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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

1--WE had worked out new method
of practice with gliding machines"
they explained. ''Lillienthal and Cha
mute had obtained their experience in
flying with the operators launching
himself from hill and gliding down
on to lower land. This involved car
rying back their apparatus, after a
short flight, to the top of the hill
again. Because of the difficulties of
this awkward method, although Lii
lienthal had made over 1000 flights,
we calculated that in all his five years
of experiment he could not have been
actually practicing flying more than
five hours-far too short for the ordi-
nary man to learn to ride a bicycle.
1t was our plan to follow the example
of soaring birds, and find place
where we could be supported by
strong rising winds.
"A bird is really an aeroplane. The
portions of its wings near the body
are used as planes of support, while
the more flexible parts outside, when
tapped act as propellers, Some Of the
soaring birds are not much more than
animated sailing machines A buzzard
can be safely kept in an open pen 30
feet across and ten feet high. He
cannot fly out of it. In fact, we know
from observation made by ourselves
that he cannot fly for any distance up
a grade of one to six.
Yet these birds sailing through the
air are among the commonest sights
through a great section of the country.
Every one who has been outdoors has
seen a buzzard or hawk soaring;
every one who has been at sea has
seen the gulls sailing after a steam
ship for hundreds of miles with scarce
ly a movement of the wings. All of
these birds are doing the same thing
they are balancing on rising cur
rents of air. The buzzards and hawks
find the currents blowing upward off
the land; the gulls that follow the
steamers from New York to Florida
are merely sliding down hill a thou
sand miles on rising currents in the
wake of the steamer in the atmos-
phere, and on the hot air rising from
her smokestacks."
Think Great Speed Possible.
The brothers believe that the event
ual speed of the aeroplane will be
easily 60 miles an hour, and may be
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
TORTURED SIX MONTHS
BY Terrible Itching Eczema-5aby's
Suffering Was Terrible - Soon
Entirely Cured by Cuticura.

Eczema appeared on my sons face.
We went to a doctor who treated him
FOR three months. Then he was so bad
that his face and head were nothing
but one sore and his ears looked as If
they were going to fall off, so we tried
another doctor for four months, the
baby never getting any better. His
hand and legs had big sores on them
and the poor little fellow suffered so
terribly that he could not sleep. After
he had suffered six months we tried
a set of the Cuticura Remedies and
the first treatment let him sleep and
rest we'll; in one week the sores were
gone and in two months he had clear
face. Now he is two years and has
never had eczema again. Mrs. Louis
Leck, F.. F. D. 3, San Antonio, Tex,
Apr. 10, 1907"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

forced up to 100 miles. Our expert
ments have shown" they said, that
flier designed to carry an aggregate
of 745 pounds at 20 miles an hour
would require only eight horsepower,
and at 80 miles an hour II horse
power. At 60 miles "a horsepower
would be needed, and at 120 miles so
or rs horsepower. 1t is clear that
there is a certain point Of speed be-
yond which the air resistance makes
1t impossible to go. Just what that is
experiment will determine. Every
year gas engines are being made
lighter-a fact which will increase the
surplus carrying power of the machine
available for fuel and operator and
heavier construction, but at present
for the flying machine. This, of
course, means speed through the
air.
THE aeroplane running 60 miles an
hour will have surplus lifting power
enough to carry fuel for long jour
neys. Our 1907 machine will carry
gasoline enough to fly 500 miles at a
rate of some 80 miles an hour. We
can, and possibly soon will, make a
one-man machine carrying gasoline
enough to go 1000 miles at 40 miles
an hour. Moreover, any machine made
to move at speeds up to 60 miles an
hour can be operated economically at
cost of not much over one cent a
mile for gasoline.
There is no question that a man
can make lighter and more efficient
wing than a birds. A cloth surface,
for instance, can be produced offer
ing less surface friction than feathers.
The reason for this fact is that a
birds wing is really a compromise.
1t is not made for flying only-it must
be folded up and got out of the way
when the bird is on its feet, and eff
cheney in flying must be sacrificed to
permit this The wings of aeroplanes
will vary in size according to speed.
A slow machine will require a large
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
Ambitious Minds Would Con-
troll Only Element That
Has DeGed Man
Now 1t Is Thought That the Aero
plane Devised BY Wright Brothers
May at Least Point the Way to
Success---CouZd Laugh at Vessels
of War.

