The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-20

thing more than another, 1t IL the
fact that this Is an age OF specializa'
tion. The time has gone by when
man can do more than one thing we'll.
The man who can attain moderate ex'
cellence In several departments OF ac-
tiyity will never reach the highest
round of achievement in any one OF
them until he begins to specialize. the
prize winners. indeed. are the special
lists
New Way Of Flying Kites.
And you don't have to go into the
exhibit palaces here 10 realize that
fact. Here Is a klte-fiying contest
with lot of fullgrown men appar'
emily playing with large assortment
OF variously shaped kites. Your mind
goes back TO your boyhood days when
you rugged up kite with a few sticks
and n newspaper and long tail man
ufactured from the contents Of the
family rag bag. You managed in some
way TO purioin ball OF twine or
spool OF thread from some other
household grabbing and you started III
to beat all The boys in the neigAoor
hood at kite-aying.
But If you will come over 70 the sta
dunn some morning this week, yoH
would learn that the kite-ayins that L
going on here is not boys play. but 9
scientific contest, and il you talkeI
with Major B. Badan-Poweu, OF TIT
British army, you would learn thai
I kite flying is likely to becume very
important factor In the military opel
ations Of the future. finally taking tht
I place of the war balloon,
Baden-Powe!Ps Kite.
| This is not the Baden-Pow ell, VIM
commanded the British troops nj
Mafaking in the Boer war. but ms
brother. This particular Baaen-PoW
ell runs to kites. He is a major II
the British army. and it was while
experimenting with war balloon a.
I Aldershot that he conceived the no
ton of using kites instead OF bal
looms from which 10 view the opera
lions of the enemy, The balloon was
dangerous and cumbersome ana easi
ly perforated with a shot from the en-
emy's guns. After many experiment
Baden-Powell succeeded in making q
kite which would easily take mar
in a basket up a thousand feet o.
mere. and kite-aying contests are nov
a regular feature of the British ar
my maneuyers at Aldershot
Baden Powell is here with enc Of
those kites. 1t is q hexag5nai kitt
on n bamboo frame and Is twelve fee
wide by twelve feet long. Two Other
Engllshmen are in the contest Coz
Copper, chief of the balloon depar
ment of the British army and MI
Reed. scientific kite-maker from
London. Each of these men has been
mn In the air a thousand feet in on'
of Baden. Powell's kites. Another con
testant Is Or. Wardwell, of Stanford
Conn. who has q scientific and th'
best mechanism for hte-ilying OF an!
one i'm the contest.
Alexander G. Bells Kite.
By far the most interesting kit'
from a scientific point of view, how
ever. is the kite invented by DIR. Alex
ander Graham Bell. II is called
"tetraiedron7 kite and consists OF 3
tetrahedron cells of paper arranged Il
a pyramidlcal frame. The cells ma
be multiplied indefinitely, aeeordihl
to the size of kite that is wanted. A
though any one of these cells may o
easily crushed in the hand. the XII
will bear the weight of a man whe
, aoated in tic air.
In flying these kites. fine steel VIII
Is used. and II is unwound from iarg
wooden reels or winches. There ar
s0O-foot contests and the man wh
gets his hite-wire nearest to pepper
dioular Is most apt TO capture mrs
prize. The contests are not only inte
esting from a scientific point OF view
but illustrate the efforts OF the exp'
sitio management TO provide move
and picturesque outdoor diversion &c
Worlds Fair visitors.
LITTLE EGYPT"