NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1909. 
MANCHESTER WOMAN'S CLUB. 
Annual Guest Night, Tuesday, in Town Hall. 
Lecture on “Wireless Teleg- 
raphy.’’ 
The first ““ annual guest night’* of the 
Manchester Woman’s club was_ held 
‘Tuesday evening in the Town hall, and 
despite the rain and sleet storm, which 
Aucustus B. Tripp 
Who Lectured on ‘‘Wireless Telegraphy ” at 
Manchester, Tuesday Night. 
kept many away, the attendance was 
quite large. Some 200 members and 
guests were present. 
Some of the wonders of ‘‘ Wireless 
Telegraphy’’ were explained in an in- 
teresting lecture on the subject by A. B. 
Tripp of West Somerville. Mr. Tripp 
is a student at Tuft’s college. But 
though young, he is thoroughly steeped 
in his pet subject, and has a pleas‘ng way 
of interpreting a string of statistics and 
solid facts with a bit of pleasantry that 
wins the smiles of the audience. 
From 7.30 to 8 o'clock, prior to the 
lecture, a reception was held, the officers 
of the club being in the receiving line, as 
follows: Mrs. George A. Kitfield, vice 
president; Mrs. Edward S. Knight, cor- 
responding secretary; Mrs. G. W. 
Blaisdell, recording secretary; Miss 
Bertha Stone, treasurer, and Mrs. Dun- 
can T. Beaton, chairman reception com- 
mittee. During this part of the pro- 
gram Roland Knight rendered a few se- 
lections on the piano. 
Mr. Tripp’s apparatus had been placed 
on the stage and he used this more or 
less during his talk. 
He started in with a history of wire- 
less telegraphy, in which he told the au- 
dience that this, like all other great in- 
ventions, was not the work of one man. 
Many men had experimented along this 
line. One record is given, he said, of a 
device of this sort, minus the electrical 
part, which was in use 300 years before 
the birth of Christ. Another method 
was in use, according to records, in 
which two massive magnets were used, 
but the magnets were lost, and none so 
strong were ever again invented. Lind- 
say hada patent granted him for such an 
instrument 32 years before Marconi was 
born. When Prof. Dolbear applied for 
a patent on suchan instrument he was 
laughed at by men of science and told 
that such an idea was contrary to science. 
He fought four years for the patent, 
which was granted him in 1886. 
Mr. Tripp said, however, that, even 
though he did not originate the wireless 
idea, Marconi deserved a distinct recog- 
nition, in that he has made the wireless 
telegraphy system one of commercial 
success. He, unlike the other inventors 
and experimenters, went into the busi- 
ness for the money there was in it. 
There are, in this country today many 
systems which are more practical than 
the one Marconi invented, because any- 
body in this country has a right to ex- 
periment along that line. In England 
such a right is denied and the Marconi 
system stands alone today. 
Mr. Tripp explained the theory of 
electric waves, and showed with instru- 
ments brought for that purpose how the 
signals were given to vessels. He gave 
an exhibition of the facility with which 
signals might be sent from one station to 
another, and showed a practical test of the 
working of the transmitting machine, 
when he sounded a fire alarm bell with 
it. 
The signal lights, on two approach- 
ing vessels, which, coming within a 
thousand feet of each other, in a fog, 
might be changed from white to red, 
was an easily understood record of the 
use of such instruments at sea. Mr. 
Tripp spoke briefly and graphically of the 
recently averted catastrophe in the case 
of the Republic, and said the time had 
come when all vessels at sea ought to be 
equipped with this sysem, just as rail- 
roads are equipped with the block signal- 
ing system. Hesaid that in that case 
traveling by sea in a fog would be safer 
than traveling by rail on land. 
Mr. Tripp showed a very small in- 
BARACA RALLY, 
Men's Class of the Baptist Church to 
Hold Public Meeting at Manchester 
Baptist Church Tonight. 
At the Baptist church, Manchester, 
this evening, at 7.30, a public meeting 
Luruer McCray TEsH 
Who will deliver address at Baraca Rally, 
Manchester, Tonight. 
will be held under the auspices of the 
Baraca Union, a class in the Bible School 
recently organized by the Rev T. L. 
Frost. The speaker of the evening will 
be Luther McCray Tesh of Syracuse, 
N. Y., field secretary of the World- 
Wide Baraca Union. 
Mr. Tesh is a young man and his ad- 
dress is sure to be of interest to all. 
The services will begin with an organ 
prelude by the organist, Miss Grace M. 
Prest, followed by congregaitonal sing- 
ing, invocation by the pastor, vocal solo 
by Miss Brenda Cook, words of wel- 
come by the president of the class, Wil- 
liam Goodwin, and singing by the con- 
gregation. After Mr. Tesh’s address, 
prayer will be offered by Supt. Robert 
Baker of the Bible school, the congre- 
gation will again sing, and the benedic- 
tion will be pronounced by the pastor. 
strument, which appeared to be a copper 
box, less than six inches long, and not 
more than two inches thick. This, he 
said, might be carried in a pocket by any 
soldier and with it messages sent a dis- 
tance of 50 miles. The cede, in all 
wireless messages, is usually the same as 
