The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-26
It Has Taken Hold of Gotham
ties Until Disease Has
Become Epidemic.
ALL TALK LEARNEDLY
OF BIPLANES AND SUCH
Air Flights Have Become So
Common That They Are No
Longer Novelties.
BY RALPH JOHNSON.

BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK, June 25-New York
has the air ship bug in its most viru'
lent form and the average Broadwayite
can discourse as learnedly of biplanes
monoplanes and dirigibles as he can of
spark plugs, extra tires and the appur.
tenances Of the automobile, which the
opiimist acronaut already is beginning
TO speak of as obsolescent. Really air
flights are becoming common in these
parts and hardly u week passes that
some new kind of an airship is not
presented to the public. John Mason
Jones of Brooklyn is the latest inventor
OF n new type. The Jones airship is
planned SO that it VIII be operative on
the three highways known to man-thc
land. the sea and the ain. II has no
planes. such as the Wrighis, Curtiss,
Bleriot. or other inventors OF aero
planes have used, The new mechanical
principle which Mr.. Jones has planned
TO put into operation is nearer to
hcliocopter type OF aerial ship than any
other known TO the world today, In
place Of long, wing-like planes. Mr..
Jones uses pair of twin cylindrical
screws that are followed out, so as to
permit the air to be blown through them
when they whirl around like propel-
Ter These screws, it is claimed by Mr..
jores. VIII carry the machine into the
in use today. The recent flights OF
CuTtiss from Albany to New York and
Of Hamilton from New York to Phila-
delphia and return have convinced
many that it is now only question
of short time when the airship Will be
III common use.
Bradley Seeks Big Game.
John r. Bradley. who was tho bank
n of DR.. Cook, is now i'll the Rockies
after hig game. Before he started west
NJ, Bradley said: E'There is no place
for shooting trip. / have killed big
game in the East Indies, Siam, Central
Africa, Egypt. Northern Mongolia, ST.
IBERIA. Japan. Australia and the islands
of the Pacific, but for real sport and
pleasure there is no hunting ground
which comrares with our own great
west. Life is not worth living unless
p man can get away from civilization
once q year and live in the open"
For two months mountain guides have
been making preparations for Mr. Brad
lcy's expedition, Twenty of the finest
Russian wolf hounds in America, in
Guiding the $4,000 prize winner, the
Gar, have been purchased for the trip,
and are now in Mr.. Bradley's kennels
y
horses will carry provisions and sup
plies, while two mounts have been pro-
vided for ench member of the party
More than 100000 has been expended
in fitting out the expedition, and when
the party disbands in Mexico in Decem-
ber. Mr.. Bradley will sell the riding
aud pack horses, but will bring the
wolf hounds back to New York. Upon
his return to New York early next year
Mr.. Bradley will fit out an expedition
for a shooting trip in the Arctic. where
he spent several months in 1907 with
Dr. Frederick A. Cook. ''If Bradley
land was really discovered by DR.
Cook he said, 81 am going 10 find
it. ! will ask a number of explorers
to accompany me on the trip, and we
probably will spend the winter of 1911, |
u in the Arctic
Become Missionaries.
That returning immigrants uncon-
sciouslv become missionaries of Amer |
lcan ideals to their own people is the
assertion of Congressman William S.
Bennett whose work has brought him
into close touch with foreigners, espe-
cially those of the working classes.
Talking today on conditions abroad, the
congressman referred to the fact that
many Italians. when they have worked
IN America four or FIVE years, take |
their earnings and 60 back to Sicily or
southern Italy and build three and four.
room houses with A stable. The re-
narkable thing about that, according to
Mr.. Bennett, is that before they left
Italy one-room house answered for
the whole family. together with donkey
and other beasts "In America the
first thing the Italian immigrants en-.
counter Is higher grade of living. even
for the poorest said Mr.. Bennett.
.'and they return and introduce the
larger and more sanitary house into
Italy And they also introduce many
other things, some better than houses.
Taught New Things.
Five years. residence here teaches
them new idea Of honor and its de-
fcnse They learn that Americans do
not go about with dirks and pistols in
their pockets, and do not settle their
differences on the street or in dark
alleys. Again, they discover that
Americans do not live in perpetual dis
trust and suspicion of each other. but
IN mutual trust and esteem This is
very, perplcxing thing to our Italian
brother at first, and he goes home full
ct wonderful tales about it.. He learns
some OF the first principles of democ-
racy, not yet so apparent In Italy. but