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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-09-27

glided on an inclined plane forward
through the air, recovered itself and
glided again. Though the public has not
yet seen it in action, there are many
trustworthy men who have testified to
having beheld the flying machine of the
Wright brothers, of Ohio, gliding
through the air like bird Any scien-
fist who has paid any attention what
ever to aeronautics will tell you that
Pitchers gliding machine acts in the air
just like bird in flight. And there
are others.
Like bird in gliding flight have they
Travelled overhead for varying distances.
No bag of gas lifted them in the air
and kept them suspended therein, while
a motor or an engine of some sort fur
nished driving power to propeller, as
in the case of the Santos Dumont and
other airships. Like bird they have
sailed, remained in the air by reason of
their own initiative, the power furnished
by motors or engines causing the me-
chanisms to offer the necessary bird-like
resistance to the air, with the result of
actual flight.
But, alas, because we do not yet pos
sess the full knowledge of the principle
of flight, as does the meanest of birds
and flying insects, those flying machines
which have justified their name, in part
at least, have been wont to play queer
tricks at the most inopportune moments
on their inventors and an anxiously
watching and waiting world And so,
though the greatest ambition of the
world to-day seems to be to fly, many
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-09-27

their path, to be brought up bruised and
torn in the friendly foliage of some
strange country.
Will the shell of the machine be of
steel? Certainly of that or some other
material equally strong, and, like steel,
many times heavier than the air it dis
places.
The shape of the machine? Probably
that of birds body-a huge, torpedo
like structure, with one nose pointed and
the other blunted somewhat The artists,
taking their cue from the scientists,
have been picturing it thus for several
years now.
What will drive it? Motors of well
nigh miraculous power, and many times
lighter in weight than machinery cap
able of such power could now be built,
just as the automobile motor of to-day
is infinitely lighter than the motor of
only few years ago even, and the
mighty engines of the modern ocean
greyhound" are lighter than the weak
lings of fifty odd years ago.
And the motors will revolve the pro-
pellers so astonishingly fast that flight
will be born of this very rapidity of
motion, offering resistance to the air;
and flight will be sustained by it, as in
the case of the bird, and as was the case
for short time with Prof. Langley's
aerodrome.
How fast will we travel? The wild
goose, with brain much smaller in pro-
portion than mans, has speed, in full
flight, of from two hundred to three
hundred miles an hour. Surely we will
not journey through the air at less than
this speed, we who are the brains of
the universe! A mile every sixteen or
twelve seconds, the Atlantic crossed in
a single night, an after-lunch and be-
fore-dinner trip between New York and
Chicago, run of minutes merely from
the metropolis to the Hub!
What will give life to the driving ma
chinery? There is wide diversity q,
opinion, but all are agreed that its bulk
viii be very small, its weight light, ant
a little will go very long way. Per
haps, say the most daring, man, as h,
Mes Will snatch the necessary electro
power from space, and in his air con
veyances there will be nothing to re
semble the giant fuel bunkers Of til
ocean greyhounds.
When man flies Our wars will i
fought in the air; the victor will la
j Continued on Page 3
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-09-27

OF us have come to say, with regret
full shake of the head, I'VE will
never fy..
Right here, up steps the greatest
wizard of his day, Thomas A. Edison,
to say that man ought to be ashamed
of himself for not having solved the
problem, in all its phases, long ago.
Il was down in Florida, and one day
l watched big bird-I think it was a
vulture-that hoated about in the air a
whole hour without moving its wings
perceptibly. When God made that bird
He gave it machine to fly with, but
He didn't giveit much else. He gave the
bird very small brain with which to
direct the movements of the machine,
but He gave to man a. much larger
brain in proportion to that of the bird"
All this is paraphrased in the one word
Shame"
Here" says Edison of the vulture,
SIS natural flying machine which is a
thousand times as heavy as the air it
displaces. There is nothing but ma
chine and a small brain, and it is not
a very remarkable machine, either" And
then in self-evident disgust: "Why is it
that man cannot make a flying machine
as efficient as bird?
"a lot of people say that it was never
meant that man should fly, that if ma
ture had intended such a thing man
would have been provided with the
necessary machinery in his body, such as
is now possessed by the bird. But you
might as well say that it was never
intended that man should ever have any
light aside from the sun and the moon
and stars which were originally pro-
vided for him, or that he should not
move about faster with the aid of
wheels because no wheels were supplied
to him by nature"
Through further study of the bird and
its method of flight man will discover
how to fly, says MIR. Edison, and all
others who have given the subject any
serious thought agree with him fully.
But, Mr.. Edison adds, somewhat para
doxically, he who solves the problem of
flight will find out nothing new Pow
erful motors of wonderful compactness
will be applied to framework of ex-
IRENE lightness, and that will be all there
is to it
Doubtless this framework will be
something similar to the physical struc-
ture of bird. do not believe it will
be difficult, because we have many me-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-09-27

