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the ablest administrators of our day"
In science if anything test Of capabii-
ity, there Is no name which is more
known and respected in foreign universi-
ties than that of Sir William Thomson,
the late Lord Kelvin. Yet he was an
Irishman from Belfast, and during the
whole of his life devoted a great part
of his interests to the furrhering of Irish
education.
Going on to the application Of science
to invention, Castlebar. in Ireland, can
boast of her Louis Brennan, the origi-
nator Of the celebrated torpedo, super
intendent Of 4 government factory called
after him and the producer Of the gy-
roscopic-monoral system Of transit. AS
TO Mareoni. son of an Irish mothe" and
married to an Irish wife, say nothing.
TO speak of emigration and the Irish
abroad would mean TO write the history
of the colonies and of America. | put 1t
in one phrase: 1t is the Irish who have
made the empire. just as it is the irish
who rule, guide and defend it. and just
as it was the Irish who lost America to
England
on the stage, If anywhere. however. the
word incapable is never used Of an
Irishman. Indeed more often than not it
serves as qualification; for every brancn
of the profession is inundated with them.
While as TO concert and opera singers
one evening as the guest of Sam Geddes,
the secretary Of the Irish Club and the
most charming of hosts. al Sunday
evening concert is a revelation of the
amount of Irish talent in London. 1t was
here, for instance, and by him that. poor
and unknown, John MacCormach, the
golden DICED tenor of Covent Garden,
IN ade his debut before he was taken up
by the United States, where. during his
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Nothing for Nothing.
PHILIPS oPPENHEIM. the

7 PHILIPS OPPENHEIM, the pom
LIE ular English novelist, apropos of
the many banquets given in his honor.
said in Boston
IF these rich repasts continue, saai
grow like Rossini-a fat gourmet Bur
hope ! shall never grow az ungallant IS
Rossini.
''One of b : admirers. q beauiiiul mar
auise desired to meet the great con-
poser To her emissary. Eossini said
~ do nothing for nothing lf tie
lady brings me a very fine bunch ~
asparagus she can take view OF me 4
her leisure
He then glanced down at his enor
nous abdomen. ana, patting il with his
hand he said:
The lady may even walk around ne
if she pleases, but that will cost two
lunches of asparagus
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the brogue in Fleet street than in any
other street in the empire-from the
London Times to the Skibbereen Eagle
and there ts no living journalist who Is
As the whip Of the Irish party p.
O'Brien, member Of Kilkenny. put it to
me the other day. there's hardly a single
journalist who ever chewed the end of
a penholder who has not At one time or
other looked forward to an introduction
to IT. P" T. P. O'Connor is in fact
the Boswell OF his times; society could
not do without him, and as Punch once
put it--it is not a question of what T..
p would do without the lords as what
In music. few men have so caught the
popular Oar as Sir Arthur Sullivan. the
collaborattr Of Gilbert in those wonderful
operas which have now become house
hold word in the English speaking world.
His fatheS too. as he himself tells US.
was an Irkhman by birth and though
his mother Swas of an old Italian family,
the Righi, lie retained all the musical
and amusinA traditions of his race and
some Of the Eomber melancholy as well.
as his wonderful rendering of Adelaide
Proetor's poem The Lost Chord, testi-
fies.
Among livinsh musicians. perhaps Sir
Charles Stanford is one of the most bril-
liant-another IAishman. and one whose
first production bas played. it is said. in
the Dublin pantoinime in 1863. when he
was hardly twelvee
Nor is Ireland beEind the rest even in
art with Lavery and Shannon. The
former. a Belfast man. has pictures in
nearly every we'll known gallery in the
world-in Rome, Berlin, Munich. the Lux
embourg gallery in Paris. New South
Wales, Venice and Philadelphia-and is
a chevalier of the crown of Italy. as we'll
as of Leopold of Belgium. James J.
Shannon. though born in New York. l.
also of Irish extraction. and is one q
the most famous portrait PAINTERS OF the
day, his famous full-iensth picture OF
Henry Vigne obtaining first-class medals
in Paris, Berlin and Vienna. while yet
another Henry jones TEaaeus. a Cork
the khedive. has also done notable work.
his famous ''Obedienza'- picture cf
Leo XII-seing among his hest, while he
had the distinction of being the first
artist allowed to paint portrait ef
Plus Y.
