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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNINO, MAY 10, 1925. 12 lawsuits were pending about airplane patents. The performance left a trail the of resentment and constitute basis of tha charge made by Mr. Wright last week: Tot (Langley) maohlne now hanging In the museum Institution at (of the Smithsonian not the original ma Washington) chine, but U mostly a new macnine, with many of the restored part of different construction from the original." The mere fact that an exhibit In a I One of them, over and over again, muaeum should be labeled of"Thl fllfrht" the first airplane capable kitstood on the porch holding a muOhio Inventor' Reasons had ground tor criticism, ten by the feet, legs upward, and uggeitdo not commonly interest them- droonine; It to ft nlllnw nn f ha mu seuins In are devices that selves merely Smithsonian -serious for Ire gentleman took snapshot with other. The usual practice I ,to Ina camera to dis was The purpose It is a kitten rUrhts stall the machine that first actually Institution Is Discussed. cover justIn how did the work. It would seem odd and himself falling and land on his would provoke Inquiry If one should legs. These together find In museums maohlne labeled experiment. wllh soma other they carried on "First machine capable of cowing," with tetrahedral kltea, had been de- or "First machine capable of reapHow Story of First Sue-cessf- signed to make progress toward a being." Logically on might expect the ginning In aviation. Smithsonian Institution to put up a At dinner that night, and afterof Professor Langley and label Effort "Broke" ward, the two middle-age- d men talksd picture It man "First capable of flying." much about flying and aviation, I Institution must remember yet murfi they said. beThe Smithsonian to World Is Told. can additionally embarrassed by ths There was a good deal about a Dr. man. the that Langley, whom fct Frenchman named Montgolfler, who It make the beneficiary of apparenthad lived about a century beforeII and . . ... a t... ly an exception, and certainly a dls- wa In hi lifetime an By MARK. SULLIVAN. through what waa then an epochal Jff't'ttir0f' ii. the Institution. CCopyrlght. 19Sa, N. Y. Tribune, Ino ) WRIOHT HONOR. DESERVES over a fire. There NEW YORK, May 9 In the Wash- by suspending it aa a great, deal mora about balloons, Indisputably the flight of the ington D. C.) Post, on the first day their possibilities and their limitaWright brother at Kitty Hawk. N. of thl month, there were three headtions. It was the limitations of bal- C. on December 17, 1901, wa the flret the loons that Ir. Hell particularly em- flight by a heavier than air machine. lines, aid by aid, occupying I was Impressed, ao TTrtr iritni reaaon most. nrnhahlv tha m rwt nviet conspicuous position in tha paper. phasised that tha memory of It remained, with ssty of the Wright brothers, thl first there will be Ir. Hell's assertion, repeated One announced that emand performance was given little publicity. within two month an airplane ex- phatic, that man would make no real It waa not until nearly five year progress toward aviation ao long as later, on May 6. 1908. that the world to York New from line Chicago, press ta Ma evnar-tmha fnnfln. k.l. became really aware that aviation had carrying express freight, each plana loons that this was mere diversion, arrived. With a cargo capacity of a thousand He said the only hope of aviation lay The new came out In the shape of In the possibility that someone might a dispatch from a newspaper man of pounds. una out now to get a neavier-ttian- Norfolk. Vs., D. Bruce bailey, who Another described the mobilisation air machine to arise, and how to di had a roving assignment from a New of alrplsnes to patrol Paris on Mayrect It in the air. Most clearly of port newapaper to wander up and day. all I recall what I suppose must have down the coaat aouth of that point Tha third caption read: "Wright been the concluding aentence of the In quest of maritime news. In addiHeld Gives First Plana to England; I remember the words well. tion to his connection with his local t'nsafe Here. Mutilation uf Langleys evening. Dr. Hell, to Pr Langley, paper, Salley had an understanding Ha Machine Charge. said: "You turning