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Three base-hit-Odwell. Sacrifice hit..McBride.
Double ~pisys-Lobert, Huggins and Schlci; Hoels-
koetter and Bennett. Stolen ~ gins, SeS,
Beebe, /. First base on banss-On ,Beebe. 2; on
Welmer. /. Struck out.By Beebe, o; by Meimer' 9.
Iimpires-Klem and Carpenter. T1me-l hour and
Is minutes, Attendence-9.10.
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white, o. N. I. Waterman. o. n. L. PRATT. o. c. A.
Urinnlng, Z, Total, o.

white. Q: n. K bstternan' o. H. L" Frs"' " " ~
PLAlNyIELp. July a.-John l.. watson and the
d ksx' :; CUP III cG ana Tie VIZ rev s0' ;. D. 5o' MIX Tx spi 'sSi.
asi5 Mi S osp q ths sf Par !: a g. iSiSb D sssssrd "a, tue
.PLAisy,ELP, July z.,ppdIsy i: Barrows.
PSSIirI,ss GSf co the g0 clu fSo% 9onass. f fSs l g. the
scores. q
Dudley p. .Bsrrows, 70. Ga. Charles A, ,stcyer.
H M;,i laV,s 3, VI se Ls:!f EEd alsHaai !, P e Slas sS d. ii :. 3;
sonu Is, Ii : }. <. Hutchinson. ici, is-S.
the July cup and Barrows won a Ies on the
trophy.
ds sr ~, sSr the Ssl w. n! MSsc q T esi sSF s,x yssstsr,
holes handicap medal play. best W to qualify.
y r; ssw .,s:. 20; n; 20N ,dG1i / F 2; Ggssni e e sniis::
Is; ~ .. IL . 81. J. T Ssisss Gs III as1S :: Z = \ FIX I. 1:
ssslasa Hep y ~. =: i {. .; 1 i. 4: Se u. 81.
s Rp.SD! i y, / ~. g:s 81; FzI:;@S r.; ii sessv :f%s. s4 q;
GLEN RIpoE,, July IA, ,bosy handicap
yesterday. won By Dr.. John i. Wilson. BY i
up. The scores:
q DOWN: Root ii. Mitchell. 5 down; W. S. Flax. 8
down; Ward @. Thomas, Q down; Il. b. Gordon. Z
down.
In. the final Ia. class G. for the June cup.
A. 4. Benedict beat DR.. W. y. BrouEhton.
8 up and 2 to go.
MoSrcLAlR, July. "a club handicap
on the Montclair links yesterday was won by
G.. E. Van Week. Jr.. with q net score OF 10.
G. =; Van Week, JrG 7s; 20; 4: Q; Abom. g.
n. Harrison. 90. ii-.5s =. 4. Freeman y. S17s;.
Garrison. ioi. i7--s4: ID. Flanagan. o.. 1918
Van Week, 50, 1910; j. W. Surbrug. Jr.. es, los;
w. b. Baldwin, io4, l0-e4: A. l.. Pierson, ss, 14-7e;
Miss 3. Freeman. 10, eo.ss' W, {. Freeman, g.
Ill., III n so.H; Il Il. 5. H Mcclure q, iitc-sss.
Alexander Smith, the national, Western and
Metropolitan open champion, upheld his repu-
tation on the links Of the Somerset Inn Golf
Club at BerDardsville yesterday. In a thirty
six hole medal play invitation tournament the
Nassau Country Club PRO led the field with
a score OF 1856, three strokes better than the
next best Inep, George Thomson Of the Rose
Smiths golf was sensational and he began
BY making the hrst round Of the nine hole
He followed this with . s., giving q total Of
o., or four strokes better than. the best. pre-
vlous eighteen hole mari. held by Aleok Pirie,
the home professional. In his round OF 81
Smith had no less than six SIS. First. money
amounted to 500, second, 976. and third, $50.
Smiths card In full and the scores Of the Others
follow;
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other Baseball Games.
At JAMEaIOwN.

