Radio mirror (Jan-Oct 1923)

■as 9111 RADIO DIGEST March 17, 1923 il RAILROADS IN SOUTH HAVE PLANT TRAVELERS LISTEN IN TO CONCERTS ON TRAIN Ex-College Boys Organize Novelty Orchestra to Furnish Music for New York Limited By Vera Brady Sblpman There are there railroads in the middle south, privately owned, which can boast of the only railroad ownership Radio broadcasting station in the world. These roads, the Atlanta and West Point, the Western Alabama, and the Georgia railroad, are all under the presidency of C. A. Wickersham with his son Frank Wickersham as signal engineer for the three, and director of Radio. The College Park Radio station was originally put in to broadcast train dispatches with the experimental call letters 4XO. The idea of broadcasting programs was developed and the companies' own orchestra was gathered together and placed at College Park in 1921 when the programs were installed for reception on trains running on these roads between Montgomery and Atlanta, on the through New Orleans to New York lines. The receiving set is placed on the diner of the train and the whole train assembles after the evening meal to hear the programs of jazz orches^ tra tunes. Try Various Stunts Interesting combinations have been used by degrees of amplification. In one instance a violin solo was played on the train to the piano accompaniment in the College Park studio broadcasted to the train. Other combinations of orchestral instruments have been effected by train and studio, with exact rhythm and time. The station is in charge of I. Miller and B. W. Benning, whom I met at the Constitution office in Atlanta preparatory to my trip to College Park. The announcer is Gene Curtis, a local College Park lad, son of a local physician. There are five musicians on the orchestra staff programs: Fred Graf, director, playing violin, saxophone and trombone; "Nick" Nickolas, an overseas veteran who combines piano, voice and a rare buzz on a comb; Frank Caldwell, voice and banjo; F. B. Myers, saxophone, and Frank Corts, a genuine Hawaiian steel guitar soloist. Broadcast for Passengers Their programs are broadcasted at 7:30 and 8:30 p. m., and 10:30 and 11:30 p. m., expressly for entertainment of passengers on board the New York limited while running from West Point, Georgia, to Atlanta. WDAJ, as the College Park station calls, is a 500-watt station operating on 3'60 meters in Class A. They have been heard at Buenos Ayres, at sea and in every state and Canadian provinces, according to their map which they proudly display. NAVAL BAND MUSIC WINS RECORD PACT Concert Broadcast from Station KHJ Results in Compositions Being "Canned" LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — Through the advancement made possible by Radio, the music of the naval band of the battleship U.S.S. Oklahoma has been preserved for posterity. A short time ago this band was received at Radio station KHJ, the Los Angeles Times, in their studio to be monitored in preparation for the navalRadio concert which was presented a few evenings later by the officers and enlisted men of the U.S.S. Oklahoma from Radio station KHJ. The harmonious result of this monitor test was so satisfactory that the band was put "on the air." Among those who were listening in to the concert was Theophilus Fitz, president of the Golden Record Company of this city, who immediately completed arrangements with the band to make two records prior to the special naval-Radio concert through KHJ. 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