New-York tribune., 1910-11-08
DR.. CR|PPENS EXECUTION SECRETARY OF WAR HOME
Returns from Trip to Philippines,
Japan and China.
up IN THREE AERoPLANES
Thinks Aerial Navigation VIII
PLAY Important Part in
Future Wars.

,,;ot,{nsou Secretary of War,
jacob " ~, Mrs. Dickinson, General
e-,l0 p Edwards, chief of the Bureau
= ,'i .,ar Affairs; Captain Harry N
% -, sacretary's aide-de-camp, and
r1sr1r his secretary, reached New
~ - +ba Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm yes
, otter q trip around the world. Sec
80 80 T7Jclsinson had visited Honolulu, the
-,,'t,i.,t,a Islands, Japan, China, Russia'
I,I1ar,, and France, reaching Europe
- a. Far East by way OF the Trans
Siberian Railroad ,-,,.,.,.,
A German servant girl. Anna kidelskl'
-. .,-,a over in the steerage or the hner
n enter the employ of Mrs blchlhSoh'
-,-,s se,, "a Ellis Island when the snip
,,oo,-a7 Her admission to the country
7,,,s evnedited. however, by Mr.. Clark who
r.rsonaIIv visited the Island to see there
was no hitch.
Tba Secretary Of War and his party,
which temporarily included Senator A. ..
Bacon. OF Georgia. were taken OF the Prlnz
t7riadricb wilhelm at Quarantine on the
General James E. Johnston, on wnicn Gen
eraI 2. D. Grant and several other army
officers from Governors Island had gone
down the bav TO meet them. The General
Johnston landed them at one OF the PENN
sylvania piers in Jersey City, where bag
gage arrangements we're attended TO- and
then the party, minus Senator Bacon. went
TO Governors Island aboard the govern
ment launch Lieutenant Ward Cheney.
Seventeen guns saluted the Secretary's
arrival on the island where all the troops
available were drawn UP in parallel lines on
either side of the roadway leading up the
bill to General Grants house. The visitors
passed between these lines TO the Generals 5
home, while the band played on the pier,
and attended there reception given by all
the officers of the post.
Secretary Dickinson's object in visiting
Hawaii and the Philippines was 10 inspect
the present and proposed Notifications in
both places. He left San Francisco last
June and spent five weeks in the Philip
pines. travelling all over the archipelago
by horseback, automobile and boat. He
considered the islands in a very peaceful
and prosperous condition.
In Japan he stayed only FIVE days, meet
ing only officials. Before leaving he dined
with the Mkado, but at no time during his
visit did the subject Of war come up. He
was the guest of United States Minister
Calhoun in Peking. where he also stayed
only a few days, going to Moscow over the
Trans-Siberian Railroad.
In Germany and France the Secretary
studied especially the construction OF mill
tary posts and the training and breeding of
cavalry horses. At the French military
camp at Chalons he made three flights as
passenger in aeroplanes, two in a biplane
and one in an Antoinette monOplane. In
the first bipIane fight he reached a height
of five hundred feet. he said. and stayed up
a half hour.
THE sensation was magnificent: it is
hard to describe said Mr. Dickinson. AT
one time we travelled at the rate of d mile
a minute. OF course, the aeroplane is going
to have its part in war, and with the i'm
provement and development of them that
has already come the governments are
bound 10 take account of them. It is abb
surd to ask whether I bought any for the
army, for I would have TO get an appro-
priatfon from Congress first but I am going
to make a report to the President covering
my whole trip. in which I shall include my
observations on the value of the aeroplane
in warfare"
At 3 p. m. Secretary Dickinson and his
encourage left Governors Island on the
Lieutenant Ward Cheney for the Pennsyl-
vania Station in Jersey City, where they
boarded the $50 train for Washington.