Show am oo 00 NT ap wa 1 FT N I 1 DR WILSON FOR GOVER GOVERNOR that the scholar in s is to be a factor in american public lit has been prophesied and to some degree exemplified tor for several years but for the first time in the history of the lie the head of a leading university has been of fared the nomination for governor of a state and has signified his willingness to become the bandl date woodrow wilson president of princeton versify Is both a scholar and a politician in the higher sense of the word he knows life 1 not only from books but he has been a ing laver lawyer and in various ways has come more into touch with the great of working men and women probably than any other head of an amer lean ican institution of learning to the observer of ro atles who Is not on the inside as an express expressive he phrase ruts juts it the obed nomination of doctor wl son so far as the press dispatches have reported it mav may be a provocative of mild curiosity it Is said in the dispatches thai that doctor wilson has been told he can ha have hae e the nomination by a dozen or more p eminent new jersey democrat cz at the lawyers club in manhattan A previous dispatch has in formed the p that docton wilson la Is to be the democratic candidate candidates tor president of the united states in 1912 it if a combination of wall street and political interests can mal e him so in both announcements there is nothing 9 relating to the wishes or the feelings of the greit people who are supposed to compose the democratic Demora tic party yet th ohp selection of president wilson verv possibly may meet the enthusiastic ampro approval al of the voters of the democratic party when the q of fitness is ed president wilson strongest interests it is said by those who know him well are in government and politics this persapa is natural to him as a virginian Virgin Virgi lin for that commonwealth has been the mother of statesmen since the foundation of the republic in 10 co lele debates and essays he ie showed his bent caria earl he leoinel art aleo alco the value of being t good public speaker and ess ass d ou 13 practiced until he became a ready debater and an accomplished oriton later he be le leardi d to speak with grace an ani I 1 fluency on post occasions F IS FATHER OF AVIATION N the real father of aviation is octave chanute an cig ei ineer of distinction who is now in paris parts alter after having submitted to a serious operation he ile has had an interesting adeer career born in paris parts in 1802 1832 he came to this country with his father in and studied engineering his ills first and the most important appointment that he ever received was that of chief engineer of the elevated rail road company of new yolk york founded in 1865 mr chanute drew up the plans of the famous 4 ds up third sixth and ninth avenues which at their opening to traffic in 1875 were con marvels of engineering skill and which for the last 35 years have been of incalculable adNan advantage tage to the uptown atlon of new york city this vast enter enterprise prie took up all his time for ten years it was not until 1890 that his thoughts were directed toward navigation of the air it was then that the experiments of lilienthal and vercher at bis his attention and the monoplane gliders which they used appeared to him out of the proper equilibrium he thereupon set to work experimenting himself in 1891 and 1892 with his son the gliders they used were biplanes and this is the only invention that he claims in a aviation he ile ays that it seemed to him just as simple to try to fly with two superimposed planes as with a single one and the stability would be imme acely increased the idea was very simple indeed but somebody had to think of it at the age of sixty in company with his son he began to practise hying flying without a motor later on of couise course it was realized that light motors j abol absolutely necessary ebsary chanute who a ho was then well advanced in years he Is now 8 tired of the exper mental work and turned over his apparatus to the wright brothers they followed along the lines he had laid down and he kept 1 in touch with their N ork ark constanti constantly it was to his early experiments and afterwards through his advice that they succeeded in making a flying machine the first which evar made a tree free flight with a passenger I 1 M AJ GOES ABROAD maj john M carson chief of the bureau of manufactures of the department of commerce and labor who has been selected to go abroad to look i 1 into the general trade conditions and op ties for american manu altures up to the time 0 91 i his appointment as chief of the bureau of manu fractures fac tures in 1802 1902 by president roosevelt was one of the ablest newspaper men of the washington V 14 I 1 contingent and chief of the washington wahington bureau 0 created after the consolidation of the philadelphia times and the philadelphia I 1 edger he was the first president and one of the founders of the gridiron club and again its dent in 1905 he ile is also a member of the army and navy club and the military order of the loy al at legion he began his new paper career as a devil in a printing office li ii his teens and after ward became a compositor later he served as a newspaper reporter from may 1861 until june 1864 he ft as an officer of the twenty se seventh anth Penn syhania regiment after the war he resumed new newspaper paper work in phela delania until 18 3 when he became night editor of the national cit lonal republican in this city in 1874 he established a connection with the new york times and the philadelphia ledger as their correspondent in washington in IS 16 1 1 I e became chief of the philadelphia times abreau and remained in that position until 1882 when he again became the manager of the phila delphia ledger budeau which position he held antil the consolidation of the tu two a I 1 larer ar era in 1902 when A hen he became chief of th washington bureau nhen hen william D kelley was w as chairman of the ways wa s and means commit tee of the bouse house of representatives major carson i as its clerk and in that position as isted in the formation of the tariff bill of 1883 and the mckinley bill of 1890 his ills reputation Is national and the esteem and regard in which he Is held Is deep ai d wide BRAZIUS PRESIDENT HERE the cibit of president elect hermes F besca of N brazil to this country affords an opportunity ac re cording to american diplomats tor for solidifying toe the 1 friendly relations now existing between the two countries the program for his entertainment as ar ringed by charge d dAf kf faires silva of the brazilian embassy n washington and representatives of the state department included a visit to beverly the summer home of president taft and to galley nalley forge pa the r home of secretary of state baloc R nox receptions lans in honor of the distin gulshen visitor were placed laced on the program tor for new ew york philadelphia boston chicago wash ington and pittsburg it was w as the desire of the nation s guest to study the enterprises of these and other big cities on account of his own accomplishments in military organization it was planned to take the brazilian to west point and annapolis to inspect the army and navy schools it was expected when the plans were made that the conferences to be had with president taft and secretary knox would be fruitful of much good bearing on the relations between brazil and the united states and it was hoped coped in dialon abic circles that they would mould result in the united ha haan in is a pc 4 ark prk il it ally in south american affairs the rep republic of f bra lira zak a aia I 1 |