The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-05
Man Is Steadily, Surely
Advancing in His Con-
quest of Elements and
Forces of Nature

tDr. Evans, in ancientest Crete, Pro
>ssor Flinders Petrie, in Egypt, and
lair fellow archaeologists the wide
>nrld over, may he bringing to hight
roof after proof that there's nothing
>,w ,inder the sun-the fact yet remains
Hat man is steadily, surely advancing
8, his conquest of the clements and
l,rces of nature. The era of mere
yenpth was closed forever when the
IL of trained skill dawned. Brawn
'ss gone down before brains, matter
'pfore mind, and each recurring twelve
'onth tells an ever-lengthening story
4 the progress of the race. Nine
IAN nine IS contribution TO this yet to-
f-continued serial has been markedly
ri1liant. In the laboratories of scion
hts and the homes il simple citizens
Ave been solved problems, which long
I'VE haffled all attempts at solution.
Iectricity has been put to work as
.ever before In the heavens above,
Ia the earth beneath. and in the waters
earO have achieved victories which
rem the hopefullest of l90s's proph-
IS might we'll have hesitated TO fore
The Growth of the Man-Bird.
First Of all, 1909 has proven beyond
4 question that re going to fly,
'ho would have guessed. years ago, as
! declaimed the sad tale of Darius
'reen, that he would live TO see an
hperor greeting a gentleman who had
'st stepped down from his airship,
iter trip of 400 miles, and introduc-
4 him to ga plain American who
I'd grown rich from the sale of aero.
hnes' But thousands besides Wilhelm
1 and Count Zeppelin and Orvillc
right can attest to the happening
he mere existence of such daring fel.
rs as the Wrights and Bleriot, Paul
Nm and Parseval, Latham and Lam.
,Ft. and Leblanc, Curtiss and Cody,
&ntos- -Dumont and Summer, Farman
Id Rougler and Delagrange-the mere
let that twenty one cash prizes for
l'nquering the air, ranging from 5000
\ $4,000, and totalling at more than
u7,000, are awaiting claimants-the
Ere news of flying machines invented
Mexico and Russia, China and Nor
by-such straws show how blows this
Fenticth century wind of mechanical
';hievement.
Nathan, the Englishman. failed to
,pss the British channel in his mono
hne (missed it by scant two miles) |
'n the Frenchman, Bleriot, needed but
Ety-seven minutes TO soar above the
ienty-one choppy miles which separate
'ilais from Dover. This was in July. |
,h Just before it the brothers Wright
ID returned to their native Ohio. after
ctorIes unnumbered in the old world,
y Receive medals and plaudits; and not
.ng after the waters of "Le Pas de
ilais' had been vanquished, Wilbur
right Unanswered above New York s
Iprfh river with all the easy precision
hIch was to have been expected OF an
rator who, in the year, had covered
little matter OF between $500 and
100 air-miles
With scarce week of the ffty-two
>aling to produce its item of overhead
'ws OF value, it is difficult to give any
ree or four happenings as Of especial
,pcrtance but possibly the accomplish
eents most nearly of record breaking
Ft are these:
Heights-Orvllle Wright. near Pots6am
Armany, In October, rose to a height OF
W feet; thus surprising by good mar
? Lambert's spectacular flight the self
Ine month. in watch lie rose 1900 feet,
King down on the 9Sf-foot Einel tower.
Ppeed-DelagranGe. at Doncaster. Eng
np, I'M October, drove his machine at
H rate OF some thing over hfty-four miles
y t.opt' ,Sih,mh'S SoiIl'tSslnB INC acDlcNC-
&nt OF OrVille Wright at Fort Ayer In
Distinctions Farman. at Mour
Hon. France. in November, covered III
les In hours, G minutes and 25 sec
ITO which must be added the two vic.
.fIes of Glenn CuYtiss, at Rheims in
,pgust and at Brcscia a month later;
q the one case he won the interna-
3ral cup by covering, on circular