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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Tiny Adirondack Village Leads In Winter Sport Development - Garnets Glitter Along Ski Trails At North Creek WNU features. NORTH CREEK, N. Y. vflscmTKfiBnv icnaagfo Bells Varied Achievements Revealed During Centenary By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. 1616 Eye Street, N. W., their wires it was worse. Stray currents left power wires or the rails Washington, D. C. of electric railways and took a short has WASHINGTON. Everybody cut back to the power house. of been talking telephones because the Alexander Gra(4) Wherever they found a good ham Bell centenary. Reading the conductor like a lead cable that was pounds of publicity, I learned more like thumbing a ride for the wanderabout Alexander Graham Bell than ing volts and amperes. So far so I ever knew before. I had read of good. But eventually they had to how he dreamed of making the tele- leave the cable, to find their way graph instrument talk and how to a better conductor or just to say and why his dream came true. I so long and struggle back to the didnt know about his fathers deep dynamo. study of phonetics and his own in(5) When they did that, electroterest in making speech visible, lytic action set in. The lead in in teaching the deaf to talk, or that the cable sheath followed, the curhe was an accomplished musician or rent as far as it could (like the submany other facets of this remark- stance in the bath) and left the able mans remarkable history. sheath porous. Dampness and deI already knew a little about the struction came in and soon your telephone business from first, hand telephone line was out of order. observance. My job consisted of sitting by the It was just about 20 years before hour watching the face of an amI ever used a telephone that Bell, meter (which registers the direction thanks to his harmonically trained and flow of electric current) and ear, found on that day in 1875 that discovering where the current was what he thought could be done, had escaping. Then I had to get the been achieved in his own laboratory power company to do what it could on Court street, Boston. From then to stop leaks and the telephone comon it was just a question of re- pany did all it could to keep stray The next year current out or to provide a safe exit moving the bugs. he was demonstrating his instru- for what got in. ment before audiences with converIn the process I learned much more sations over several miMs of wire. than I earned not much about elecBefore he died at the age of 75, trical engineering but I had a fine people were talking over an under- worms-ey- e view of several Middle water cable from United States to Western cities birds-ey- e views, too, Cuba. for I worked in cable boxes up on I doubt if the great inventor were poles, as well as down in manholes, to return to earth today he would and also learned that it isnt only newspapermen who meet so many interesting people. When I ponder on my electrolytic age and also when I address the mike Mondays through Fridays now, I am deeply and doubly grateful to Alexander Graham Bell. WNU De- termined to improve the opportunities nature gave it when it placed a 3,000 foot mountain right in its back yard, this tiny Adirondack village, long known as a pioneer in New York state winter sport development, has entered another bid for fame this season. It has installed what the village fathers describe as the first electrically lift in operated Constam the eastern United States. Service, well-publiciz- ed T-b- ar The lift pulls skiers up the entire Gore mountain a labor saving device that adds immeasurably to enjoyment of the PIONEER SKI CENTER By snow trains and buses, winter sport sport and vast popularity to North enthusiasts flock to North Creek, one of New York states most popuCreek as a ski center. The new electric lift is an exlar skiing sites. A wide variety of slopes and trails, ranging from cellent example of community spirit easy novice slopes to expert runs, lure crowds of skiers. in operation. Skiing is a community more than $70,000. Gores summit, are expert trails enterprise in the little town of 703 aggregates Endeavor. which intermediate skiers can Community inhabitants, whose pattern of life is use in the springs corn snow. Heading the community developtied up with it. When it was decided ment North Creek villagers assert that program is the town physician, to put in the new Alpine lift, the Dr. James A. Glenn, who is presinowhere else can one ski on such occasions on as was money previous Th? Gore Ski dent of a jeweled trail with changing club. Mountain raised by the townsfolk. of the local woodworking vistas of high mountain peaks. manager Form First Patrol. is vice Skiers have been flocking to North presmill, Johnston, Back of this venture was the rec- ident. Spencer Dr. H. I. Braley, the local Creek for years for the simple reaollection of North Creeks record as is executive member of the son that snow lies deep on the slopes a winter sports specialist. It was dentist, club in charge of racing. The law- and especially