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New-York tribune., 1910-10-30

the worlds record Of 500 metres or 800 feet.
on the same day. Next morning Paulhan
was of early from Chalons. where they
were flying. and in a flight to Rheims
Cathedral reached a height OF 1850 feet
He made the spectators hold their breath
by stopping his engine az that height and
executing a 'vol plane'' TO the ground. So
the year 1853 closed with an altitude OF
1.5OJ feet. said to have been attained
On January :. 1910. Hubert Latham went
up at Mourmelon, France. to the height OF
$40 feet, something more than twice
Wright's altitude Again he made his
record to monoplans- On January T. at
Los Angeles. Paulhan broke the new made
record by driving his bipIane 20 414s feet
That marx stood for one night. Next day
the world heard a new name among the
aeronauts Walter Brookins. a young
neighbOr Of the Wright boys OF Dayton.
climbed 10 43S4 feet in Wright asrOplane
from the field az Indianapolis. -Four days
later he made Il 4,503 feet. And BroOk1ns.
too, was versed in the '-voIplane." He. as
much as any one, perhaps. made reason
for stripping the word Of its French dress
and making il real idiomatic American
The Atlantic City meet OF last summer
saw the altitude record sent flying again
BroOkins's mark had stood for six months.
but on Tuly he went to the height OF Sis
feet. considerably more than a mile One
month later. August II. the record went
across the sea once more, when J. Arm
strong Drexel. an American flying French
rnonoplane, rose to $50 feet at Lanark,
Scotland
But once il was gone on its travels. the
record became a rolling stone. On Sept5m-
Der Leon MOrans. Frenchman. rose TO
SAP feet. Just a week later George Chavez.
on his fatal fight above the Alps, reached
s,792 feet, and on October ? Henri Wyn-
maIen, flying at MourmelOn- France
reached 9.1s6 feet
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30

dragged him back just in time to save
him from rolling down the sIoping roof
For z mile or two the balloon rode clear
while the two men tried TO bandage Faure s
knee. Then their craft tore out a panel
of fence, shipped off half a snokehouse
chimney, bumped over three plouEhed fields
and hanged itself in a siX-strand barbed
wire fence beside a swamp. While the
balloon strained 10 get away Schmolck and
Faure pulled the rip cord and tried to
leave the basket.
They were on the edge Of ii when the
fence came out by the roots Faure went
head first into the mud When he had
himself right side up again he spent
ten minutes disentangling the ugly snarl
OF helper, balloon and wire that had gone
ever him. Schmolck, whose arm had been
caught in the rigging, got off with some
scratches and a bad wrench
The men of the Harburg III came down
with more dignity and no less danger
Late Tuesday night they found themselves
floating into the wilderness beyond Lake
Huron at the tremendous height OF lS0oV
feet. more than three and one-third miles
They knew nothing Of the country beyond
except that ii was an immense wider
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
Hardships of Epen Successful Balloon Trip May Be Many

keep from freezing IN the bitter cold. ASS
mans wound bled fearfully ali night In
the morning Il skin appeared with two
Cherokee Indians on a hunting trip, who
took off the balloonists and guided them
twenty miles through the woods to a VII
lage where there was a physicians house
Emil Messner and Leon Giraudan. pilot
and aid Of the Swiss balloon Azurea, came
down bruised and sore from a wild night
ride throurh the storm. They had passed
the railroaa and hoped to make their way
back To a.
r. basket was speared on the root OF a
de- cedar, which split it apart and saved
it from going into a mudhoie. The two
Switzers agreed that the lake came to an
end a little to the south and southwark
they Jared through the woods. At noon
they had made four miles, at nightfaIl
seven, and stin there was no end to the
lake They built fire and slept beside it.
It was well after midnight when Girau-
dan awoke. The fire had gone out. His
blankets We're marked with a white rim
OF frost where his breath had struck them.
But it was not the cold that had awak-
ened him. Some large creature was rush
ing through the forest, and it's course was
bringing it toward the spot where they lay.
Givaudan walked his companion. They
opened their clasp knives, threw off their
blankets and waited.
The noise grew 10 a roar of wheeling
breath and thuddins footprints. A dark.
misshapen figure burst through the under
growth not two rods away and charged
straight past them down the hill. They
only saw the bumped shoulders and the
swift swinging gait before the creature was
gone.
But hard behind K almost on its tanks.
there ran three shaggy timber wolves.
Painting and almost bTeathless. they fol-
lowed the fleeing oeast ahead. and passed
the campers by without a look. A minute
later they heard the splash of a great body
settling into the lake. then the quick cries
of the wolves as they took to the water
in pursuit
The Switzers were in some doubt as to
what the runaway might have been. Gil
raudan. who discovered il. vowed It was a
wild biscn," and stuck TO his theory in
spite Of the trappers. who told him after
ward that no bison ever lived in the deep
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30

