The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-04

French government, after thorough tests
of several systems, has officially adopted
that which bears the name OF captain
Colin. and having employed it with eX-
cellent results for distances or $50 land
miles, arc now about TO install ii ON the
fleet for marine tests. Seven OF the
Pacific coast cities-San Francisco, Seat
tie, Everett Tacoma. Belingham, VAN
couver and Victoria-are now linked up
IN this same way tif one can link any
thing by .'wirelessD, while Frederick
Millener. electrician or the Union Pa
clfic shops In Omaha, promises TO rcvo-
lutionize all we have up to now accepted
as to the necessity OF high masts for the
autennae by having used the frame OF
common umbrella for this purpose for
talks of nearly n mile
Three bits of news concerning the
wireless proper (as distinguished from
tho telephone) came with January.
covery by Joseph Brearly OF Trenton. n.
j., which would simplify the sending OF
the wireless messages over land surfaces;
the second had TO do with pocket
wireless" Invented by Professor Care
botani OF Munich, and the third an
nounccd that Marconi's self had re-
ceived. while at Buenos Ayres, wireless
over-sea messages both from Glace Bay,
n, s, and CIiffden. Ireland, tho DIS
tance to Argentina from either point
being set about $500 miles-an as
founding record"
A "high water mark of different kind
aeroplane OF j, A. ID. McCurdy, In flight
over the Sbeepshead Bay racecourse, to
the New York World-though the frankly
spectacular phase OF this cannot measure
up 10 the intensely practical side OF the
wireless experiments which DR., Mlllener
OF Omaha, just mentioned, has been con
Quoting for months. He now says that
the time is near when railway trains,
running AT any rate OF speed, and at dis
tanccs OF several hundred miles, may by
wireless he kept in constant touch with
dspatchng stations or other Offices.
About the Man Bird.
To record adequately the years
! achievements in aviation would require
Il small volume. not mere portion OF
brief article, Scarce day has passed
OF all the 36j without its entry, more or
less notable OF something accomplished
In the upper air. The single item OF
altitude has seen Il previous record brok-
en- no less than eleven times; IL stood
at 6o3 feet on January l, and at this
writing Wynmalen. dying at Mourmelou,
| Franco, has climbed nearly two miles
OIL fcct-and would have gone yet high
| er but that his petroleum ran out, lie
''Yolplaned" q. G., glided. with station
| airy engincs) TO earth In thirteen min
utes, lighting unharmcd What wonder
| that such fcats have set the poets sing
| ing TO q new measure:
| 20 JOY, TO race the winds, and hear them
| singing,
! To clcavc the clouds and spring. and
| swoop. and rise.
| And on and on, in the infinite, upwing
| ing.
With throbbing pulse and sun confront
To soar alone, above In the immense
Blue freedom of tho sky, where time
| and space
Dissolve in JOY of motion, and the sense
or power outruns the little earthly
race
Unquestionably the most striking event
| of the aeropautic twelve month WAS the
| flight over the Alps made by George
| Soaring "a times a mile and bali In
the clear. crisp mountain atmosphere. he
| had in fifty brilliant minutes set n new
| mark for his daring profession (What
| would the then Little Corporal Ma
poleon have thought of II all had he
| been granted Il look so far ahead. as he
| toled through the passes l12 years ago?D
only TO fall when almost within touch
| OF mother earth. wounding himself TO
death. Far more prosaic or anything of
| this sort can ever ftly receive the vord)
but also far more Indicative of the prac-
tical future which looms large for ''the
| man bird, was the midsummer exploit
| of the young American. ]. b. Moissant,
| who moi only flew to London from Paris,
| but, which was much more, conveyed
four passengers across the channel In his
| plane.
a bakers dozen of other noteworthy
entries OF similar sort must suffice 10
| tell the rest Of the really monentous
story. all but incredible bare two years
| ago.
| Across country
| April-Paulhan flew from London to
Manchester USl miles,. with one
descent. winning the NorthclifIo
| prize OF $4,000.
Mny-Clenu Curtiss few down the
Hudson, from Albany To New York
| t150 miles,, with one descent In
two hours and forty-siX minutes.
Junc-Hamilton flew from New York
10 Philadelphia and return UI2
milcsJ.
August-Lo Blanc won the Paris Ma