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Show THE SUN, PRICE. PAGE EIGHT FRIDA. UTAH-EVE- RY FRIDAY. AUGUST 11. GROWTH GAS DETECTOR IS APPROVED BV BUREAU BACK AT Or THB raoxi Map shawls asfwesh af telcpfceae wises Is the sssntrr. The PinSBURG, PA. lavaest eewpass4 the Ssst ess. swrltVs-be- ak with iltiuin Graham Critical study of the Burredd indiwould relwte a fifth of cator for combustible gases in air has government its royalties and the controversial been made by the United States bu- colh-rteby the eomjMiny would be a reau of mines at its Pittsburg, Pa., checkoff system of union dues being exriment station. This instrument submitted to a referendum held by was devised to meet the demand in the government. the mining industry for a simple, inDealers Raise Prices. expensive, portable, strong and safe ST. Mo., Aug. 7. Retail LOUIS, apparatus which will quickly deterFranklin of prices rounty highgrade in methane of mine small quantities roal advanced from $3.50 to $0.75 a mine air with a moderate deirree of acton liere August 1st. The new pries is curacy. and has been officially ap- still twenty-fiv- e reuts a ton under the proved by the bureau. Early in the rate which prevailed on September history of roal mining the hazards to 1st, last year. Other grades of Illilife and property from ignitions and nois arc exertrd to take a similar explosions of firedamp (nirthane and steo upward. Another advance is aninThe air) were recognized. lamp 15th. An average troduced by Davy in 1815 did much to ticipated on August rents a ton was made advance of fifty miners. The increase the safety of on anthracite, grate frum making modified Davy is still the indicator from $15.75 to to $15.50 $10.00; egg most widely used in gaseous mines for and to stove $10.00 $16.50, $10.25; detect ug the presence and approxito $16.25. $15.75 chestnut, mate amount of combustible gas in the atmosphere. However, the safety Seeking to Organise. lamp lias limitations as a gas indicatPa., Aug 8. PittsPITTSBURG, avis whether and an doubtful it or, enerage observer ran detect less than 1 burgs chamlxT of commerce has cr cent of methane, the combustible gaged E. S. McCullough, who has had gas present in mines, with the tyj forty years exiierienre with coal mines ordinarily employed. Even a skilled and the inen who work in them, to aid ' mine inspector with a good lamp can a chamber committee in the formation organization of seldom discover 0.75, and never defin- of an indrM-udrn- t itely detect 0.5 per rent or less. When miners. He will carry out the recomthere is enough methane present to be mendations in resolutions adopted hy detected with the lamp, the amount the chamber on July 21st, which adboth niinera and operamay be roughly estimated, but these vocated that estimates are likely to differ by 0.5 tors of the Pittsburg district break to 1 per cent or more from the true away from their national organizations. Since 1018 McCullough has value. been labor eounussioner for the NorthWhen them is between 514 to 15 West Virginia Coal Operators asern cent of methane in an air exploper sive mixture is formed, but this is not sociation. The new industrial aide the only cause of explosions. Dry roal hus exerieiiee which enables him to dust suseudcd in air is explosive and understand the viewpoint of the mindust explosions arc propagated more ers whom he will serve, since he has rapidly and disastrously when gas is worked at every job from trapboy to present in projiortiona much below the Ihiss. explosive limit. The amount of gas in . mines must, therefore, be kent as low BUSH WORK REPAIRING DAM-DONE FLOOD BY AGE as possible by projier ventilation. For safety the proportion of methane in Reconstruction work is being pushreturn always should be kept less than ed on the Denver and ltio Grande 0.5 per rent, in an effort to meet the Western tracks and the state road demand of the mining industry for a bridge at the mouth of Willow Creek simple and practicable instrument for canyon just below Castle Gate, which the determination of small quantities were washed out last Tuesday afterof methane, the Burrell indicator io noon by two floods coining down Wil-oits first form was develop at the Creek. Two frame buildings direcPittsburg