chanical devices now which are superior
to the devices used by nature in human
beings and animals, and | do not see
why we may not put together con-
trivance which will at least be equal to
the machine and brain of the bird"
So, if man-Aight is such an easy mat
ter as Mr. Edison makes it out to be,
why have we not been navigating the
air these many years? For one thing,
we have only recently, in our attempts
to fly, left off trying to be original and
endeavored to copy the bird, the handi-
work of nature. 1t is significant fact
that only since we have looked to the
bird for the secret of flight has. there
been built machine with an indisput-
able record of flying ever so small a
distance. Only since we have begun to
initiate the bird have the wise men be-
come convinced that we will yet fly
And some day-some day-ah, who
would not like his name to go rolling
down the ages as the inventor of the
first machine to demonstrate beyond the
shadow of a doubt the complete con-
quest of the air by man?
Though man, when he flies, will fly
like the birds, it does not necessarily
follow that the flying machine, on ac-
count of its structure, might be taken
for some long surviving antideluvian in
habitant of the air. Indeed, not few
scientists who have been busy with aero
nautics declare that, once man has dis
covered the principle of flight, his Won
derful ingenuity will enable him to con-
struct machine that will incorporate
the principle and at the same time have
nothing about it resembling wings in the
slightest degree. Propellors there will
be, and a rudder, doing the work of
wings and tail. But it will be flight
without wings-and we have been
taught from childhood that even the
angels need wings to fly. Other scien-
lists, however, believe that there will be
great planes, two or more, mechanically
worked like wings, in conjunction with
propellors and rudder.
Again, in their perfected state, pro-
pellors and rudder will do more than
to give flight. Once more man will i'm
prove on nature, and the mechanisms Of
his ingenuity will drive the good air ma
chine through gales that the stronges
bird could not face, will keep it Sc
renely on its course, while birds
caught in the swirling, clashing, battlin,
currents, will be hurtled miles out o
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-09-27

loon or the so-called airship of to-day
Further, we will fly as does the pigeon.
1t, lin full flight, raises itself by each
OF its rapid wing beats, an almost i'm
perceptible distance. and shoots forward
between each flap along plane of very
slight inclination, downwards by just the
amount the wing beat raises it, and for
wards considerable distance-the re-
suit being rapid flight"
Our flight, then, will be gradual
gliding down an inclined plane and a
constant recovery by upshoots In some
forms of flight these two actions occur
almost simultaneously. So will they in
the perfected flying machine, insuring a
delightful sense of safety to the passen-
ger, nonchalantly defiant of the law of
gravitation, he knowing full well the ma
chimes ability constantly and arbitrarily
to correct the position of the center of
gravity, bird fashion, thus insuring
permanent stability in the air.
The wisest of men declare all this !;
still, you say, dream-a phantasma-
goria of the brain?
Surely not when man has already
flown in or flown machines as the pigeon
flies
Time after time the aerodrome-air
runner invented NV the late Prof Il p
Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-09-27

places; the machine in which man will
prove to the world the complete prac-
ticability and utility of air travel will
be-who knows how many hundred times
heavier than the substance filling the un-
seen and boundless sea through which it
will shoot with speed outrivalling the
homing pigeons, with the steadiness and
docility of an old family horse?
And our flight through space will be
in conscious imitation of the flights OF
the birds.
Every bird, every flying thing, flies be-
cause its flight is based upon the resist
ance offered to the air by its wings.
In other words, we shall never attain
fight by merely displacing air, as we do
when floating in the straight out bal
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-09-27

''-.N ~ ~ ny hihOdGi 1iS GA a.
easily as we flash across the continent
by rail to-day, many times more quickly,
and far more pro6tably and economi-
cally, too?
The wise men of the civilized portions
Of the world are now pretty generally
agreed that we will. A few decades ago
they were not. Since then, in the nat
ural march of events, several things
have happened to cause them to face
about, and it would surprise none to
wake up to-morrow-next week-next
year, to the certain knowledge that man
ais flying at last
Impossible!" you exclaim in tones
that SAVIOR of disgust at such vision.
That is the very word the great body
of people employed when, at one time or
another, single man, or, at least. small
body of men, were firm in the belief
that we would yet sail by steam, send
messages by dots over wires, actually
talk over wires, ride in horseless car
riages, send and receive messages over
thousands of miles of space without the
aid, even, of intervening wires! And
this is the word that great many of
us let rise to our lips when we hear a
learned man, orthodox in all things
else, solemnly declare that we will
yet fly.
Fly, not float, mind you.
We can float in the air now. The
trick is nothing. We have been float
ing in the air, 10! these many decades
past. The balloon is floating bag,
merely.
This is true of both the dirigible and
non-dirigible types. In each case the
n thing that gets the balloon up in the
{ air and keeps it suspended there is gas.
Gas, as every one knows, is substance
lighter than air, and so it is capable,
when used in sufficient quantity, to float
the silken cloth the ropes, the woven
basket, and whatever else goes into the
makeup of the contraption we call a
balloon.
But the invention that is to give us
the mastery of the now uncharted high
ways of the air will travel along these
very highways on its own initiative. 1t
will be an active. not passive, So
iourner in the realm of overhead
In this feature it will be like unto the
bird, and again, like the bird, it will
be heavier, many times heavier, than the
{. Az st. s'faN vulture's body is thou
reserseavier than the air it dis
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
DetendS
''OutlAw"
BASebAW
Noted Minneapolis Dia-
mond Critic Also Criti-
cises Big Leagues.
Says Members of National
Commission Must Surely
Be Self Interested.

