Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-22

Watch for the air men.
Within less than a month the great
aviation meet that is to be staged by
The Atlanta journal at the speedway viii
open, and the people of the south will be
given the chance to see the wonders
performed by the kings Of the air.
Aviation is the newest thing in the
world. This has been age of won
ders, of miracles in mechanical discovery
as well as in the realm of science.
Electricity, with all its amazing and
stupendous applications to the everyday
life. has been developed within a COM
ma ratiyely short space of time. There
are many men who recall the discovery
by s. F. B. Morse, of the electric tele-
graph, or magnetic telegraph. as It
was first styled.
There are more who remember Edi-
sons discovery of the incandescent light.
Along almost every line Of mechanical
research the progress made during the
present generation has been stupendous.
Steam has given way to electricity ana
gasoline as a means of propulsion. The
automobile, unknown few years ago.-is
as familiar in the wilds of the west as Il
is on the boulevards Of the worlds great
cities.
more we may look up into the blue vault
of heaven and say:
There goes the morning mail to Lon
dom"
Sensational things are being done by
the men who fly.
DAILY SENSATION.
Every day the news dispatches OF the
Associated Press tell us fresh stories on
the prowess of the bird man. Now II IL
zn6ad- ITeSn
mark for altitude.
Only the other day Eugene Ely who
will fiv for the people of Georgia at the
great aviation meet of The Atlanta Jour
nal. startled the whole world by making
a successful fight from war vessei 70
the shore. v-,..
II was an event in history. And yet ELY
was not theatrical about 1t.
II can fly from a vessels deck salu
Ely And he did. rs.se
No great amount of preparation was
reouired. Early one morning, with al
verse winds blowing and the sea op-
scured by a dense fog, the daring air
man mounted the seat OF mis- man
made bird, and few nasnins
beats of his propeller was OH on
bis voyage Once he dipped 10
re surface of the waves like some Nigh
tv water fowl, but he was up and away
like an arrow
since that time the military and navaI
authorities of the world have ackno"i-s
edged that they face a new era In war
ere The value of the aeroplane mas
baan proyen. Its possibilities, even IN
re nresent state of development, are
acknowledged.
when the air men come to the Atlanta
sneedway for the three-day meet on De-
cernber Is. I6 and IL, the public Will nave
an ouportunity 10 see tested many OF the
tbipFs that are claimed for the aeropianc
in war. The great Ely will be 3ere with
the selfsame machine with which ne
made his celebrated flight from the deck
Of the United States cruiser Birmingham
CELEBRATED A.. MEN.
With Ely will be the great Augustus
post whose renown as a daring, intrepid
axnIorer of the realm of the blue has
travelled far and wide. 1t was Post who
acted as chief pilot of the balloon Amer
ica that was entered in the race for the
Gordon Bennett trophy race and that was
carried so far into the winds of Canada
that its passengers were supposed TO be
lost.
The third member of the celebrated and
distinguished trio will be J. A. d. Nc
Curdy. McCurdy is one of Americas
pioneers in the field of aviation.
Aside from Glenn H. Curtiss and the
Wright brothers, Mr.. McCurdy has had a
.ong and more valuable flying experience
than any other aviator. having made one
of the first public flights in the United
States. besides being the first man to fly
an aeroplane in Canada. where he still
holds the records for distance and dura-
ton of flight