Show CAPll C S a BALDWIN HAS MADE PROBLEM OF AERIAL NAVIGATION LIFE STUDY Dirigible Balloon Recently Completed for Government Signal Corps Product Prod-uct of 30 Years Labor Dejjan Experiments Early Washingtoncnpt Thomas Scott Baldwin dean of aeronautics In this country has devoted his lIfo to tho problem of aerial navigation Capt aldwlns name Is Inseparably linked with aeronautic activities tho world over In nearly every civilized country of the world Capt Baldwin has given exhibitions with his parachutes bal loons ami airships with constantly applied persistency to make a success of ballooning Capt Baldwin has not relinquished his Interest for a single day for O years During this long ex I poricnco ho has made and given more I than 3000 exhibitions and flights In I tho air Unlike those who have made i failures of their airship experiences Capt Haldwln Is essentially a student I His workshop does not present the ap jiuaranco or a collection ot Ideas plain II ly marked theories Ho has always worked along the practical and scion tific lines To theso ho owes his success suc-cess although Kind fate appears always al-ways to have smiled upon him He has taken chances In making his experiments ex-periments In the air that would still with fear the heart of a man of less sourngo than himself I Apprehension of trouble Is far worse I than tho trouble Itself when It arrives ar-rives said Capt Baldwin I learned I this early and I never borrow trouble I never feel tho least bit of fear I always havo figured out the thing I r A A V4 J 4q gg 1 r r I 1 tik 1I I = I Capt T S Baldwin I I meant to do before doing It and felt 1 reasonably sure that I could accomplish accom-plish it before making the attempt I Interest In aeronautics has been Intensified since the government began I to take an Interest The recent tests I of Capt Baldwins big dirigible hal loon which ho built for the signal corps of the United States army were followed with a keen Interest all over the ballooning world In addition to t I this he has built for the government I two spherical balloons Following the old adage that a shoemaker i shoe-maker should stick to his last Capt I I Baldwin never wavered for a moment I in his intention to master tho air for I transportation facilities When still a mere youngster he began be-gan his experiments at San Francisco Up to this time there had never been a successful parachute Jump It hat been nearly 50 years previous to Bald I wins attempt that the last man to trI > tr-I tho experiment had met his death But I after considerable experimenting and I thought given to the Idea Baldwin I Bald-win was determined to make a I Jump of 1000 feet from the balloon That was 21 years ago Baldwin announced an-nounced his Intention and thousands of people gathered at Golden Gate park and cheered the plucky young man made the first successful parachute I I para-chute Jump on record This was the beginning of his long record of successes suc-cesses twice around the world And In I I all these daring chances ho took Capt I Baldwin has never suffered the slightest I II slight-est Injury This dean of American aeronautics his given exhibitions before tho nobility I nobili-ty and many of the crowned heads of Europe Also In Australia China I Japan and Egypt Everywhere he went with his series of successes following I lowing him ho gave encouragement to those who were working along tho same lines that ho had spent so many I I years on The ono sad event In Capt Baldwins I experience was the loss of his perfectly perfect-ly equipped workshop during the San Francisco disaster Thousands of dollars I dol-lars had been spent on the best tools the finest materials and halffinished airships which represented years of experiments and also the best of his knowledge gleaned from his worl In I his allaround the world trips This was tho greatest defeat he had ever met with and It prostrated many of his ambitious plans for a time Capt Baldwin has studied tho air currents as a mariner has studied tho sea None of his successes or his discoveries dis-coveries has come by chance but by patient and long hard work In experimenting ex-perimenting and studying out the foundation foun-dation for what once seemed the unattainable unat-tainable No matter how successful n new ship rigged with all his latest and best Ideas may bo on her early trips Capt Baldwin Is never satisfied to stop with that |