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while the figurative glad hand " I ' r .' -,'i.!v'--' f ,. ' ' ;! I I
Ik tnvust forward to welcome ' - I J " . ,jC -' ;? ' : I I
CurtiM and hla aviation meet ' """" " . " I I'." :, .x'.-. fV . . , ' "" I I
.11.11! II It
opening next Katurduy. It requires om
thlna mora than aerial navigation to bring
ti Omaha thai awraome feeling no common
t-i conimunltlea of more limited horlion.
Tlu.e was a time, however, fifty yeara ago
when Peter Karpy and other pioneers were
I'UaiiiR tha trail Into NebianKa, journeying
by x team and steamboat, that any prog
nostication concarfilng flying machines for
future generations would have been tha
signal for a verdict of mental derangement.
Frank Tillman, widely known In military
circles as "child of the army," because
of tha fact that he was born in a Texan
frontier army pout, where his father was
a. captain, and knew no other home until
he was ser.t away to military school. Is
In Omaha as personal representative' of
Curtlsa. Tillman once broke into tha news
paper buslnis, but the greater part of hie
"copy" related to aerial affair, w4en as
a, mutter or fact, he wliould by all rules cf
the game have been writing news of the
local courts. Therefore, It is well within
the limits of eternal fltneea for Tillman to
now be covering the United Klatoa as
avftnt courier of the coming airship, for
he has made a study of aerial navigation
ever alnce his swaddling raiment days. He
waa with the Fielding and San Antonio
balloon when It mad its trumphal flight
two years ago, and soon after he became
Identified with the Curtis bl-plane aggre
gation. Dirigible balloons will also be a feature
of the aviation meet as indicated bv por.
rLvwtty
" . .wn.kc, uuui vi mi
Omaha Bee, and General James Allen' h. un .. .h. rn w i.n. . . i tii, h defended hla records for speed made poses. The Dayton inventors oasea tneir of unconscious attention, for instance, let
chief algnai officer United State army! eiu.iv.lv crtinm- taZU Th. Interested In aeroplane. ' From thl tlm abroad and established hew ones. H also "'t upon the plea of an infringement of m giv you a an example, the bicycle.
AVaaMngton. D. C. A a result of that cor- Idea, of Herrtn. and Cur ties and 1 Math Laa h bwm of th dartn cr9W 01 "Ubliahed new world's record for quick Patent. They managed to get a temporary Nearly everyone ha at om tlm or other
reapondence. General Allen gave authority Arnot of Elmira. who died lat yew took f"eM Whlch ,or th Ir"' two year " "tarUng in an aeroplane at Lo Angeles, Injunction against Curtiss and Paulhan, th ridden one, and these can appreciate the
for balloon to be brought from Fort form in the Hammondsport shops and cava b)en rtlln the world fI1"ttt over eving th ground in alx and two-fifths Frenchman, which was recently dissolved, point They will remember how, when
Omaha to participate In the demonstration the Curtiss aeroplane to the world ,uul luul With Bieriot and Paulhan. seconds after the machine was released. A which now freea his pinioned wings. they first mounted the wheel, maintaining
H is confidently expected that thl meet Th "Red Wing" was the first blolan the Frnon,. Curtis shared the honor new world' record for the shortest distance "Driving an aeroplane at the speed of their equilibrium was a matter of nerve
will bring to Omaha not lea than 60 000 tried out at Hammondsport. It flight waa ln July yr Curtis gathered in In rising was also made by Curtiss at the seventy-five mllea an hour ia not nearly racking vigilance In their efforts to main
visitor from various section of th coun- mv h h- ,Cn. t v.r. ,a " Prlw for aviation records on flighW met when he soared Into the air after a as difficult aa driving an automobile at tain It they would Invariably put the wheel
try, for th local authorities ln chares
have spared neither expense nor energy In
widely advertising the meet. The grounds
on January avenue, near curuelte . street
are as aigiuiy aa any tnat could he found
in Omaha, and It Is the general consensus
of oDlnlon'that no bettrr nla- for th. v
hlbltlon could have been secured
Much iniereat. of course, center, .round
Glsnn H. Curtis, and whil th newspaper
reading publlo the world over I. familiar
with hi. name and fame, perhaps com para
:
lively few ar Informed a to the "who'
who" side of Curtis.