Permitted, I won't live to see with some New York paper to send and Will It. Think Kensington Museum professor, but this young man will them "queries" about anything that Tke Care of His First Filer." live to see the dsy when men will struck him as possibly of sufficient was InterThe mere Juxtaposition up a thousand pounds of brick to Interest the New York pick esting enough. Here was the living and fly off In the air wtth them." ImportanceSalley. being at Manteo, N. Inventor of the airplane (not yet an The sentence Is still vivid. I remem- papers a sent C. dispatch to his New York old man he is M announcing someber also my own reaction to It. I newspsper to the effect thst at Kitty thing he waa going to do with the did not utter It then I should not Hawk, N. C, two men had flown s airplane that made the first flight utter It now If I preferred to flatter thousand feet at a height of sixty man ever made. (Separated only- by myself. But I remember exactly how feet above the ground In a mechani the announcement the reaction formulated Itaelf In my cally propelled machine. This telea column rule of a commercial airplane express beown mind. I said to myself, "That Is gram presented a problem to managtween New York and Chicago. right: that old gentleman has a ing editor, whose function It Is to tO MB LANOLIY HISTORY. right to talk. He Invented the tele- pasa lnatant Judgment upon ths prob- But to the writer of thl article, phone, and that gives him a license able news value of the "query" man's I know he I talking information, to determine how much for reason a having to do with certain All the same.nnneenae." I remember weight shall be given to It, and to plumb the coincidence plain, personal experience, now. to my discredit, what I said to decide whether It is of sufficient Imera even more Interesting. The menslightly florM ges- portance to call for subsequent treatthe rest of hi name myself about the Dr. tion of Langley with which Bell turned to ment by reporters dispatched from wa Samuel P. recalled an experi- ture me as he uttered his prophecy about the home office. Rumor of successence not yet twenty-fiv- e year pat I see. should to live what maful aviation In heavler-than-aand made vivid for a moment one of In had chines, occurred SCIENTISTS propelled, that mechanlcslly have SKEPTICAL. (he chnge America during the first quarter of I was not alone In my skepticism. been coming from time to time for from various several yeara quarters A good many hundred million the twentieth century. of the world, but so many of these On September 6, 19011 remember shared It. There were acceptedpeople scIhe date because while w were at ientists of high rank who shared It. rumors had turned out to he ef doubtdinner that night the news came of One was Professor Simon Newcomb, ful authenticity that aviation was not the shooting of President McKlnley an eminent director of in good repute. Breton , ha v..,it,..i astronomer, I was at Baddeck. BREAKING Cape INTO PRINT. k. iim.n.A neia Island, on the return leg of a unlver- - Vnlted States Naval observatory for To managing editors walking their had taken manT yesrs. slty vacation tramp that j an KTtMtt n Mc. careful tightropes between not being me through Newfoundland and Nova ciure the same misled by Irresponsible rumor and Magaslne. Scotia. At Baddeck. which I a little month as my visitpublished to Dr. Bell. Ren- - not missing authentic new it had vlllage on the Bras d'Or lakes. I ran tember, 1901, Dr. Newcomb wrote become a vexatlou subject, calling across a friend who asked me If I of an aerial ve- for delicate handling. For almost five "The construction would like to take dinner with Alhicle which could even a single yeara the world had been deluged with exander Graham Bell, the Inventor man from place tocarry place at pleasure a torrent of claims and counterof the telephone, whose summer horns requlree dlacovery of some new When claims. the Investigated, was at the head of the lake. To or some new force. Even withmetal, such claims were found to be withaccept the Invitation Involved some a discovery w could not expect one out baals Inusually several fact, although taking of pains In ths matter of per- to do more than carry It owner." men had been able with their masonal appearance, for It was a sort A much a two year later Pro- chine to rise a few Inches or feet of Invitation that had not been exfessor Newcomb wa even more emfrom the ground for periods meapected when I set out on the tramp, although In the Intervening sured In seconds mere "hops" of such on which my baggage consisted of fio phatic, two year a good deal of progress had unpromising nature as to more than could be wrapped up In a been mad. In the Independent of strengther the feeling most merely managing bundle with a red sweater on the October 22. 