Radio Boys Cronies / Or, Bill Brown's Radio

t city and Port Sarnia was severed by an ice jam. The river at that point is three quarters of a mile wide. Navigation was suspended and

ge whistling caused considerable wonderment on the Canada side until a shrewd operator recognized the long-and-short telegraph letters, and communication was at once established-im

re his mind would not be distracted from his job or tempted away from working out his chemical and electrical exp

month seemed very small after making ten or twelve dollars a day as 'candy butcher.' But on account of the chances it gave him for experimenting, he resigned himself to the sma

evailing ignorance of the science o

got was from an old Scotch line repairer employed by the Montreal Telegraph Company, then operating the railway wires. Here is the way he d

ver could get it through me what we

night. Young Edison was like young Napoleon in grudging himself the necessary hours of sleep. While the ingenious lad was fond of machinery-to make a machine of himself was utterly distasteful to him. It was against his principles and instincts to do anything a mere machine could do instead. So he made a little wheel with a few n

ould get half an hour's sleep now and then between trains, and in case the station was called the watchman was to wake me. One night I got an order to hold a freight train, and I replied that I w

he next station going the opposite way. There was a station near the Junction where the day operator slept.

manager. During an informal hearing two Englishmen called on the manager. While he was talking with them the young night operator disappeared. Boarding a freight train bound for Port Sarnia, he made his escape from the five-year

he Civil War he had some peculiar adventures. After making a long circuit, broken in many places by 'short circuit

at he asked the Boston

if he wanted a first-

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es he make?'" was the

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ow for his inspection. He was surprised, fo

it off the w

ho could stick him. He told me to send for my man and I

as told the story of hi

st

d me when I was re

., which I did, to the minute. I came into the operators

ob on the jay from the wild and woolly West." I was given a pen and told to take the New York No. 1 wire. After an hour's wait I was asked to take my place at a certain table

slowly. Soon he increased his speed and I easily adapted my pace to his. This put

ing over my shoulder with faces that seemed to expect something funn

d to all that sort of thing in taking reports, so I wasn't put out in the least. At last, when I thought the joke had gone

hange off and send

he job over to another operator to finish, to

n to tell of other h

t of Faraday's works, bringing them home at 4 A.M. and reading st

h to do and life is so sho

d off to breakfa

xperiments. It was here that he made a working model of

tion could register the House vote, pro and con, almost instantaneously. The ch

it is this. Filibustering on votes is one of the greatest weapons in the hands

om that time forth not to try to invent anything unless it w

telegraph operator and began to work up an independent business along inv

arted a ticker service in Boston which had thirty or forty s

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