exjieriinent station of the tly in the path of the flood were near-- y bureau by G. A. Burrell, in collaborsubmerged and another frame and ation with O. A. Hullett and 0. P. a number of stone houses were filled Hood. Improvements in the original with several feet of mud and water. model were made. The indicator is really a special GOOD ADVERTISING IS AN AID TO MERCHANTS type of gas analysis apparatus for determining the percentage of methane ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 12. Good in air by alow combustion. It uses a advertising, at esiiecially news)aper adplatinum wire gliwer bright yellow heat to burn out the gas. The vertising, is the greatest weapon of the retail merchant in eliminating the apparatus is essentially a about filled with water. canvasser, T. K. KelTo make a test the water in a large ly of Mnniapolis told the American reservoir is forced up into a valve Retailers' association in cup by blowing into a rubber tube, session here today. The bell ringer," he said, is selland when allowed to return to the normal position it draws in a sample ing thousands upon thousands of dolof mine air through the valve. The lars worth of merchandise in each level of the water, therefore, defines community in the country that should the volume of the air sample taken. be sold through the established retail The valve is closed and the methane stores. is burned out of this sampe by the hot Referring to the remedy of newspaglower. The contraction that results is per advertising, he said: shown by the new position of the waIt has become the habit of the ter level in the gage glass next to the American people to do practically all scale marked to read directly in per- their shopping through the newspaper and the newspajierg in Amerm today centage of methane. As low as a quarter of 1 per cent have too great an economic force to of methane is indicated by this appa- need any recommendation. The cryratus with an accuracy of plus or ing need of the public today is better minus 0.15 per cent in the hand of educated clerks, more complete stocks the average oieratur. As skill in the and real appreciation on th-- part of manipulation of the instrument is ac- the retailers and their associates and quired this accuracy can be increased their customers. to a considerable extent. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED FOR AMERICAN LEGION When Governed Least. The SHERIDAN, Wyo., Aug. 7. The following were named asdele-gate- s unity of this nation is threatened by from Utah to attend the seventhe tendency extremely noticeable th annual National Convention of the throughout tiie last decade toward an American Legion, aud the Auxiliary excess of laws, M. L. Gould, Indian- which, is to lie held at Omaha, Neb., apolis, Ind., president of the Nations! on October 5th to 0th inclusive: Coal association, told the members of Is-It. Fullmer, of Price; Arthur the Sheridan liotury club here today. Woolley, of Ogden; Judge J. A. HowWe should bear in mind the words ell, of Ogden, J. C. Rcbholz, of Salt of one of the founding fathers to tho Lnke City; Dr. ILnucr Rich, of Verneffect tliut that country governed al; Merrill McKell, of Spauish Fork best which is governed least, he said. and W. W. Anderson of Logan. AuxThere is such a thing as overworkiliary delegate named included Mrs. ing the legislative mills. Laudable as Carl Nyman from Price as an alternis the ambition to he our brothers ate. keejier, even this esn lie overdone to The convention city for 1026, it is such an extent that we ticcume subject reMirted, will be Cedar city. The date to the law of diminishing returns. I will be out later. Arthur Wool-legiven have very deep feelings about the subattorney of Ogden succeeded ject and 1 liclieve it rails for the best John E. Booth of Stanish Fork, as thought of the nation. It is the easy Utah commander, Mrs. II. J. Groen-dyk- e and natural thing to drift along. of Salt Lake City succeeded Mrs. C. J. Trotman of Logan aa presiAre Back At Work. dent of the auxiliary. HALIFAX, X. S., Aug. 7. The miners of Nova Scotia employed by the British Empire Steel corporation agreed by a majority of 1133 in a STANDING OF CLUBS plebicite today to return to work un(Second Halt) der the proposals of the provincial Won Lost Pet government. There were 6603 votes 5 Helper 0 1.000 the men not of polled, many voting. 