Show STANFORDS HOBBY 4 Be Was a Firm Believer in Aerial I Navigation CHICAGO June LA special from IVashington D C says Prpfessor Langleys recent successful success-ful experiments in navigation of their the-ir hcve brought to light the fact Utherto unknown that the late Sena Irv Leland Stanford of California was F 1 firm believer in the ultimate success f a flying machine and that he infested in-fested a teat deal of money in ex ieriments made by others He took Jo stock however in a flying ma > hin j which had to be carried by bal r4 foonS > or which Sjoulfl nly travel l I Ugh in the uk What tie Van tea Was machine that would fly altfngr not over five or ten feet from the ground so that as he explained it a person need not run the risk of being pitched out of a balloon arrangement a half mile up in the air For several years he had three engineers en-gineers of distinction in his employ at work on his Ideas of a machine among them being Commander Gorrlnge the naval officer who brought the obelisk over from Egypt to Central park New York He also employed Captain Eads of Louisiana He wa never satisfied satis-fied with the experiments for the reason that they did not prove suffi cent to justify him in having a flying machine constructed During the latter lat-ter years of his life he was so much engaged with other matters that he did not give the subject much of his personal attention but he always took pleasure in furnishing money to others who desired t make experiments in that direction One of his theories was that solar heat mIght be used in the propulsion of a flying machine but he was never able to satisfy himself how it could be done His main desire however was that the machine should fly low and he preferred that the experiments should be made over a river or lake rver rather than the ship should be flown from the top of a mountain or some other high place |