On day twenty year ago, a youngster
who was known sround Hammondsport, N.
Y., as "Glennie" C'u.-tles, traded an old well
pulley, an iron wheel barrow that would
not wheel, and som other assorted Junk
for a broken-backed bicycle with no tlrea
and only half a handle bar. Though he did
not know it. "aiennie" Curtiss that very
day took his initial step ln aviation. On
the ramshackle frame of tha bicycle for
h i r K h hail Irj.l ...1 h -lua-.i ,.n .. ...
which he had traded he rigged up a strange
contraption that snorted and spouted flume.
but such outburst was no terror to th
prospective aerial navigator, so long as the
device propelled the wheels and It did that
to hla -atlnfactlon. Although he waa sev-
eral times scorched by gasoline flames, and
frequently unseated by explo-lons, th
youngster kept on doing something which
all of bis neighbors characterised as
"orasy." In th end, he had constructed a
motorcycle, and from that to a vehicle that
would carry him through the air, waa a
comparatively easy etep, although It re-
quired year for consummation. For a long
while Curtis was a motorcycle devotee,
and on th rao course he had many nar-
row escapea from death. It waa he who
biok th world' motorcycle record by
maklng a mile In twenty-six second at
Ormond Beach, Fla.. a few years ago.
In hla boyhood daya, Curtiss, who was
born in Hammondsport. N. Y., kept a
small shop ln th rear of his father house
In his native town. There he worked day
nd night, "tinkering hia time away," the
n?'.V'?!? "k Uf d.K",V' com",0",
But the little shop by and by grew into a
ar; y.r:a.Cu;.u,"orr;uahfi:
nanciul sense, from the manufacture of
,irci..
A. a manufacturer of compact gasoline
engine. Curtis, cam. to be looked upon a.
an expert when experiment, with dirigible
balloons were baU.g tried in Europe and
thl. .-numrv t.n vr. .. !..v-.--i. .
with airships to be propelled came to Cur-
tlss' Hammondsport factory t? confer with
him upon modifications of the gasoline
motor for balloon purposes. Curtiss be
gan to enter competition with Kauloa-Du-
motit and other foreign avlatora in th
manufacture of light-weight aeronautical
motor.
Ills Interest In aeronautic lncraaed aa
he came more and more into touch with
Americans who were trying to solve the
problem of flight with th lighter than air
machine. H built th motor that was
Installed la Captain Thomas Baldwin' Cal-
Ifornta Arrow, th dlrigibl balloon which
wa accepted by the United Slate gov-
riiment after lengthy trials at Fort Meyer,
va. cunisa iiimseii uttnaiea tne motors
In some of the army testa. Thl balloon i
now at Fort Omaha.
In th winter of 19tT7, Pr. Alexander
Gruhain Bell, Inventor of the Hell tele-
phone, who had been making experiments
wiui various ij pes ot giiuiug maciunes at
lila laboratory in lladdeck. Nova Scotia,
moved his shops down to Hauinioridsport
aud Interested Curtiss tn designing a new
Come to Omaha to Flap Their
extremely light motor for use in an aero
plane. The coming of Dr. Bell brought
other enthusiasts to Hammondsport, and
before many months the Aerial Experiment
association appeared as new factor In
the field.
Captain Thomas S. Baldwin. J. H. O. Mo
Curdy and Charles A. Manley. who had
collaborated with the late Prof. Langley
In his experiments, and A. M. Herring
were otners wno were associated witn i-r.
xtcii ana )oung vuriiHS in me society, i no
government later arranged to have Lieu
tenant T. E. Relfrldge, who waa killed in
one of the Wright machine at Fort Meyer,
Va., last year, attend the testa and co-operate
with the eprlmenters.
Dr. Bell's Idea of a practloal aeroplane
and those of Curtisa differed. While the
former adhered to his own Idea of a wing
tructur which would be slower, but stead-
ier. in flight, Curtis went ahead evolv-
lug a bi-plane somewhat after the pattern
of tha Wrirht hmthara' machine. It wmiM
J w .7 .1 1Z V
?hfcT"e,,.r! hthat the type otaro-
ptan nit upon at tne Hamraonasport ex-
Deriment station, wnicn nas now oomt to
i. i .i,
The "WMte Wing" followed this first
experimental machine, and with thl Cur-
tins
had remarkable luck. On May 22, 1808,
the machine traveled 1,017 feet In nineteen
s5Cond8 - , Tnls machine had the movable
affixed to th end of th upper
pIMe retUr WhlCh th' Wright
Progressive Developments in
Rapid (irowlh of llBalne...
