THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE FOREST RANGERS

A blue streak crackled between the terminal and the bear’s nose.

THE RADIO BOYS SERIES

(Trademark Registered)

THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE FOREST RANGERS

OR

THE GREAT FIRE ON SPRUCE MOUNTAIN

BY

ALLEN CHAPMAN

AUTHOR OF

THE RADIO BOYS’ FIRST WIRELESS

THE RADIO BOYS TRAILING A VOICE

RALPH OF THE ROUNDHOUSE

RALPH ON THE MIDNIGHT FLYER, ETC.

WITH FOREWORD BY JACK BINNS

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

BOOKS FOR BOYS

By Allen Chapman

12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.

THE RADIO BOYS SERIES

(Trademark Registered)

THE RADIO BOYS’ FIRST WIRELESS

Or Winning the Ferberton Prize

THE RADIO BOYS AT OCEAN POINT

Or The Message that Saved the Ship

THE RADIO BOYS AT THE SENDING STATION

Or Making Good in the Wireless Room

THE RADIO BOYS AT MOUNTAIN PASS

Or The Midnight Call for Assistance

THE RADIO BOYS TRAILING A VOICE

Or Solving a Wireless Mystery

THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE FOREST RANGERS

Or The Great Fire on Spruce Mountain

THE RAILROAD SERIES

RALPH OF THE ROUNDHOUSE

Or Bound to Become a Railroad Man

RALPH IN THE SWITCH TOWER

Or Clearing the Track

RALPH ON THE ENGINE

Or The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail

RALPH ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS

Or The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer

RALPH THE TRAIN DISPATCHER

Or The Mystery of the Pay Car

RALPH ON THE ARMY TRAIN

Or The Young Railroader’s Most Daring Exploit

RALPH ON THE MIDNIGHT FLYER

Or The Wreck at Shadow Valley

GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, New York

Copyright, 1923, by

GROSSET & DUNLAP

The Radio Boys with the Forest Rangers

FOREWORD

By Jack Binns

There are two aspects of radio as a vital factor in saving life and property which are very vividly brought out in this interesting volume of the Radio Boys Series—namely its use in connection with the patrol work in detecting forest fires, and the regular international ice patrol in the dangerous waters of the north Atlantic. So splendidly have these two functions of radio been developed, that they have become accepted as commonplace in our lives, and it is only by such stories as “The Radio Boys with the Forest Rangers” that we are awakened to their importance.

Another interesting account in this volume is the detailing of the experimental work recently carried out at the Schenectady broadcasting station, when the voice which was radiated through the ether was actually reproduced from an ordinary moving picture film.

Just think of the marvel of this. The words of the speaker were photographed on a film, and held in storage for several weeks, before the streaks of light were re-converted into electric impulses, and then transferred into faithful reproduction of speech in a million homes. How great are the possibilities thus unfolded to the immediate future. Here we have a record that is better than that of the phonograph, because there will be no scratchiness from a needle in its reproduction to mar the original tones.

The period over which the Radio Boys Series has been produced has seen the most remarkable all-around development of radio in history. Now upon the publication of the latest volume in the series there comes the announcement that a Hungarian scientist has been successful in transmitting an actual picture of a current event as it is occurring.

We are upon the very threshold of TELEVISION—the system which converts the etheric vibrations that correspond to vision, and translates them into impulses of electric energy which can be radiated through space, and picked up by specially designed radio receivers. The system of course can also be applied to telegraph and telephone wires.

The development of this promising invention means that in the near future we will be able to see the person to whom we are speaking, whether we use the ordinary telephone or the wireless telephone as a means of communication. This truly is an age of radio wonders!

Jack Binns

CONTENTS

I.A Sudden Alarm

II.Almost a Tragedy

III.Quick Work

IV.Radio, the Fire-Conqueror

V.The Wonderful Science

VI.Thrashing a Bully

VII.Good Riddance

VIII.At Risk of Life

IX.Off for Spruce Mountain

X.The Falling Bowlder

XI.Forest Radio

XII.The Ice Patrol

XIII.Winning Their Spurs

XIV.The Crouching Wildcat

XV.An Underground Mystery

XVI.Swallowed up by the Darkness

XVII.An Old Enemy

XVIII.Pinned Down

XIX.Fire

XX.A Terrible Battle

XXI.Plunged in the Lake

XXII.Fighting Off the Bears

XXIII.A Desperate Chance

XXIV.The Blessed Rain

XXV.Snatched from Death

THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE FOREST RANGERS