Show t i WA ING I G 9sip I I Boy In Knickers a Wireless Wonder I roe stABY e9Gf t Aacd t HULrPLC ° rsrrrf 4 n x WASHINGTON Grave grayrbcnrd ed members of the United States senate committee on commerce listened list-ened recently with respectful attention atten-tion to tho arguments of n 13yearold boy in knickerbockers whose head barely topped tho table which separated sepa-rated him nnd his dignified auditors Tho youthful orator was William 13 D Stokes Jr of New York and bls 1 theme was wireless telegraphy and telephony lie Is president of the Junior Wireless Club of America Ltd and ho Js opposed to certain features of the Depew bill which provides for government regulation of wireless telegraphy tel-egraphy Master Stokes said the members of his organization were amateur wire less telegraphers all of tender years Ho told tho committee that tho boys favored n nominal license fee for wireless operators the license to be revocable for malpractice Tho boy lobbyists voice was youth ful but his words were those of a grown man and a scientist and his hearers smiled broadly at hearing him roll fluently from his tonguo tho polysyllabic technical terms of his craft However they paid respectful attention to his arguments and ap I peared Impressed by what he said When he had finished his argument against the bill the boy turned prophet He said that In ten years It would be possible for persons on land to communicate with distant points by wireless If a man has nn automobile breakdown break-down 25 miles from home ten years from now ho said all he will have to do will bo to take out his wireless kit call up his butler and tell him ta will not come homo to dinner Master Stokes also Informed the members of tho committee that foreign for-eign nations were far ahead of the I United States In tho development of I wireless telegraphy and blamed the ern of wireless stock exploitation this I country has experienced He said there were between 25000 and 40000 boys In the United States Interested In wireless telegraphy and expressed the belief that their experiments would prove of great value to the nation na-tion in tho future Young Stokes Is the son of the proprietor pro-prietor of the Ansonln apartment hotel ho-tel In Now York nnd will be remem bored as tho first person to devise a receiving box for tho Interception of wireless telephone and telegraph messages mes-sages This device was perfected In Sep tember 1908 on the roof of his fa thers hotel It was tho result of long nnd secret experiments In which the boy was unaided When his Inven Lion was examined by wireless experts ex-perts they pronounced him an eloctrl cal prodigy |