Show THE FIRST WIRELESS TELEGRAPH instrument EVER USED ON AN AEROPLANE 4 i Y 4 N i ru A R A R AV 1 q J Z I 1 U this photograph the first of its kind shows the tiny wireless telegraph apparatus designed by 11 N horton and placed on glenn H curtiss aeroplane for sending me messages while in flight dr C F everitt of the signal corps N Y national guard Is seen sending a message wrong address by mistake I 1 thought though that I 1 could get a job next day so I 1 gave a dollar for the room I 1 slept in that night I 1 hunted around for two days trying to find a job twice I 1 was told to call next week but that la Is as close as ive come so ta far r it was tuesday when I 1 came to chicago the following sunday night I 1 slept on the dock down there by the river there were lots lota of other fellows there too I 1 spread out some papers and lay down on them when I 1 woke up in the morning I 1 found that some fellow had taken my last 10 tho the boy paused a minute looked at his bis lone auditor and smiled say honest now aint I 1 the fall guy 7 I 1 guess I 1 need a guardian he be said and in spite of the fact that he was hungry and without money money he actually laughed ever since that night I 1 have had to beg what food I 1 have had and I 1 had a shave either not since I 1 came to this town yesterday I 1 gave up I 1 went in the station down there pointing west ivest again and the copper at tho the desk gave me a postal card and a nickel then I 1 wrote to my mother and told her where I 1 was and that I 1 was broke I 1 expect to hear bear from her tomorrow and then I 1 am going home an say he went on for all the three years which I 1 have been away I 1 written to my mother she know but what I 1 was dead I 1 had an argument with her one day he admitted reluctantly and I 1 ran away I 1 got along all right up in west salem but chicago la is a fierce place tho the boy got up to go A plain clothes detective who had come out during the latter part of the boys boya story gave him 50 cents here lad he said youre too young to be in this town without money the reporter added his bis mite to the boys fortune then turned to go into the station well much obliged murmured thy runaway so long and he be was off |