ness They took their chances Of landing
safely and pulled the valve cord.
The balloon fell futtering. They had not
realized what such descent might mean.
Five thousand feet down they entered a
layer or cold air and as the gas was
chilled their fall became terrific The
winds 0f the lower levels pitched them
from side TO side. They had no ballast.
Nothing could stop them now.
Then the moon cleared and they saw a
broad lake stretched below them. Straight
underneath was a rocky island. A gust
swerved them away from it. Another
flung them at it again. Their fall was
Ike the rush of an automobile.
In the last few yards the tickle wind
whisked them aside and the car struck
the open lake. Both men went fiat in the
bottom of the basket. stunned and uncon-
scious from the impact Vogt, the pilot
revived as the chilly water ran over him.
Assman, his companion. lay helpless in
the water. with blood squirting from his
right wrist.
VoEt revived him. swan 20 the little ISL
and and pulled the balloon ashore. There
they stayed all night. pacing the rocks TO
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
How Mans Distance from
Stars Has Been Clipped.

The first altitude record for aeroplanes
was not written down. It was made on
that December day in 1908 when Wilbur
Wright flew distance Of $50 feet and be-
came the first human being 70 carry him
self through the air in a flying machine in
safety.
When OrvilIe Wright brought his ma
chine to Fort Myer in the fall Of 1908 to
prepare for the government tests, the world
at large was finally forced to believe that
the aeropIanc was q reality. On September
2, after humu1ing around the field for ten
or fifteen minutes, he worked his craft up
gradually to a higher level, and was esti-
mated to have flown a good share OF the
forty-u1ile fight at one hundred feet from
the ground
Ten days later came the wreck in which
Lieutenant SeIfridge was killed and Orville
Wright was disabled. Interest shifted to
Auvours. where Wilbur Wright was de-
monstrating the aercplane for the French
government. on DeCer4 Der 1S he few over
a line Of balloons at 6. height which was
estimated at $50 feet, establishing a new
worlds record. So ended the year 1903.
At an aeronautic meeting at Douai in
July. 1863. Louis Paulhan appeared in pub
lie as an aviator After the other aviators
had pumped their way painfully around the
field for the required number of laps he
swooped away in a swinging spiral, climb
Ing upward with every circuit The crowd
went wild That was the sort OF thing
they were looking for. PauIhan reached
goo feet on his first days exhibition. on
July Is he few TO 400 feet, a new record
Thereafter he was known as a high flyer" ."
About month later at the great meet
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woods. and he had been frightened by a
young moose. Moose or no moose. the two
men rebuilt their fire and stood watch and
vatch for the rest Of the night.
The thermometer registered II degrees
above zero when trey turned out next
morning. Four miles OF hard travel
brought them % point where the lake
narrowed TO a quarter OF a mile. broaden
ing beyond almost to the horizon line
There was nothing 20 do but 20 swim the
narrows. They stripped in a wind that
was well below the freezing point and fer
ried their clothes across on RATS OF light
driftwood.
In the afternoon Giraudan knocked over
a partridge with stick and they brOiled
it over the. Goals that night. They piled
their fire deep and watched alternately
Next day a long eight miles OF plOdding
brought them out on the railroad track
and an afternoon Of walking brought them
into the village Of giscotasing at nightfaiI
The Helvetia. also Swiss. ioated down
with the first fakes OF the snowstOrm into
the fields by the little village OF Biscotasing.
It's crew had sailed from foreign land.
where language and customs were strange
10 them, across miles of unknown wilder
ness. So IL was with something Of a shock
that they heard the villagers shouting to
one another under them:
"R'gardez! R'gardez ca! Attrappez Ia
corder'
They were in a French-speaking land
again. It was not the French OF Paris or
Of Switzerland. but 1t was French after all.
and good to hear.
The Dusseldorf II. which went further
than any other balloon has ever gone in
the world, except the America II and one
other. fell a mile and a quarter in nine
minutes, alighting il a cIunp Of brush
wood a few miles beyond Lake kiskisink
and the railroad. II was noon on Wednes-
day. The railroad seemed to be some three
hours Of walking behind them. Ideuren-
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
Th0nes Canno Be Upset Without the Consent of the Military

