The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-22
THE NEXT STEP IN AVIATION.

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Moissant, the aviator who flew from
Paris to London in six hours,
prophesies that 1t will soon be possible
to fly with 500 horsepower at rate
OF from 100 to $50 miles the hour. The
machine which can do this will be the
perfected airsllip of the period. and
will give promise of still further Won
ders in the aerial sphere
Big meets and big purses and prizes
are having their innings now but 1t
Will soon be over and done. Tho
novelty Of the aeroplane will wear off
within a few years, exhibition flights
will no longer be profitable, and then
the entire attention of aviators and
aeroplane builders will be concentrated
on the perfection OF the aeroplane az
/ a practical vehicle OF transportation.
/, Improvements will be worked out.
!; Safety appliances will be invented.
Aero-cars with large passenger ca
pacity will be constructed.
The day or exhibition will soon pass.
and the period OF experimentation will
take its place. The workshop, and not
the exhibition field, will be the centre
of work in aviation.
Many problems are to be worked out.
Stability is problem yet unsolved.
Gasoline transportation, relief in the
air, and many other matters are yet
to be worked out. AS the Birmingham
Age Herald we'll says these prob
lap,e will have Gull onportupttv a q soor
as the circus period OF aviation is
ended
There will be no lack OF encourage
ment. financial and otherwise. to those
who would perfect the art OF aviation.
Edwin Gould has made standing offer
of $4,000 for an airship equipped with
more than one motor and more than
one propeller. DR.. Rene Quinton, OF
Paris. offers prize for the first aero
plane that will float in the air with
out motor power.
Students OF aviation say that in the
long run the box kite plan-that used
| in the Wright and similar machines
Will disappear. This form develops
friction and is dangerous when ex-
posed to gusts of wind. as was shown
| in the manner in which Chauvez lost
| his life after his flight across the
Alps. Ingenious inventors will prob
ably displace this principle.
The Wright brothers areas silent as
the sphinx Of Egypt. They have
had little to say and less to write
about their work. They have pub
lished no book about what they have
done and what they are going to do.
Their attitude strongly suggests that
they expect to make great strides to-
ward the perfection OF aeroplane con-
struction and yet are unwilling to
make prophecies. Who knows but that
the wonderful brain Of Edison may
not now be turned toward aviation? II
he Were to give US, as the browning
work of a marvellous career OF In
vention. the perfected aeroplane. he
would win immortal fame.
The future OF aviation we see as
through glass darkly It is the most
absorbing and interesting subject to
the popular mind to-day.
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How would this do for the dinner to
be given at the White House tonight
by the President and Mrs. TAFT In
honor Of Mayor osaki. Of Toxic. ia
pan:
"And when like her, oh. saii you shall
pass
Among the guests star-scattered on
the grass,
And in your joyous Grand reach the
Where / made one-turn down an
empty glass"
Bourke Cochran has bolted the DEM
ocratic ticket in New y rk. Another
sign Of Democratic victory.
Mayor Osaka, OF Toxic, Japan. should
come to Richmond If he wish to see a
really great city that has passed
through the Ffre; the Capital Of the
Southern Confederacy. the Capital Of
the greatest State in the Union. He
would be delighted with It's public
buildings, It's parks. It's schools and
colleges; but most Of all with Its peo-
pie.
Aram j.. Pothier has been renomi-
mated by the Republicans for Governor mo
Of Rhode Island His visit to Rich-