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and two or three turns of wire attached to some old wire hanging on the turbine. He made the set up in about half an hour -- of course, he has earphones. This noon I climbed up on the "Nebraska," his turbine, and looked in. Del was nowhere in sight, so I called to him, and in a moment, his head appeared out of a distant recess in the exhaust hood. It is a positive fact that we could almost play "hide-and-seek" inside the big Detroit Edison machine, they are so huge. It strikes my funny to think of Del sitting way down in the depths of one of those turbines and hearing the World Series. It is a wonderful age.

[[underline]] To Mother, October 10, 1924: [[/underline]] The World Series is over and I certainly am glad that Washington won out. Everybody seemed to be for them. This afternoon at the plant, everyone was "listening in" it seemed. I think the man in the stockroom had a radio set back in some corner because when I was at the window getting some coils, a fellow stepped up and said rather low, "How's the game coming now?" The stockman disappeared down an aisle and in a moment came back and said, "Three to one at the end of the third." I swear there were a dozen sets around the building. One enterprising fellow in the office had his antenna hanging on a pole stuck out the window -- the antenna consisted of a piece of wire about six feet long with a nut hanging on the end of it to weight it down. We are so near WGY, and it is so terribly powerful, being one of the strongest in the country, that you can pick it up with almost nothing. With the exception of the earphones, I could rig up a set to get WGY for about a quarter. All you would need is a piece of wire about ten feet long for an aerial, and have that wound a few times around a spool and fastened to the register at one end. Then stich a 15 [[cents symbol]] crystal detector in parallel with the coil on the spool, and you have your radio receiving set. And they [[underline]] work [[/underline]] too. When I get a few dollars to spend sometime this winter, I'm going to get a set of earphones and rig me up a little set.

[[underline]] To Willie, October 13, 1924: [[/underline]] Last evening, we were returning to Schenectady from a hot dog supper down on a bluff overlooking the Mohawk. We were crossing the bridge and the full moon made a bright yellow path across the water to us. I said then that I wished I could stay out all night -- at least, as long as the moon stayed up. We are having marvelous fall weather here. The foliage yesterday was perfectly beautiful and the apples we gathered along the way tasted "grand." (The quotation marks indicate that "grand" isn't quite natural for me.) We tried to find a place where we could buy a gallon of cider but could not and so we had to be content with our "dogs" cooked over a smokey but cozy fire. ...... Here in Schenectady, one can get WGY (General Electric Company) almost with a crystal and a hairpin, they are so powerful and so near. But one needs a super-hetrodyne set to get anything else while WGY is broadcasting because it is so hard to tune them out. All you need here to get WGY is your bedsprings for an aerial, a few turns of wire wound on a