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wv-der what kept them up. I afterward
heard the theory that they possessed great
muscular power. You know some scientific
men have stated their belief that the mus
cular strength of birds must be enormously
greater in proportion than that of men.
But this it seemed to me could not be true.
could not believe what some French mathe-
maticians calculated. namely, that an
eagle must be nearly strong as man. 1t
finally occurred to me that there must
be something In the condition of the air
which the soaring birds instinctively un-
derstood. but which we do rot. This idea
continuing to be a wonder to me- 1t is
curious how an idea of that kind sticks to
you. l seldom saw a bird flying that / did
not think of it, and even lately / have
watched them for hours, trying to under
stand how they could move about through
the air. rising and falling, soaring up and
sailing down without any motion of the
wings"
But. Mr.. Langley, thought that birds
used a great deal of strength to fly. They
can't fly without moving their wings, can
they?'
"The soaring birds can" replied Mr.
Langley. and they do fly long distances
with apparently very little exertion. BAR
condors. which. you know, are immense
birds, for hours. He says they ascended
and descended. scared and circlad about
with scarcely the movement of a feather
He could not detect single flap of their
wings.
IT remember" continued Mr. Langley,
how I stood one cold November day on
the Aaueduct bridge that crosses the Po-
tomac river above Georgetown and watch
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in 1t to allow it to fly about one and one
half minutes. 1t could have carried W mater
for about five minutes, but as 1t was 1t
flew by two independent stop watches one
minute and forty-five seconds, being the
only flight of any aerial machine except IT.
sef which has ever lasted for more than a
very Few seconds. In this minute and
three-quarters 1t flew a distance of almost
a mile. going at the rate of over thirty
miles an hour, and showing that If It had
been fully supplied with water it would
have flown Tor more than two miles, As 1t
was. its flight was only limited by the ex-
haustion of its steam, and there seemed
no reason but that with more steam to
run II. 1t might not have gone on indefi-
nitely- With machine ten times its
weight, Mr. Langley told me- a condensing
apparatus could be carried upon it which
ccuid use the water over and over again
ana the same amount of water would carry
1T for hundreds of times its present flight
fhe machine flew against the wind, There
was nothing of the balloon nature about
II Ihere were no gas bags to uphold it.
It's wings were immovable and they merely
steadied 1t as it flew like. a bird through
the air. The force which carried 1t onward
was generated upon IT.
Some Wonders of the AerodrOme
AS / looked at 1t I could hardly realize
the remarkable thing which MFR. Langley
has accomplished. Let me repeat it.
The aerodrome is machine made almost
altogether of steel balloon floats be-
cause /: is tighter than the air This ma
chine weighs more than one thousand
times as much as the air through which it,
moves. The working parts of it's ma
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8. II. Langley.