on Gore mountain, at this little Adirondack town that Philip C. Brassel; the justice which rises from the village to an the first ski patrol in the United yer, of the peace, Kenneth Bennett; and elevation of 3,595 feet. Everything States was organized. On Gore the lumber dealer, William C. the winter sports fan desires is at mountains slopes the first are directors of the Ski Lift North Creek. Schilds, ski trail in New York state of which the undertaker, Children Get Lessons. was laid out and this small skiing corporation, Firm Kenneth W. Swain, is president. believers in controlled skicenter was the destination of the At the top of North Creeks Ride ing and upholding Otto Schniebs first snow train in the state on Up Slide Down Gore mountain are famous statement that skiing is a March 2, 1934. That train, as the the mines in the way of life, instruction is offered garnet leading villagers recall, came from Sche- country. Garnets shine like red dia- to children from 5 to 18, who gather nectady and was planned to handle monds in the sunlight and the winter on the slopes every Friday afternoon a crowd of 500 but 700 took the trip. sports fan gets an added thrill out to take lessons. Annually there is North Creek also pioneered of digging small pieces of the color- a childrens ski race when the TopSlide the famous Ride Up ful stuff from the snow. From a ping trophy is in competition. Down slogan, when buses were Special awards are made to promontory the skier can look down provided to carry skiers from into the mines and across to the winners but North Creek enterthe bottom of the trails up the sheer rock walls hung with various prise believes skiing should be winding mountain road, which hued icicles sparkling in the sun. encouraged and as a result all leads to the noted garnet mines contestants win a prize for parClose by are the high peaks of the and to the beginning of five a Adirondacks, forming ticipation. startling trails. The Barton trophy race, sancpanoramic view of mountain granhis At tioned are in feet dress. winter deur this that made was It by USEASA, is held annually highway the headwaters of the Hudson river. on the Garnet trail, a mile long and North Creek the original down hill Maze of Trails. with a drop of approximately 1,000 ski center in the East, for it is from A city block from the garnet feet. the top of the highway that the tow leading to members make up Eighty-si- x Gore mountain network of downhill mines is a 1,400-fotrails rated for the novice, interme- North Creeks ski patrol, which is trails radiates. affiliated with the national ski patrol The combined investment in lift, diate and expert. ' Cloud and Garnet trails, which system, and the ages range from the slopes, hut and other facilities provided by the village entrepreneurs high school years on up. range the higher slopes on 3,000 foot slope of ... down-mounta- in Jones Finally Gets Official Birthday One day recently I received a telephone call from my friend Capt. E. John Long, USNR, who is assistant curator of the United States naval museum at Annapolis. I detected exultation in his voice and, sure enough, when I joined him at the club he was wearing that expression which blooms only on the face of a Bell discovering the telephone, a Lord well-kno- Eureka-I-have-found- ot study of Alexander Graham Bell in later life shows how he spent of his many hundred man-houtime tabulating statistics concerning the deaf. At one time he pro duced a Memoir Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race. A rs BELL CENTENNIAL Progress in Telephone Service Related WNU Features. The proprietors of the telephone, the invention of Alexander Graham Bell, for which patents have been issued by the United States and Great Britain, are now prepared to furnish telephones for the transmission of articulate speech through instruments not more than 20 miles apart. Conversation can be easily carried on after slight practice and with the occasional repetition of a word or sentence. On first listening to the telephone, though the sound is perfectly audible, the articulation seems to be indistinct; but after a few trials the ear becomes accustomed to the peculiar sound and finds little difficulty in understanding the words. That picture of the telephone, ' as depicted in the first telephone advertisement of May, 1877, represents a marked contrast to the instrument of today. The advertisement is recalled in connection with the observance of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor v of the telephone, on March 3, 1847. Although bom in Edinburgh, Scotland, Bell was an American by choice, coming to Boston at the age of 24 to teach the use of visible speech, developed by his father for training the deaf to speak. A deep and scientific interest in the mechanics of speech, an inventive streak and the challenge of making the telegraph talk led to his experiments which produced the telephone. On June 2, 1875, he first succeeded in transmitting sound over a wire and one of his experi" mental telephones transmitted the first complete sentence on March 10, 1876, just a week after his 29th birthday