, solve the problem of equilibrium by
some automatic system of balancing.
We believe that the control should be
left to the operator. The sense of equi-
librium is very delicate and certain.
If you lie upon bed three-quarters of
an inch out of true, you know it at
once. And this sense of equilibrium is
just as reliable a mile above the earth
as it is on it.
The management of our aeroplane
like that of the bicycle, is based upon
the sense of equilibrium of the opera
tor. The mechanism for preserving
the balance of the machine consists of
levers operated by simple uniform
movements which readjust the flying
surfaces of the machine to the air
The movement of these levers very
soon becomes automatic with the avi-
ator, as does the balancing of bicy-
Gle rider, and simpler to operate than
bicycle. In fact, the aeroplane is
easier to learn. In all our experiments
with gliding and flying machines, we
have not even sprained a limb; we
have scarcely scratched our flesh
Fatalities Among Inventors.
But if these two eXpermenters have
had immunity from mishap their pre-
decessors have not. Among the first
to undertake the task of demonstrate
ing that a mechanical flying machine
is possible was Otto Lillienthal, Ger
man mechanical engineer. He made a
study of the flight of birds and event
ually concluded that very little was
known of the laws which govern the
flight of the feathered tribe. He be-
gan experimenting in 1891, using wings
constructed like those of soaring birds.
Equipped with these, he sailed down
hill sides into valleys. After a series
of more than 1000 flights one of his
wings gave way one day and in his
tumble to earth he dislocated his spine
and died the following day.
That was in 1896. Three years Later
an Englshman, Percy S. Pitcher, be-
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
Two Injured When an Engine Jumped

Kansas City, June IA Wabash
passenger locomotive was derailed I'M
der the west approach of the intercity
yaduct at $3.50 o'clock Saturday morn
ing and two laborers who had been
working on the track at that point
were injured. An angle bar flew off
md struck Seag George on one
shoulder, and in the scramble to get
out of the way Mike Carbone sprained
an ankle. Trains were delayed only
q few minutes.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

wing, but the faster the speed the less
will be the supporting surface nee
essary, and wings for high speeds will
naturally be very small. Not only will
less support be needed, but the size
must be reduced to reduce the fric.
ton of the air."
Fearful Only of Capsize.
Although one of the brothers had an
ugly fall only few days ago, they
both maintain that the only danger
to be apprehended from an aoroplane
is the danger Of capsize. A break
down, or sudden stopping of the en-
CINE, they say-and they certainly
should know-does not entail dlsas-
ter, as on the first thought it might
appear. Their explanation is that
while the aeroplane is supported in
the air through it's own motion
through it, yet gravity furnishes all
the energy that is needed to get
safely to tie ground. When the
power is shut off it merely scales
through the air to its landing. Theo-
retically, it is safer at a mile above
the earth than at 200 feet, because 1t
has a wider choice of places in which
to land; you can choose your land
ing from 256 square miles from a
mile above the surface if descending
one in sixteen. "As matter of fact"
they said, I'VE always shut off the
mower when we start to alight, and
come down by the force Of gravity.
We reach the ground at so slight an
angle and so lightly that it is impos-
sible for the operator to tell by his
own sensation within several yards
of where the ground was first actu'
ally touched.
I'VE feel that it is absolutely essen
tial for us TO keep our method OF con
troll a secret. We could patent many
points in the machine, and it is posi-
BILE that we could make success OF
the invention commercially. We have
been approached by many promoters
on the matter. But we believe that
our best market is to sell the ma
chine to some government for use in
war. To do this it is necessary for
us to keep its construction an abso'
lutte secret"
To the same writer the brothers
made the interesting statement that
they did not expect the aeroplane ever
to displace the railroad or the steam
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
Former Kansas City Man.

New York, June 1.-THE alumnae
and students of the Dewitt Clinton
High school formed a committee last
night to get subscriptions for men,
oral to John T. Buchanan, the prin-
1897 until his recent death. The men,
orial is to take the form of portrait
by a reputable artist, an appropriate
frame and a small tablet bearing the
dates of DR.. Buchanan's principalship.
Albert l. Calaio is now acting prin-
cpal
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
Mrs Gerlinu May Recover.

st. Louis, June Mrs. Elizabeth
Gerling. whose throat was slashet
Thursday night by a man who hid
beneath her bed in her home at 1856
Usage street, has an excellent chance
for recovery, for unless infection sets
in she will be able to leave the hos
pital in a few days.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
The Weeks Business Failures.

New York, June 7.-Business fail
ures for the week ended June 4 num-
Der 225 in the United States, the
smallest reported for any week since
last October, and compared with 2G3
last week and 155 in the like week Of
1907. Business failures for the week
ended June number 80 in Canada
against 81 last week and is in the
like week last year.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
No Danger.

