Two sons of Fred Locke connected with wireless radio

VICTOR NOW HAS

WIRELESS STATION

Outfit Made by Son of Fred

M. Locke, Inventor.

Victor, Feb. 11.-Victor now has a wireless station, one having been completed this week by James Locke, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Locke, the former the well-known inventor of the Victor insulator and a prominent man in the electrical world. The receiving pole is located on the barn at the Locke home, and the same system of wiring is used as on ships, the three wires running from the pole on the barn to the second story of the Locke home in East Main stret [sic] street, with the terminal in the sleeping room of the young wireless operator, who is a student at the High School.

At the terminal is a full equipment for the sending and receiving of messages, and the greater, part of this equipment was made by the boy, including the coil for the receiving of the waves. This was manufactured from a large pasteboard mailing tube, tightly wound, with minute wire and the whole shellacked over. The young student is familiar with the Morse code and although be has not as yet been able to transcribe any waves into real messages, he expects to before the end of the week.

Aside from the telegraph instrument, the young man has connected a telephone receiver, this for the sake of experiment, and a low rumbling sound, is plainly audible. Another son of Inventor Locke, Louis J. Locke, who is connected with the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Rochester Junction, has a completed wireless station in his home and it is expected that the two brothers will be able to have an interchange of communications. The station at Rochester Junction is located upon higher ground, which is more advantageous for such experiment, and it is expected that the government messages can be discernible at this point.

According to law, a license is required to allow the sending of wireless messages outside of the state of New York, but the waves-are not governable by law, and what is received though [sic] through the delicate instruments cannot be scheduled by miles. Two other students of the High School, Leslie Aldridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Aldridge, and Roy Sanford, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sanford, are both equipping stations and the three students expect to have much amusement and also acquire much real knowledge through their study and experiment with the wireless.