The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-11
AERIAL FLIGHT
THE LATEST FAD
Wealthy Men With Sporting
Blood Anxious to NaVi-
gate the Upper Air.

Blood ANXIOUS 10 NaW-
gate the Upper Air.
New York. Oct. 1O.-There is no doubt
| that the wave of enthusiasm for aerial
navigation has at length struck the
! United States full force. The recent ex-
hibitiOns here in connection with the
HudsOn-FultOn ceremonies, although
few of the citys residents or of the
milliOn-Odd visitors actually saw the
flights. undoubtedly stimulated interest
in the subject TO a great degree among
| those who have not been actively iden-
| titled heretofore with the cOnquering of
| the air. The airships have been de
| scribed so fully in pictures and in news
reports, the ease with which they rise
and turn and follow any desired course
like actual birds of the air, the great
speed developed, and more than all
else, the perfect control which their
navigatOrs are able to exercise under
favorable atmospheric conditions. has
caused many persons to reconsider their
first natural objection to the very idea
Of trusting themselves above the earth.
| Many of the men identified with the
early development of the automobile
have taken up the airship with enthusi-
asm, among them Harry Hardness, who
was a champion driver i'm the earlier
days of automObiling. Many wealthy
men are anxious to place orders for ma
chimes of either Wright or Curtiss mod
ell, but they are finding difficulty in do
ing so. The WTights have so many ma
chimes contracted for that they decline
to consider the building of any others
at present, while the company with
iaIa
willing to undertake the manufacture
of aerial craft according to its models
only in case where the date of compile
ton is allowed 10 remain indefinite. In
this situation a number of men have
turned to foreign builders, and the ma
chimes in which Bleriot and Farman
made their recent successful flights
have both been purchased by Ameri-
cans, the former by Hayden Sands of
this city and the latter by J. w. Curzon
Of Mississippi. Those who would brave
the dangers Of the upper air are not
confined to New York by any means for
requests are pouring in on the inventors
and on officers of the aeTOnautiC organ
izations from all parts of the country
for information in regard to the build
ing or buying of aerial craft.
Epidemic OF Painting.
One of the peculiar features in con-
nectiOn with the spectacles of the past
two weeks has been the distribution of
cases requiring medical attendance. On
the days of the great parades there was
an epidemic Of fainting cases at certain
points along the line OF march. This in
itself was not remarkable considering
the density of the crowds. The surpris-
ing element was that while some of the
emergency stations were almost over
whelmed with cases of this sort, others.
at points equally crowded, received
scarcely any calls for assistance. At
one relief station $50 cases of fainting
were handled on one day, while at 9TH
ers there were no cases at all arising
from this cause. The heaviest part of
the work fell upon Flower hospital.
since the greater part of the line of
march lay in its district The physician
in charge explained the apparently mys-
FERROUS epidemic of lost consciousness
by pointing out that il was largely SYM
pathetic. If one woman tainted in any
part of the crowd, number of others
surrounding her were certain to 20
down as a result of the sight. One Of
the things of which New Workers had
greatest cause to be proud in cOnnec-
ton with their big celebration was the
smOOthness and Tapidity with which all
cases requiring medical attention were
handled by the hospital authorities and
the physicians in charge.
Wages of Sin.
If anyone were disposed to preach
sermon on the blight that follows the
possession of ill-gotten wealth, he would
find good text in the suicide here a
few days ago of John J. Clark. jr.. who
was once one of the leading figures in
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father established and for many years
ran one of the earliest and most notori-
Gus of the city's all-night restaurants
He accumulated an immense fortune in
the years when his resort was the Nee
ca of the City's fast life but after the
ParkhurSt crusade and the IexOw in
vestigatiOn he was forced to close up
and his wealth, which ran into the mil
lions, was swept away from him at the
race track and in Wall street sDecula-
ton. He ended his career as he had
begun it, as an oyster opener at a COneJ
Island chOwder stand. Meanwhile his
son and daughter, who had become ac-
quainted with the sort of life that ed
died around their fathers glittering es-
adjustment, were following in the foot
steps of most of the associates whom
they had met there. Two years ago the
daughter ended her life in a spectacu-
lar manner by leaping from the lofty
viaduct of the elevated railroad. The
son, whose reckless spending earned
him the title of Prince of the Tenderloin
in his days of affluence. finding himself
friendless and helpless with his money
all gone, blew out his brains this week
in a cheap lodging house. Doubtless
many such tragedies could be traced to
"Clarks' and its bedizened habitues if
all of its unsavOry records could be
gathered.
Some Sky Effects.
The two largest indoor skies I'm eX-
istence were completed here this week.
One of them is an acre in extent, and
will form the back drop of the New
Theatre, being so arranged on a series
of rollers that it will be possible to pro-
duce any sky effect desired. The sec
ond is nearly twice as large and forms
the ceiling of the new grand ball room
of the Hotel AstOr. where the official
Hudson Fulton dinner was held 1t is
illuminated from above by concealed
electric lights so arranged that it may
appear to be filled with myriads of
twinkling stars, or may be OveTspread
with any color desired from the most
delicate rose tint to the combined hues
of the most gorgeous autumn sunset. In