Lastly. chief among the modern poets.
stands W. Il. Yeats. whose services to
literature have just been brought again
before the public eye Sy pension from
the government. Irish of the Irish, Celt
of the Celts. he has. as he was telling me
only the other day. devoted his life work
10 the resuscitation of that literary move
ment which the Stirring politics of the
middle of the century had almost ami
hilated.
In fact. take any department of thouaht
or action, and you will find an Irishman
at its head. Army. navy. Law, church,
politics. civil service. art. music. drama
press. literature, science, ii Is the same
tale.
How in the face of such overwhelm' ng
evidence. the superstition of the mystical
Incapable Irishman'' survives is a mys-
terry which viii only be solved upon the
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Golf !?

ttvMEi Edna May in London again."
said a New York PLAYWRIGHT on the
Cunard pier ''She has become a great
golfer. She plays on the beautiful Biar-
ritz links every winter.
Edna May Is merry and bright as
she always was. At luncheon at the
cafe Royal she discussed the difficulties
of the Barritz course in detail with
noto,iously poor golfer. This chap talk
ad a lot about q hole in the Chambre
a'Amour where YOU had 10 make a drive
from the beach up over sheer cliff some
eighty or ninety feet high.
Perhaps you won't believe me, he
frigntful hole in three
Her pretty lips curled.
Three what?' she said. Three
hours?"
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Happy Man!

MRS. lSSAC l.. RICE. president Of the
ivA Society for the Suppression Of n
necessary Noise. was talking in New
York about the advantages of deafness.
When our society she said, 'ac hieNe'
ali ii has Sc. out to achieve. then deaf
ness Mil no longer be an adran age.
It's a distinct advantage now, softening
to murmur or annihilating altogether,
the clatter ana bang of life
Yes. deafness is a distinct advantaSr
now. | know : dear old gentleman.
happily quite deaf. who was awakened
at dawn one april morning b. terrific.
naddening ser.es OF shrieks IRON q
freight locomotive
Wei. we'll he said pleasantly COM
posing himself TO slumber again, that's
the first robin I've heard this spring.
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PoNTooN l1AcH1NE In The AIR

he forgot the time and on looking at his
watch found that he could not get to the
railroad station in time even IL the best
horse on the place should do its utmost.
But Elyson happened to have his good
aereal steed in harness and bidding the
captain mount il alongside OF him. whiz-
zed him several miles through space and
put him down on the depot platform in
plenty of time to buy his ticket and check
his baggage.
How would these hydro-aeroplanes be
used in case OF war; / asked the cap
tain.
principally for scouting-for observing
and reporting movements OF the enemy's
feet at a distance. We are now invest
eating how far we can get up and how
far we can see. which will depend largely
upon the weather.
I'm wartime each machine would bear
an aviator and an observer. the latter
using the wireless TO continually report
the movements OF the enemy back to the
base ship.
after having been launched from
deck the machines might fly over the
water and then over land to another
body of water. or over an enemy's fort.
OF Heet, DIS TIE case bt "0
may develop our machines to also de-
liver counter attacks on hostile aero
planes. by use of explosives 5or other
Means
"Will our naval aviators be trained to
throw bombs upon ships?
Perhaps But the results far or
throwing bombs from aeroplanes have
been much more spectacular than prac-
tical. In my own opinion this method
of attack will never be put to practical
use, for the simple reason that il Is mucn
easier to protect ships from bombs over
head than from mines and torpedoes un-
derneath.
I'VE are developing a wireless ap-
paratus for the hydro-aeroplanes and
hope soon to get IL down to a total weight
of 30 pounds. The antennae SO far ek-
perimented with in aeroplanes has trailed
out behind the kites TAIL but We are
now testing a much more convenient de-
vice.
'Headpieces on both aviator and OBJ
server will be connected SO that they
can talk to each other during flights
something which is now impossible,
owing to the pounding of the engine.
The observers headpiece will also be
connected with his wireless apparatus.
We are testing both telephone and
speaking tube devices for connecting the
aviator and observer. or the instructor
and pupil, as the case may be.
Are any other navies adopting hydro
aeroplanes?"
