Show p By Robert Edgren lIE great war in Europe has caused P T THE certain lines of ot mechanical m Invention invention tion to advance much faster than In time of peace The flying machine has become a mechanical wonder when compared to the flying machine of three years ago Today skilled aviators are talking of or driving A t passenger carrying airplane across the Atlantic from Europe Europe Eu Eu- Europe Eu- Eu rope to America in one day And they dont don't regard this an achievement requiring re ro quiring great Teat courage or great skill Tho The airplane has Improved so rapidly and has become so 80 sure In action within action within Its Us present present pres pres- present ent flight limits that limits that there seems no In Insurmountable insurmountable insurmountable in- in surmountable obstacles In a flight of oi three or four tour thousand miles Yet only ony afew a a. afew few years ago they had n II man sent to an Insane asylum because he had one delusion delusion delusion delu delu- sion that he refused to give up said lie publicly and Insisted upon it it that a a. heavier than air machine could fly He even insisted that some time men would be flying around In them It Isn't many years since the Wright brothers ran down do the side of a sand dune to gain momentum and soared a afew afew afew few yards with the airplanes they were inventing and experimenting on hoping some time to propel them with a gasoline motor Only a short time ago the world talked of the wonderful feat of a venturesome flier who crossed the English channel The world moves and moves fast Last week Louis Chevrolet came out to torace torace torace race again and won the Harkness Trophy mile mlle race at Sheepshead Bay flay Speedway Speed Speed- way at an average speed of miles II an Rn n hour TORTOISE MA ONCE I 1 remember when an an air automobile race was won and the winning cars car's record- record breaking speed was twenty-eight twenty miles an hour Before that In the old bike days twenty t ty miles mUes an hour was considered to be beabout beabout beabout about as reckless a a. speed as any human begins was likely to reach without running running run run- running ning on rails ralls The old high wheels with a a. big wheel wheelIn In front and a little wheel behind were thought to be the swiftest machines that the ingenuity of or man would ever devise nut out the safeties came in and raised the mischief with the old high wheel records In New Jersey j years rears ears ago there was a along along along long legged individual c called the Jersey Skeeter His name was Zimmerman He rode a high wheel with the little wheel wheelin in front and the big wheel behind Zim was the American hero and his records were supposed to be beyond anything that any future race of man could ever reach But the pneumatic tired safety came along and any dub could go faster than Zim ever thought of going The bike was Vas the whole thing Ii the way of road load speed until the first automobile came along The auto had one great advantage ad ad- vantage It could keep up a a. steady speed It didn't get winded or weary That put it ahead of or of the bike In no time LIKE THAT I IThe The first power boat was run by steam About a hundred years ago it was launched from front the the Jersey shore across from the city or New York and made a trial trip on the Hudson It jt was was was' the mechanical speed marvel of the age Yes Tes by heck it could go go goas as much as five miles an hour right against the windA wind A few days ago Miss Detroit Chris Smiths Smith's latest cup winner beat Miss Minneapolis and recaptured the gold challenge cup breaking the Baby Speed Demons Demon's old record for the thirty nautical I miles and arid establishing a a. record for a a. single single sin sin- I gle lap at a a. pace faster than sixty miles I an hour Going some Bomel Bomeli i The boat builders all aU over the world have been trying for years to produce the minute mile boat Other builders Rave gave ave it up and laughed at the farmer I from Algonac Mich who said he could I build a a. minute mile boat and was likely I to turn out a a. racer of that speed any I time Smith tried for tor several years and I fell a little short of his prediction but he made good last year rear with Miss MinneI Minne Minne- I apolis and bettered his work worle with the new flew Miss Detroit One is tempted after watching the recOrd record rec rec- ord breaking performances of several Tears to say there are no speed limits |