Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-03-13
PATRIOTISM CT
AN INVENTOR,
J. F. Scott Declares His Aero
plane Is For America Alone.
WILL NOT AID FOREIGNERS.
Chicago Man Who Captured Contract
mont Didn't Care For Reward-Be-
lieves United States VIII Reach
Greatest Heights In Civilization.

James f. Scott of Chicago, to whom
the government has awarded Il $4,000
contract for an aeroplane, says that
within five years the development OF
flying apparatus will have gone 50
far that aeroplane ships carrying crews
OF twenty to thirty men WIZ be max
ing regular flights of 1000 miles at
clip. He looks for progress to be
made similar to that with the automo-
bile, which has reached its present
state of perfection within II decade.
Mr. Scott is a scenic artist forty-fve
years old. He has made at least doz-
ell working models, and the apparatus
to be built for the war department is
to consist of two main perfectly hor-
izontal planes. with several smaller in
termediary planes, the whole weighing
1900 pounds. The maximum surface
of the planes will be 1000 square feet,
and the machine will carry two men.
Mr. Scott is intensely interested in
the subject Of aerial navigation, has
decided ideas as to how patriotic
Americans knowledge and studies and
inv estigatiOns in any line OF scientlnc
en,leavOr should be used freely and UNI
reservetily for the use of his govern
meat and for the advantage of no 9TH
er and IL firmly convinced that the
need for all naval strength will be ell
tireiy done away with when aerial
navigation by aeroplanes shall have
been perfected. The possibility OF
building feet of air craft which can
destroy the mightiest leviathan of the
sea by dropping explosives he regards
az sure in time not only to revolution
iZe all warfare, but absolutely to do
away with it.
Il was born in Clinton, Ia. forty-five
years ago" said Mr.. Scott as he sat In
his modest home. GT3 South Rockwell
street, Chicago and talked to the New
York Herald representative AT III
teen WAS determined to see something
of the world. and | came to Chicago,
which has been my home, though with
frequent breaks. ever since.
LAS young man | was attracted to
art and | did "A good deal of portrait
painting. also decorated the interiors
of many fine Chicago residences.
mo. | never have attempted to eX-
hibit. | left that for other artists. !
know Il large number of artists in all
, fields. whether of portrait work or III
commercial lines. Later in life took
up scenic painting. and the work upon
theatrical scenery has taken me to
many parts of the country.
But all these years ] have devoted
most of my time to my aeroplanes.
have made money in scenic painting
but it has been means to the END 'hat
] might use the money so earned III
supporting my wife and two children
and myself while devoted my Thought
to aerial navigation.
"My son Robert. who Is fifteen, mas
n naturally inventive. mechanical NINA.
I bought him motor cycle, recently
and it wasn't a day before he mad the
machine all apart 4 must see what
is in 1t. father he told me. and he has
been Of very material assistance to me
in nv experiments. Often | have been
perplexed with certain problem, ana
he has come In and apparently intul-
lively OWNED how 1t should be solved,