1.-THE organized baseball Of today is
nothing more or less than q clever plan
by which the players are held in a semi
bondage, sold, bought, traded and traf-
licked about like a lot VI prize steers
at a country fair" says "Dutch Uncle"
the celebrated Minneapolis baseball au-
thority. 'The player is subjected to
all sorts Of rules, regulations and
creeds, but has little or nothing to say
about his own affairs. He is sold out
of minor into major leagues or from
major to minor and has nothing to say.
He can pack his grip and go or get out
of organized baseball.
every agreement has its foundation
or should have It's basis In equity.
There is about as much equity in the
average baseball contract as in the
proceeding wherein the strong arm In
the alley gets the watch Of the wayfar-
ing citizen. The cit gives up the
watch or gets a clout in the head. The
ball player gets up and does as his
master demands or he gets out of or
ganized baseball.
1.-THE high court of. baseball rests in
the national commission. This is made
up of league presidents and club own
ers-interested parties to almost every
dispute that comes up. These men
may try as best they can to be fair in
settling all disputes between clubs and
players, but self interest or the inter
ests of league or friends must have
some influence in their decisions. The
men would not be human did they not
wave toward the side in which their
interests and Friendships are vested.
'The only way to overcome this con-
dition of affairs is the appointment of
a national commission, the members Of
which have nothing to do in baseball,
no financial interests at stake, and Let
them decide cases purely upon their
merits.
1.-The bowling of outlaw at the Tri-
state league is like the barking of
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
"Waiting at the Church."

NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. o.
Miss Grace Strong, of Remsen ave
nue., and Charles Gensier, of Pater-
on street, were quietly married at
Newark Tuesday, but they, did not
intend that the secret should be
known until they were ready to an
naunce 1t but they told some friends
Mt the boat club concert that night
and tho announcement was made by
George j. Kuhn that a newly welded
couple was there and the orchestra
would play a special selection in their
honor. The selection-wa waiting
at the Church" That was the nearest
they had to a wedding march. Later
they were given a serenade.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09


a rat terrier at a mastiff. This league
goes ahead, attends to it's business and
pays its players good salaries. Be-
cause the club owners do not care to
come in under the rule of the national
commission and sign the national
agents in the organized settlements
pour hot shot into the league, its off,
GERS and players.
"The outlaw league is a good thing
for baseball players. 1t keeps the Or
ganized forces from ruling the game
ear. 1t affords players a place to go
when they get tired of being traded
around like cattle. The league pays
good salaries. 1t looks as solid inan-
cially as the others. Its craftsmanship
Is just as high, If not higher.
Baseball has become more or less of
a competitive business proposition, and
under this rule the outlaws so called,
have just as much right to do business
as the organized forces. They furnish
a market where players may sell their
services at a high price. 1t makes COM
petition for men and keeps the salary
cutting ak suspended, in a great
many cases, without a heavy fall.
"The hackers of the outlaw clubs
are not perverted sporcemen,' and the
players are not all disgruntled ones.
This designation by the Organized or
gans is another case of the wish ia
thering the thought. While they may
not blow about it from the housetops,
the outlaw league has the friendship
and moral support of eight out of ev-
cry ten of the players now with the
organized clubs"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Licenses for Notorious Places.
Special to The EVENING NEWS:

NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. APP
plication has been made here of the
excise board by Lembeck & Betz
Brewery Company for licenses for
John Workman, at the White Hall
hotel, and Dennis Donovan, who sue
ceeds tho place licensed formerly to
William H.. Maniey. Manley and
Workman were indicted for keeping
disorderly houses and the board re-
fused them a license. No action has
yet been taken upon the applications
made by the brewery,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Wines &L,quoys,

