The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

as this talk promises to be very inter-
esting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Atchison Stephen and
son. Clarence Stephen, of Lawrence,
who have been visiting relatives, have
gone to Usage City for a visit. They
in Colorado Springs.
The ]. ]. King rear estate agency
reports this week sales as follows:
224 West Laurent street to ]. 9.
Fowler and $40 Holman street to
Frank Johnston.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Foster of Hoyt
are visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Conwell at 1929 Quincy
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Park of Oak
Park, ILL.,, are visiting their niece, Mrs
Ike Sheetz, of S21 Jackson street.
Mrs. Anna Marker and daughter,
Miss Martha Marker, of Osawkie are
visiting at the home of Vincent Brown.
Rev. J. w. Thompson will preach at
the Second Presbyterian church at IL
a. m. and p. m. tomorrow.
Miss Ellen Christy, of Meriden, IS
visiting with Mrs. H. l.. Sanders OF lZ2O
Van Buren, street.
Mrs. L. Arnold and son. Edgar, of
a27 Jackson street, have returned from
a visit in Minneapolis, Mimi
Miss Addie Hedge, of Dennison. is
visiting at the home of Mrs. G. N.
Gleece of 1121 Central avenue
David Bowie has returned from Law
renee where he attended the *. Z. COM
mence ment exercises.
Miss Effie Galloway, stenographer at
the Kaw Milling company, left today
for a short vacation with relatives at
Kanorado.
Thomas Page has returned from En-
poria where he attended the COM
n.encement of Emporia college. He is
one of the board of trustees of the
school.
(From the Topeka State Journal
June IL, 192O-Perhaps)
For the first time in history. an avi-
ator this morning with an aero-tuDe
described three successive somersauIts
in mid-air without accident. VIM
Mars a relative of the first aviator to
make aeroplane demonstrations in
Kansas, accomplished the feat at the
aviation field north of Garfield park
about 10 o'clock this morning. After
this in the teeth of high WIND. MT.
Mars sailed his machine at a speed OF
$50 miles an hour, several times sud
denly shooting skywards to the helght
of several thousand feet and then div
ing like falling shot until within a
hundred feet of the ground. when ne
would again curve upwards.
These performances were witnessed
by about 10000 people. They packed
the grandstand and the roofs CT the
North Side Airship factory where spe-
cial seats had been provided. Here
were seated nearly thousand en-
ployes of the plant. The men cheered
themselves hoarse as they watched the
daring eVolutions of the machine upon
which they have spent their time per-
fecting. :
The aero-tube was first thought of
by Captain ]. G. Waters after seeing
the aeroplane flights in 1910. Just as
a Joke, he suggested that the unw1eldy
planes be substituted by hollow paper
tubes. However. the idea has been
worked out successfully by G. M. smith
of 342S North Jackson street. In adj,
ditfon. he conceived the plan of filling
the specially prepared paper tubes with
the new gas, called ''X-Air," which is
much lighter than hydrogen. The mo-
tive power for the aero-tube used this
morning was the nav form of cleo
tricity.
with this eouipment the machine to-
day gave what is considered the most
wonderful exhibition in the history Of
aviation.
At 9:2O the sliding doors of the tall
ship shed of the factory were swung
open and the spectators saw what re-
sembIed a huge bundle of pencils at
tached to frame carrying little ma
chinery and a man. 1t was the new
aero-tube This was wheeled out to
the centar of the field.
On the seat under the tubing was
VIM Mars, a son of the Mars who was
in Topeka with the old fashioned aero
plane ten years ago. Since then the
latter has grown wealthy and is now
retired.
The young man gave signal for all
to stand back. Then he pressed but
ton. without the slightest jar, the
large propeller began to turn and the
aircraft rose from the ground AT
first the ship moved slowly, but grad
ually speed was, increased until it was
nearly impossible to follow the mo-
ton. 1t rose higher and higher in cir
cles, at the same time describing a
circuit of the field. When about 500
feet in the air, the aero-tube suddenly
described a perpendicular circle. Amid
the screams of women the police
shouted, Don't get scared; it's all
right
Then the machine shot about so feet