1901. Professor Newcomb editors had that mechanical flight by outside. Also those were the days wrote: man waa an Impossibility. So that When ths deforestation of ths male "The example of the bird does not Salley's "query" offered them one countenance had to be accomplished prove that man can fly. . . more opportunity of being damned If There In ths way, when men are many problems which have fascithey did and damned If they, didn't. "honed their own." and when occanated mankind since civilization be- Should they print without verificasionally, under difficult circumstances, gan which we have made little or no tion, a story that the Wrights had deforestation was dispensed with advance In solving. May not our risen sixty feet shove the ground In temporsrlly. But ths telephone was mechanician be forced a flying machine and had flown 1000 still sufficiently a marvel to excite to admit that aerial ultimately la one of feet their reward would very probably keen curiosity about the man who hsd that great class of flight with be an avalanche of On the problems Invented It. At that time he was which man can nsvsr cope, and give other hsnd, Salley ridicule. might be right, only 64 aears old. Hs lived to bs up all sttempts to grapple with It and If they Ignored the other subject 7. In 101 ths extreme limit of . . . Imagine the proud possessor of editors would be the first to publish telephoning was about an airplane utarflng through the air a story of Immense sensational Im1400 miles, as far from New York at a speed of several hundred feet portance. as Omaha. It la the speed alone per second! REPORTORIAL RUSH. that" sustains him. How Is hs ever BELL'S PREDICTION. These editorial dubieties lasted less to stop?" At Dr. Bell's horn that night we going time It take to tell them the than LANOLEY CONFIDENT. found that a guest staying at the and ended with an acceptance, with house was Professor Samuel P. Ijinr-ley- , While Professor Newcomb snd some reservations, of the glBt of Salley' a scientist and secretary of the other scientist were thus emphaticalnews. Discreet treatment would be The guest Smithsonian Institution. pessimistic. Dr. Langley took the accorded In the following day' edisnd ths host had spent that after- ly side of confident optimism. He preIn the meantime, on the and tion, noon in one of the most curious ocdicted that "the great universal highnight trains from New York, staff cupations ever engaged In by two way overhead la now soon to be correspondents of tried experience and quit serious gentlemen over fifty, open." And that "alrplanea may be reliability were ordered south. Among both and both with built to travel at peeds higher than them were Byron Newton of the New reputations In fields of solemn gravity any with which we are familiar." York Hersld, William Hoster of the (I mean gravity In ths senss of decorreWhereupon the Popular Science New York American and corum as It happens they were Just Monthly Dr. rather severely spondent of the London Iially Mall, reproved In ths way of making reputations In as more venturesoms In pre- which, under the management of Ixird Largley the field of gravity In snother sense). diction than an orthodox1 scientist Northcllffe. was paying especial attention to aviation. These correspondought to be. it ssld: "The secretary of the Smltheontan ent the next day descended upon Institution should be the represents Salley in somewhat the mood of genttve of American science and should erals who have been summoned from be extremely careful not to do any- the comfort of staff headquarters by thing that may lend Itself to an In- an outlying sentinel with Information terpretation that will bring Injury of what he alleges to be an Imporon the scientific work of the