That of Italy is the only one so far
as l know that is even experimenting
with them"
Copyright 1911 by John Eifreth Watkins,
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lish CD X. Cs, while on the bench We
may point to Lord Ashbourne. an Irish
man again, educated at Trinity College,
Dublin; later member for his university,
then attorney general for Ireland and
then lord chancellor from 1895 to 1906. In
the whole past century there have been
few. If any, more prominent at the BAR
than the late Lord Russell of kiilowen.
whose famous crOsS-examinat1on or F1g-
got, the forger, Is one of the most dra-
matte of our causes celebre. exculpating,
as it did, the Irish leader, Charles Stew
art Parnell, from one of the gravest
charges ever brought up against poll
tician-and Russell was an IriShman.
In church matters the question admits
of many sides, according to the peculiar
color of ones own belief: but whatever
they be, few will deny the fact that Ire
land is a nation of cnurchmen today just
as much as when the Celts were the mis-
sionaries of the west Cardinal Moran.
Cardinal Logue and Cardinal Gibbons,
representing Australia, Ireland and Amer
lea, are as brilliant figures as any IN the
sacred college: but few at the same time
have felt and expounded the many prob
lens of modern thought as did poor
Father Tyrrelr'-the unfortunate victim
of the anti modernist encyclicai or rus
N-the greatest mind since Newman, even
If not greater.
The impractical Irishman is almost d 5
much Of a popular superstition as the
incapable Irishman. Yet here again We
are met by the fiat contradition or fact.
When that universal umpire, the man
in the street wants TO speak or great
prince of commerce., as Shakespeare
calls them. he speaks of "a Upton.
Ii would be rather late in the day TO
introduce to the United States the genial
yachtsman or tell Of his sporting al
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she touches the wave crests, tossing up
the spray with her buoyant keels. She
Skins closer. plows up the foam. haltS
and gently floats with wing tips spanking
the ripple. Then off she flies again,
alighting next beside warship, which
swings out crane to lit her upon deck
And her skipper having delivered his
message she is lifted into the water to
glide off again over the waves, into the
sky or onto the land. as she sees fit.
Such astonishing maneuvers Will soon
be cut in the ar, in the water and upon
the shore about Greensbury point. Md,
where Capt. Chambers is now establishing
our Naval AerCdrOme and School OF
Aviation" This spot lies just across the
Severn river from the Naval Academy at
Annapolis. and is ideally situated for the
purpose, there being upon one side
miles width of water across the river,
and upon the other side a ten-mile stretch
across the Chesapeake to Kent island,
whence the hydro-aeroplanes can skim
the waters all the way to Baltimore.
The instructors and students of this new
hydro-aeroplane school will mess and
berth upon the Naval Academy's ships
in the Severn. and. as Capt. Chambers
added. the Naval Hospital at the acad-
emy will be convenient should its serv-
ices be needed"
The "terra-aqua field at Greensbury
point will. when cleared and filled, in
clude block of dry land LOCO feet
square. upon which has just been erected
naval aerodrome, containing three
hangars a workshop an office and sew
eral bunkrooms. all under one roof, which
is reinforced with rubberized paper.
OF the three big water beetles that fill
the hangers. two are Of Curtiss make
and one is a Wright. This little squadron
cost. all told, $14. .OOO
The hydro-aeroplane has been a matter
Of sudden evolution. After some expert
ments at his school at HammondspOrt,
N Y, Glenn Curtiss got more satisfac-
tory results last winter at San Diego.
Cal. Pontoons were placed under the
frames of his biplanes. and with such
device Ely, one of his aviators. flew from
the L. s. S. Birmingham and alighted
upon the water in Hampton roads. And
McCurdy. another Curtiss aviator, used
the pontoon device when ne flew from
Key West. hoping to reach Havana. One
of the Curtiss machines in the navy's
new flying academy Is of this simple pom
toon type, and in some of the accompa-
nying snapshots you can identify it by
the two long, cigar-shaped cylinders OF
sheet metal braced just under the bottom
frame. about four feet beyond each avia-
tor. In other pictures is seen the later
machine, fitted with the "hydroplane"-
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formed by the late Sir William Butler
the man who could have saved the ma
ton from the Boer war had his voice of
warning been listened to). Lord Roberts
of Khandahar and Kitchener of Khar-
Bismarck Yet each Of them inherited
Irish blood in his veins.
