The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-03
SCHOOL
FOR AlRsHIPS
I Machine. supplant Horses on
t s'u,u. Norri. Race Track !"
New york City, Now
Aviation Grounds.
|,ou ACTUAL PROBLEM

80 p. Through PAGES on
world. First Aerial Course
where Poor Inventor
Has Chance.
rrW YORK, Oct. 3.-The navigation
y. ~ a. has at last become an actual
'.,h,sm in the science of transporta-
N Like every other development
1 this field the airship has mad 70 90
. = 4 period in which it has been
. ss,,ma merely as scientific and ex-
.asIve toy, attainable only by the
Isl The locomotive was looked on
! nj, manner at first. and the bicy-
n and the automobile have success
.I,elv passed through the same stage.
Mutually the airship, particularly the
A.sr,er than air variety, through
ybIch the final solution of the prob
In Of aerial navigation is expected,
ID had to pass through the same
sages For various reasons it has
Asd 4 more difficult course than any OF
III predecessors. Its development
hsbeen looked upon as aeing in the
ts1& Of a few men, and wealth has
been regarded as an absolute requi-
lite.
Now all this is changed for within
tie past few weeks New York has not
only made experimentation In air nav
titon possible for persons of small
/ means, but has also seen the incorpor-
alton Of an aerial travel company
which plans to carry passengers
through the air above the streets OF
h her ty Just as other means OF trans
4 Niadon now do on the ground. In
deed Il IS now even claimed that some
/ Dot distant future date will see the
{ ravements of various city thorough
fares colored in different tones in or.
der that aerial navigators may be able
70 distinguish easily places in which
they may land.
Of course all this may sound Wis
Saary Actually, however. it is not.
ssafere Is nothing more impossible
soott It than there was in connection
With the monograph or the telephone.
AlSrln addition to this the gene, :; de-
selopment of this practical side of fly
lng is now for the first time underway
sndin this city.
ep TO now this has beer in the
asnds Of few men. In this coun-
w and indeed throughout the world
'a'efest has been largely conferred in
me wright aeroplanes. the famous
'une Bug of the Hammondsport
1f%ap Of experimenters. and abroad In
'snp machines of Farman. Delgrange
an0 rev others, All these are men
. !. I, means Or backing. All OF them have
pau me advantage of EXPERIMENTATION
SOUNDS offered by various govern,
cfers. ~ o8'n
hal now the DEVELOPMENT of flyine
n, 'or NE first time been made pos
w,,, 'of the man of small means
I. ,'''l'' lew months this CITY has
a'en inc organization. of the Aeronaut
= !, soc'F'y' made up of men interested
: PRACTICAL way In aeronaptics
h. I. 'las Tor Its purpose The furnish
y " testing grounds, toolsheds. and
sv. 'l'e necessary naran..ernalia 70,
~ s,'liaents in the navigation of the
~ - heavier than air machines. Al
VIII s .,s' Of the society any mar
,,,,,.. A'uhs ne has anything to con
a.'a'e to the solution Of the nroh1en
t = ssrisl aisht will have the 'J hes
on. =, and ell assistance in irwin.
os. y. a's IDEAS and the millionaire OK
w.. .,al :, will have no adva,tap,
0S 81 The waae-earner
To ora as could exemplify better tina,
cjais sanitation of the Aeronautic So
IN. !, , aol only that there is an impor
hello, ~ W., Tor air navigation but til,
w, !, mat as a practical prohlcm !,
to,s . 0e solved by practical inyestira
ns ~ saa not by persons Of wealth VIII :,
abllity fes . flying as offering a pos
ton u new and expensive sensa
de :, s,a land which has been leased b
psra sss,s'y !. on which to conduct usssa
n to. y park race track. in this or, u,
escjt,ra years tho scene of many a
lies. uo. contest between tilrf. favo,
first ! ,'e .a with a clear air track n
ing r,ore - th KIND in the VIC I'D. measu,
latest. are aeI than two miles. airshins II
will s,, pr,,elopment in transportatio,
house s' a the horse. In The , az,
Aero,s NOW devoted to the work - ' ~
M. shautic Society nho.a ao.A 81 IN
sAcelvable kind of air mach!n