Whatever you do. dear" wrote the
ardent lover, don't show my letters to
you 10 anyone"
Have no fear, dearest" came the
reply. I'm just as much ashamed Of
them as you are"
And, with that. the engagement be-
came a matter of history.-Judge.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
Flood in Oklahoma.

Enid, Ok, June 7.-Following an
exceedingly heavy rain Saturday a
disastrous flood struck Enid about day
break. Water stood II feet deep on
the pavement on Main street within
two blocks of the business center.
Doggy creek, usually 20 feet wide,
spread out to 1000 feet in many
places.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

L
machine is how to keep it from turn
ing over.
Air in Constant Turmoil.
"The chief trouble" the brothers ex-
plaiped lis the turmoil of the air.
The common impression is that the
atmosphere runs in comparatively reg
MAR currents which we call winds.
No one who has not been thrown about
on a gliding aeroplane-rising or fall
ing ten, 20 or even 80 feet in a rev
seconds-can understand how utterly
wrong this idea is. The air along
the surface of the earth, as a
matter of fact, is continually churn-
ing. 1t is thrown upward from every
irregularity, like sea breakers on a
coast line; every hill and tree and
building sends up a wave or slantlng
current. And it moves not directly
hack and forth upon its coast line
like the sea, but in whirling rotary
masses. Some of these rise up hun
dreds of yards. In a fairly strong
wind the air near the earth is more
disturbed than the whirlpools of Nj
agara.
THE problem of mechanical flight
is how to balance in this moving fluid
which supports the flying machine; or
technically speaking, how to make the
center of gravity coincide with the
center of air-pressure. The wind OFTEN
veers several times a second, quicker
than thought, and the center OF pres
sure changes with it. 1t is as diff
cult to follow this center of pressure
az TO keep your finger on the flicker
ing blot of light from a prism swing
ing in the sun.
1T has been the common aim oil
experimenters with the aeroplane to
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
a Matter of Time.

1t was the day of the ball game and
Willie. the ofice-boy, approached the
head of the firm, and stammered: III
y-you p-p-plplease, sir"
Come, hurry up" said his employ
er. IF YOU have anything to say, say
It. Don't take half day."
But that's just what l was go.-S
m ask Won If | could take" said Will
lie.-Harper's Weekly.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
External Evidence.

Little Clarence had the experience
for the first time of taking his bath in
a cold room with water not at the
usual temperature. His mamma LETT
him for a moment, while he looked
aghast at the goose flesh" that APP
peared.
Hurry up, mamma he called. I'm
turning into a chicken.
Weekly.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
More Diouinu in LaPorte.

LaPorte, Ind, June G.-Sheriff Smut
ger has resumed digging on the Gun
ness farm. He will try to learn II
there is any foundation for that part
of the Truelson confession which deals
with the burial of Mae OReilly and
Frank Redinger near the railroad
track
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

BM cent and intensely alb
w sorbed westerners, the
M Wright brothers of Day
a ton, o., appear to have
at last conquered the ele-
ments which have so long baffled the
ingenuity of man, and aerial naviga-
ton, so long regarded as fascinating
absurdity, now seems to be very much
of practical reality, says writer in
the New York Times.
Aside from the triumph of the long
and apparently easily controlled flight,
the most important item contained in
the news dispatches from Mantou, n.
Quoting their experiments, is the state
mcnt that the aeroplane not only car
ried both men, but carried them in a
sitting position. The earlier aeroplane
of these inventors carried but one
aviator, and it was necessary for him
to be prone upon his stomach.
The significance of the statement lies
in the apparent fact that the inventors
have at last succeeded in overcoming
the real problem of mechanical flight
the problem of equilibrium. Aero
planes that would support their opera
tors have previously been tested. En-
gines of sufficient lightness to propel
them through the air at a sufficient
speed and to carry their own weight
and that of the operators have also
been successfully tried. There have
been plenty of aeroplanes that would
fly in still air The one needful, essen
tial, and undiscovered thing was an
airship that would not capsize when
the wind was blowing.
Writing in recent issue of Nc
Cures Magazine, George Kibbe Turn
er quotes the Wright brothers as as
sorting that no one who had not nav
igated the air can appreciate the real
difficulty of mechanical flight-that
the great problem-the problem of
equilibrium-never occurs to any one
who has not actually tried flying.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
These New coiTures.

What a-queer ornament Miss Snuff
fles wears in her hairl" said Mrs.
Trulywed. Can you see what 1t is?"
"Yes-thats not an ornament It's
the price tag" answered Miss Belle
Tinkly.-Cleveland Leader.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

Cincinnati, June IA blow on the
cheek from batted ball resulted in
the death of George McGleason. aged
IS. of Latonia, KY, a suburb. He IL
the sixth to die of baseball injuries
in this city and suburbs since the
season opened.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12
49,, shnrtane In Amerlca.