Other Baseball Games.
AT JAMESTOWN.
j. ..
New York Nationals ....e7o1ooos1-lt 1910
oil City jamestown. go, % U U ! y U U j W Y D
Batteries-Ames Ferguson. Taylor, McGraw,
Marshall and Smith: Lewis and Foster.
AT HoBoKEN.
n. =. y.
Hoboken. .....,n.o o o Q Ia 5
Cuban X Giants II o 0 8 2 o 0-810 2
Garcia.
AT BRIGHTON OVAL.
Oak +. o.;"."."o oooo} &16
Batteries- Ioyian and Spencer: Dangler and
Dunn. r
AT BRONX OVAL.
n. H.I.
Royal Giants ..,...,0 o o 0 0 0 o 2 o. Q
Cednrs ..........0 o o o 0 8 o IS . .
ia tteries-Andrews and Foote's: Hart and Pepper.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
st, Louis In New York; Cleveland In Philadelphia:
Detroit In Washington: Chicago In Boston.
NATIONAL LEAoUE.
New York in Cincinnati; Brooklyn In Pittsburg;
Boston In Chicago.
RAsTRRN LRAoUR.
Jersey City in Providence: Baltimore In Newark:
Buffalo In Rochester: Montreal In Toronto.
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Hudson River League.
Southern League.

At Hudson Kingston, q: Hudson. I.
AZ Observation-Disclosures 8: Paterson, I.
Al Saratoga-Tn. County. Z: Newburgh. 8.
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LEAGUE.
PROVIDENCE. 4: JERSEY CITY. 2.

PROVIDENCE, 1. JERSEY CITY. 2.
PROVIDENCE, r. L.. July s.-Cronin pitched great
ball against Jersey City at Rocky Point to-day.
After the second inning MpIray's men we're unable
wild, sending six men down on balls and hitting.
but only one Of the battery misplays counted.
The score:
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c,unx r,rot I'm n Mile Road Race.

citation won the twenty-five mile road race
yesterday at Valley Stream. Tho keenest
contest was for the time prize. Frank Eiier
Of the c. r. C. A. beat his brother. J. NJ.
EIher only q fifth OF Q second for the prize.
1t was . very close thing between the brothers
c eha en Noel. century et I Road Club 81 America o..
and Louis j. Welntz. New York A.. O., who
finished In that order. each separated from
the next preceding by one-hfth OF q second.
The time Of Frank Ether was 1 hour s minutes
seconds. while Weintz, the NTH OF the
riders, was caught In | hour 3 minutes 7 As
seconds. The first Ave men In the race were;
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Game 6 Scheduled for To-day.

Al acknowledgements. 4: Little Rock. 1.
Al New Orleans Shreveport, 4: New Orleans, I.
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George. Thomson. Rosevhle, lb5; stewart Garo-
ner. Garden City. ~; Dave oglyie. North Jersey.
Hunter, Essex County, ile: Isaac Mackis. Fox Hills.
1852: Aleck Pirie. Somerset Inn. 1855.
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Two base hils-Wagner,. UHara, MuI,tn. Hono
run-Hunter. Sacrifice hit-Shea; stolen bsses..
on Burehell, s Struck out-sy Pardee. s; by
BurchelI. II. HI. by p,tcheInBy Pf fTTss : o oy
erroTs-BaltlmoTe. Z Left on II;
Brown. Umpires-Mora and Finneran. Time
2 hours. Attendance-3,500.
lsTRRN LEAGUE STANDING.
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American League Standing.

New York State League.
Al Syracuse-Wllk esbarre. 4: Syracuse. 2, Second
game-Wilk esbarre, 4: Syracuse, 0.
Al ton. 2: B~lnghamton, /.
Az Utica-Utlca. 4: Troy, g.,
Al Albany-AIbany, +: A.. J. and g., 3.
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DEAL, July s.-The Forest Hill Golf Club
with the Deal Golf Club team. The tally:

with the Deal Golf Club team. The tally:
Deal-Jasper Lynch, o: p. ". Kendall. q Arthur
McAleenan, o; J. 3. Turner. Jr. !, IT. smith. g:
e, j. Laidiaw. .: N. Turner. o; Jason Rogers, =:
3 Forest %; stf afiI:IE. c curl: 9: H.. cur,,s.to: II. chr,sal.
o: p. Spencer, Q: Paul Heller. o.; H. .Egner. o: N.
Allsopp, o: @. Romano. 1; +: Knner. 0: A. Allsopp.
4: W. Acker. o. A. Taylor. 7. Total. 10.
In the first round for the W. H. Carr cup
for class B players the results were:
A: q, scnerer e beat Cesvsisn Morett; s..
sy 4 q sn aI & 2. :. S s.s 70 pei csI p LAZY 3 az a. BY ya ! uS Z.
Claim. e, beat W. r. Deiehanty, q. by 1 up: F. W:
Dny. q. beat J. Henry Hssgerty, rs, by 2 up.
Joyce, a bye.
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TURF.
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$3.50, $40. $3.50. SIS. $3.50, $40, szS:
Choice OF HANDLERS, Columbus, Clevelands, Tn-y
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Motorcycles-Splendid Bargains
New CROUCH, 81 b. p.. special at DIGS.
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Baseball To-day, Q r. M--AmeTtcan League
PaiE, ny. American Va 81. LouiI-Ad.
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rebuNS. -
class A.. B.. HIN. o: HIS; Q, 4. wllnens.
& q: i i.lS; = VI p. E; aS g - 8; a. !, g s u; = 4. e ssr r 5:
:: !: 9;;; $'!::: 9 q 4 3S5s !; & 3. f S:!s:;'; T. ! ''7 =
'oG III: , II. I %.5 SsiS Isl :S.I ,srS 4: u i. I s1 s:., 49, 'Ss.
~: H' S ~ y: f.: s , ~, = sss /; se.''' 9 , AL,
s e 3. 9 sa L; IS ! g mp sR 81 e LIZ Z = ''''' H. L Hall beat
monthly Handicap yesterday Il tie RIehmond
County Country Club. the gross SCORE medals
M l. ih s. S1is' To s:!ss T TSs sz q xs:' fainter
81: q. ! - ~ 2: T gs;s:::. 1: I: "a t !; + b: s,ss:,: =:
4: :ss.:ss..$ss v VII i. S ss:'::s. q 10, ~ -. 4 J. + J. F; s:E;sii;
d.:. -, HsKs.. q; .sn"; W. T. r.m'd'
'',psI L. b !; H g. 90. e ' "a: disqualified.
Class handioaps at the Fog Hlls Col, Club
z oIsss 4 sSd Blake and Fitch tied in Glass
Is. c 20 So CIV. s !; q. 50; a; dssSsos
81! !. f!l Ii %s' :. - ). & &fssa s : ~ RI
WI. Kimbai 60, is-iS b. {. Gibson. u. ga. Hi;
Al 3. Aeachsm: o.. i7a71; Il AsLsls' l S' ,,33--mms:
All, pogson. i0oie-sI; I. ". Donheiy. 100, ia:
l.. F. Young. 100, le-s4: c. l.. Smith. 100, T-sz;
z. W. Schener. 100, is-et.
G,EN COVE, July Sat the Nassau Country
Club yesterday the team match was won by
j. ID. Hoorer's team.
J. d. Hooper, captain, s: r. T. Goodeii. !: W. v.
Hester. 4: @, p. -Tangenman, o. H. J.; Npyss, q
i Murdoch. .; II, p. whitney: g. W l. Hicks o
e. /. Maxwell, captain. o. J, 3. G. rappan,o o. O. 2.
Fahys, o; X. n. Adams. Q; l. j. busbey, y n IL
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with mercury In the hollow core, the binding
and shen to be of any sort. The claim ts
especially for steadiness In putting.
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Tho Highland Golf Club won the match at
the Flushing Country Club Saturday by 0
points. The score was Is to Q. Nassau count.
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q rolf course laid out in the park surrounding
the palace at Madrid. o devotion ia, outdoor
sport the Spanish women 90 mo- understand.
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Miss Dorothy Campbell has retAi1ed tho
Glover. at Cruden Bay. by 3 and s.
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Lone BRANCH. July s.-The play-off for the
Independence Day. cup at the HollyHoSd links
rood won, defeating p. r. Drummer, the IN
ner.u III by 8 up and Z to play.
The Washington times., 1906-07-01
Like Birds, Like Insects.