1 rive 4 S .371 ' The directum of the corporation, meet- Stands rdvUle 3 4 .435) in Montreal to consider Sunnyside 0 8 ing yesterday .000 the same terms, characterized by the Last Sundays Results. government when they were presented Helper Sunnyside, 3; Standard- last Friday as final proposals, ad- villeO. At Price Helper 13 ; Price 3. journed to meet again soon. It is still Next Sunday's Schedule. undecided, therefore, whether or nut there is to be an early resumption of At Price Price vs. Stsndsrdville. At Sunnjrside Helper vn. Sunnyside. work, which, as projmsed by Premier Rhodes and his cabinet, will be under There be a few darning needan interim six months contract pend- les left inmay the world, but we can find ing a thorough invesligatiuu of the girls right around Trice who do not industry. Wages paid would be those know it. of 1022, or a reduction of 3 to 8 per cent from the 1024 rntes and working There ia no place like home if the conditions would be those of IP24. The place is homelike. whs tavsstsd ths phsas la lire. Prsaliast Wsltss GUTora sf ths Bell We phsas erstem st the Aassrlsaa Tslsphsas and Tslsraph sssspaar. Thrsdsts H. Tall, wha pat ths Bsll Tstophsas sssssiattsa sa Ita Cast What phsas talk"! d w U-tu- be three-fourt- 1925 house-to-hou- se semi-annu- al . j y, LOCAL BASEBALL JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN And then yon TTLMBEK, please I ask for any one of 15,000,000 tele- By 44 phones. March 0, 187(k Alexander Graham Beil, a teacher of Visible Speech" to deaf mutes, was working on an teleapparatus he . had named phone." He was In the attic of the electrical workshop of Charles Williams, 100 Court street Boston. n Two stories down was Thomas A. Watson, an had his assistant and machinist Bell and emperor of Braril accompanied by a brllltonfi it&ff. Ba greeted Bril wltR canter elec-tricla- been working for nine months trying to talk ever an electric wlra A Jumble of broken vocal sounds bad been the net mult Then these words came clearly and distinctly to tho electrician: Como here, Watson ; I want yon I January 25, 1815, Bell In Boston repeated this Brat Intelligible sentence over 5,860 miles of wire to Watson In Ban Francisco, using tho original transmitter and receiver. President Walter Sherman Gifford, Just elected, can now talk with ovary nook and cranny of tho country over tho 84 JOOOflOO mile of tho wires of tho Bell Telephone system' of the American Telephone A Telegraph company and 96 associated companies. Wsteon,.who quit tho telephone for shipbuilding 1880, saw last year In his Boston homo tho telephone wires used for these six purpose: Local and conversations: telegraphing; connecting up the public address system ; connecting 16 radio stations to broadcast tho proceedings of tho. two national conventions; sending photographs, fingerprints and sketches. He also saw. Defense Tost day, 10,000 miles of circuit operated as a alnglo unit and focused at Washington, enabling Secretary Weeks and General Pershing to talk with four commanding generals of corps areas: Bullard at Governors Island, N. Y.; Halo at Chicago; Duncan at Omaha, and Morton at 8an Francisco. In addition tho circuit was tapped in 18 cities from Boston to San Francisco and from Minneapolis to Atlanta and Dallas to permit the conversation to be broadcast by aa many stations tho greatest broadcasting achievement - In long-distan- ce on record. The map which tho operator sees in her minds eye shows how tho whole country la criss-crosswith the Hell systems win? But it only hints of the many facta which tell how tho telephone has become a national Institution, nere are some of ed them: Tho United States contains about of the worlds population and nearly of tho worlds telephone neres an illustration of what that mesas : New Tork city has about telephone more than tho combined totals two-thir- of London, Berlin, Pari Vienna and Romo and about twice aa many aa are in all Franc Tho Bell system connects over 70,000 placoe in the United state There la a telephone to every seven person About 42JOOOJOOO telephone conversations arc hsld every day, of which 1,700,000 