improve their lot. professionally as well
as materially.
Dom Manuel, unlike his father and
elder brother, was Indifferent to military
matters. He preferred the piano stool to
q seat in the saddle and the baton or
the conductor Of an orchestra 70 the
sword. He failed in the most signal
manner to remain in touch with the
army and neglected to cultivate that
spirit of camaraderie by means of which
King Carlos had identified so many of
the officers of high and low degree with
his cause The result Of this was seen
the other day when the revolution was
brought about by the soldiers Of the
metropolitan garrison and by the Of
fcers and crews Of two Of the warships
at anchor in the Tagus. the only troops
who remained loyal being the 10th
Regiment Of Artillery, Of which the
Kings soldier uncle, the Duke of Opor-
TO, was the active commander, and the
Municipal Guard, composed entirely of
veterans and we'll paid non-commis-
stoned officers of the army.
According TO the dispatches received
within the last few days from Madrid,
the Spanish republicans are now busily
engaged in carrying on among the sub
altern and non-cCmmissioned officers of
King Alfonso's army the revolutionary
propaganda which has proved so sue
cessful across the border. in Portugal.
In Spain, too, the pay OF the lower off,
GERS and of the non-conn1issioned
soldiers il inadequate and promotion
slow. In fact, the same causes subsist
to-day which led TO so many military
pronHnciamentos during the nineteenth
century The soil among them, there
fore, is particularly well adapted for
the seeds Of sedition scattered by re-
publican agents, who are lavish IN
promises OF all sorts of advantages in
the event OF the revolutionary cause
proving successful.
II Is very difficult to combat this rev.
clutionaFy propaganda In the army.
True, the Spanish government. much
alarmed thereby, has within the last two
or three weeks taken steps 10 Increase
the pay OF the non-commissioned sol
diers and Of the subaItern officers. But
owing to the condition Of the national
finances this can be done in only a very
limited way. while It is quite impos-
sible 20 remedy that other source OF
discomfort, namely. the slowness OF
promotion, without wholesale and un-
tustiiiable dismissals among the supe-
rior officers, which would merely have
the effect Of adding new foes to the
dynasty.
In Germany the powerful and ex-
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
Competition Among AeropionLSfS for f"e
High Flying Record Produces Many
Beautiful Sights.

ant Gericke. the pilot. and Perkins. bis afd.
who is an American. rolled I'D the baIooo
and started 1eisurely about O'Clock
Before thsy had gone hundred yar1n
the thicEst growth had brought them %
their knees Part way they crawled, p1-I
they waded in the swamp. At risht1aA
they found themselves lost IN the woodA
though they knew they had covered only
half mile They built a fire and lay down
beside IL. The howls OF wolves kept them
awake. The beasts seemed to be across tns
lake, but toward morning they drew nearer.
The rren were armed only with a small 70
vCIver.
Next morning they fought their way back
70 the balloon Now they knew it was
matter OF life and death to husband their
provisions and use every hour OF daylight
Again and again the brush forced them 20
crawl on hands and knees for a hundred
yards at a time
The night was very cold, and the criss
OF the wolves were much nearer. Perktns's
coat caught fire while he slept and so he
took to a tree with his blanket Gertcks
followed mis- example
BY morning three inches OF SHOW had
fallen and the fakes were coming thicker
Their trail was covered At 10 O'Clock ths
Snow ceased suddenly A few minutes later
they heard the nervous. quick report OF
rifle behind them Perkins whipped out his
pistol and fred twice in the air The two
shots were repeated from the distance
They hurried in the direction OF the shots.
and two hours later reached their balloon
\ Iong-legged man with a rife was sitting
on the basket and smoking a pipe The
aeronauts had made Just two miles by
their two days Of persistent travel
b IT.
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
PorfusoFS DepoSed Boy King FLaSra1fiy'
Neglected 10 Cufffvofe the Good
VIII of His HrnY

