| Show L II LIIM M Ht J t. t M M S. WHO'S Vt NEVIS NEWS VE WEES Dy By Lemuel F. F Parton iu w i. i Ll il i w w vree T TEW YORK Faint Faint lw NEW 1 memories bring back one of the about prettiest passages of ot Terence Terene the human voice passing and being forgotten and only Poet Terence the written word Answered by survIving ur nf From a Canned Voice vault in the Smith institution a mechanical voice answers him after 2000 years reminding him that there are more things in heaven heaven en and earth Horatio than are dreamed of In your philosophy Charles Sumner Tainter's phone gets an encore after oller six fifty years and speaks scratchily tobe tobe to tobe be sure the words first used In wax recording Mr Tainter was assisted assist assist- ed In the Invention by Alexander Graham Bell Dell and his cousin Chichester ChIchester Chichester Chi- Chi chester Bell Dell but the was accepted as his invention also the dictaphone The voice from the crypt of the years however is believed not to tobe tobe tobe be his His ms daughter Mrs David of nr Coconut Grove Fla thinks though though that he wrote the message for tor the recording She says he liked to quote Shakespeare Mr Tainter is the sole survivor of ot the three lIe He is three eighty years old living in a quiet residential street In San Diego a street bordered with eucalyptus and pepper pepper pep pep- per trees and poinsettias It was his idea that the old be called out for another turn but he was unable to go to Washington to hear it lt This writer observed In his early youth that garret Inventors and cobblers cob cob- bIers quoted Twitter Tainter Did Dd Shakespeare and Inventing were us usually u a 11 y yin In Garret known as well posted men men A Yankee inventor and pretty much ofa of ot ofa ota a garret inventor was Mr Tainter At his home in Watertown V Mass he was tinkering and scheming during during during dur dur- ing his early years and like Thomas Alva Edison whose tin-foil tin phonograph phonograph phonograph I graph recording preceded the he did not go to school any more than he had to Both took up their conjuring at an early age without academic aids He Ile was inventor co-inventor of the radiophone radiophone radiophone radio radio- phone using light as a sound carrier carrier carrier car car- rier in communications At the age of ol twenty he had begun associating associating asso asso- elating with scientists and went to the South Pacific to observe a transit transit tran tran- transit sit of Venus After his invention of the he continued his researches in the development atthe of at the talking machine and received many scientific awards at home and abroad But doubtless today there are more school children who know about Terence who said that the voice must perish than there are who know of ot Charles Sumner Tainter who made it live e MISS ROSE LIVINGSTONE stabbed blackjacked tossed out of at two story windows ribs and leg broken half-blinded half beaten two twenty-two times Heroine of in her 34 years' years War Var on Vice war against vice Awarded Cup In New York gets a silver cup The donor is Mrs J. J Sergeant Cram and the cup is s one of eight presented to various persons for peace heroism hero- hero Ism Miss Livingstone received a award in 1929 when the National Institute of Social Sciences gave her a medal at a ceremony at which John D. D Rockefeller Jr also was honored I I She lives alone in an East side tenement room sleeps in the daytime day day- time and stalks the city's slums and stews at night saving girls She has snatched hundreds of them from the vice lords sent to the hospital many times in these encounters She I lives on 50 a month supplied by uy the Rose Livingstone PrudentIal Prudent al I committee These funds failed several sev eral erat years ago and she had no support but now her committee is solvent again and once more the Angel of Chinatown assails the hosts of ot darkness fighting for souls When she was stabbed three years ago by a white slaver the knife entered her lung The wound troubles her Her sight was im im- impaired paired by a blackjack blow but she says I will go on until God calls me I 1 get up late In the afternoon she says eat something out of a tin sari can and go out for the nights night's work It is lonely work from dark to dawn usually in the Brooklyn navy From r Night w t yard d District i B tr i c t. t Sometimes s I she h p e to Morn She wears a disguise Stalk Stalks Foes Foe sometimes I e she h e joins a gang to get evidence She is a little woman about five feet tall tau with K bobbed hair E graying She came to New York from her native town of lIam Ham Won ilton ilton Ohio in 1903 She was horri fied fled by her first sight of city slums and then and there began her vice war She turned in n her life for a silver cup and a medal and possibly possibly pos pos- sibly more Important to her the gratitude of innumerable girls she has dragged from front the pit She says she isn't v very ry religious She is disillusioned about social up lift and social panaceas C O Consolidated d N News F Feature Service |