I'll the average parlor. moved by a steam
eT gins which was part of it, Gart forth
from the launching stage and fly in an al
NEST straight line through the air a dis
tance OF more than $40 yards. or over
three-IuarterS OF mile. 1t flew almost
far as the length of Pennsylvania ave
rue b4tween the treasury and the Capitol
The flight was horizontal There was not
q culver of the wings, and the great bird
like acTotrOme swan. as IL were. upon the
Planes of the atmosphere. Ii first flew to
the right. across The bay toward a strip of
woods. and. as Mr. Langley and myself
watched il. our hearts for the moment
came iHtO our throats. for il seemed as
though il would dash itself against the
trees. As IL neared them. however, it
gracefully swept round and downward
then turned and rose and as straight as an
arrow flew across the bay where we were
standing on toward Washington. II con-
tinUeh tc fly in This straight horizontal lire
until the water which furnished the steam
vas exhausted when it slowly but grace
fully swept down and rested upon the
water. II lighted so gently that not Il bit
o! its machinery was injured. and had it
hot been that the evening shades We're fall
-rs il could have been flown again. I have
Aever seen any iuanimate thing look so ike
a thing of life
swan through the air. its propellers
v hlcn were going about at the rate of over
thousand revolutions a minute, made
~hirriEg noise like the wings of a bird in
rapid flight The feathery smoke OF the
engine could BE- seen wrsathing its way
out of the smoke stack, and. as the setting
sun caught is SiiEen wings. and the white
Stlvery substance which bound the body
containing its machinery, il seemed like
v 0nderful new species of bird. The great
Canger of losing the machine in the trees
led Alr. Langley 70 put only enough water
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chinery are of steel. and it carries a pc
oulisr steam engine which forces it along
through the air. In constructing this ma
chine. the question of weight was an all
important one. and everything had to be
reduced TO the minimum. The aerodrome.
weighing less than thirty pounds, carries
about four pounds of water This is about
two quarts, and the little engine is SO
Nastcful of it that it's flight must be pro-
pcrtionately short, for when the water has
been once converted into steam the aero
drome must stop flying. aS there is no
more water to furnish n steam to run it. The
machinery of the air-runuer is very light
indeed but 1t requires considerable force
to move it in proportion to its weight It's
engine is equal to NOSE than one horse
power. and the movable parts of the ma
chinery weigh tWenty-six ounces You
could put all of its machinery into a peck
measure. Now, horse weighs a thousa nd
pounds. Think of reducing the size of
horse to peck measure. and its weight to
that cf a kitten, and you have some idea
of Mr. Langleys aerial engine
What does the acrodroEe look like?
L have described it in flight. l examined
ii al rest and have gone carefully over its
different parts. 1t is about fifteen feet
long and about fourteen feet wide from
the tip of one wing to the other. The ma
chine moves through the air much the
same principle that by which the twin
screw steamer forces its way through The
water On each side of the aerodrome
there is sort of screw propeller or pair
of blades In the shape Cf one cutting of
screw so hung upon pivot that when the
steam is on they fly around at the rate of
a thousand revolutions a minute. They
look IN fact. much like the wheels of an
electric fan when in action. They cut the
air so rapidly that you cannot see the
blaGes. and they are. in fact. pair of
wheels about four feet in diameter flying
at this wonderful speed around through
the air As they move they screw the air
ship onward, and this advancing motion
keeps ii up in somewhat the same way
thin ice.
The machinery is in a metal receptacle
which ends in a smokestack. This is hung
to a frame work of steel The wings which
stationary, are fastened to the upper
part of the frame work, and they extend
out above the body holding the machinery.
The machinery is wonderfully delicate
but it is strong and at the same time
as light scientific investigation can make
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The extension of the g rats beyond the limit
which Doctor Mccoy first set Cor IT. that is. No
yember 1st, made necessary by the crowds Of
people who throuyed the office during the conclui
ing days of October. v. II Iloctors Mccoy ard Cow
den had been twenty doctors instead of two doc
tors they could not have begun TO have cared for
all the people during the last two or three days
of the month. Many were turned away. II is not
part Of Doctor McCoy's plan to hurry patients TO
have his Offices uncomfortaby crowded COM
pei patients to wait long hours before seeing their
physician. When he made the extension Of the
rate, therefore. he made the time ample and gen
erous-twO full months for the very purpose Of
avoiding any such those that char
aeterized the concluding days of October.
Now. about two weeks remain during which ad-
vantage be taken of the rate, and ample
tioe having been given that the opportunity posi-
lively closes January l. and that it will under no
circumstances or on no condition be extended be
yond that date. Doctor Mccoy desires 10 add ein
phasis to the purpose of this extension 10 avoid
the scenes of hurrying and confusion which We're
annoying to patients and physicians alike. Doc
tor Mccoy respectfully asks for his sake and for
their sake, that all those who desire to avail them
selves OF the opportunity of the So rate make
their application at once rather than wait until
the last few days of the month
Doctor Mccoy desires that no person be d.n'ei
this opportunity. He has done all in his power TO
make the limit of time known. and those who
during the last days OF December and lind
it is physically impossible for Doctor Mccoy TO
them will have only themselves to biain".
wien, after Janulry l, they are obliged 10 pay
Doctor McCoys regular fee for while Doctor Me
Coys Office ana Doctor McCoy's practice per
nanent in Washington. the period during which
advantage can be taken of the s. rate Is not
permanent; it ends positively with the end of the
wear.
All who place themselves under
treatment before Jnnuar. LIST will be
treated until cured Mt the uniform
rate of $3 "a month. This rate COW
ers all expense of exnmination.
treatment and medicines and in
cludes Deafness and all Diseases.
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LANGLEY'S LATEST "AERODROHE."
Sketch Drawn From Actual Photograph the Machine

