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Show B YORK HAS THEISHIPBI It Has Taken Hold of Gotham-ites Gotham-ites Until Disease Has Become Exiidemic. ALL TALK LEARNEDLY OF BIPLANES AND SUCH Air Plights Have Become So Common That Thcy'Arc No Longer Novelties. BY RALPH JOHNSON. Uy Leased "Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, .Tunc 25. New York lias tho air ship bug in Its most virulent viru-lent form and the average Brondwayile can discourses as learnedly of biplanes, monoplanes and dirigibles af ho can of spark plugs, extra tiros and the nppnr- tennnces of tho automobile, which the optimist aeronaut already is beginning lo speak of as obsolescent. Really airj flights aVe becoming common in these parts and hardly a week passes that some new kind of an airship is not presented to the public. John Mason .Tones of Brooklyn is tho latest inventor of a new tvpe. Tho .Tones airship is planned so that it will bo operative ou tho t.hrco highways known to man tho land, the sea and the air. Tt has no planes, such as tho Wrights, Curtiss, Bleriot. or other inventors of aeroplanes aero-planes have used. The new mechanical principle which Mr. Jones hns planned to put into operation is nearer to a licliocopter typo of aorial ship thjm any other known ro the world today. Tn place of long, wing-like planes. Mr. .Tones uses a pair of twin cylindrical screws that; are hollowed out, so as to permit the air to be VIown through them when they whirl around like a propeller. propel-ler. These screws, it is claimed by Mr. Jones, will carry the machine into the air i-afer nud quicker 'than anv method in use today. The recent flights of Curtiss from Albany to New York and of Hamilton from New York, to Philadelphia Phila-delphia and return have convinced many that it is now only a question of a short time when the airship will be Iiu common use. Bradley Soeks Big Game. John Ti. Bradley, who was tho bank-M bank-M of Dr. Cook, is now in the Koekios after big game Before he started west M: Bradley said: "There is, no place in the world wh;eh equals tho Rockies for a shooting trip. I have killed big gamo in the East Indies, Siam, Central Africa, Eg3rpt. Northern Mongolia, Siberia. Si-beria. Japan. Australia and tho islands of" the Pacific, but for real sport and pleasure there is no hunting ground which compares with our .own great west. Life is not worth living unless a man can get away from civilization HB once a .year and live in the open." For two months mountain guides have been making preparations for Mr. Brnd-ley's Brnd-ley's expedition. Twenty of the finest Ihissinn wolf hounds in America, in-eluding in-eluding the $5000 prize winner, the HB Cr.nr, have been purchased for the trip, HH and arc now in Mr. Bradley's kennels SVJ at Glenwood Springs. Forty-throe- pack HBVJ horses will carry provisions and sup- SVJ plies, while two mounts have been pro- SS yided for each member of tho party. HflH More than $20,000 ha& been expended 1 iu fitting out the expedition, and when I the party disbands in Mexico in Beccm- I ber Mr. Bradley will sell the riding I and pack horses, but will bring the I wolf-hounds bnck to New York. Upon I his return to New York early nest year I Mr. Bradley will fit out an expedition I for a shooting trip in tho Arctic, where he Kpcnt; several months in 1D07 with I Dr. Frederick A. Cook. '-'If Bradlcy I land was rcallv discovered b3' Dr. I O'ook." he said, ttT. am going to find I it. F will ask a number of explorers I to accompany me on the trip, and we I probablv will spend the winter of J911- I 12 in th'e Arctic." I Become Missionaries. I That returping immigrants uncon- I seiously become missionaries of Amer- I ienn ideals to their own people Is the I assertion of Congressman -"William S. I Bonnet, whose work has brought him I into close touch with foreigners, espe- I fially those of the working classes. I Talking today on conditions abroad, the I congressman "referred to tho act that I many Italians, when they havo worked i in America four or five years, take f their earnings and go back to Sicily or southern Italy and build thrco and four-room four-room houses with a stable. Tho remarkable re-markable thing about that, according to Mr. Bonnet, is that before they left Italy a one-room house answered' for I the whole family together with donkey E nnd other beasts. "In America' the b first thing the Italian immigrants en- H counter is a higher grado of living, oven for the poorest," said Mr. Bennet, "and they return and introduce the larger and more sanitar' house into t?