London. June Cit is said here
that 10000 pounds of American meat
that has been stored in London, Glas-
gov and Liverpool. has been reshipped
BY fast steamer to New York to meet
the continued shortage of meat in
America.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

On assured railroad SO miles from
San Antonio, Texas, the man of small
means can buy a farm of from 10 to
$40 acres and 2 town lots for S2lO.
Fine climate, good water, rich soil, $40
per month. Write Dr. Chas. F. Sim
mons, San Antonio, Texas.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

Will you buy now. or will you wait
until the good land is all gone From
10 to $40 acres and 2 town lots OF
the choicest land in South Texas, for
s21O, at $40 per month. Write DIR.
Chas. F. Simmons, San Antonio, Texas
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

gan experimenting along the same
line. He had essayed only few flights
when one of his wings broke and he
sustained injuries which caused his
death few days later.
On this side of the Atlantic, Prof.
S. P Langley conducted some notable
experiments, fashioning in 1896 a
small, steam-driven aeroplane which
made a flight of three-quarters of a
mile. In the same year Chanute OF
Chicago constructed a gliding ma
chine which attracted some attention.
Four years later the Wright brothers,
two young bicycle makers of Dayton,
began experimenting.
1t was not long before their efforts
began to attract attention. But they
sedulously avoided notoriety, kept
their own counsel, and devoted them
selves to the task of solving the prob
lem of mechanical flight. Mr.. Turner,
however, gained their confidence, and
thus describes them: 1.-TWO lean,
quiet men in a dingy, commonplace
little brick bicycle shop; pleasant, UNI
assuming, most approachable, but
shy and silent under the oppression
of the greatest secret Of the time. Or
vile. of the more social and converse
tional temperament, did the greater
share of the talking-an amiable, kind
| ly-faced man of 80. Wilbur-prema-
tur0y bald, about 40, with the watch
full eyes, marked facial lines, and dry,
brief speech of naturally reicent
man."
Their New Method.
To quote his account of what the
brothers told him just prior to their
going abroad last year for the demon
stration of their machines before for
eign war departments:
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

Lewis Single Binder costs more than
other Sc cigars. Smokers know why.
Your dealer or Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

Nature is sometimes kind. occa.
sionally a red-headed man gets bald.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

A cranky bachelor says that heaven
is probably so called because there
are no marriages there
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

Usually the man who believes In
paying as he goes stays at home.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

experiments with great Sc
excellent idea their
taken from distance Tor mc0ue
the glider motion The lower picture
SHOW the starting
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

ARE YOUR CLOTHES FADED.
Use Red Cross Ball Blue and make them
white again. Large 2 OF. package, cents
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

Thus. the real question of the flying
machine is how to keep it from turn
ing over.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-06-12

~ w EW YORK-Those reti-
EN cent and intensely alb
w sorbed westerners, the
@ Wright brothers of Day
a V ton, o., appear to have
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-09-24
HOW TAFT WAS SOUGHT BY
M'KINLEY.

The Manner in Which the Republi-
can Candidate Was Called to
Larger Sphere of Action.
One afternoon early in 1900, when
Judge William H. Taft was debating
a decision of the United States Court
In the Federal Building In Cincinnati,
a telegram was placed in his hands.
He tore off the envelope and was sur
prised to find a telegram from Presi-
dent William Mckinley, reading:
II shall take it as a great favor If you
will call on me some time next week"
Judge Taft guessed at the meaning
Of the summons and guessed wrong.
He went to Washington and was shown
into a room at the White House, where
he met the President and Secretary
Long Of the Navy. Later, Elihu Root,
the Secretary Of War, came in. Then,
to use Mr.. Taft's own words:
"Mr. Mckinley said that he wanted to
send me to the Philippines to help in the
work of establishing civil government as
the army moved on. l thought of my
place on the bench and hesitated. Be
sides, l believed and said we could get
along without the Philippines.
"'But we have them and must take
care Of them the President. replied
"'You are at the turning Of the ways
in your life,' NJ. Root then observed.
The bench is the easy road. You can
stay there and be comfortable. On the
contrary, the Philippines will demand per-
sonal sacrifices and risks and much hard
work, but you will have an opportunity
of doing your country very great SER
vice. | went home, and argued the mat
ter for two weeks"
The telegram to Cincinnati opened
the door of American history to Will
liam H. Taft and made him the Repub
lican candidate for President Of the
United States.