vas connected with the astronomical OBJ
servatory in Pittsburg. 1t is now more
than fifteen years ago that I built my first
laboratory for aerial investigation there. A
friend of mine, Mr.. William Thaw a
wealthy citizen of Pittsburg, supplied the
means and l was enabled to make all sorts
of tests to ascertain the power used in
aerial motion. One device which l had was
whrling table. This was an arm about
thirty feet long, which swung about on
central pivot. ten feet above the ground
1t was moved by ten horse power steam
engine. and IT went flying around moving
at all speeds up to seventy miles an hour
Now. on the end of the arm I put nstru-
nts which would measure the lifting
power of the wind upon any inclined sur
face hung to them / had for instance
spring scale hung there. and to this brass
put in motion l found that the faster it
went the less weight the plates register
on the scales, until at great speed trey al
most heated in the air. l found, in fact,
that the higher the speed the less was the
force required to keep the plates from
falling. This seems at first contradiction
OF known principles, but l nave no time
row to explain it. l found that not one
twentieth of the force before supposed to be
required to support bodies under such con-
ditions was needed, and what before had
seemed impossible began to look possible.
Easier to Fly Than to stand Still.
This means that found" continued Mr.
Langley, that an entirely wrong estimate
had been made to the force needed to
sustain moving bodies in the air. Some
mathematicians, reasoning from false data,
had concluded that II 1t took certain
amount of power to keep thing from fall
ing. it would take much additional power
to make it advance My experiments
showed just the reverse. I found that it
took much less force to push a body rapid
ly through the air than was needed -to
simply sustain it there. / found, In short.
that the conditions of air travel with NV
planes and of land and sea travel were in
one important respect the oppos!tes of one
another. An ocean steamer running at
twenty knots an hour will take several
times as much coal is required to run
IL at the rate of ten knots an hour. The
limited express uses great deal more
Ceal than the slow freight for the same
weight and distance This is not so in
aerial flight with planes. Actual expert
ment shows, repeat. that the faster the
speed the less the force required to sus-
tain the planes. and that 1t would cost less
to transport sucn planes through the air at
high rate OF speed than at low one
found further that one horse -power could
carry brass plates Weighing 100 pounds at
the rate of more than forty miles an hour
In horixonta flight Everything, however
depended upon the flight being strictly
horizontal. found that IL were the
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COULD NOT HEAR THE
VOICES OF HER CHILDREN.
Mrs. Il. Marcy. Cherrydnlc. VA: IL

Mrs. II. Marcy. Cherrydnlc. VA: IL
was deaf when | Doctor Naioy for
trea tment that l cou!d hear the bells rim.
q whistle blow. ! could not hear the chiliren
speaking in the same had been deaf for
reaIs. l had ringing discs in nv head, which
confused me very much aud made Verp
rous. l went to Doctor Mri'oy because | Irad read
of the many wonderful cuirs he had made of those
who had teeI. deaf. | hear the ticking
and the striking Of the clock sounds that w re
lest to entirely before: | hear my children
talk and understand what they saying: | can
hear the ringing of the bells and the whistles blow
My hearing is already nearly perfect and | shall
continue under treatment until It is completely
restored. -
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ed turkey buzzard which was lazily soar
ing round and round watching something
in the river below The wind was blowing
a gale. 1t was going at the rate of at
least thirty-hve niles an hour. still the
bird moved about with the greatest ease,
keeping generally on one level, but sway
ing little as it went round and round.
1t was not more than sixty feet above
me. 1 could see it perfectly and could
not note the Tapping of a wing, though
l watched it for a long time. l stayed, in
fact. until l got so cold that 1 mad to
leave
Mr.. LnnsIey's First Experiment.
Then you early saw that there some
thing wrong in our theories as to the wind
Mr.. Langley?''
Yes was the reply, II have always
felt so. and l remember well when l be-
gan to experiment TO see If my aupposi-
ton was correct. 1t was after a meeting
of scientific association, in which some
one stated that an inanimate thing could
under certain circumstances, be made to
move in the air against the wind by the
power of the opposing wind itself. He
claimed that he had made experiments
proving this fact, and he stated an evil
dence of the truth of his theory that he
had seen birds not only come close to the
earth and hang stationary in the air, but
even advance against the wind and as
cend in the air without fapp:1g their
W NHiSS re "dS iduSuSu dt, Dut IL Is LOW
conceded that what he claimed is not
theoretically impossible. l. myself, did not
believe he was right at the time, but it
set me thinking. My old interest in the
subject revived and ] began at once to
make experiments. l wanted to krow
the actual facts as to the power needed
for flight, and how it was possible that
bodies heavier than the air they displaced
could keep themselves in the air without
falling. l did discover that there was no
doubt but that machine could be made
which could support bodies in the air. and
which would carry them forward. l have
shown you here today a machine which
will DO this. I have proved that we have
the power, and the only question now is
to learn how to direct and control it,.
Making Brass Plates Fly.
Tell me something of your experiments.
.Ir Langley" said /.
III fcS mt n.pr mn dc. ,bar,
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DOCTOR MCCOY CURING
CHRONIC DYSPEPSIA.