govern- tant development along the line. If ment or the country." his Information Is correct he has done something impressive. but If he THE FIRST FLIGHT. Professor Lsngley did not confine should bs mistaken he Is destined for unhappy experiences. himself to prophecy. He made a maThey found Salley confidently exchine. He called It an "aerodrome," He told them that In the a word which Utter was applied not ultant. of wandering about hls long course to the machine, but to the shed In beat along the sandy coastline he had which the machine la stored. Prothe Wright brothers had fessor Langley made an attempted learned that the begun experiment at Kitty flight with hi machine on the Potn-- i Hawk again which they had left off after mac river on October 7, 190J. It waa their first machine hRd become dama failure because of an accident which ELECTRIC CLEANER aged In 1903. The situation had preProfeasor Langley described ss "due sented to Itself as the opporSalley Cttt ALL thi diH Ay Air Atom wholly to the launching waya" The tunity of a lifetime. He wa the ; accident "drew ths aerodrome abrupt-- I man within fifty only newspaper ly downward at the moment of miles of the Wrlgtits. and If hi luck and caat It into the water nesr held should the and make a Wrights the houseboat " The sccident to the success of their as the launching waya, Dr Langley eontend-- i fishermen and experiment, lifeguards expected ed, had nothing to do with the flying his be distincwould the would, they machine That. he Insisted, was tion of being the first to advise the soond in principle. man had definitely conBut the failure drew down a good world that Several of the deal of Wring on Professor Langley's quered the air. at stationed Kitty Hawk, ten head, and he never made any further miles across Pamlico from sound progress. were of his. They friends Two months snd ten davs later. De-- ! Manteo, were maneuver the helping Wrights ceniber 1", lim, at Kitty Hawk. N. airplane and knew them well C. tha first flight ever made by their them toj Salley man waa accomplished by the. Wright An Intimation fromwere that the Wrights strongly opbrothers, with a machine thev hsd posed to having their experiments rema!e themselves In their bicycle shop to the public was enough of a ported at Dsyt..n, rn0. This was Incon-hint. Thereafter'. Salley spent the testshly the first Tying machine that night at Manteo and the day. in the ever flew. crotch of a tree a mile away from the This brings us to the dlpnt wht-h- . hangar, observing activities this month. aue1 Orville Wr'gbt to Wright's of s powerful pair of field announce that he Is going to give this wtth the aid His perch also commanded glasses. original airplane to nn Knrllah mu- - an excellent view of the ocean aid eeum. The machine with which Tro- - of Kill Devil hill, largest of all the feasor langley made Ma failure Is dunes, tip the side of which now In the Smithsonian Institution at sand been constructed a rall- had Washington The label on It reads W8 the first airplane capable of "Thl SKEPTICISM AGAIN. flight." T Mr. Wright aays rhts label, Twtre each day, Salley told the on the ji marhlne la untpm ' he seen hsd a. a reason for sendlns- hl.' the correspondents. machine to British museum hi. arw' Wrights, assisted by th llfesavers. tart the glider flown the Incline, prehension mat in laoet u nioh th '"'vat n'1 shoot htgh Into tn Pan Smithsonian Institution might put on the tT- landings were made ss gen. the Wriiht machine mlcht nor h. " the "v croft though the label nrr the more true than grent One of those nrescnt at this , Wrd. its machine. interview between Milley and the New WRIOHT INDIGNANT, York correspondents. n writing of It t Mr, Wright's tnrtlmatlnn strikes one lstr. tnpntlotx'd that IW last sremod a havlnn Justification, Frofcs- - Ilk" a not 'very plausible hit of Ins-lsmaohlna dl! not fly aaewaUon. This' New York reporter j sir The Wrisht machine did. had spent hours and days at Sheeps-bsa- d Lana-1-the ra-machine did At I'ast, track wsltlns for the act fly In IfOi. .. Elevn yrars later, to die down so thst Henry Farwln4 man 1914. aftar a ool dal of progress might risk one of Ms "hops" throush 1n hsd been made tn prfactlns; the avi- th air. snd ponsiuentlv knew that ation srV the old Isnglay plane vas a