the I must add that all the same the work jewels. The same afternoon an official of costs him something. The only sign of the Soviet Commissariat of Finance in the loss of first boyishness in the face is formed him that the jewels had been sold in the few deep ines that are around his for £540,000 to an Armenian named Fran- eyes and give him a certain anxiety of kiano, representing the syndicate of expression; and he has to watch his health with care, for overworked nerves French jewellers,
bring" indigestion and other troubles.
HIS RISE TO FAME.
"I immediately protested to Commis. sar Rykoff," he said "Shortly after- wards I received another letter from the A few sentences will describe his begin Commissariat of Finance asking for a bid. nings. His father meant his son to follow- of over £550,000. 1 bid £375,000, and an academic career, perhaps at Trinity later I was notified that Frankiano bad, College, Dublin, through which his fore- hid £603,000 and had obtained the jewels fathers had gone before bim; and then, There is a question whether the jewels his living as a Civil Servant or a barris are worth this amount, and I understand ter, a doctor or a professor, that M. Frankiano has already protested, But at seventeen the son had other both to the English and French repre views, felt that he must live life danger. sentatives in Moscow, claiming that the ously and went off to New York, landed Soviet Government should adde by the there penniless and was glad to get hun- first bid "
ble work on a railway amid boisterous and sometimes deadly companions-there were constant rows, and now and then sume killings. Then came remonstrances from the long-suffering father, again going back to his old craving that his son should have a university training.
The problems of simultaneous two-way radio telephone transmission are much more difficult than those of one-way transmission, particularly when land- linea have to be used in conjunction with
the radio.link.
RAPID PROGNERB.
curiously enough, and unintentionally, So Rex Ingram went te Yale and there.
started studies that were to shape his life and lead him on to fortune. There was a It is expected that technical obstacles school of sculpture, and young Rex's including difficulties arising from inter-fingers itched to do that work, as they ference, will be encountered and will itch to go back to it. have to be surmounted before a com- Then came some iden of getting on the mercial service is practicable. But full screen, the obsession of rullions of minds co-operation has been established be in America to-day. He wrote scenarios, tween the technical staffs of the British he played parts. Then came a great Post Office and those of the American break, for he insisted on going into the this their statements were hopeful, but Telephone and Telegraph Company, and War, and as he could not join in America, conservative. Conditions yesterday were the work of making the system, practical because his citizen's papers were not com very favourable. It being Sunday, there will progress as rapidly as possible. "plete, be went over to Canada and joined was little wireless working going on. It is not feasible yet to give any idea the Air Force, and get a bad smash which across the Atlantic.
of what A Transatlantic wireless tele kept him ill for many a long day. (Continued on nezi Colum), (Continued at foot of nest Column.) phone call will cost.
I leave to another article the discus- sion of a question which is associated with the present scene of his activity. How far can Nice he made the centre of the kinema industry?
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