Mrs. S. Fitzgerald, 3OS Sth st. s.w.:
For years l had been chronic sufferer from In
digestion. l had great deal of pain in the pit
of tie stomach. Often l could hardly get my
breath l raised much gas In fact, suffered all
the agonies of dyspeptic. 1 feared that my ease
incurable, all the remedies L used gave me
no relief. l read of the many remarkable cures
that Doctors Mccoy and Oowden making, and
1 am glad that l placed myself under their treat
ment. l have no more pain or distress. l have no
Indigestion and raising Of gas 1 am perfectly
well again after years of sickness and Distress
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DR.. McCOY'S RECORD.
The Six Year. Of rrcp,r.,,op.

The six Years of Prcpa ra ton.
Matriculant at University OF New York .lsTu
first honor maa - iris class. .............is 1879
winner OF famous Looms prize. February 1879
Candidate for Beiieene Hospital appoint
- '"' -. March, is19
thosen 10y competitive examination open 10 all
the doctors Of the wcrld. resident physician Of
eH''ue i"sTiihl- ------.-..-... March. lSsg
During service at B.l,cyne elected visiting i,liS-
sician Ia training school for April. 1880
served as resident Physician I.ellrvue is7g
study In hospitals .: London sud Dubn -. .lssI
rolh1htion OF regular treatment for chronic
pies as n result Of hospital experience .sSs
'o'inuatioh OF regular treatment for the cure
catarrhal. bronchial aud lung diseases 1883
announcement OF D-. McCor's first inir Jdurad
voluntarily by Uell-known journalists with pic
tuces and interviews Of patients cured April lSS.
Doctor Mccoy treating over THOUSAND patients a
Extension Of office facilities by cmploym,nt Of
students from Bellevue. ............-ls 1885 1886
The second visit Europe for further pa.;,Ifal
Study and Inspection
Serving In the labogu tories Of prof Koch NJ ler-
Study in Charlie Hospital Of Berlin and Eoval
1ilnic hader Won BergmaHn ....-.......i 1881
forinlstion of system OF medicine based IN the
discovery OF poison In The hlood as the origin of
"ise'ise- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1881
me system perfected by application and expert
ih'nt IN cases selected from Dr. MrCoy's prac-
- t''e'- -.-----..-.-.--.-.. lse2
lhe world startled 10y Dr. McCoy's Discovery OF a
'"Ie ior deafness. .-----.--. September. lSl5
Location of n naiional prarticc In Washing
''"- -------.--.-- March 2s. 1895
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HAD CATARRH OF THE
STOMACH FIVE YEARS.
Mrs. Mary Donovan, .sls champlain