-v D( they also introduce many other things, somo better tban honsos. Taught New Things. "R years' residence hero teaches them a new idea of honor and its de-fense. de-fense. They learn that Americans do I riot go about Avith dirks and pistols in I 7.Jr Pockets, and do not settle their i differences on the street or in dark I alloys. Again, they discover that i Americans do not live in perpetual din- J trust and suspicion of -each other, but j an mutual trust and esteem. This is a very perplexing thing to our Italian -j brother at first, and he goes home full J of wonderful tales about it. He learns I some of the first principles of democ- I racy, not yet so apparent In Italy, but gradually coming into practice there. And every returning immigrant hastens it on especially the feeling or responsibility re-sponsibility of every good citizen for the good government of the state. One of tho things that impress him most is that tho children of his fellow work-'men work-'men in America all go to school and learn many thiugs. This ia his wonder tale when -ho gets homo and tho agitation agita-tion for irco schools is beginning iu Italy.1 ' Grain Crop in Russia. "The production of wheat and other grain in Russia, Hungary, and other European countries is steadily increasing," increas-ing," said Ferdinand S. Shaffer, of Minneapolis, "and at tho same time it should be said that tho American i farmer is deserting his plow and mov- ing into tho city. The population of the United States is increasing at a rapid rnto, and the consumption of foodstuffs of all kinds naturally keeps paco with this growth," observed Mr. Shaffer, who is a wheat grower himself. "The production of farm products, however, docs not keep abreast with the growth of population, but falls back. The consequence is that there is a greater demand for farm products, bringing about highor prices. Another H cause for higher prices is that tho city is encraching on the .farm, and that the sons of tho farmers arc drawn to ; the city, whore tho3' embark in business, busi-ness, never again lo return lo the old farm. Tho growth of farms docs not j keep step with the growth of tho population. popu-lation. What is the meaning of this? It means simply that unless ther.e is brought about a sentiment for the conservation con-servation of tho farms of this country, tho days of tho American farmer in supplying tho world with foodstuffs are numbered, and that bis place will 'bo taken' in the near future by tho Russian Rus-sian and Hungarian farmer. Indorses Pinchot. "Fincliot is right when he persists in hi.T conservation plea, and, instead of censure and criticism, he ougnt lo be commended for the services ho is rendering ren-dering this country. That applies lo tho wheat, lands, also applies to the timber lands. Tho. wealth of the United States lios in its farms, and tho backbone back-bone of any nation is tho farmer., Eliminate him and you make yourself dependent on your neighbors, wlio may be your enemies, for tho ver3r necessaries neces-saries of life. It is high time, indeed, that Pinchot's warning should be heeded, and it is high time also that the 'back lo the farm' movement should bo taken acrioiialy before it is too Into and Russia has taken the place as tho granary of the world." As to Panama Canal. The Panama canal will be completed in 1913, a year and a half ahead of tho schedule time ia tho opinion of Dr. O. O. Pierce, health ofiiccr in tho zone, now here.. ''Tho greatest advance during" dur-ing" the six and a half years I've boon there," ho said, "was in tho extermination extermin-ation of moBquiloea. Wo have filled innumerable swamps, drained off standing stand-ing water, and even stripped tho gutters gut-ters from house tops. Panama is a healthier place than New York city today to-day because authority to carry through reforms in vested in tho Isthmian canal I commission and must be. oboyed. If yop C attempted to make this city mosquito-proof mosquito-proof and ordered a New Yorker to take down his gutters, you would first have to get an order from a court and ho in turn would obtain an injunction. In tho B canal 7.0110 what the authorities say I goes without qucstior " jj |