The San Francisco call., 1909-03-14
MAN IMPROVES ON
NATURE, ,SAYSNIXON
AerOnaHticS Discussed Before
Richmond County Auto
mobile Club
Ieffries Says New York Is
Money Mad and Grace
George Tells Why
By c. c. Carlton
ISpeeial Di,poich 10 The CAN

NEW YORK March IS.-Bewis Nixon,
TIE former Pacific coast ship builder
who in an address delivered before the
Richmond County automobile club reaf-
nrmeo his prediction that within q few
years an airship cspsbl of making a
trip 10 Europe and back IN a week will
be built. has divided interest between
ship building and aeronautics during
The last year.
Nixon attributed much OF the progress
IN aerial navigation 10 the development
o. the automobile. Man has improved
vastly on nature. A goose weighing u
pounds cuts the air with about one
dWelfth OF one horsepower. Engines Of
2 pounds now being built develop nifty
times as much power as a goose.
Two menu cards We're used TO illus
tr7te the principles Of the Wright aero
plane The speaker thought aeropIsnes
were limited IN their uses he held
'ney would ind their sphere IN scouting
and dropping small bombs in war.
Nixon Is confident that cities soon
wul have regular landing stations for
dirigibles and that airshfps will be in
reg 0iar night between all large centers
OF population The dirigible airship of
tne future, he believes viii be Of rigid
frame construction, with gas sacks Of
SIX or linen. the whole sheeted with
]
mas been the progress that airships now
IN use are larger than the steamships
or 20 years ago
Nixon next spoke against the general
hehef that when dangerous winds are
mex u viii be necessary for airships
10 touch ground. He said the aerial
craft VIII anchor high in the air in
much the same way as ships anchor in
deep water.
Jim Jeffries on arrival here ventured
The opinion that all New York is money
mao and that the average New Yorker
works TOO hard and exercises too little
IN his money lust
Margaret Ellington. having expressed
Ter love for the simple life. the kid
oies and sock Garning. Miss Grace
George actress wife OF ". A. Brady.
replying to Miss Ellington. volunteers
epigrammatically the assertion that
Money SITS enthroned in New York
and women's dress is the power behind
The throne"
she says: There are two fashion
magazines printed in this country for
every enc devoted to literature. II has
become Impossible for women TO con-
efse Tor twenty minutes without dress
becoming the dominant theme. We ali
want clothes and the finest we can get
} honestly think that man would lessen
ne grind after money. If Ii were ms
sible for him to do so and stil na,-
US WlIes bills. The average man 7
thlpk. has a longing for The simple.
AAouest Ltes but his wife makes neces-
silies Of the luxuries.
man may have 2 decorative fringe
~ ine bottom OF his trousers. or they
nay ne glazed ard baggy at the knee.
ana still he isn't Ostracized or black
= fra ~
70 dress-not for men. but for tba
otner women. They make her be we'll
dressed Consequently a woman must
pay $1,000 for single gown and com
pialn she has nothing 10 wear if she
ooesn own twenty; her boots cost SIS
pair; lingerie runs into the thou
SANDS; hats cost from $50 to 800 She
oare not endure the sneers Of her. fel-
low women
therefore,. say. man must go after
The coin. He has to-"
Eastern turfmen are much exercised
over the prevailing belief that when
me Jockey club announces the schedule
* dates for the coming season no allot-
ment VIII be made for racing in the
1siL This viii mean that the season
mere VIII end in the middle Of Septem-
ner, right after the Futurity has been
decided at Sheepshead bay
The turtles are beginning to figure
hlal no plans VIII be announced until
the legislature adjOurns. which will he
about May J. It has practically been
"ecided that the sport viii not start
on the Metropolitan circuit until the
meeting al PimlicO ends on MAY 2 so
there IS really no benefit Of promul-
eating the schedule until that date.
The plans Of the racing magnates are
SAID to be 50 arranged that when the
game winds mp here in the fall the
Mexican tracks viii be completed and
then the races viii shift TO that coun-
try
Bob Fitzsimmons in letter from
London declares that the English are
pikers- He went over last December.
fully expecting to arrange some
matches that would guarantee him at
least $4,000 but up TO date the biggest
offer Tor a fight was $500. Fitz de-
clined these small offers and was dis
Eusted with the prospects OF getting in
the ring over there.
T am longing for April saws Fftz
n his letter. for by that time we viii
he on our way home TO America. I'm
through with the fight game and next
summer 7 expect TO devote all my time
10 farming.
= II. Hartman has decided to add
another large wing TO the magnificent
home he is building on East mountain,
near Arden. n. Y.
So far Mr. Hartman has expended
on 1t at least $500 O00 The payroll for
the wo-kmen employed is $4,000 a
month. Some idea OF the huge proper
tions Il this donicile viii be conveyed
when 81 is stated that there are to be so
bedrooms. An order was given last
week for so brass bedsteads-
Kate L. Grunsky. daughter OF c. E
GrUnsky Of San Francisco, sailed on
the Pretoria Of the Hamburg american
Tine for Berlin. where she will spend
the next six months with her uncle.
Dr. W. J. s. Power and wife, who have
home in the German capital