doctrines only by means of personal
argument and persuasion. every German
soldier has received a sufficiently good
education to enable him to read all So
ciaIist matter placed within his reach
and also to digest il.
No one is more keenly alive 70 the
peril to the throne contained in this ex-
tensive and ever growing socialist
propaganda in the German army than
the Kaiser, and it is to this that must
be attributed his frequent appeals TO his
troops TO be prepared to fight in the de-
fence of the crown. not only against the
enemy from without. but also against
the enemy from within. Since he has
been Emperor the barracks of nearly
every regiment OF the big garrison Of
Berlin have been so changed. either n
the matter OF site or of construction, as
to facilitate the action OF the troops in
the event of another popular rising such
as that which in 1918 deluged the
streets of Berlin with the blood OF the
populaee.
Berlin is admittedly the one city OF
Prussia that Is the least cordially dis
posed to the Kaiser, that has always
been noted for the radicalism OF its TO-
litical leanings and which is the most
strongly inabued with socialism OF 4
particularly viruleut type. When the
Socialists attain their full growth, when
they feel themselves strong enough to
rise. in order TO attempt 20 overthrow
the monarchy and TO establish a repub-
lie. II may safely be assumed that Be--
lin will De the scene OF their Initial coup
Then il will be seen to what extent the
Socialist teachings have been successful
in the army and whether the troops Nf
the metropolitan garrison VIII 5s will
ing 10 obey commands that involve the
shooting or cutting down - their oroth-
ers, their fathers. their womankind and
their children in the streets or whether
they will fraternize with the pOpulace.
as did the soldiers of King Louis Phi
lippe in the rebellion OF 1S4s at Paris.
There would. however. be this differ
ence, that whereas the German soldier
would be possessed OF political convtc-
tions not in accordance with those OF
his superior officers. or OF the crown. the
troops upon whom King Louis Philippe
relied for hts defence were Indifferent 70
political considerations. and merely
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yat Rheims, Paulhan wound his way up
to 800 feet. and swooped 20 earth in
sleeper spiral than he had before attempt
ed. From this IL was only a step 70 the
vol plane or plane flight" which has
since become famous from the perform
auces OF Paalhan, Hamilton and Brookins.
To ''volplane''-for il has been adopted as
an English word-means the trick Of shut
ting of the engine and gliding earthward in
a series OF rushes. checked from time 70
time by banked turns taken almost at a
level.
1t was on August "A that Paulhan made
his new mark. Three days later, still at
Rheims. Hubert Latham climbed 52s feet.
Like all the high flyers so far, his machine
was a biplane.
The Wrights. like Brer Rabbit. were lying
low and saying nothing. With the end OF
August OrviIle Wright now recovered from
his injury, was in Berlin. prepared 70 give
the German government the demonstration
Of his bipIane that it demanded He flew
at low attitudes. though for surprising dis
tance, for two weeks. Then. on September
Il, while the Empress looked on, he climbed
TO 565 feet in the air, far over the forts and
towers Of Berlin. Three days later news
came from Brescia that Henri Rougier had
topped this performance with a fight Of 650
feet Orville Wright's answer came on Oc-
tOber ? He took the German Crown Prince
for ten-minute sail about the field, then
set down his distinguished passenger and
drove his craft in a steady spiral 20 the
height Of 1850 feet Nobody had dared even
TO attempt SO lofty a fight before.
Promptly high flying became the fashion.
RoUgier went TO goo feet on October s, De
Lambert went TO 200 on October IS, Paul
han made 720 fe-t on the Both. So on No
vember s. and on November 10 he went !. 30
feet, while Latham driving a mOnopIane
successfully in the first high flights cred
tied 20 that type. claimed to have equalIed
New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
r eofEzfne ObiS the |ofdier Frequently
Takes Hdx,onfaSe Of IL fo Impose
UpOn HIS Rufer.

