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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1908)
THE- OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 27,, 1908. 11 ml THE OAKLAND MOTOR CAR CO. Pledge themselves to continue their unique policy of representing American Intelligence by advertising without EX AGGERATION or deception. The New Oakland 4-eylinder "Forty" at $1,600, and the Oakland "Twenty," with its incomparable two-cylinder vertical motor, at $1,250, usher in an era when highest grade automobile construction goes hand in hand with prices in the reach of the aver age buyer. , 20 II. P. ! Touring Roadster ! $1,250 20 II. P. Runabout $1,200 40 II. P. Touring Car $1,600 40 II. P. Touring Roadster $1,600 Shaft Drive Thin Is the new OAKLAND Mode! B, refined In construction and deolirn, and ready for 1909. Last season It created a hi sen ration with Its vertical two-cylinder 20 H. P. vlbratlonless motor. It la the lightest oar of lta power and rapacity on Hie market WelKht 1,460 pounds. Price, $1,250. Full equipment In cludes two gas lamps, two aide oil lamps, one tall light, generator, horn, tools, Jack, pump and batteries. Why the Oakland Costs Less to Run OAKLAND prices are lowest .because every dollar of total coat In shaft-drive OAK- LANDS buys more miles of satisfactory service than can be secured from any other motor car In the world. Strength, efficiency, light weight and simplicity means less gasoline, less oil, less tire cost, less re pairs and less attention for every mile traveled and every passenger carried. The mechanical efficiency Is higher and the weight lower In an Oakland than In any other car of equal strength, capacity and roadrtblllty. The efficiency is higher because their mechanls.ni Is simpler and more substantial. The weight Is lower because every part Is made of the material best adapted to the duties of that particular rmrt, and every part Is shaped and placed to bust fulfil Its duties and to require the least material. If the Brooklyn Bridge or the Singer Building were as unscientific In construction as Is the average automobile, they would fall of their own weight. Shaft Drive Our big surplus this year m a four cylinder car at an astonisning ly low price. NOT A LITTLE TRAPPY FOUR, but a big FOKTY . p. MOTOR of the simplest, most substantial design ever put into an automobile. ' The same OAKLAND virtues, great strength combined with light weight, (19C0 lbs., straight line drive, long wheel base (110 In.) and quiet, smooth operation at a price of $1.00 make the OAKLAND "4U ' the materialized dream of the power worshipping driver. Nothing Dut the scientific OAKLAND construction makes possible LESS THAN 60 lbs. weight to each H. P. BlX Our Motors and Their Designer Mr. Bush's record Is unparalleled. Inventor of the only car that ever sold for consecutive years and still sells without material change. His later designs of widely differing typeB promise to eclipse the record of his fear ller work. The "experts" prophesied "That Oakland Motor" will be "no good." Ask them now or investigate the OAKLAND "20." The perfect OAKLAND control is only one case where the carrying of OAKLAND principles of construction farther- has meant an undreamed of approach to the Ideal. To assert that the control of a gasoline car can be made SIMPLER EASIER SMOOTHER than the control of an Electric sounds too impossible to carry conviction. Write for Catalog and Agency to LIMNGER IMPLEMENT CO., OMAHA, NEB. To prove our claims of reliability for the OAKLAND we entered the Glidden Tour, 1,667 miles of the hardest going to be found. The OAKLAND made a perfect score more than which no car at any price accomplished. In this tour, the OAK LAND carried a full load, four persons, as many as was carried by the largest cars in the run. This is a record never equalled by a car in its first year. 5f Hatty Black and his brother BEN If one kant sell you the other KEN It's not a question of whybut WHEN We're ready'get busycome on MEN!! r IT TT HAT Fancy Fall Furnishings tr Finicky Fingers Shirts, Gloves, Hose, Kerchiefs for the nose, And Neckties that certainly can be classed as dingers. BLACK, THE HATTER, 109 8t- , HTmm.f " " Seven Men Who Spend Their Waking: Hours at Den of Ak-Sar-Ben '- i- i V HUH if' y,Mk y arc- yt,yA':r v " " -7 9yU i .- L It it i. J A. ' 1 .S .... II" . - ... . V fl ; W mm ? vy I.- . :U 'f ir. mf' . : 1 u& -,f ".j Vv.,:-, .y - .-..'