re toll or call This year there will bo about 2.T50JXX) Installations and about 2,000,000 disconnections net Increase of 790,000 long-distanc- e trio-phon- Tho capitalisation of tho A. T. A T. company, tho parent company of tho Bril System companies Is probably second only to thnt of tho United e States Steal corporation. , Tho cost of the teleexclusive of tool supplies, etc 1 approximately two billion dollar Money to finance this utility baa come from mors than 340, 000 shareholder No single stockholder owns as much as 1 per cent of tho capital stock of tho A. T. A T. company. The average- holding to 20 bars About of tho Bril system owners are employee In addition, 100,000 of Its 0 smployses are now paying for stock on tho Installment basis The significance of tho, foregoing gllmpee of manifold activities Is that during tbs half-co- n tnry since Its Invention tho telephono has so developed and grown along with ths American people that It has seemed a part of their daily Ilf It to only when an atop to look back that tho telephone's history to seen In proper perspoctlv This writer has seen the development of the telephone from Its vety beginning. When ho went to college In 1870 there was no telephone only Bell demonstrating hla scientific toy" st the Centennial exposition In Philadelphia. When bo fvnt on tho Chicago Tribune la 1882 tho telephone phone propertle - one-sixt-h 860,-00- f old-tim- STteodoraJXY&rf was Just beginning to revolutionise the gathA small axchsngs had bean ' ering of now established. But there was only one private telephone In ths section now served by tho largest multiple exchange In tho world the Park, a photograph of which to hero reproduced. Incidentally, tho Insert shows tho first switchboard Installed for commercial use in 1878 at Now Haven, Conn, with right connected telephone As city editor of tho Tribune bo listened In" on tho first conversation between Now York and Chicago In 1882. Follow- bg to a condensed chronology of the triephon aa be baa seen It begun, developed and applied: First spssoh hoard over wlra; Bsll granted patent No. 114,411; demonstration nt Philadelphia antenatal. 177 First nawapapar report, n Globa. 1I7S Flrat mnltipla switchboard. Chlcaso. ISIS I0.S7I Ball talophona atatlona In United tataa: talk by overhand line, Boaton to Provldone 1111 Talk by underground cable, mil 1114 Talk by overhead Una n copper), Boaton to Now Tork. 1114 Incorporation American Talophona and company. Tolarraph ' IHO 111,101 Ball telephone atation 1111 Talk by ovorhoad llna, Naw Tork to Chi- ( father-in-law)- , Trie-phon- Salam-Boato- one-quart- er (hard-draw- cago. 1100 ISOS oabla, 1010 1011 atatlona owned and connected. Flrat talk by underground miles. Now Tork to Newark. I.141.6S1 Ball atatlona owned and connected. Talk by overhand lino, 1,100 mile Naw 474.731 Ball lonx-dlatan- ca 10 Tork to Denver. 1911 Talk by underground cable, Boaton to Washington. llli Flrat talk Boston to Ban Francisco; speech transmitted by radio telephone from Arlington, to Ban Francisco, to Hawaiian Islands and to V, Pari ill 11,714,747 Boll atatlona owned and 101 Talk by deep sea oabla. 111 mile Kay Waat to Havana; talk between Havana and Catalina Island by aubmarlna cable, overhead and underground Unas and radio, telephone, MOO miles: President Hardings Inaugural addraaa dallvarad by load speaker to 100,000 people; Armistice day raeroteee dallvarad by Ball loud speaker and long Unas to 110,000 people in Arlington, V. Now Tork and San Pranolso talk by wlra and wireless lilt with I-- 8. Aaarloa 400 miles nt sea la ths Atlantia llll Bncoaasfnl demonstration of radio telephony batwaan Naw Tork olty and Naw Snsland; first broadcasting of a PresiBonthgnt dential mas saga to aongraa Daoambar 101411.000,101 talophona stations in Ball system. Tbs history of tbs triaphoue reads more like a romance then the development of a commercial Industry from tho very beginning even to this day. Bril was )om la Scotland, waa teething "Visible Speech" to deaf mates la Canada and wu Induced to com to Boaton through tho offoita of Miss Sarah Foliar of the none Maim pehooL Tho Improvement of telegraphy" was hla avocation.' Ha wu working on a harmonic telegraph," with the Idea of a ending alx or eight