made by revolutionary agents 10 lnouce
the soldiers, the on-commissioned Off
GERS and the officers Of inferior rank TO
renounce secretly their allegiance to the
King and to join the republican move
ment II these emissaries prove sue
cessfuI in alternating the troops from the
crown and In winning them over to the
cause Of a republic, Alfonso XIII will be
called upon TO Join his friend. Dom Man
uel. among the colony Of 'rois en- exile
either in England or in France.
Had the army remained true &c its
oath OF fealty 70 Dom Manuel the revo-
lutionary leaders would never have
found IL possible 10 establish q republic
at Lisbon, no matter how great the clev-
erness with which the insurrection had
been prepared by the junta, nearly all
the members Of which consist Of uni
versity professors and journalists
Without the support Of the army and OF
the navy they could have accomplished
nothing against the King, save by means
OF assassination. The late Dom Carlos
was wont to assert cynically that he had
little or nc confidence il the affection OF
his people or in the loyalty Of his states
men, government officials and court dig
nitariex: that he wac, indeed. the only
ore Of them al who was prepared TO
fight and sacrifice his life for the sake Of
the mona rctly, but he added that as long
as the arTry, and especially its officers,
remained true 20 him the crown was
safe
This was q perfectly correct exposi-
ton OF ssae etate Of affairs. and when OF
the very Gay ot the visit paid By Ed
ward VII 70 Lisbon an elasorately or
rausze6 revolution broke cut IL was sup
pressed so quickly and 60 effectively by
the metropolitan garrison that neither
the general public nor the foreign visit
ors knew anything about the matter
until some time afterward. This made
clear 10 the leaders of the republican
movement IN Portugal that without the
support OF the army they could accom-
plish nothing. and in consequence thereof
they set 20 work to cow the seeds Of dis
satisfaction among the troops, especially
among the subalterns and the non-com-
nnissioned officers. who. by reason OF the
smsllness OF their pay and the siowness
OF their promotion. are always inclined
20 erunn bic and 10 look with a kindly
eye upon anything that Is calculated TO
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hungry: for by a disgracefuI piece ot
mismanagement on the part Of the mill
tary authorities the regiments IN
trusted with the repression OF the revO-
lutionists and with the defence Of the
crown had been left on duty in the
streets for whole day and for an en-
tire night without any food. and the
horses with neither corn nor hay. II
was the feeding of the famished sol
diers by the mob that brought about
the differentiation that resulted in the
overthrow OF the monarchy and in the
proclamation Of Frances second re-
public.
There is no country in the world that
is not dependent in a measure upon
it's army for the maintenance OF its
authority. and England would be un-
able TO hold India, and the United
States would find il impossible to con-
tinue IN the Philippines. were il not
for the large and spIendidiy organized
bodies of troops which John BuH and
Uncle Sam respectively maintain in
these great colonial dependencies. Re-
pubIics, indeed. are quite as dependent
upon the bayonets Of their soldiers a.
are monarchieS.
The revolutionary Junta at Llsoou
will be unable TO maintain itself n
power. unless assured Of the continued
support OF the troops 70 whom il owes
its existence; while in France the re-
public Will last Just so long as the
army Is content 70 submit 10 that par
ticular form OF government should Il
ever De won over to the r0yaIist cause.
should any OF its most capable and IN
fluential officers allow themselves TO
be induced to play the role OF General
Monk In England TO the Duke OF Or
leans in France, the death kneu OF the
Third Republic win be sounded. That
is why the French government mani
tests so pronounced a distaste for gen
erals who have acquired popularity IN
the army or among the masses. and
why II Is so careful in its selection OF
the military governor OF Paris. who IS
never allowed to hold his place as such
for very long. The republic has ever
before it's eyes the spectre Of that Eng
lish general referred 10 above. who re-
stored King Charles III 70 the throne
of Great Britain. Ex-ATTACTIE
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The most fascinating form Of aviation
is undoubtedly the high flight. One
watches the machine rise from the
ground and climb steadily up an invisible
stairway, winding round and round in
wide spiras. From the size Of q monster
the vessel din1ins1es until il looks like
an eagle, then q wild duck. then pigeon,
q blackbird, a lark, bee, fly, a midge
and so it finally disappears out Of
sight. One waits in anazerent, asking
how the daring aviator Will return safely
to earth from the clouds. Suddenly the
machine darts into sight, and it is seen
pIunginG downward at an alsrn1nqly
step angle. 1t is the vol plane, or dive,
the most sensational of all aerial feats.
Having climbed to his maximum, the
aviator shuts off his engine and deliber-