The Washington times., 1909-07-22
! SCENE OF FLIGHTS
MECCA Of SOCIETY
Fort Myer Is Very Latest
Thing in Summer
Capitals.
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greet him in the best parade ground
fashion. For a while they would tank
about aeroplanes or armies or diplomat
ic diniculties, and then she would sug-
gest:
You'll have a little tea. won't you,
Mr. Secretary, General, Ambassador.
Colonel, Admiral. Senator?"
? OF course the Mr.. Secretary. General.
: Ambassador, etc, would Mrs. Long
worth just reached over into the first
MISUNDERSTANDING and pulled out
one Of the long leather-covered bottles
e Then she found dainty cup somewhere
and poured.
= One lump Colonel" she would
g prophesy and usually was right.
She poured exquisitely and when the
fragrance Of the tea was waited into
the area OF the diplomat general etc
he just naturally imagined he was In a
drawing room in Connecticut avenue or
Sixteenth street with. a courtly bow
he would take the cup and drain il in
honor OF the Fort Myer reception.
Event of Day.
At any rate Mrs LongWorth's recep-
ton was the affair OF the day. Sec
rotary of State Knox, Ambassador and
Madame Jusserand, Secretary Of War
by the bucket came up to greet her and
s be welcomed to the mysteries of the
theTmOs bottle. It developed into a func-
ton that viii make Beverly or Newport
feel very blue, even if the tea may have
been pink
Orville Wright also few.
4 Orvtlle Wright may take passenger
with him tonight in his flight at Fort
Myer.. The test last night showed the
aeroplane to be working well with the
& hlSher gear which was used last night
for the first time, and all parts of the
machine seem TO be In the best Of con-
ditiOn. But the Wright brothers do not
intend 70 take any chances this year.
and the aerOplane must be as gentle
and docile and as safe as The old fam
lily horse before they viii take any
passengers. If il Is decided to take a
passenger this afternoon Lieut.. Frank
p. Lahm, Of the Signal Corps Will be
the man.
Tests Next Week.
The date for the beginning OF the
official test has not been determined.
It Is possible the aviatoFs viii notify
q the Signal Corps some time this week
that they are ready. but the best guess
is that the official tests viii not begin
until next week. Flight TO the Signal
Corps station just outside OF Alexandria
ana return VIII Be one OF I0S SDeCLuC-
ular performances of the official test.
II OTVtlle is able 10 put the little ma
chine through the air at the rate Of
fOrty-fouT miles per hour. which was at
tanned last night. he will visit Alexan-
dria and return III thirteen minutes and
thirty eight seconds.
Miss Katherine Wright, the sister who
used TO teach school and supply the
money for the experiments Of her In
ventive brothers, went over to Fort
MNeF from DAYTON fl1t0 Yesterday n
time 10 see Orvilie fly at the rate Of
forty-fouT miles an hour for eleven
minutes. Probably that is faster than
Mr.. Wright has gone before; certainly
IT IS the best he has done with the
machine he has here now.
According to Wilbur. the leading com
puter OF the camp. with one passenger
aboard OrVille ought to make forty
miles per hour easily enough which
would bring them within the Govern
ment specifications. While Miss Wright
has the distinction of having flown for
ten minutes in an aeroplane, something
Of which no other woman can boast, It
isn't probably true. as was rumOred
last night. that she viii go up with
her brother this afternoon In an official
test.
After the long flight of the night be-
fore, which showed conclusively what
the engine could 40 in point of en-
dufance the aVfatOrs decided 10 fix her
for speed, and substituted a larger
SprOcket wheel for the one that has
been in use since they came 10 Fort
Myer By this substitution they got
nifty more revolutions of the propeller
each minute
There were 1900 odd spectators pres-
eni many OF whom had seen the aero
plane fly before. None of them how
ever, mad seen Mr.. Wright 20 so fast
The speed was great enough to make
even the experts Of the writing corps
look 6SkanCe.