HE astounding growth ln the us
T
of electricity a motlv power
is told ln statistic recently
made public by the census bu-
reau. Though the figure dealt
with the most familiar of all
electricul activities, that of street car op-
pritllin t)ia AnIJ Amt . 1. 1
eration, the cold data summarizing this
Pnaae or industrial progress ar none the
startling. W count ourselves Hill
ou8. who have seen the cable succeed
'ho horse car, and the trolley or under-
ground electrlo succeed the cable. Yet one
own observation or, even, imagination, falls
short of comprehending the magnitude of
the change.
Twenty years ago animal power was th
most Important means of transportation
In our towns aud cities.. Then horses or
mulea were In use on almost 70 ner cent
of th total trackage in the country, tty
1907, the proportion of trackage operated
by animal power had decreased to tour-
tenths of 1 per cent. Electricity bad be-
come the energy used upon 89 per cent of
th street railway, including inteuruVban
line.
Tho census office figures are for the
year 1W7, though they ar now for tl)
first time collected and sifted. Probably
the advance of th last three years, were
these figures available would rendnr . h
atatlstlcs of 1907 well nld. (1ioit.
The chief- value of the census bureau's
ntw rtuort ,je, , lt, comp.ruion of
,! - .-
tomnUrd hv ih.3.. r t. . 2
compute! by the census office. It Is found
th. 1 ' ncre" "
L" lnth!f "T" Th": Wa"
f Pr ""l ln lh total numLt'r
. p"e"l,s.r. The number of companies
Increased SS.S per cent, and th trackau
. ''"""'" oy - ptr cent, i ne grjs
ut e railways jumped .1. per
rent, anu the
amount of salaries nnd
wagea kept upward pace with the rest, was in operation ever a total rout mile
The total number of operating and lessor ace of more than alxty miles. The trolley.
companies tn the United States in VM1 waa
1'2'' "J ln 1907, the total miles
of line, meaning by that first main track
f rdbcd. was 2f,5i;.'j, a compared with
" " The total length of all
lr" ' "1cluJlnS aiding, was S4.401M In
1Jl'7- cuntiastlng effectively with Ii57i.9 in
19l"- ut this enormous mileage, S4.U.J.6
u'"r operated by electricity In I9i7,
Malnat 21.907.M in 1902. Animals wer
u4 ln 1'-K" on only mil mile of track,
Tn trackage operated by ste.tm in 17
" u in lwa it was 1(9.61, a de-
crease of 13 per cent.
Your imagination will fin the gap be-
tweeu l'JOT and mo. William M. ten art,
chief atatlMlcian for mcr.uracttirers c.f th
census, under whose supervision the report
w as prepared, is wining to hazard tn
guets that the advance recorded from lo?
to 107 h.s been equaled during Jsub, 1
nd IM0.
era afterward declared an infringement of
their patents in thoir suit agaimrt the
Hammondsport filers.
The "June Bug," last of Uie three ex
perimental aeroplanea to be turned out at
Hammondsport afid the type of all other
curtiss biplanes ainoe manufactured, won
th, scientific American trophy for the first
flight of one kilometer to be made in
America. The machine took the distance
la 1:16 and then went on for 600 yards
more. This aucoee waa achieved on July
4, 1908.
Kollowl&g the culmination of these ex
perimental effort the Herring-Curtiss com
pany was fonmod with a capita Illation of
10,000 to manufacture aeroplanea. Curtis
held 220 share of the preferred stock and
280 ehares common. The winning of .the
Selantlfln Anw.i-lyn n.l 11,.
