The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10
Hudson-Fulton Demon stration Stimula.ivs.
AMERICANS WANT .AlRsHlPs
Wrights and Curtiss Loaded With
 Orders for Aeroplanes.
Unusual Occurrence Among Crowd at Celebration--Ill-Gotten Wealth. Fl Te Abandon An En-
 tire Railroad.
BY LONGACRE.

xNCW AoFhs Oct. o--NoQeci6l.J--Ihc is no doubt that the wave of enIhu- siasm for aerial navigation, has at length struck the UniIed States. full force. The recent exhibitions here m connection with the Huuson-Fulton ceremonies. although few of the citys residents or of the million odd visitors actually saw the flights. undoubtedly sumuIated interest In the subject to great degree among those who have not been actively identified heretofore with the conQuering of the air.
 The :airstips have been described so fully in pictures and in news reports, the ease with which they rise and turn and follow any deslred course like actual birds of the air. the great speed developed, and more than all else the perfect control which their navlga- able atmospheric conditions, has caused many persons to reconsider their first natural objection to the very idea or trusting themselves above the earth.
 Many of the men identified with the early development of the automobile have taken up the airship with enthu-' siasm among them Harry Hardness, who was a champion road driver in the earlier days of automobiling. Many wealthy men are anxious to place or- ders for machines of either Wright or Curtiss model, but they are finding diff ficulty in doing SO. The Wrights have so many machines contracted for that they decline to consider the building of any others at present. while the com pany with which Glenn fl Curtiss Is connected Is willing to undertake the manufacture of aerial craft according to it's models only in cases where the date of completion is allowed to re- main indefinite.
 Tn this situation a number of men have turned to foreign builders and the machines 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. Cur zon, of Mississippi. Those who would brave the dangers of the upper air are not confined to New York by any, means, for requests are ponring fin on the inventors and on officers of the aeronautic organizations from all parts of the country for information In re- gard to the building or buying of aerial craft.
 One of the peculiar features in con- nection with the great crowds which have assembled in New York's streets in connection with the spectacles of the past two weeks has been the dis tribution of cases requiring medical attendance. On the days of the great parades there was an epidemic of faiHting. cases at ceEtain points along the line of march. This fn Itself was not remarkable considering the, ,dep- sity of the crowds. The surprising ele- ment was that while come Ssof, the emergency stations were almost over whelmed with cases of this sort, otners. at points equally crowded, receiveo scarcely any calls for assistance.
 saP ufa faintinE were handled on one day. while at others there were no cases at all arising from this cause. The heav- fest part of the work fell upon Flower Hospital, since the greater part or the line of march lay in its district. The physicians in charge explained the ap- parently mysterious epidemic or iost consciousness by pointing out that 1t was largely sympathetic. If one woman tainted in any part of the crowd. a. number of others surrounding her were certain to go down as result Of the si1ht One of the things of which New Yorkers had greatest cause to De proud in connection with their pig eel ebration was the smoothness ana ra- pidity with which all cases requinns medical attention were handled by Athe hospital authorities and the physi-. clans in charge.
 If any one were disposed to preach A sermon on the blight that follows the possession of ill4gotten wealth. he would find 6 good text in the suicide: here a few days ago of John J. Clark IF. who was once one Of the leading figures in the gay life of the Tender loin. Clark's father established and for many years ran one of the earliest and most notorious of the city's all night restaurants.
 He accumulated an immense fortune in the years when his resort was the mecca of the citY's fast life, but after the Parkhurst crusade and the Lexow investigation, he was forced to close up and his wealth. which ran into the millions was swept away from him at the race track and in Wall Street spec ulation. He ended his career as he had begun 1t, as an oyster opener at Coney Island chowder stand.
 Meanwhile, his son and daughter. who had become acquainted with the sort of life that eddied around their fathers glittering establishment. were following in the footsteps of most Of the associates whom they had met there. Two years ago the daughter ended her life in a spectacular 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 hts days of affiuence. fnd- ing himself friendless and helpless with his money all gone. solew out his brains this week in a cheap lodging house.
 Doubtless. many such tragedies could be traced to "Clark's" and its bediz- -
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