Sir William was the very embodiment
of the Irish soldier. He was born and
bred in Ireland. educated like Redmond
by the Irish Jesuits Of Kildare and all
his writings throughout his life breathed
the national sentiment
Lord Roberts-"Who is little, but who's
wise and who's a terror for his siZe"-as
kipling puts it's also of Irish eXtrac-
tiOn, though to the man in the street
'Bobs Is synonymous with the English
army. ! remember we'll how during the
black week Of the South African war the
press kept the heart of the nation alive,
proclaiming almost like a battle cry of re-
assurance, Wait till Bobs goes out
Yet he was Irish, while as to Kitchener
it would be useless to argue in favor Of
a genius recognized by all Europe.
Whenever there's fighting to be done
the irish are in it, but like the Tommy
in ''Barrack Room Ballads" they seem to
get little recognition in peace. To sub
stitute few words of Kipling's song:
It's Paddy this and Paddy that and
Chuck him out. the brute:
But it's our gallant Irish soldiers when
The guns begin TO shoot.
Then take the navy. Who typical of
the breezy popular English tar Lord
Charles Beresford? Yet what family has
taken a greater part in Irish history than
that from which. as second son of the
fourth Marquis of Waterford. he takes
his name? Entering as a cadet in 1859
and only retiring in 1909 when rear ad-
mira of the fleet, he has seen active
service at the 'bomDardment of AleNan-
dria and in Egypt. while an author
t"The Break-Up of Chinao and as a
member OF parliament he has always
been the foremost advocate Of strong
and effective navy.
At the top Of the political ladder, again.
stands today John Redmond-'the dicta-
tor'-the present leader Of the Irish ma
tionalists. party which, as a party, vel!
deserves the reputation il mas acquired %
being the strongest and best equipped
fighting unit in the house Of commons.
Year by year. under able leaders. it con-
trols the balance OF power, giving its
orders and seeing they obeyed but
when once the English party in power
has put a limit 10 its concessions no
force on earth can keep il from thai
strenuous opposition which has won a
century OF progressive legislation in Ire
tand which may yet he copied by Eng
land. Here, again. III the very senate of
the empire. where presumably English
capacity would be at its best the Irish,
not only in their individual brilliancy,
but eorporately as we'll. dominate the
arena.
Whether that influence be for good is
pest answered In the words OF Lecky,
the historian, who says there has hardly
oeen more potent factor in the evolu-
tion of English democracy than the pres
ence of the Irish party at Westminster"
In the sphere of law II would he hard
10 single out among the hosts of bril-
liant Irishmen one who can represent his
race more efficiently than the rest. but
we may mention men like Sir Edward
Carson and Gill. two of the leading Eng
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peat its aquatic performances.
Millennium upon millennium man has
been plagued ny ambition to fly like the
eagle. but that he might ever repeat
these aero-amphib.ous feats of the water
beetle appears to have remained beyond
his widest dreams and fancies until to-
day.
The nucleus of a fleet of wondrous
contrivances rendering such feats pos
sible has just been acquired by the
United States Navy. July 1, the fiscal new
year day of the federal government,
little appropriation of $4,000 became
available for the purchase of three hydro
aeroplanes the most wondrous distance
eliminators yet devised by the genius of
man.
1 have just had an interview with the
admiral of this our first hydro-aeroplane
squadron. Capt. Washington Irving
Chambers, L. S. N, tried and trusted
mariner, who, after securing the seven
seas since he was a lad, wishes to sup
plement this long nautical record with
career upon the azure deep that foams
and flows o'erhead
The commander of the vastest super
dreadnought plowing the aqueous sea
is no prouder of his craft that is capt.
Chambers of his latest water-beetle, the
Triad"
This wondrous steed fits over the
fields, with feline tread on cushioned feet.
Up she scars of sudden, climbing the
empyrean blue and circling beneath the
clouds till she elects to glide down and
hover. dragonfy wise, over the sea. Now
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oil remember the
frolickSone water
beetle that frisked
hither and thither
upon the surface
of the old swim
ming hole, then
took to its wings
and went lickety-
split through the
summer air, only 10
alight again upon
the water and re-
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could skim from New York to the
end of Long Island sound in three
hours without taking his hydro-plane
off the water, and no vessel In the
world could catch him. Should one OF
the fastest motor boats follow him, he
evade his pursuer or send her ashore.