Z . . . '
beginning of a new phase In Curtl.s' ca-
rr. Before that time he had been a
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over Hempstead Plain at Mineola,
N. T.
One of these wa a second Scientific
American trophy for distance. In August
of laat vear Curtlaa went nvar to entnr tha
Kra. aviation meet at Reims. France, and
there it was that he mad hi name Inter-
national. It waa after many discouraging
failure and when the American aviator
seemed to be ln th novice class in oomparl-
The tables dealing with the investment
involved and the number of pavsengei
carried are dazsling. The cost of construct-
lug and equipping electric lines ooeratlng
ln 1907 exceeds 13,000,000.000. The total num-
ber of employes was 221,140. and the num-
ber of cars in use was SJ.C4L of which
70,01(1 were passenger cars. The total num-
V. . ... , rtj,- n ron Aim . m
ber of pasengers In 1907 waa 9,53S,Oso,7Sfi, of
whom l,99o,ffitU01 rode on transfers, while
7,441.114,S08 paid fares. The number of fare
passengers per mile was 210.S22, and in
it was S12.J17, ahowing S per cent of In-
crease.
On the theory that the population in tho
United Statea is 60,000,000 people, each man.
woman arid child in tho land rod in an
electric car an average of 110 times ln
17. Th figure go to show almost with-
out exception that the number of paasen-
gers carried increased from 1SKB to 1307
faster than any normal increase of popu-
lation or of street car facilities can ex-
plain. The same mau takes more car rides
eeh year.
Till (team and gas engines and water
wheel used in generating the electricity
for street railroad were reported as having
2,47t),479-horse power ln 1907, a compared
w'tn 1.349.211 in 1902, an increase of alt
P'r cent- Th kilowatt capacity of dynamo
m 1WI was 1.723.41 and in 1902, r.362. an
Increase of 91.8 per cent. Improvements
have made possible the achievement of the
same results with lee bulk equipment.
The amount reported in 1907 as cost ot
construction and equipment Is more than
nine times as great as in
1890 and over
n two-thirds as great as th total
. ,f,
vi.
Rallies Trartloa la Birope.
ln a paper on "Rallies Traction," Mr.
Harry England remarked In London the
other day that on the continent there were
three systems of raillesa cars Working suc-
cessfully, both li an engineering and corn-
merclal sense, ln Italy the Fllovla system
built on the "Cantono" patent, conaisted of
an ordinary trol.ey boom fixed on the car
by a trolley base similar to the bases used
iu this country on single-deck and covered
cars. Tha trolle-' head consisted of a four-
wheeled truck, which waa affixed to th
trolley boom by mena of a ball ocket
Joint This allowed the trolley bead to
mov easily and to adapt Itself to any lr
regularities ln the overhead line. The over-
head work, to all intent and ournoses.
was similar to the overhead work for or-
dlnary rail traction, with the difference, of
course, that they wer both poaltiv and
negative wire. Thl construction appeared
to answer admirably, and the trolley
showed no dlsuosition to leave the wires
at high speeds, or wh.a the vehicle had to
move laterally ln order to pass other ve-
bides traveling in the ssme direction. n
the Mercedes-Htoll system, a Installed in
Vienna, motois of twenty boisepower each
THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY
son with Bieriot,' Paullian. Dumanest and
other Europeans that he brought out his
machine one quiet morning and before the
thousands of spectators ran away with the
records for speed. He circled the course on
the Bethany plain In eight minute and
thirty-five seconds,, winning the Gordon
Bennett cup, the international trophy. In
addition to that he won the thirty-kilometer
speed contest known as the Prix de la
Viterse, making the fastest time known In
an aeroplane.
From Reims Curtlxs 1 went to Breslca,
Italy, to participate in the flying meet
there. There he won the grand prise of
flO.om for speed over fifty kilometer and
th second price of 16,000 for height. First
prise for quick and short starting was also
captured by Curtlsa at Breslca.
With the opening of th new year of 1910
........ - , ,
Curtis renewed his conquests of th air,
but thl. time at home. At Los Angeles la
juary at the international aviation meet
........
run of but ninety-eight feet over the
ground.
