The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-04-09
SEND CORONATION
VIEWS OYER WIRE
Experiment in Transmission
Will Be Made
TO SHOW ROYAL PROCESSION
Several London Photographers Are
Hopeful of Obtaining Sanction to
Snap the Actual CrownfnE Cere-
mony-Coming International Fly
ing Contest Drawing Attention.

London, April S-An invention has been
made making it possible to transmit cine
matograph pictures by wire, and an ex-
detrimental trial is to be made on cor
onation day. An attempt will be made
to send views of the great event from
London to Paris, and if it is successfully
accomplished the films will be exhibited
at the Partisan picture theaters a few
hours later. The inventor of the cine
telegraph as it is termed, has been ten
years completing his apparatus, and has
but lately succeeded in transmitting over
land a film 200 feet in length over a dis
lance of thirty miles.
The coronation film which it is the
inventors intention to transmit to Paris,
will show the progress of the King and
Queen from Buckingham Palace to the
entrance of the Abbey. Several of the
London film manufacturers are hopeful of
obtaining sanction to photograph the &C
tual crowning ceremony; but if this were
granted, the insufficient lighting in the
Abbey would render the taking of films
impossible.
Pictures of the royal procession will be
exhibited at London picture theaters on
the same evening. An attempt also Will
be made to show the films in Liverpool,
Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol, and Birmingham
at the evening performance. Hundreds
of operators will arrive from Paris and
Berlin, and will be stationed at prominent
positions along the line of route As
their majesties leave the palace about
noon. it is hoped that there will be time
to catch the 2:2O boat-train from Charirs
Cross to the Continent. The films will be
developed en- route.
Aerial Tourney Approaching.
Aside from the coronation, which, of
course, overshadows everything else this
year, the most interesting event Of the
summer will be the great International
flying contest from Paris via Liege, Ber-
lin, Utrecht, Brussels. and London, back
to Paris which will link up for the first
time by aeroplanes the capitals and chief
towns of five European countries.
Step by step, there is nothing in il
to daunt the aviator of to-day, but those
who accomplish the whole task will have
performed a feat which will remain as
the starting point in new era of avia-
ton. The longest single stage in this
flight over Europe is from Paris to Liege,
for which distance two days probably will
be given. This is less than the distance
from Paris to Bordeaux. or from Paris I
to ClerInont-Ferrand. and both these dis
tances have recently been covered by
Bellenger and RenauX, respectively. In
fact. long. cross-country flights now take
place daily in France, which pass almost
unnoticed, but which are quite up to the
form" which will be required to cover
= ln of ha civ
cult.
1t has already been decided, in view
of the great length of the course, that
competitors may use more than one ma
chine 1t is considered much too severe
a test to expect one aeroplane to cover
the distance between the four capitals
with all the risks of accidents and break
downs by the way. An aeroplane still
remains a rather fragile apparatus, and
a competitor might be compelled to land
on bit of bad ground, damage his ma
chine, and so be put out of the race.
Good Feeling to Prevail.
If any competitor manages to accom-
plish the whole distance on one machine,
however. it will make his feat all the
more glorious and will be the most strik-
ing proof yet afforded of the reliability of
the aeroplane. The same provision for
changing machines was made in last
years Circuit de rEst, but LIE Blanc and
Aybrun, the two victors, went through
the whole circuit on the machines with
which they started.
During a great part of that race the
triumphant French airmen skirted the
German frontier, and at the end of it
there was a paean of self-congratulation
in France at this moral humbling of her
neighbor, who. possessing no aeroplanes
herself, was supposed to have looked on
with great chagrin at this brilliant dis
play of a military rival In fact there
was one incident" due to a French air
man flying over into German territory,
which caused much heated comment and
the mayor of SuasburE even suggested
the invading French aviators should be
saluted with bullets.
There will be none of this spirit in the
circuit of Europe. The race is causing
great interest and excitement in Ger
many, and the flight of the aviators from
Paris will be welcomed at Berlin, If that
city is retained on the route, not with
bullets, but with cheers. They will be-
come more interesting with every from
tier they cross, and London, as the fourth
capital to be touched in the race, will not
lag behind in her show of enthusiasm for
the aerial invaders.