Show LIGHTHOUSE Bl BLUES ES BANISHED BY RADIO Music From Air Now Comes to Lonely Isles Boston Adoption Adoption of the tile radio by keepers of lighthouses and lightships has hus given brilliant touch to a new chapter in the romance of the Atlantic Atlantic- ocean Since Ince the days when first wooden tires were kindled in the tower to of Pharos light to warn and guide mail coati tiers entering the ancient harbor of Alexandria the life of the lighthouse ket keeper per has been blen one ouo of dreary monotony monotony ony ony and isolation For ages the keepers have tended their wooden fires huge wax candles candies oil all gns gas or electric lanterns never al nl allowing lowing them to burn bum low law or cease their lashing flashing Pilots seeing the beacon altered U their theli elJ courses to steer clear of rocky ledge or treacherous hl hidden en shoal The keeper of ot the light watched their ap up and followed their departure until the ship dropped below the hoi I Izon zon or Its lights welO extinguished In III Inthe inthe the hl durk dark of ot night lIght leaving only silted sided solitude In Its wake l liven Hven veD today visitors are almost un unknown unknown known iu ut many lights that dot New England's broken coast Only an on oc visit by a tender ten er ship that brings brines supplies breaks breaks' the monotony that makes all days duys seem as one In bud butt weather the periods of isolation ur Sire liable to extend over months Newspapers Newspapers News papers and magazines are weeks old Iud their n ws as such has long tong since ceased cased to be Their Greatest Boon It is not difficult then to believe behove with Capt George U. U Eaton of at the Second lighthouse district dis that radio has proven tho great groat est single boon to lighthouse keepers In Generations Tire The picture he lays before the land landlubber landlubber landlubber lubber could coul have its setting In the desolate Great Point light miles from the lie mainland or in the famous 1 ledge light that rises from the water without apparent support MInot's foundation is cut in the solid rock of one of the most dangerous submerged ledges on the entire coast line The last lost visit of a tender is weeks I back Overhead the signal light flashes nashes and aud blinks In unceasing rhythm Iu lu luthe the season of ot gales and out of the J Meek uk north sweeT sweep unleashed ly sc scourge the Atlantic and froth troth Its III surface In too foam Spray Spray- turns to Ice lee and coats couts the glass gluss protection around the flashing light lIht with sl sleet et The ob t tt E loft loff whittles In the gale gile v nee T Q keepers t C Is lip Up ud- ud be hf beIs beis Is relieved b by un an assistant n He now retires to his io o roam m. m He fie turns a n knob Imoh on his radio set The scene shifts and forms fortes a new picture The winds subside e and waves wu no long longer er pound It Is a peaceful night and strains of ot Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata fill the room Soon the lender leader of if It the Philharmonic orchestra In New NewYork NewYork York or Philadelphia surrenders hi his baton laton to a 0 Jazz outfit In Pittsburgh or Chicago o. o As for the news of the day day dar In tact fact of the hour he needs but butt t turn urn his hk dial to another her station and In Instantly u. u he Is listening to so that under corder ordinary circumstances he would not have known for tor weeks Nearly All Have Radio In all there lher arc are about lights scattered along the Buy Bay state coast Of Ot these GO CO are watched lights and some pome 75 15 keepers are employed to see that their beacons are kept burning Most t of them are Illuminated by gas lanterns I as lighthouse officials b believe belleve It t to he be even more dependable than electricity for their need Almost without exception these stations stations sta sta- house one or more radio sets which the keepers themselves have purchased On board the lightships the tho change changes e eIs Is s even more pronounced and fasci- fasci There are 17 of ot these vessels at nt anchor at nt points of at greatest greatest great great- est cst hidden danger Life LIe on board them themis is Isolated than thun that of ot the light light- I house One hundred and two miles off ft the const coast is stationed the Nantucket Nantucket Nantucket Nan Nan- shoals ship the from furthest land and lightship In the world Fifteen men comprise e Its crew and It Is often at nt a n time that they never see und land |