-;.v- . - ' I. . . , . - -., ...... - .. ' - .. ; ; : '" ' ' , , ' . , v .' ;,t ' , ' . ' ' .' ' '"'' I 15 . ' it- ' f 4 i . i'-,-.Nf ' .M-r IB J J LOUI3 BAUMOARTNER, Cuitodian of Den. CHARLES EATON, Electrician. THOMAS BUFORD. Papier Mache Artist. H. E. JOHNSON. ."ARTHUR", SORENSON.' WILLIAM MARX. JAMES BUFORD. THE WRIGHTS REALLY FLY Aeronauts' Lon? Quest for Success ful Flying Machine. PUBLIC INDIFFERENCE AND DOUBT A Practical Alrshl ta Remit of Yrara of tttdy aad Scrlce . !Mrusld On Wkrs Warld Called TUra Cranks. Although thrre havo been occasional more or less successful flights with ma chines heavier than air for several years bark. It Is probably fair to say that the aeroplane experiments of the last two weeks have been more convincing to th) public at large, always skeptical as to the practicability of aerial navigation, than all -he efforts of the preceding years put to tnli.T. The heroes of th events have been the two young Americans. Orvllle and Wilbur Wright, one flying in his aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va., before a committee of army men. and the other at Le Muns, France. In a similarly constructed machine. A few yean ago the Wrights were regarded, ex cept by a few privileged witnesses, S be longing to (he imaginative class of cranks devoting their time to a dream. When Orvllle Wright remained In ths air for two minutes more than one hour at Port ilfi one day and bicreased the time to elxty-fiv minutes the next, achieving at times a speed of nearly a mile a minute, he was hailed far and wide as the fore most living aeronaut, with a genuine solu tion of the problem that hud baffled scien tists through the ages. So much has been written about the Wrights, silent and mooest though they have been about their studies of the air, that It Is hard to separate the true from tho fanciful. One fact, however, stands out In regard to their success It hss been the result of careful scientific Investiga tion, tireless seal In the face of appar ently Insurmountable difficulties, snd not the caprice of luck or the outcome of dare deviltry. The Wrights sre students, not adventurers. Their profession, which be gan as their pastime, has been pursued with serious aim, disregard for heroics and Indifference to public clamor for spec tucular races and fancy exhibitions. To day the governments of the world are clamoring for. an opportunity to get their Ideas. Recently, In taking out patents in France, the brothers made public most of the de tail measurements and devices of their machine, but they say they have no fear of an appropriation of the designs, on the theory that they have retained in their beads enough technical knowledge of thj invention to render Its successful copying Impossible for anynn who has not given the same years of hard study to th subject that they have given. Wvrk la Tkelr Bleyrle Skop. In appearance Orvllle and Wilbur Wright would pass for merchants or clerks In some inland city, and that approximate what they were before their entrance Into the flying field. Th sons of a bishop of thb United Brethren church, with no in herited means, they used to have a bicycle shop. As boys they had been fond of me chanics and they drifted into that line of work In the course of the bicycle erase. In their ahop at Dayton, O., they made a good living, mostly at repair work. They built bicycles, too, buying the standard pieces from Urge factories and putting thou) together. FYom childhood they had experimented with kites, but thers had been no thought of seriously studying aviation until twelve years ago. Beginning their investigations on a small scale, with the persual of all the books on the subject as a starter, until they were familiar with the achievements of IJUenthal. Moulllard, Chanute. Professor Langlcy, Sir Hiram Maxim, and the other would-be air navigators, in the aeroplane division, they finally undertook to make a flying machine. That was when they Mill made bicycles. Sine then they have built many aeroplanes, each an improve ment of the other. One must hear th Wrights describe their slow progress in order to realise the huge ness of their task. Between machines, there were month of research and study. They found that nobody had yet formu lated properly th action of air currents against surfaces of different shapes, placed at different angles; that the slightest vari ation of th angles or curve of a flying machine' wing meant new and hitherto undreamed-of complications for the avi ator. They tested many lime tu effect of the wind upon each kind of aeroplane, each slse of tall or rudder, each weight of propellers and machinery. They met winds of various force, sailed against and with them, and studied the effect of stray gust and steady blow upon their machine under every conceivable condition. Time and 'again they discovered that some supposedly established theory of their predecessors must be laid aside as ridicu lous. They were, in short, exploring a region In which every so-culled fact had been only half verified, every conclusion largely a guess, and each achievement a basis for erroneous deductions. Brna to Stady la 1SOO. ' Without attempting to enter Into the technicalities of aeroplane building It is not hard to see that the Wrights had cut out for themselves a lifetime work. They began serious study in 1896, and expert I ments four years later. Until a very few. years ago, while building and repairing bicycles, they regarded the aeroplane game as a diversion aad spent In Its pursuit only what earnings they could afford to spend for amusement It was after they became confident of