The recent feat of Curtiss have placed
him In the fore rank of the aviators of tha
world and his Albany N. Y.l croas-cnuntrv
flight ln the Hudson flier, when he flew
137 miles ln 152 minutes (better than fifty-
four miles an hour) and won the New York
World' $10,000 and the Scientific American
were fitted in the hubs of the rear driving
wheels, so that th motors formed an in-
tegral part of the driving wheels them-
selves, thus dolne awav with the necessity
for any mechanical transmission. The ca-
ble wa carried through the interior of the
axle, nd th armature of the motor was
fixed by means of keys on the axle Itself,
J nA . j . . . - . , .. , n.i .
and so aoted as the nave of the wheel. The
trolley consisted of a frame or carriage
fitted with four wheels; which ran on the
tops of the wires, the current-collecting de-
vice being attached to the car by means of
flexible cables. A pendulum weight was
attached to the center of the trolley car-
rlage to keep the carriage balanced and the
wheels null pressed down uu th wires,
The conducting cable waa wound round a
small drum mounted upon the chassis, and
about twelve yard of spare cable were
carried whlou could be played out to al-
low th car to run on the whole width
of the road. Four wires were used in
Vienna, ln othei places where only two
wire (positive and negative) were erected,
when two cars, running ln opposite dlrej-
tlons met, the drivers interchanged the trol-
leys by means of detachable cable contact
boxes, and it waa said th operation did
not usually take mora than a few seconds,
In the Max Schlemann syatem. Installed at
Mulhausen, the trolley waa similar to that
used on our tramways, with a boom from
U', feet to li feet- in length. It was fitted
with two sliding contacts, and tho our
could deviate for distances of ten feet on
either side of the wires. The overhead
work was similar In all respects to ordinary
tramway practice, except that four wires
,, ..,, .,,. .......
UBt.lt-
less trolley systoin could be fully equipped,
provided current were purchased from a
supply authority, at about tl&,0u0 per mllu
of route, though much would depend upon
local conditions. With overhead line and
cable at 7,i00 per mile, five motor cars
at 3,tj0 each, five trailer cars at fl,200
each, land and depot, HUM, and spare
parts, tools, etc, 4,!0. four miles of rail
less traction would cost t'SO.OOO, as against
an expenditure of SAiO.OuO for a tramway of
a similar length.
Klerlrie . t otaaaerplal Wa.ua.
That th electric commercial wagon is
now regarded by power companies as a
great field for the distribution of elec
tricity was brought out at the recent con-
ventlon of the National Electric Light as-
soda lion held ln St. Louis. This Is due to
th increasing popularity of this type of
"r, aim me growing uemanus eiuaneu oy
,lew purchaser who are multiplying
rapidly enough to cause the necessity of
installing new equipment to satisfy their
demand for power. That the power
wagon will shortly make serious inroad
upon th horse delivery sysf-m is con
ceded by all authorities, and th question
of superiority of electrical propulsion over
gssolin 1 a matter of much contention,
17, 1910.
Wings and Soar Into the Sky
1
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,rPnv for lb third consecutive time, is
P"rt or tne world s history.
1 August of laat year the Wright bio-
......-
tners began their suit against the Aeronau
tie society, which -had purchased a Her
ring-Curtiss machine for exhibition tur
sixty miles an hour," declares Curtiss, "for
in runuing an automobile at high speed, the
driver must be on the Job every second to
avoid obstacles. For Instance, a man can
never tell what moment he is going to en.
counter a vehicle, perhaps traveling In the
opposite direction. Nothing but untiring
vigilance can protect him from thl danger,
Then there are turns In the road,, bad
Field of
staunch advocates of each being very
evenly divided. Hayden Eames, general
manager of the Studebuker company, read
an interesting naner at the convention ln
which he showed the electrical maker
assembled vast possibllitlea that lay befor
them. He said that If only one-half of the
horse-drawn vehicles in New York City
. . .. ... ... .
were substituted by electrics, the Income
from the current at 4 cents per kilowatt
hour would amount to K&OOO.OOO per year.