anniversary. In addition to being a great scientist, Bell was a man of remarkable vision, which led him only two years after the telephone was invented to foresee the day when a man in one part of the country may communicate by word of mouth with another in a distant place. The fulfillment of that prediction has revolutionized communications in the United States and throughout the world. Progress has continued uninterruptedly ever since Bell created the telephone. In the United States alone, there are now more than 32 million telephones in use, more than double the number in 1940. Since J Day four and a half million instruments have been installed. A major phase of the telephone companys postwar program is to extend and improve farm telephone service. The telephone, it is pointed out, always has been the farmers good friend and loyal assistant in business, in time of sickness or emergency, or as a means of keeping in touch with relatives and friends. t These benefits will be extended to more rural families under the 100 million dollar rural expansion program with its objective of a million more farm telephones. V-- RECOGNIZE THIS? . . . This scene of a pioneer rural home shows what the farm telephone looked like in 1914. Long recognized as a boon to farm areas, telephone service will be extended and improved throughout rural United States during the postwar period. v ' -it Howard Carter Carnarvon (and-or- ) exclaiming as he leans over the King Tut, I preor possibly you or I when sume? we finally get a firm hold on the end of our vanished pajama cord. What happened to Long was comparable. He had recorded the confirmation by his chief, Capt. H. A. Baldridge, chief curator, of the mummy-cas- e: be greatly surprised at the strides d date of but in telephony which have been made since his death, great as they have birth of John Paul Jones, father of been. He may not have considered, the navy. And it was fortunate he however, one of the temporary prob- had, for the post office department lems (electrolysis) which created was demanding it for the next many a headache for the telephone memorial stamp. companies and which helped, indiBaldridge already had a letter of rectly, to provide the writer of this Jones containing this sentence: column (who was to be a future exAmerica has been the country of tensive user of telephone facilities) my fond election from the age of with a part of his education. 13. Since it was known he sailed from Whitehaven, England, in 1760 To explain the above remark: that would make the birth date (1760 (1) 150,000 miles of program transmission circuits now are provided by minus 13) 1747. But the birth date was not actually the Bell system for use of radio networks. (Its wireless to your recorded in any authentic writing, home from your radio station, but not even the early Jones biography by Charles Sands. However, there its wired between stations.) of (2) The writer has been using a came into temporary possession lot of these circuits five days a week Captain Baldridge a copy of that work, upon whose margins Janette for most of the last 14 years. Taylor had written some caustic (3) He worked two college vacawas a niece comment. Miss tions as electrolysis inspector for of Jones who hadTaylor been a close and the telephone company. meticulous student of her uncles life To explain further: and many of his papers which she (1) You know how electroplating possessed. One of her holographic statements is done? The object say its a spoon to be plated is suspended in a re the picture of Jones in the frontisbath containing the material with piece was this: . . . it is even too old, making which the spoon is to be plated. An electric current is passed through every allowance for his mode of life, the substance in the bath into the for a just representation of his apspoon. The substance follows the pearance at the time of his death, he current as far as it can, which is was then only 45 years and 12 days. the surface of the spoon. Anyhow (His death, 1792, is of record.) it moves. That tied it. No wonder the captains tossed their scrambled eggs in (2) Youve seen the cables containing telephone wires the air like graduating midshipmen. being pushed through the manhole John Paul has an official birthday into conduits that lie under the only two centuries late and his face pavement. The sheath on the cable on a stamp for a present. protects the insulated wires that carry the current which rings your In an attempt to end mess hall phone bell and carries your voice griping, the army aims to make (3) But other electric currents get kitchen police a respected and reloose and run all over the place. spectable army chore. Well have Youd be surprised but almost every to wait on the critical judgment mess lines befoot of earth or anything that will of the conduct an electric current in a city fore we really know; but meanwhile has some electricity flowing through well offer a toast of powdered lemonade to General Ike it. When the power companies were careless about preventing leaks in and his staff just for trying. long-suspect- ed never-prove- lead-sheath- ed long-sufferi- |