Though the leader Of this school
Of aerial flight is dead the hope of
finally achieving the end which he
go nearly approached has not died.
and this school which in the
language OF aeronautics is called
aviation as opposed to the other,
aerostaion, has still many adher-
ents who firmly believe that If man
is to fly successfully it must be bv
means Of apparatus heavier than
the air 1t displaces. The school of
aerostation of which Santos-Du-
mont and Knabenshue are great ex-
ponents depends for it's fight
through the air upon apparatus
which is lighter than the air it
displaces. Thus the one takes for
Its pattern the birds and the other
the insects.
While the school of aviation b,e
not yet produced a machine that has
successfully carried a man over the
Capital of the United States. never
theless, it has produced machines
that have flown. Langley built an
airship, which, though not large
enough to carry man was too large
TO be classed with ordinary models
as it measured some fifteen feet from
wing tip to wing tip. This mach-ne
was launched successfully, and flew
successfully for nearly half a mile.
hew until the motor, which was drj .-
ing it. broke down And then it fell.
not suddenly 20 destruction. but
slowly settling Gown much as a bird
settles upon The limb of a tree. and
Wen the machine was picked up it
was in perfect order, barring the
broken motor, for another triaI.
The Greeks and Romans had a
pleasing though decidedly mvtbo-
logical story, about one, Dedalus.
who built himself wings. modelling
them after those OF DIrd. Win
these wings he escaped from the La
byrinth Of Minos. taking with him his
son The .atter Lew TOO lear tae
sun and the wax. which held his
feathered wings together. melted aud
he slumped down into the water
Even If pedalus' wings were a fake.
the story was a good Invention. Now
when Prof. Langley decided to blijd
himself a flying machine. after Iona .
Ing the birds over carefully, nc came
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Hopeless Against Winds.

AS long as the balloon is retained
II appears almost helpless 10 con-
tend against strong or even brisk
winds. The surface offered the winds
Is too large, the propeller cannot
hope to contend successfully with
the pressure Of strong air currents.
The air is Of too thin a texture for
the propeller to get a firm enough
grip on II. or rather il offers too
little resistance to the propeller
to permit Of much driving power.
1t has been found impossible even
under the most favorable condi-
tiOns to attain much speed in the air
ships Of the dirigible ballon type.
SantOs-DumOnt's racer could not
make more than twenty miles an
hour. Considering the great speed
which has been attained on land
and sea travels this seems remark
ably slow for flying. The Brazil
fan has been quoted as saying
that II x Is possible TO attain a
speed OF forty miles an hour IN
one OF those dirigible balloons
Il would be possible 10 fly to the
north pole and back in compar-
stive safety.
This summer Walter Wellman IS
to make an attempt TO do this
very thing What his success viii
be no one can predict II he
reaches the pole and returns IN
safety or IL he only returns IN
safety from his perilous trip II
will be another triumph for the
dirigible balloon type OF airshlp
But even so, and even though no
mar has yet managed 20 sus-
tain himself in the air with the
aerC1lane. the weight Of evidence
seems to lean TO the aeroplane as
the final solution of aerial naviga-
ton, If the problem is ever 10 be
solved
The Washington times., 1906-07-01

Washington saw Tor
v v the first time a man
travel over their
city IN an airsh;p. To all appear
ances he was entire master Of the
strange craft which bore him. In
graceful curves he circled the Wash
ington Monument, paid his respects
to the White House, and then set
sail for the Capitol The ingenuity
of man had conquered to a certain
extent the problem of aerial navi-
cation when Lincoln Beachey set sail
In an airship modelled after the Kna-
benshue type.
A little less than three years ago
strange ship was launched on the
Potomac river, few miles from
Washington. Its broad sails were
horizontal to the water and spread
out like the wings of some great
prehistoric bird. 1t drew its motive
power from a propeller driven by a
gas engine This curious contrivance.
which, too. bore a man, was the in
vention Of the late Prof. Langley.
Twice 1t was launched into the air
from the top Of a hOuseboat and on
neither occasion did it travel more
than few yards before It plunged
into the river.
These are the actual results which
have been attained by the two
schools OF aerial navigation in ma
chimes which carried a human being
to direct their flight To date # an
pears that the uIrlgible balloon has
had decidedly the better of the aero
plane.
But the race between the two
methods OF travelling the air is not
yet done. After Prof. Langley's
aerOdrOme tumbled fgnominiously
into the Potomac river the second
time and had been sadly rescued
by the corps of men working upon
1t, the War Department, or rather
Congress, refused to aiIew the in
ventor further sums to continue the
experiments and allowed some So
600 which had been expended on
the machine and models to go for
nothing. The expenditure OF a few
more thousands might have solved
the difficulty. Since then Prof.
Langley who for years led in ex-
periments in aerial navigation has
died and the houseboat from which
he tried to launch his airship has
become the bOathouse of the
Georgetown College crew.
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The ECCentriCitieSOf IagS

