The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-25
NAVY WILL TRY
 THE AEROPLANE English Army Is Not Brilliantly
 Successful WITH THE EXPERIMENTS Half a Mi,Hon Has Been Spent in the Work and Another Half Is to Go Up in the Air in Same
 Manner.
BY PHILLIP EVERETT.

or Colonel Capper, whose rank Is ueunlte, and "Colonel' Cody, whose rank is more nebulous. having failed to produce any thing like a workable dirigible balloon or an aeroplane, has transferred it's pow CTS to the navy in the hope that the ac- credited mandy men" of that service may be more fortunate in achieving a successful issue.
 It is rather remarkable that the En- glish war office, with brilliant practical examples of airships and aeroplanes for ever before them, should make such fearful muddle of everything it has at- tempted in the way of experiment.
 The Zeppelin, the Parseval, the Vile de Paris, as dirigibles, are an accomplished fact, and their several peeuliarities have been published over and over again in the technical periodicals. Neither is there any secret about the construction of the Bleriot, Wright, Latham or Delagrange aeroplanes
 These patterns have been always at the elbows of the British authorities in easy accessibility for reference. yet for some reason or other. they have chosen to ignore them and their childishly fool ish attempts at aerial navigation have cost the country close upon half million dollars. a
 A further s4Oo,oOO has now been placed at the disposal of the navy. and all pro- gressiVe eyes are turned towards it. hop ing that it will emerge more successfully from the aerial ordeal than the army ex- perts.
 Two aeroplanes-foregn made presum- ably American CWright) machines-are to be purchased with the idea of learning how to do it." and four dirigibles are to be proceeded with immediately. One is already on the stocks at the great ord nance and engineering works of Vickers Sons & Maxim, at Barrow, where 1t is evolving under the direction of several naval officers.
 In the meantime the Aldershot airship sheds and works are being reconstructed. with the idea of giving the army one more chance-if the naval experiments prove successful.
 Mrs. Hamlyn Of St George street. Whitechapel, is a prominent member of a limited but lucrative professionalism of monkey trainer She prefers to call it ''civilzing' them as she regards the larger apes as merely little human saw ages who have lost the power of speech. Peter" the chimpanzee who has been appearing in New York at a salary of s1500 a week. is one of Mrs. Hamlyn's pupils, and she counts IS other educated apes who are now earning money in vau- deville as her "old pupils
 Discussing her methods with her Sim
  aim is not to produce a monkey which will perform tricks. but to make the monkey behave exactly like a well brought-up child.
 .'To teach monkey tricks after I have brought 1t up to behave like q child is very easy matter It resembles teaching a human being.
 During the first 4s hours I let com plete mastery over the monkeyI and snow them that I am to be trusted The rest is comparatively easy, for, like children. they are anxious to do everything they see me do. One Of them took 10 washing ~the stairs in my absence Unfortunately he got wet through and died soon after of pneumonia.
 Tt takes me from three to five months to train monkey to behave in every re- spect like child. I have not yet sold one for less than 500
 Lady Aberdeen. having been asked by the South Dublin Board Of Guardians to discontinue the anti-tuberculosis crusade in Ireland, on the ground that 1t was ere ating scare and becoming harmful to the industrial welfare Of the country, has written in reply, pointing out that the crusade owed it's origin to the reit- erated warnings of the medical profession ! in Ireland, coupled with figures submitted by the registrar general for Ireland It was not within the power of any individ- ual to stop the campaign, she asserted
 Tt is being carried on not only here but in every enlightened country" the countess proceeded, and the public gen erally are becoming SO fully instructed In the matter that they would only avoid those countries where no preventive or curative measures are being taken" An up-to-date residential club for spir- tualists is to be established in the West End shortly.
 The organizers of the International Club for Psychical Research have gone about their work very quietly, but they have already succeeded in obtaining a membership of more than one thousand
 According to the Annals of Physical Research,' a quarterly journal, which will be published today the new club will not aim in any sense at being "nys- tery' club, but it will provide all the ac- cessories and conditions requisite for ex- ] pertinent and research.
 The journal says:
 Tt Is believed by the organizers and | patrons, among whom may be counted many distinguished men of science, that the study of the powers latent in man and of the more recondite problems of psychology cannot fail to be accelerated | by social intercourse as club of this nature will afford. inasmuch as 1t will be synthetic of all that Psychical Research, Spiritualism, New Thought Theosophy and Christian Science ultimately intend, and 1t is fully expected that with the so- cial recognition thus gained modern psy- chology in its numerous specialized as- poets will obtain the catholicity which 1t deserves, and which could not be secured to the same extent under any other aus- pices."
 | One of the organizers told me yesterday | that the internal management of the club would be entirely in the hands of the 1 members.
 | '"rhe club will be divided into sub sections. after the manner of the Lyceum and Sesame clubs.' he said "A special
 room will be set apart for seances, and 1t ! is likely that the various sections will meet daily in this room.
 'The experiments will be conducted on | strictly scientific lines, and every en- deavor will be made to keep out impos- | tors The entrance fee will be two guln-
 eas, and the annual subscription will also
 be two guineas.
 Many of our members belong to the | Society for Psychical Research, and our | nonresident members will hail from ey-
 cry country in the world. We have three
 sites in the heart Of c1ubiand to choose | from, and the choice will depend upon
 the membership, but we hope to be in
 stalled by the end of next month"
 Apart from the room where members
 will hold converse with deceased rela-
 tives, the club will be exactly like any | md Ql1 L..