The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-27
Special to the Farmer.)

Special to the Farmer.)
 New Haven, July 27.-At the annual
 meeting of the American Society of County Surveyors, held during com
 mencement week at Yale university | it was decided to call the fall meet | ing early in September to formula te plans and discuss the question of pre- pairing deeds for record giving the bearings and distances of property | lines, described on account of over head space, soon to be used for aerial navigation.
 Gn the past, the schools in training | surveyors, have emphasized the 1m- portance of plane trigonometry and its constant use in the field-neglecting to train the student in spherical trigo- nometry on account of it's rare use age, but now upon the advent of the aeroplanes, the society will introduce resolutions to the effect that all scien- tific universities must reverse the training and impress upon the student the necessity of calcula ting cubical aerage and astronomical bearings.
 There below the automobiles the trolley. lines and the steam railways practically own the travelled ways. Unless the traveller is content to fol- low these avenues in transit he must proceed cross lots committing trespass and becoming amenable to the law, The land owner is protected by law. It is these holders of land that the society proposes to protect for the overhead right of way. The question arises, does the land owners deed reach from earth to heaven just as 1t does from the earth surface down wards to the central point in the earths bowels. That is the first and to deternine and after this the rest is easy.
 On account of all perpendicular dis tances being measured on the earths 1z sl1tv aerial acreage, that it will be a com pIicated mathematical problem, as the space to be described, depends upon the distance from the earth. the hori zontal plane increases as the vertical height from the earth's surface rises
 Therefore it is easily seen that the purchaser of a cubic acre 200 feet above the earth will cover a greater horizontal plane in relation to the earth, and the man who buys an acre 400 feet above will secure a greater space. Thus the higher one flies the more expensive are the tree rates for a broader way. The description of all property hitherto has started from a fixed boundary or mere stone. In des- cribing aerial space the society will recommend that the north star shall be the fixed point of beginning, as back-sight for all transit lines, and as supplementary deed to a mans proper ty, blue prints of aerial space shall be struck off and filed with town clerks as soon as completed. This is to be the first work of the society and if land owners decline to recom- pense the individual members of the society for their labors then they will have to look for their reward above.
 Such a variety of complex questions has arisen that the society has de- termined to secure legal advice and are looking for members of the legal faternity celebrated for the highest flights of oratory to frame bills that will pass the house and senate with out the graft of lobby, and protect the aerial space owners from taxation and tariff. The recently appointed utility commission must have their powers extended to cover this aerial navigation, on account of its compH- cations, which means an increase of dollars, and the commission will have to provide ways and means to protect the aerial space owner from graft for the man higher up.
 Various members of the society re- port that already they have been ap-