FTER joyous exh1laration has
" passed into intoxication many
n men display curious preferences
one New Yorker invariably
becomes a private detective after GER
tain stage Of a jag His business IS then
10 shadow people He doesn't care
whom he shadows, but usually he pr
fers tail men. who show their Suilt b.
sitting quieJy in hotel corridor read
ing paper OF n magazine.
Having picked out his victim he pre-
pares for a long siege Of shadowins.
lie selects 4 chair near the unsuspectinB
criminal and watches him intenuy. II
the object OF his suspicious go 20 the
cigar counter he is followed and his ev-
cry move noted. Invariably the shadow
admits his business 20 the hotel clerk in
tone which can be heard several yards
away. and usually the hotel clerk gets a
cab and sends him home.
Another New Yorker becomes fond Of
theaters after ne has passed into semi
oblivion Ordinarily he never enters a
Jheater
on red letter nights he visits them ali
and shows mis- contempt for the pIzy by
waddlnE labOriouSly TO his seat, remov-
ing his hat and coat and then immedi-
ately putting on his hat and coat again
and proceeding outdoors and on 10 the
next theatre He has been known TO
collect people he never met before and
take them with him on his tour of in
spctiOn.
clerk OF thirty. whose salary is
modest shakes of the ties OF home and
friends occasionally and drinks All the
highbalis he can. In the last stages his
sole desire is TO ride in hanson cabs re-
Gardless OF cost.
He doesn't go home. He simply rides
around New York. When ne tires Of
one cab. or the color of the borse's rail.
he climbs out and summons another.
In the small wee hours. when his money
Is spent. he trips along home on foot
and wonders how he will feel in the
morning
ne hoobv OF another convivfaI person
OF mature years is sea bathing. Roll
ing about merrily in the swashing foam
IS his only ambition.
a little patch OF green turf in front
of boarding house supplies as sood
bathing as any beach on the Atlantic
coast for this reveler. He has been dis
covered several times spravIing about
on the grass He had folded up his
coat covered II with his hat and dived
madly on the edge OF the sidewalk
The speechmaking inebriate is too
common 10 be interesting The gentle
man who suddenly remembers he needs
a new pair Of suspenders. buys them
and changes them on the street causes
alarm. but is otherwise harmless. The
man VINO throws coins TO see nev-sboys
scramble for them is becoming rarer
4 wealthy young chap has been dis
covered begging money TO purchase
more after he was already inebriated
HIS pockets may be com fOrt a bly, hllcd
with his own money, but after a certain
period he realizes the tremendous waste
OF buying drinks out Of his personal re-
sources and proceeds to ask the price
from anyone who will listen
The list Of idiosyncrasies Is very
large IL would be much lager II con-
trtbutionS were made by those directly
concerned. Such contributions are not
forthcoming for two reasons. namely,
the actors wouldn't tell on themselves IL
they could remember. and, secondly,
they can't remember--New York Sun
The Washington times., 1906-07-01

Bell may eventually bring out the
ssfe, and at the same time speedy,
airship.
In spite of the fact that he has
never flown in his machines in this
country and that many curious
stories developed as the reason he
did not make a flight in St. Louis
at the time Of the worlds fair, San
tos-Dumont stands at the head OF
the school of aerostation. Since n
mere boy the Brazilian has been
deeply interested in aeronautics and
his cry has been with others of his
cult, Let US only get into the air
and then we will fly With this
idea in mind he has availed himself
of a balloon filled With hydrogen
gas TO support himself in the air.
His trips about Paris and around
the EifeI Tower are famous.
This balloon he hopes gradually
10 reduce to a minimum, and. if
possible. TO do away with entirely
eventually So in the end Santos
DumOnt hopes to attain the same
thing for which Langley strove so
hardI a self-supporting machine
The Washington times., 1906-07-01