Advances In Klwtrlcal Theory.
the Electrician Mr. Fournier D'Albe
In
conmmences a series of articles on recent
"dvances in electrical theory. The first
installment deals with th doubt which
hftv uen recently cast on the necessity
'or assuming an aether, with the principle
ot 'elaxlty, the Fltagerald-LorenU theory
ot the change of the length of a body mov-
lug through space, and with the problem
of aberration. The articles should prove a
useful introduction to a subject which ia
one of the most interesting before th
scientific world at the present time. There
Is a flight error In the statement of the
amount of expansion of a rod which ob-
Justice Fuller's Selection
When In the early part of the year 1888
Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite of the u-
ureme court of the United Statea died, with
Dremonltlon of hla fate aa Chief
"' Prmr.lthn of his fat as cnief
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Justice Fuller had on Monday, tt became
the duty of President Cleveland to select
his successor. It waa Inevitable that a
democrat should be chosen. . Mr. Cleve.and's
immediate determination was to name Ed-
ward J. Phelps of Vermont, then holding
the office of United States minister to
Great Britain. Mr. Cleveland had known
Mr. Phelps Intimately and had a very high
opinion of him as a lawyer and Jurist. Mr.
Phelpa had made an eminently successful
minister to England from a British con
servative point of view. No previous repre
sentative of the United States at the court
ot tit. James had acquired greater prestige
by hi addresses and his social qualities tn
England not even Jamrs Russell Ixiwell.
But Mr. Phelps' lack of sympathy with the
ir,h leaders in Parliament and with Irish
m, generally had become known to every
man Gf Irish birth in the United Htates.
Their hostility to him was intense, and a
source of weakness to tne i ieveiami aa-
ministration, which the president did not
Kem to fully understand.
The arrangements for the national con
vention In Ht. Louis which was to retiomi-
nat Mr. Cleveland had been completed.
and it
Collins,
had been settled that Patrick A.
then a representative in congre
from Massachusetts, should preside over
that convention. Mr. Phelp had returned
stretches of pavement, and other Ilk dlf-
ficultles. All these require the, same at
tention.
"But In an aeroplane it is an entirely
different proposition. Once a man becomes
accustomed to aeroplaning, it is a matter
too far to the falling side. Whenever they
saw an approaching vehicle they felt a
moral certainty that they would be run
down, and ln order to avoid this cataa-
tronhe. would make ridiculously wide de-
tours, but a little practice and the eauili-
brium was unconsciously maintained. They
were soon riding wlt-iout the use of handle
bars, maintaining their poise simply by an
Electricity
servers would postulate if the observed
times of to and fro motion of light were
the same with the rod at rest and in motion
through the aether namllRl tn It. Ixmrth .
spectlvely. The amount of change stated by
the autlior is that which would be postu-
lated if the times were found the same
when the rod moved with the same velocity
, . i. . . . .. .
wiui rwuMjc-i 10 me aeiner parallel ana
perpendicular to itself respectively, as in
Mlchelson and Morley's experiments.
Charcoal, prabhlte and diamonds are only """" h" h" " t t t l
different forms of one chemical element n,edal " "rBt prl,e M h ""ost fea-leas
-carbon. Hitherto carbon has been re- HHglbl operator in Arnarlr-a.
garded as infusible, but it has apparently whll 'th th rlglbl
been fused in experiment which were de- balloon and th Ludlow kite at th James
cribed by the Italian physicist La Rosa, town exposition ln 1907. that Glenn H. Cur
St the last International congress of applied tl met Mars snd admiring him for his
chemistry. By subjecting very pure sugar courage. nrve and knowledge of the air
charcoal to the Intense heat of the singing immediately took him as a pupil,
electric arc. La Rosa obtained a compact Ely Is fearless and possesses unlimited
mass of graphite. When this mass was nerve. After the Chicago meet the Fourth
cooled quickly, minute transparent crystals of July, J-Ily shipped his old Curtiss bl-plan
appeared, which were proved to be dla- back to the factory at Hammondsport, N
monds by their form, chemical coinposl- y., where It will be dismantled and in the
Hon, and physical properties. , meet here at Crelghton field July 13-27, he
win fly a new CurtiBs bl-plane known as
J . "Dig Four," which Is now being con
from London, with the expectation that he
would be nominated aa chief Justice, and
'" wh'''tou awattlng the appoint-
me"L Wnen U wa Prlvate'y announced
Cleveland' purpose,
Mr Collins 'went to the AVhlte House and
sought an Interview with Mr. Cleveland,
He began by asking if the report of the
.
probable appointment of Mr. Phelps was
correct. Mr. Cleveland assured him that
t was. "ln that case," said Mr. Collins,
"It will not be worth while to hold any na-
tlonal democratic convention at Ht. Louis."
