| Show ff lg r ig r 1 1 1 t L I 1 i 3 h TOP 1 t DJ Vit UZI ei 1 II F I t Ge flat i i ti I I r e Y H f r t I f i j t r I I a it ll Ii a J e G I 1 I QS lI lIa In a r Ir r Ay a lt Y iN J r 1 I 1 4 1 y J ht rY U 4 I f fJ U f 1 1 I J c S 1 r r lA t 1 ra t r J t r r r r 17 4 t j Ij 1 I II q 1 li j S P PI Pr r r J P Leo Gwa S cw A C t I r l l fi l ek a r J l N I y y r f I l ii Sp HE present pre ent season on promises c to tom t tobo l Tilt m bo be a n lively one not for foi aeronauts F JY U a und and nil aeronautics Although the theu thea a J u In nit lilt navi navigation t gutter gation were welt carried on as 0 by hy the French anti and h war Will departments most of oC I glory of or achievement last season leaNOn was won by civilian enterprise The S United Slates always n n 1 Y FJ r I bit conservative cop Ilc in the tho m matter of bal c t t to III have ha o waked up III to the tho 4 J I possibilities of air travel It hue has gone gonn gont no so 0 far Clu us ilK to 0 h a II flying hying corps corll as al aee t e regular branch of the army An All or 01 order t der for fOl f or three e new lieI to I w balloons of oC e f the stir gas Faa gasbag FaaI all t I bag loa pattern putt urn haw has been placed d w with Ith Leo I IF F the theo veteran and G t a balloon tend nn ni all soon noon ns ilK they thc theyo I o era cd at Omaha probably early earl In to May Moyn a series of oC experiments will toll willbe willbE be untie y At I t first thought It Il Is pointing painting that thai the tho government has mudo no nn II advance in III substituting same onor ono one r nf pt tho Ito widely exploited fir of recent recant tines times for Rv tho the old fash Mh fashioned Ion u 0 I gas aas bag bal Tho T ho fart fact let Is I s tho tin gov got government t hilI become weary n of or t Iho tho re repeated revs JI failure that ILat item haH followed every A trial of or f a n now new nt 1 I l arid mel d has Ins also grown gronn correspondingly b wary It has I r not 1101 forgotten fol that once upon n a time I congress appropriated S OOOO for an no aeroplane that Ihal for fOI or certain to togo I go and U II took It II only about ten seconds to full nil with a 1 smash that Hint 1 was WM r s1 a Pt perfectly convincing HO so much vo r o 0 t I Vii e r n yN y I 1 f 1 M w wI J r I ff I I A n Il I R edy O Dece dl Indeed that congress has hns been exceed exceedingly shy of C aerial JUers fliers ever since Of the bag bap balloon Is a litter differ different ont ent proposition It had bran been shown to tobo bo ho l r a useful In I t t many nonY way na v and there urn possibilities u e still t t a ii a aon on The Ian military n depart departments lepa ar ments havo huo kept right at Rt It and Uncle Hum Is la not nol averse Ver e to a II modem t ex od exploitation now nosy and then thon The rhe present will witness a n more extended of ot than hast has ever over yet jet ot been undertaken The TIll largest of oC the balloons constructed by Leo Stevens will hove have a te capacity of or cubic dJ i I W f 1111 t I dV d i e S t ka In B n aon ol Race feet fet of gas and will cost about 1000 These new ne balloons are Intended for Cor work anti And with bombs and high explosives will wilt afro RI o ohI be hI made with them But Stun Ham Is I not tho the only one who nho ho IK is Interested In balloon this year The Tho greatest aeronautic congress ever held will ns at al Norfolk during durin I the Tercentennial and ami St StLouis StLouis Louis has lias been heel selected by the A Aura ro club us ad the Iho point at which will lie bo laid I the Intel I International national I balloon races In the contest for tor till the lames James Gordon Bennett I prize of 1507 1904 In the last la t International balloon race huld hold In Paris Pails II two American I tars tors Lieutenant LI Trank I P Lalim anti and a Major later Henry H li Mersey BerM e won over all others remaining aloft In their balloon the d States poorly pearly hours and traveling miles Paris 1 to England t tt t Count Henri de la Vaulx took the thelong thelong thelong long distance record away from Crom St Sl StLouis StLouis Louis In Ip ISOO 1900 by h malting making a balloon voy voyage VO voyage age of 1200 miles miles Since the summer Bummer of or 1859 lS It had been beon accredited to John Wise Ile who sailed from frum the Mound City end 1 after a n flight III ht of oC 1150 IJ miles landed safely In Jefferson houn county r New e w York Count do In la Vaulx Vaul it seems scents has lias rela relatives tives Ulin In St Louis Loul and ho he has in made ulu fre trips to that city ell For POI that ren rea renton reason ton son Jn ho was an ardent advocate l of tho the Mound advantages as al a n point for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the International races He pointed out oat HH Its special qualification of being ouch tuch a Ion long distance from the great bodies of but If It the thu