whose displacement is heavier than
the air. 1t seems, therefore. that
the two schools of aeronautics are
striving for the same thing and
their only difference lies in the
means used to attain such an end.
Santos-Dumont and Knabenshue
have achieved some wonderful re-
suits, no doubt The former has
reduced the size of his supporting
balloon until the buoyancy which II
gives is not quite sufficient to raise
the big machine from the ground,
but IT rests there easily until the
impetus given by the propeller
shoots it into the air Nevertheless
the hope OF giving up the support
OF the balloon is still dim.
The Washington times., 1906-07-01
Belts Great Kite.

With this in mind Prof. Bell made
himself a kite which had great fly
ing capacity. II could soar at an
angle OF so degrees on a day when
there was not enough air stirring
20 wag a flag on a nearby flag pole
He built still larger kites which
proved their ability in light breezes
20 lift man completely OF the
ground In fact, two men were lift
ed at one time and only saved
themselves a bad fall by letting 90
the powerful kite II is not at all
improbable. therefore, that a com
binatiOn Of the ideas of Langley and
The Washington times., 1906-07-01

lies in the fact that the weight Of such
a machine increases as the cube of
its dimensions, but the wing surface
increases as the square 1t follows,
Of course, that the larger the ma
chine the greater will be the weight
in proportion to the sustaining sur
face.
1t is possible, however, that Prof.
Alexander Graham Bell may have
found a way to avoid this uncomfort-
able truth Prof. Bell has experiment.
ed largely with kites, particularly
with the Hargrave box variety. He
discovered that the ability of the
Kite to support itself in the air de-
creased. as the size increased, and
that only a hurricane could lift
huge box kite from the ground. The
inventor set to work with kite cells
of different shapes. He tried circu-
lar cells, but they were of no more
use than the box cells. He finally
hit upon the tetrahedral cell. This
cell had astonishing strength. was
light and offered little head resist
ance to the air. He found that a
kite built Of many such cells did not
The Washington times., 1906-07-01

left to do bit 10 build a machine
sufficiently large and sufficiently
light. and the problem of aerial
navigation would be solved
lat while the principles have been
p-Oved correct, the practical con-
structiOn Of such a machine has
proved a great and. as yet. insur-
mOuntable difficulty Langley's great
est trouble lay In contriving an en-
gine powerful, and at the same time
| sat, in constructing a framework
The Washington times., 1906-07-01

u y 7 THIN the past fort
a night the citizens of
Washington saw for
the first time a man
travail nuar m hpir
The Washington times., 1906-07-01
langley s LQU.

Although Prof. Langley had for
years been interested in aerial nav
igation and worked over the prob
lem persistently it was largely by
accident that he struck upon the
law which has since been called
'Langley's law" in the language of
aerOnautics. He was conducting
some experiments with a huge turn
The Washington times., 1906-07-01

10 get 4 downward start. instead Of
going OF horizontally into the air
The consequence was. il plunged
heavily into he water. and the press
throughout me country derided the
inventor for his mishap.
a mathematical principle, which
is invariable, and which may or may
not have been solved by Langley.
The Washington times., 1906-07-01
Practical Construction Difficult.

Under the pressure of the at
mosphere the plate was soon flying
through the air like a kite. To
Prof. Langley's surprise he found
that the air pressure on tho plate
instead Of pulling the indie or Of
the scale farther out. produced the
opposite effect As the table,
speed increased the Indicator reg
istered less than an ounce. In later
experiments. Pref Langley found
that he could whirl a 2OO-pound
plate through the air as fast as an
express train with the expenditure
of horsepower of energy. 1t be-
came known, therefore, as Lang
ley's law that the faster an aero
plane travels through the air the
less energy is required to drive il.
The principle. declared Prof. Lang
ley, was much the same as that
which permitted boy 10 skim quick
ly over thin ice without breaking
through. when. if he had stopped for
single instant he would have been
Wei soaked In other words. If an
aeroplane can be made to pass rap
idly over enough air in a givcl time
il will be supported. With this idea
in mind. and the fact that the fast
er an aeroplane is driven through
the air the less power is required
TO drive t. there appeared nothing