Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-10
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

WOMEN WILL FLY-Women are now to
learn to fly. The New York Women's Aero
club is being formed The project of the
female aeronauts was conceived by Mrs
marine vessels, and Mrs Gillespie. whose
husband won fame for his aeroplane. Mrs.
L. Stevens, wife of Captain Stevens, has
been selected leader of the organization.
PRIZE FOR AERONAUT-In the hope of
increasing interest in flying machines AND
aeronautics in the vicinity of Chicago, Ed
ward F. Herbert of the Windy city has
offered a prize of $500 to the first person
who succeeds in crossing over Lake Michigan
from Chicago to South Haven, Mich in aero
plane. Herbert, himself enthusiast on
the subject. is building aeroplane, but
will not compete for the prize. The money
has been posted with bank and to be won
the flight must be made within year.
The participants must be Americans.
WANTS NATIONAL SONG = Professor
William Milligan Sloan OF Columbia univer-
slty president of the National Institute or
Arts and Letters. has suggested that the
institute should band its energies to the pro
duction of rousing national song that Will
combine Yankee Doodle The Star span
gled Banner" ''Marseilaise" and die
Wacht Am Rhein," into one patriotic hymn,
Professor Sloan is sure that the need Of the
people for a good national song will soon be
supplied by the institute. 1t will be dis
cussed fully at the next meeting in Novem-
ber.
OLD SHIP TO QUIT-The old schoolship
ST. Mary's which for twenty three years was
used for the marine school Of New York
city is pounding her way up Long Island
sound on her last voyage. Her masts are
bare and the flag she so proudly and Sc
bravely bore for sixty-flve years is no longer
at her mast head, for the good old ship is
being towed to Boston, where she Will be
dismantled and her staunch old hull will be
burned that the copper rivets that held her
Marys was built in the washington navy
yard in 1s4s, a third-class sloop OF war
and equipped with twenty guns.
ACCUSED OF PERJURY-The inquiry in
to the Panama canal discrimination charges
were temporarily interrupted in a sensational
manner in New York yesterday, when VIII
liam f. Brothers, who brought the charges
publicly accused Spencer Miller. represen-
tative of the Lidgerwood company. OF per-
Jury Brigader General Darlington. who is
conducting the inquiry. raped repeatedly
for order. but there was so much commo-
tion in the room for time that he could
not make himself heard. There is only
one side of this thing to be heard anyway
shouted Brothers over the din. There Is
no use of my talking. You don't want to
hear the truth. I will withdraw"
BALLOONS AssEMBLE-Eighty-s bal
looms have assembled in Berlin to take part
in the series Of airship contests that begin
today and continue through Sunday and
Monday. Among the pilots are several army
aeronauts OF worldwide reputation. The
races will start from the suburb of Schmar-
genberg The principal event will he the
contest for the interna tional cup which oc-
ours Sunday. Great public interest has been
aroused by this event for which there are
twenty-six entries representing eight ma
tions There will he also number of other
endurance and distance races with fixed
goals The arrangements are complete. The
balloons were tested yesterday in the pres
ence of the contestants and regulations ac-
cording to size and other conditions were
decided upon. The three American contest
ants James C. Mccoy, n. Henry Arnold and
A. Holland Forbes accompanied by BriGa-
dier General James Allen. chief Of the sig
nal corps, Y. s A. visited the grounds and
| obtained official maps
PAGEANT BIG sUCCEss-Philadelph
celebration Of founders week" reached its
climax yesterday with the passing Of the
historical pageant, the most elaborately
planned and most artistic display OF its
kind ever attempted there, Eminent histor-
ians students. artists and artisans Of con-
summate skill have given freely Of their
thoughts and services to make this series
of floats depicting scenes from the times of
the earliest settlers down to the present day
of the "City Beautiful" a panorama un-
eaualed alike in the faithfulness of its por-
trayals and composition. The parades and
shows of the earlieD week served only as
prelimnaries to yesterdays eliminating feat
ure The rush to find available spaces along
Broad street began early, and seats in the
grand stand which had been held at the
modest price of 25 cents during the week.
were eagerly bought up today at So and
more apiece