Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-02

a pretty fair chance, all the time, OF beinsa
run over by milk wagon, of being h'S
on the wishbone by trolley car. dOn'E
We? And we're not losing any slumbes
over those possibilities are we?''
MILK wagons, trolley cars and dirlgi-
BILE airships-they' a bit far apart on thsi
danger-and-ceath dope, are they Hot"' Ii
suggested.
''Um. we'll" he replied with considerable.
deliheration. some of these milk wagon
drivers and trolley car mctormen are pret;yT
reckless goers nowadays
Physically. knabenshue has sort oc
made-to-order look for the perlous profess
sion he has chosen for himself.
He is bout five feet ten inches In height,
slender. 1.-THE, with s,newy legs and arms
that yield no more to the touch than auto
mobile tires, and the practiced ability of ~
trapezist TO handle himself a sharp
slHnt in mid air
He speaks In very low tone of voice.
and ds conversation is that of man OF
hrst-rate education. He is really twenty
nine years old but looks TO have barely
passed his ma iorlty. He Is Toledo BORN
and bred, his ia ther who is now United
states consul at Belfast. Ireland. having
peeh weii-known and accomplished leading
editoTfal writer on the Toledo Blade for
nearly the space of generation
Young Roy Knabenshue isn't cherishing
any decisions whatever as to the s.irlgib.e,,
slrship, as at present constructed and
operated, solving the problem OF aerlaL
nayiga ton.
That's phrase I am beginning 70 hate,
the sound of-'solving the problem Of aerial
navigation" he said I'm the course of tho,
conversation
No Interoceanic Airship Line.
You can take all the bets that you've
got even a welching chance of paying oft
that there won't be any interoccani, air
ship line carrying freight and passengers
between New York and San francisco and
all points east and west and north and
that is 10 say. II The q rtgib'e airsEIp OF the
kind | am using. or that Santos Dunont
ana his French confrores use is the thing
that Is TO be depended upon to accomplish
that marvel and solve the problem of aerial
naviga ton
Il am not deluding myself I'm not
claiming TO be scientist I'm not claiming
anything, for the matter Of that I've gat
a contrap tion fixed un that cn7;,,es mo ID,
stay up In the air for q little while and
that can sail in ans dlrcction-,hat's all
BUT do You suppose ! don't know that
thats about million nautical miles from
solving the problem of aerial navigation
as they call it?
TN my opinion the gas bag will never
solve the big problem. The aoroplane fell
lows will do the trick sooner or later.
though. They are on the Only rrll track.
Prof. Langley of the SmitESpui TnSti.8-
ton OF Washington really never had a far
snow with his muCh-rid:culed aeruplanp ap--
par1tus. The governmental Appropriation.
L understand. was closed MP on him after
he had made a few easily accounted for
failures
THE time was when any man who ad-
dressed himself to the aerial navigation
problem was looked upon as a tinke5Inl-
lunatic, pure and simple. But some of TIC
most eminent inventors in the realm Of ap-.
Piled science are now graphing with Ito
subject in many parts of the world. and tho
experiments of the greatest of these arc
all along the line of the aeroplane
Doesn't Claim to Be a Scientist
THE reports sent away from here and
from Los Angeles and st. Louis when [
giving exhibitions IN those places that
I claimed to have solved the ethereal nayi-.
cation riddle of the ages with my obedient
and decently well-hehaved airship world
have been simply amusing had they not
subjected me to the guying of fellow work..
ers in the air-sailing business, who know. az
] know, that the ctgar-shaped or fish
shaped arship has got now as far. prob
ably. it ever will get and that II no moro
solves the great problem than Noltas dis
covery of the principle OF applied electricity
solved the scheme OF applying the electridi
juice to power wheels and manufacturing
plants.
thing that, so far, minds me and lets ms
do things with il for a little while that's
all. I wish you'd make IL clear that this Is.
the nub of my humble pretensions."
All of which was modest enough. AS q.
matter of fact. the young man has done y
great deal more than he claims. He has.
beaten Santos-Dumont at his game.
dict that Washington will adopt the young
aeronaut chance-taker and become proud OF
him when he takes up his residence here.
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