BALTIMORE RYE WHJSKEv
Aged. mellow and smooth ~
gallon. $2.15: full guar bottle EReo
MCINTOSH MALT WHIsKEvN
Others at a higher price, but none
better; an excellent stimulent. sne-
cial, per bottle. .S5c
CLARET FROM THE BEuNA
VISTA VTNBYARDS-[nexcelled
as a table wine; per gallon. -. sac
MOUNTAIN REISLING-A type of
light California Rhine Wine; of
excellent vintage; per gallon. 81. O5
JAM S II N N E & CO.'S
COGNAC-The bottle regularly
sold at SLIPS; special. 81 90
KUMMEL-Choice. Creamy, Old
Getreide ,Doppel; extra special,
quart bottle SIC
BLACK AND WHITE SCOTCH
WHlSKEY-The genuine imported
bottle, by James Buchanan &
Co., Glasgow; limit, one bottle;
per bottle. .03c
CLYNTA GINGER ALE-A sparlx-
ling summer beverage; per dozen
Dottles 76c
BLACKBERRY BRANDY Tba
great remedy for summer COM
paints per gallon, $3.50; per bot
te s'.*..t,-..ss Boo
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

Subscribe for The NEWS.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
Drug Dept.
MANI Orders Filled.

VIOLET TALGUM POWDER. 3 for
25c.; 25c. Size...;.:.:.;;.loc
pENTiSEPTINE \TOOTH POWDER,
25e. bottle. ...k
& cASTORIA, 2sc. bottle. ......l4
EAxATlvE FIG SYRUP, 2Sc.
\ size.
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2Npound box....S.....".ao
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4-PiN1N BOTTLE BESTN BAY RUN,
75c. kaiue. ,.....~.....%
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HCL ~
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ounce package, 24c.; 4-ounce
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

Why does the sun burn? Why
does a mosquito sting? Why do we
feel unhappy In the Good Old Sum-
mer Time? Answer. we don't We
use DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. and
these little ills don't bother us. Learn
To look for the name on the box to
get the genuine. Sold by G. A. Sex
ion.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09
0OutInvv,, nan PIavera.

Baseball clubs under the national
agreement will have nothing to do
with outlaw players unless considered
the property by reserve of some club
In the organization.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

You need a pill? Use DeWitt's
Little Early Risers, the famous. little
pills. Do not sicken or grippe, but re-
suits are sure. Sold by G. A. Sexton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

NehAOn u new FArAte star.
Nealon looks like a great find for
Pittsburg. He is a giant and knows
how to play the first base bag.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-09

Leave WANT" advs. At branch Of
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-10
THE WEIGHT OF THE cRoWs; =

THE WEIGHT OF THE CRoWs-By
Fred. NJ. White: r. F. Fenno & Co:
1t is the crown of Austurla. said to be
one of the Balkan principelities which SO SO
readily lend themselves to the needs SO or
fiction which is here the subject OF con,
tention. In spite of his strongminded and
beautiful Queen. the King of Asturia IS
by way OF being a degenerate and Russia
Is only waiting likely chance to snatch
his kingdom away. The action mostly
takes places In London. and for that mat
ter. Just about everything happens In one
night at a large entertainment given by
an English diplomat. There official docu-
ments of an agreement between England
and Asturia. which the Russian spies
steal, and there is an abdication which
they try to make the King OF Asturia
sign, and there is the King himself, who
manages to get drunk just when 1t will
cause the most trouble. Everybody was
intriguing or plotting or schemng In
one form OF another. and every time an
eyebrow was raised it signfied something
vital. Not the least part of the mystery
grew out of the change of identity which
took place between the two girls, whore
by Jessie, the milliner's girl. played the
role of hostess at the brilliant party, and
Vera, In Jessie's plain attire, crept off to
steal the papers back. Barring a few
extravagances such as the party at Lord
Merehaven's, which evidently lasted be-
yond and orthodox party limits. the story
is pretty we'll conceived and worked out
and there are fewer ragged ends left
pendant than in many stories Of the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-10

ant fact is to be considered. Harpers
Weekly Is not a Democratic publication
and before the discussion progresses far-
ther wc would like to know IL, IN the
event of Mr.. Wilson'S nomination by tho
Democrats, our esteemed Republican con-
temporary. who gives the Democratic par
ty this valuable hint, will also give Mr..
Wilson its cordial support? II so, the
suggestion Is worthy of serious con-
sldoration; II. mot, 1t lis fairly open to
suspicion
one other thought occurs to us IN this
connection, and that Is that IL president
Wilson. of Princeton, should be elected
President of the United States, the Hon
orable Theodore Roosevelt, President OF
the United states. might be elected presi-
dent of Princeton. 1t would be most
beautiful swap and would relieve the
country of the responsibility of making
suitable provision for Mr.. Roosevelt. ar
ter he shall have retired from the White
House.