contestant TilE ThE Cow v AND THE INTERNATIONAL RACE flACE JS Is Syr V J Jt JC Jr J 0 t C r t I I Ir e r Its 11 1 r L yr t n Y J lil establish now Ul 1 long distance records ns os n s they must endeavor to do di d u there thero will still bu bo danger of tho the water peril Count do la Vaulx who holds hold the worlds world record for tor distance tax has made more Inure than ascensions at least trust a hundred more than has Leo Stevens the American expert He lie has traversed dilly miles mile of the upper atmos atmosphere phere and In all has hall been In the air all about sixty days dayt Ho lie haw has had ha as com companion panion In his more than 1000 I persons f 1 o r c ens a hundred of or thum them t being wo women women men omen menIto Ho lIe also haH haa tho t he record t for Tor re 10 remaining remaining longest t In the air hours t while a d n In scientific ex cx r x over the Mediterranean The he her greatest r altitude over ever reached by the count was four and a half hulf miles nilles t p There are many students of aerial navigation who do 10 not look honk for any further development of the iras gas bag has type of oC airship Kir Sir Hiram Maxim Is one ono of them Ve We W c shall not lint have any balloons In future he says We Ve shall have flying machines The flying dying ma rna machine machine chine Is heavier than air all just us tho the birds are There are aro no balloons In ht na nature nature nature ture The very VIr latest evidence In support of Sir i am ms s opinion Is 15 to tobe be found Cound in tho the wonderful w 0 achievements of two broth brothers flU ers named Wright living In I n Dayton Paton O 0 Owing to the secrecy which these experimenters have always observed In connection with their Inventions cl observers have been disposed to doubt the value of their alleged discovery dis discovery covery Quite recently an English scientist of repute Patrick Y T 1 Alex Atez Alexander ander visited the Iho th brothers at Dayton and was admitted to their workshop and actually II ct 11 1111 ono one oneo of the flights flight of their aeroplane a Ho ife declares in the English scientific journals that ho ht h e saw caw enough to convince him that tho th q problem of oC air all navigation has been solved M tr 11 n ts whose hose veracity v IB is unassailable assert as ert that on Oct 6 5 last one of oC the Wright brothers made a night of miles In III his aeroplane Santos Dumont who holds the tho record for simi similar lar mar air nil locomotion with only yards ards to his credit seems se ms to have been beon en entirely outdone by these theae publicity shun shunning shunning ning Buckeyes Many persons In Day Pay n ton claim to nave have noon beer witnesses es of or i these marvelous feats It 11 is asserted that th the driver ot or UIO a machine m had hal per perfect fact control of It moved moves up and down n nas as he ho willed and that the tho strong air nil currents current did not complicate the direction tion of oC the tho apparatus Trees fees were cir circled clod cled fields were passed over gear In every evel direction and tho the inventors were wore ablo able to bring their contrivance connivance to earth without any uny sudden suddon jar showing that it was under their control Tho The secrecy connected conn with tho the dis discovery discovery covery Is to not flat reassuring but It Is la maintained III cd by b friends of tho the brothers brother that they expect to cell Bell their Inen Invention ion tion for Cor a II great groat t sum to a foreign gov government government and cannot afford to risk pub pill publicity licit Is IB so confident of or the worthlessness n o ohe of ot of tho claim that he has hus challenged 1 the Wrights rights W Itts to com corn compete pets pete p for or tho ho prize of offered h by bythe bythe Y the London Dally Daily Mall to the owner of ot the first airship that shall travel from London to Manchester a distance dl tanco iC of 1 miles At latest account tho the brothers had not accepted the th French Frenchmans Frenchmans mans challenge Now tho tilt situation in tho the United States Stated resolves Itself into Inton a n competition between the tho contestants for tho the gov government gO government prize at lit the tho Jamestown ex ox exposition exposition position und tho the St Louis Louls competitors Tho The principle of ot successful aerial navi navigation navigation gation gallon tIon Is Involved While hilI the round noun a balloon will alit be used r exclusively at St StLouis Louis Louts there Is a n division In the tho theof ranks of the lying flying machine men Some of ot them Insist on the Idea and ami I j that alone alono and und others other are satisfied with a combination of the gas Tan bag and tho the motor who has hilS been hewn devoted to the combination the tho theory theory ory has recently gone gOllo over to lo the other side S Y JOHNSON |