breese of any sort msde flyhis; ' taken to Msmmonrtsport, ". Y. t trap Sslley he inoulred ' thaV tlrae. It Is stated by the prent If the, "Wrlrhts 'flew on wtnfy davs. of the Smithsonian iad Institution. "Yes. Indeed," willed Salley. "They f"l saw th plane rise from the wa-'- - went up the ther , day when the ters. The test was Then; wind wss blowing such a gale that Just as tbeyo nowadays, I decked the tree I was In swayed so I could j upon further teats. I irav orders for hardly keep thy glasses trained on a heavier snd more powerful engine then" A heavy silence followed this j t bs Installed, and !f plan statement, which was terminated by new onaer tinee conomcn. reruesi irom James Mar, the vet m This sptsode occurred while soras aeran new ohatogTapher, tiat b be) Airplane Controversy Recalls Some Early Day Flying History Wright-Langle- y i at 4 .. !;". rjoiwiiiiit'ti.. 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Used Cleaner, $5 suo-aasf- i . j. t.Ths BROADWAY THE BIG STORE I aviation. had borrowed the land they were us- tance to the early stages ofthemselves Wrights that Doubtless th ing from the government, andWashsome of of were ths beneflclsrles orders had been received from discoveries within th field no circumstances ington that to under be disturbed. Further- of pur science, about air pressure and vers they ot talk, th like. But ths Wrights had what more, ths Wrights would as workand threatened, If spied aeon, to Langley had not. experience they ran a bloycl send their flying machlns back to ing mechanics Even mors its and tiumor.) exImportant, shop. dtacontinus to snd ths repair ttayton n New tor newspa The only youth could - have, Th llfesavers, under they had what tnen announced that they were periments. ability,a kind of acrobatic had substanclever field to the over flying It cams to fc railed. Langley rolng right tiated Salley's story. Ths Wrights man-died In He and talk with the Wrirhts. When they had flown, an was elderly not once, but many times. set off on Iher long, hot trip through partly. It washim.said, of ths Jeering DEATH LANGLIY'S smiled. Salley the to sand hangar the This article heaped upon Larurley never flew. returned to their A little later they tslti-ira k hsd Labored would bs Incomplete, however, snd STUDENT" BODY ELECTS, ffr in of a mils justice U It failed seriously lacking through ths sand, to within te To Trlbsne. X as Sperlsl a ttiat scientist add bobbed Langley. y bad llfesavers upfto cfttnn th. In both tost NEPHL May . The. following stuexperimenter patient unexpectedly out t nowhere. Th and . w . a n ,i ararnra m were t elected, i ths officers dent body mflvnamip firm. bat had been friendly llfesavers mads contributions of hitrh Impor Kcpht high school this week: Boyd They tad explained that th Wright ullowed to look, through "the blnocun Kngli.hman (Jimrote Hartand much charm, who ability of on expeditions like this mad himself to soften comedian a hardship with good nature, high spir- " Lang-ley'- half-doze- "alr-ssns- .' x v A L STATE ' !,, Eurton, president; Kathryn Starr, irt president; , lluth Grover, secretary treasurer; Herman McCuns, Judge; Howard Tanner, attorney; Blanch Burton, editor; Neldon Worthlngton, chief of police and man ger of sports; - JTlorenc Byron Taylor, yellmaster; -- " Chase, reporter. . y Supreme Court Denies on Bath Work , ' Damages .' : suprrrae- court ol t'th Asth res-it, J. P. Murphy, ths contractor was treated was entitled Is bis action being tb case. Mr. MurnhVa anr tM supra ms court was without Jrh:Ji'Zict supreme court '" 1- tinoM the verdict, y y Mr. Murphy asserted "that y use 4l patented .form of tils "If1.ths scam gutters and coping, and that his offer for another form of tile waa refussd by the architect. The supreme court bold that the of fer wsj not made in accord with Mr t to Murphy's oonrtTu-- with the city, end since be bad not complied wtth con- - ' dltions hs had no recourse In the tor courts' the extra cost involved in the two swimming pools Installing th patenUd article. The LsJts munlclpaj baths., contractor estimated that thesis of v mors liberally than he the patsnted article cost hint Wtl- to by the dlstrtctwurt more wan me til na proposed to la-against U clt. This tsu wouia oavs, - who Installed In tits Salt ' figu- ' |