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Show COLONEL GREEN A RADIO FAN Son ef Hetty Has an Elaberate Apparatus Ap-paratus at His Home In New Bedford. Round Hills, the country home of Col. Edward H. R. Green, son of the late Hetty Green, at New Bedford, Mass., sounds like a haunted estate since Its owner has been bitten by the radio bug, says the New York World. In the sun room of the house stock quotations, weather reports, music and speeches flow all day from the receiving receiv-ing station there. In the boathouse come the booming tones of the amplifier. ampli-fier. That's all there Is now, but Colonel Green has not done yet Within a few days his new six-room studio, housing the most complete broadcasting station sta-tion In the country, will be nnished. Colonel Green Is not enjoying his radio pleasures alone. The first try-out try-out of his truck was made a few days ago, and lt went rolling about the neighborhood reeling off concerts and talk from Newark and Schenectady for the delighted farmers. But the amplifier Is the colonel's pet. This Is just such a machine as was used to make President Harding's Inaugural address audible to the 125,-000 125,-000 gathered about the capitol. At Round Hills the sound will be plainly heard over a radius of five miles. "Anybody who has a set of two good ears has all the required receiving receiv-ing apparatus," the colonel says. "I'm so interested In this thing that I havent time for anything else, Tm-like Tm-like a child with a new toy, who can't be Induced to put lt down." |