Moras messages on a single wlra at ths ram time without Interference. Ths afternoon bf June 5, 1375, a transmitter spring stuck at Watson's end of the wire. ' He snapped It to make It resume vibrating. Bril hoard ths sound of the snap at hla and. Than and thera telephony was discovered. Sound to sound, whether caused by the snap of a spring or ths organa of speech. At ths Centrnnlal Bril had demonstrated tht telephone for olx weeks In ths department of education without attracting rations attention. Came ' a Bnnday when tho Judges arrived for Inspection. They reached hla desk at T o'clock In tho evening, hat, tired and hungry. At this fateful moment and quit by chanca rotated Dorn Fadro da At- eon-seate- d. 8, hlp-to-ho- ra trana-ocsan- great cordiality ba bad heard the teacher of deal mutes lecture In Boaton, Boon Dom Pedro was at oog and of the wlra and Bril at the other. The emperor! face became awestruck and ba cried out: My God, It talkaP Forgotten were the hoe fatigue and hunger. Tht group spent several hours talking and listening and ths next day the triephon wag taken to tho Judges pavilion, where It waa tbancefnctR beriegod by crowds eager to hrar It talk." This popular triumph waa aoon swallowed up to gloom. In 18T8 the situation waa briefly thto: The business organisation waa ths Bril Telephone aw locution, composed of Doctor Bril, Gardiner 8. HubThomas Bondar bard (Brils Haverhill leather manufacturer, and Wat ion. Thg Western Union Telegraph company had refused Hubbard's offer to aril the Bril patents for $100 e 000 and had formed the American Speaking company, annoandxig superior telephone with all the latest Improvements made by thg original Inventors Dolbenr, Gray end Edison. The Bril telephone had no capital with which to construct a general telephone system; bankruptcy was ever threatening; It was facing seemingly enh less agitation with a corporation of limitless capital. President Habbord waa Inspired to send Watoag to Washington to secure os general manager g who In five years had young man of thirty-thre- e worked up to the position of general superintend ent of the railway mall service. Thto young mag wu Theodore N. Vail and the story of telephony without him would be much like Hamlet" with Hamlet out In the next nine years Vail pat thg Bell Telephone association on its feet and going Hfi lie fought and won 000 lawsuit strong, bought the Western Union's telephone compun thereby transforming an enemy Into a friend and adding 56.000 telephones In 55 dtles to the Bril Telephone system. President Gifford, the new head of. the A. Z. A T succeeds H. B. Thayer, who becomes chairman of the board. Ha wu born In 1885, the year tbg company wu incorporated, to a Harvard mag as assistant secretary (1905) and served, 1905-and treasurer of the Western Electric company the affiliated organization which manufactures thg Bell telephone apparatus and equipment Hf Chicago (Hawthorne) plant to really an Industrial city, with a working population of over 40JXXX M Gifford has a genius for statistics end President Vale made him chief statistician of ths A. T, A Z. Since than hla riot hu bean steady. What makag Telephony to a world of marvel the telephone Talk"! Look at the diagram JtNg Your vole makes sound waives above the subtitl (A) which enter the transmitter through the These waves encounter a thin trog mouthpiece. to which to attached the movcshls (B), diaphragm button of granulated eorbog (OS small a of aide Thera sound waves vibrate the diaphragm nn4 causa tbs resistance of the carbon button to var It to compressed or ax ponded. Through variance In the resistance of the button tho stag trie current (D) on tho wire varies In unison with the sound wavs Entering the receiver, the en rent finds a magnet coll (E). As It passes throudj thto coll It causes the strength of the maguet to vary, which In turn causes the receiver dlaphrajm This receiver diaphragm tl (F) to vlbrat off sound waves (O), which reach the ear In Imitation of (or consonance with) the sound waves (A). Telephony, however. Is much mote thin the ap paratns that "talk" It covers the entire art oi speech transmission by ths use of a multitude ol devices that have been developed and are In constant development lo u , . |