H. The week before | went to Doctors
Mccoy and Cowden l tainted from weakness. l
had suffered from Catarri OF the Stomach for five
years. l had tried all sorts of remedies without
any benefit L had much pain. Ny food sjured on
my stomach and distressed me. Much OF the time
able to attend my work. Nv tongue
constantly coated, and Ely eyes werr yellow.
l am now free from pain, my tongue and eyes
clear. eat and digest nay food with comfort, and
L really feel like another being. l heartily
ommend Doctor McCoys treatment
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it, The fuel is gasoline which is converted
into gas before ii is used, and which fur
nishes such intense heat that it would
nelt the boiler in a second If there were
not a special pump by which the water is
kept flowing rapidly through the boiler,
the intense heat converting some OF the
water into steam as it flows. Every part
of the machinery is OF the most practical
nature and IL has been constructed at an
enormous expense of patience and expert
ment. Ii may be said that nearly every
atom OF the aerodrome as 1t IS now put to-
gether is the result of experiment. The
making of the boiler alone consumed
months of work. Every bit of the ma
chinery had to be constructed with scien-
tihc accuracy. 1t had to be tested again
and again. The difficulty of getting the
machine light enough was such that every
part of ii had TO be remade many times.
IL would be in full working order when
something would give way. and this part
would have to be strengthened. This caused
additional weight and necessitated the
cutting off of that much weight from some
other part of the machinery. AT times, the
difficulty seemed almost heartbreaking, but
Mr. Langley went on piece by piece and
atom by atom, until he at last succeeded in
getting all the parts of the righ. strength
ard proportions. Even after he had COM
pleted his model and mad II ready for flight,
he was confronted with an unexpected diff
ficulty. which was, il seemed at the time,
almost impossible to surmount.
Launching the Air-Runner.
This was the launching of the machine
into the air. One af the most difficult
things that large, soaring birds have to
contend with in flying is in getting a start.
You know how difficult 1t is to launch a
ship into the water. 1t is far more difficult
to launch air ship. Mr.. Langley found
that his machine had to be clamDed down
on the launching stage and to he arranged
in such way that the machinery could
be started 50 that it should receive a
slight initial velocity and then be released
with spring. This looks easy. 1t was
hard But Mr.. Langley at last succeeded
in launching his machine by hanging it to
a movable table. that 1t could be turned
TO face the direction in which the fight
Was TO be made. and SO that the wheels of
the table would carry the aerodrome
straight out in horizontal line and launch
ii off into the air. The launching ap-
paratus which we used on November 2S
was built on the top of house boat, and
the work of arranging the table. was no
small one As j stood upon ii and ex-
amined its construction Mr.. Langley said:
1T don't seem to be much but ii is the
result of five years of experiments"
Studie. of Flying Birds.
here ssked MIR. Langley what trst at
tracted his st,eLtton to aerial navigation.
Il can't tell when I was not lnterested
in it, he replied Il used to watch the
birds flying when / was boy and to
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REV. MIR. SNITI, TESTIFIEs
10 BEARING RESTORED.

Rev. L.. L.. Sni.b. COG 9Th s.w..
.leiryman Il the Cmr,h of the Unittd B-tthrrn.
'Iot l> niaathS had hren "a hari of h arli,s
nat c"uad not mi t>iaLd ordinary conversation
and ] found graIi di,lcalty in attending 10 my
e' 'ry-diy duties nr. mccoy has coa.pl.tciy ~
stored my hearing | heartily recommend Ais
tneat n!rnt.''
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STONE DEAF IN ONE EAR.

J. X. Pearson. 9o4 X st. s.e., con-
nected with the ordnance department. navy yard:
Il had been deaf IL years. | stone deaf in
my left Ny right constantly gro'vii.
worse. l could rot hear the clock strike. | could
not hear conversation. L had TO give up going 20
church places of amusement. Ny hearing has
been restored. [ hear my watch tick plainly
in my left ear, the that stone deaf, when
held six inches away
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DEAF FOURTEEN YEARS.

Z. r. Nil.ieaa, II5 4th 81. me-: IL
very deaf when l won't to Dr. Maioy. 1 hqI
been deaf IA years. My hearing Is ,-pmGylt ly
stored
Evening star., 1896-12-12

COPIES OF DIR. McCOY's MONO
GRAPH ON DEAFNESS WILL Be
MAILED ON APPLICATION TO THOSE
DIRECTLY INTERESTED IN THE
CURE OF THIS CONDITION.
Evening star., 1896-12-12

vention has b e e n
made here at Wash
inston which prom
ises to revolutioniZe
the travel of the
world. 1t may trans
fer the vessels of the
ocean to the air and
carry the locomotives
among I h e clouds.
The development of
it will, in all proba-
bility, change t h @
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ALMOST TOTALLY DEAF.

Miss EIixas Pope. 9Io 4 81. s.e.: II
had been deaf for tn years | was alnIos, totally
deaf when went TO DR. Mccoy My bearing has
been completely restored
Evening star., 1896-12-12
WAS DEAF TWENTY YEARS.

Patrick NcGraw. 2iI h. ~. s.u.:
Il am - years old had been deaf in bath rars
for 90 years NJ hearin. ha- b,en completed, re-
Evening star., 1896-12-12

trait of Mrs Uhl. which he IL making from
q picture taken in her Eirlhood. He has
been painting . likeness Of Capt. George f.
Lemon, who b now In California. Mr.. Uhl
made z number of picturesque sketehs
wtfle he was ut Atlantic City during the