Mr. Cleveland was astounded, and asked
fur an explanation. Mr. Collins told him
that the feeling against Mr. Phelp among
American of Irish descent and sympathy
waa such as to inak It Impossible for him
(.Mr. Cleveland) to be re-elected, provided
the A'ermuuter was put at the head of the
supreme court.
On his way out of the executive offices
Mr. Collins met Mr. Phelps going In. but
th appointment wa not made. There wa
a quick searob for another democrat
against whom such oblectlona could not b
raised, and Melville W. Fuller, the most
eminent democratic lawyer ot nucago,
proved to b tha man. It la almost forgot-
ten now that there was an effort on the
part of the radical republicans in th senate
to defeat hut confirmation so that the nomi
nation wa held up In that body fur three
month after it was made and that' only
nine republican voted fur hi confirms-
tlon, whil twenty went -on record against
him Hartford Time (,dmj.
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unconscious shift of fh body. ApproaohlnaT
vehicles became an equally simple problem.
Now that I exactly th situation with an
experienced aviator. He has no obstacles
to encounter except erosa currents of air.
"Air and wind are much quloker than a
man can think and put bis thoughts Into
action. Unless experience ha taught the
aviator to maintain hla equilibrium In
stinctively, he Is sur to com to grief.
Why, when I am traveling at th rata of
sixty or eighty mile an horu, 1,000 feat or
more above the ground, my thoughts us
ually run on subject unrelated to aero
planing. So far as the air current are con
cerned, I rely entirely on thl instinctive
action; but my ear Is always alert. The
danger algnai of the aviator Js w hen h
hears his motor miss. Then he knows that
troubles are ln store. Some times he can
speed up, Just as an automobile does, and
get It to renew its normal action. But If It
fails in this and the motor stops, he must
dip his deflecting planes and negotiate a
landing In open country. Sometime there
is no preliminary signal from the motor
that it la going to cease work. That is
the time that the aviator must ct quickly,
and unless the deflecting planes are ma
nipulated quickly, aviator, aeroplane, and
motor will rapidly land a tangled maa on
the ground."
With Curtlsa In Omalia, there will be C.
J. Mara and Eugene B. Fly. flying men
- k- k.i attnu'Ted1 much attention the
..... vr.,. .r.n...i from ih
xialdwln school of aeronautic and W'ai
agg00atj with Baldwin in some of hia most
-,.i..,i. heinv the con-
rl,rli of the world's famous dirigible
StrUCllOU Ol ...
kllown the "California Arrow" 01
st Loul. World's Fair fame. Mars was
recognised as America's foremost dlrigibl
balloon operator at the Aiaaaa-xuKon ex-
structed under his supervision.
Ely enjoys a distinction that no other
aviator In the world can claim. H learned
to successfully fly without a teacher or
without having seen any more than one
flight. Being an expert mechanlo and auto
racer, he possessed all of the natural prei--
ciulsltes of the aviator, and seeking the great
future of tha flying macnine game ne aeter-
mined to learn to fly. Building glider
... .... ....
after his own ideas, he first ascended into
the air by being drawn up on hla kil-llk
device.
Learning to balance in this way he deter
mined to get an aeroplane. Going to Seattle,
he was engaged by a wealthy German of
that place to fly a Curtiss machine he pur
chased from Mr. Curtiss for sporting pur
poses. Ely smashed up several tlmea, but,
undaunted, repaired the machine and tried
again. Becoming Interested more deeply,
Ely. after much difficulty, bought th ma
chine. There is on enthuatastlo woman In th
party, Mrs. J. C. Mars, who is well in
formed On aerial technique. Bhe tour th
country with her flying husband and I
lwy present on th field at all of th
aviation meet. Bhe la considered an au-
thorlty on th Curtis machine and know
-.v.-. ..,! ...h .. hu. i. nt
Mr ,n Mrli Mar, nave Deen married ten
years. Their son, Tom Baldwin Mar, who
Is now I year of age, ia a student ln school
at Llncolu. H i following lu hi father'
footsteps and Is very much Interested In
aeronautics and the flying feat performed
by hi "dad." Mr. Mara has met with r
eial narrow escape sine flying hi Curtis
machine, but nevertheless still retain hi
lrun nerv. ,na coo Judgment when la la
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