Or, if hostile boat came at him head
on. he would simply rise into the air
and pass safely over her head. In three
hours he could also glide down the Del
aware from Trenton to the sea, or from
clear over to Niagara Falls; or, again,
from Cleveland across Lake Erie to De-
troit, and considerably further still.
Can you weather rough water skim
ming that way?" / asked Capt. Cham
bers.
'Curtiss lately SKINNED through the
surf in two-foot sea-" he replied.
There would be no difficulty about land
ing such machine in any moderate sea.
but as yet We would not attempt to rise
from very rough water. although in
swell we can adapt the movements OF
our machine to conform to the action Of
the water.
Our warships. carrying machines like
the Triad, will find them a great con-
venience for the daily exercise of the
crews while anchored in smooth har-
Dor. hydro-aeroplane can be put into
the water as simply as a ships boat, and
the men can be instructed in flying, just
as upon shore
Can you go as fast in the air with the
hydroplane attachment as without it,?
THE hydroplane. of course, offers more
resistance and robs the machine of about
five miles per hour. So to get up the
same speed We had to put in more
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day of judgment. But the facts certainlr
lend color to a French barrister friend
remark to me when ! had shown him this
manuscript-"Are there any great Eng
lshmen in England he asked?
downright 1911 i'm the United States 10y Curtis
Brown. All British rights rcservcdl
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nUR Aero Amphibious
- Fleet, Just Acquired by
Navy's New Flying Academy,
Opposite Annapolis = Will
Teach and Develop Won
drous New Art of Flying
Like Monster Water Beetles.
These Hydro Aeroplanes
Crawl From Land Into
Water. Glide on the Waves
at Tremendous Speed. Mount
Into Skies. Visit the
Decks of Ships and Fly
Away Again. Alig h ting
Where They Will-Safer and
More Delightful Art Than
Mere Aviation-Ride the Sea
on Buoyant Keels $50 Miles
at a Stretch-Admiral of This
Unique Fleet Describes Its
Use in Peace and War
Terra Aqua Field" Being
Established-Student Hydro
Aeronauts to Be Taught New
Art of Water Gliding.
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admit you Irish have all history upon
your side: that. politically, self-govern-
ment is the most elementary right of
nation and that economically home rule
would be the salvation of Ireland-but--''
Yes" I exclaimed.
You are incapable of ruling Your own
affairs" concluded the voice.
Unable 10 manage our own affairs"
] gasped. why. Irishmen rule the Eng
lish empire"
The speaker did not mean to be Of
fensive: ! could see that: lie had merely
succumbed 10 what / might call the
original sim OF English politics: for
ever since the late Lord Salisbury in a
moment OF anger compared the race TO
Hottentots the word ''Irishman has. in
certain sections of the press. become
synonymous with incapability.
How the brilliant contributions of the
Emerald Isle 10 the past-the rapier-
tongued Swift, the honey-tongued Moore.
the brilliant Sheridan, to say nothing of
the soldiers and heroes like Wellington
have been forgotten ii would be hard
TO say; but il is very doubtful If ever her
Tenius has been more prominently before
decades which make up contemporary
history.
Indeed il is only when we come TO
Pualyze the various departments OF in
capability. as my learned friend would
have said that We come to realize the
true value Of her contribution to Eng
lands imperial greatness
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AuS Gsl ~. l5i l.
OZ1NG the other day
in one of. the club
rooms of the Inns
OF Court Uhe Lon
don law schools).
| felt myself sud
enly awakened by
the closing words
OF a political dis
cussion.
"Of course, said
I h 2 vol ee. Il
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COME Notable Examples
- of the Lack of Capacity
on Which England Has Bas-
ed Her Refusal of Self-Gov-
ernment to the Irish Nation
Irishmen at the Head of
England's Army and Navy
and Her Bar Leaders in All
Departments of Art and Lit
erature-All the Great Eng
lishmen Born in Ireland.
BY T. G. REDMOND HOWARD.
Nephew OF John Redmond the Irish Psriiam-I
tsry Leader.
Special Correspondence OF The star
nNnnN
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To begin with the army-there could
hardly he found in the last twenty-five
years more brilliant trio than was
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IN - ~

BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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Special Correspondence OF The star.