success that they re tired from their business and decided to devote their time exclusively to aviation. In the meantime, after several experi ment at Dayton, they got down to real tests on the sand hills of eastern North Carolina as early as the fall of ltuO, Th machine of that year, although they in tended to fly In It, was not up to expec tation and they had to sail It Ilk a kit at th end of the small boy' string, di recting it movement I rum th ground. with nobody aboard. In th next three year experiments were repeated annually, and by 1903 the aeronauts auoceeded In re maining up In the air a minute at a time. A power machine, with motor and pro pellers, was tested near the close of 1903. It stayed up atoout a minute and traveled nearly 900 feet. This waa the first flying machine that had ever raised Itself by its own power with a man In it. The next two years' flights were at Day ton. Occasionally, through the newspa pers, the public heard of them, but gen- erally in a half-scoffing way. They were not taken seriously beyond the circles of the Wrights' Intimates. In Dayton, as the brothers hav often recalled good-naturedly, most people called them cranks. Yet a real machine was making real as cents in the town at close Intervals, and so great was the efficiency attained that before, th end of 1106 the operator of th machine was able to travel In curves, rise or descend almost st will and remain In the air several minutes consecutively. At last, whether anybody else believed It or not, the Wrights were sura they had a practicable flying machine. They built several of the type in 1904. Th first pub llo experiments, however (and they were unofficial), were at Kill Devil hill, north Carolina, last May. Then, for th first time, the nation seemed to take th Wright seriously. On May I they started out with a short flight. Five day Ir.ter It was estimated that the machine made a speed of forty one mile an hour for a distance of about a mile. On May 14, following the other successful flights, th flyer was swashed, after a trip of five miles In about seven minutes. That ended the Wrights' flights until the recent appearances In France and at Fort Myer. Wilbur made his first 'ascent at Le Mans on August 8. a little more than a month ago. and remained in the air one minute and forty-six seconds. On Au gust 10 he flew 1.24 miles in one minute and forty-three seconds. Two days later ho was In the air six minutes and fifty-two and two-fifths seconds. Then there wss a mishap to his machine, and th limelight was deflected to a French aeronaut, Uean Delagrange, at Issy, by two flights that lasted for twenty-nine and thirty-one min utes, respectively. M. Delagrange's claim to the world's record was short lived, how ever, for Orvllle Wright smashed all the records with his performances at Fort Myer first fifty-seven minute In th air and later sixty-two and slxty-flv minute. llts of Few Words. The Wright brothers are s tent, business like men. Both are tall and rather slender. Orvllle wear a black moustache and has some hair, but not much. Wilbur ha no moustache and Ms head Is almost bald. They look th part of students, It ons gnes beyond their rather shoppy dress and their bands roughened by mechanical work, with traces of machinery grease generally vis ible when they sre In th field. They are remarkably alike, In manner and appear ance. Wilbur waa born on April 14, ls"4, nd Orvllle on August 19, 187L Something pur than a year ago they made visit to New Tors. They bad heard of a prospecUv prls lor Aero nautical achievements and, while they did not car to enter a raoe, they needed tho money. That waa before they made their plans to sell their machine to govern ment, either the United Btates, or, If this country did not want It, to a foreign power. After some searching her they found the officers of the Aero Club of America. The officers were surprised and at a loss how to entertain the Invent ors, for th Wright wanted to do nothing but talk alr-flylng. They wouldn't din out. They wouldn't smoke at th olub. Tbty wouldn't Indulge In a sociable drink. After Interviews that seemed fruitless for both sides they went away from New York as quietly ss they had corns. Tko Trackless Trolley Th trackless trolley Is not an Idl dream as fourteen of them are being very suc cessfully operated in Europe. In general outline and construction th trackless troll ?y looks not unlike Its prototype which needs must keep on a track. The same electric motors drive the new trolley but the electricity Is gathered, from th overhead trolley wire by a fexl tl connection. The trolley wheel run on top of the trolley wire and Is connected to the car by a wire cable. The vehicle I steered with a wheel .like an automobile. The cars carry thlrtyp assengers. A number of Pennsylvania capitalists are planning to operate a trackless trolley line from Chattanooga to the top of Walden s Kldge, Tenn., a distance of fifteen miles. Bo far th trackless trolley ba swan it , greatest, development la Frag jj
