Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-05
HOW RULE WORKS rides IN AERIAL bUS|
SMty-FNe.Year Age Limit Representative Ainey Takes
j Hits All Classes. Trip at College Park.
SENATE AND HOUSE LOSE ENJOYS HIS EXPERIENCE
Other Members of Con
Dropped Without Delay gress Make Flights
SUPREME COURT SUFFERS PECK DELAYS HIS JOURNEY
Justices McKenna Holmes and the capita-omcers
Lurton
ENJOYS HIS EXPERIENCE
Desired That Other Members of Con-
gress Make Flights.
PECK DELAYS HIS JOURNEY
Forced to Abandon Plans to Soar
Over the Capital-Oficers
Go Up.

Another congressional passenger was
carried on the aerial bus line at College
Park yesterday. Representative W. ID.
B. Ainey of Pennsylvania took ten
minute ride with Lieut.. Thomas Milling
Friday Representative Head of Delaware
took flight with him. Lieut.. Milling is
coming to be looked upon as the reliable
little taxicabman of the flying squad, end
is usually deputed to take up the con-
gressional visitors to College Park
This makes three members of the House
who have taken flights in the government
machines 1t is wished by those interested
in the art that more Of them would vol
unteer as passengers. All have enjoyed
themselves. Representative Ainey thor
oughly So The chances are that if d
majority of the House members could be
given rides there would be more interest
in Congress in the development of an
aviation squad, it is declared.
Indifference Is Shown.
AS the case now stands there Is a bill
recommended by the Secretary Of War be-
fore the House committee on military af-
fairs but the chances are that it will not
get out of the committee. 1t provides for an
additional number of officers in the Signal
Corps to operate and care for twenty
four machines. There seems to be no
particular opposition to the measure, but
merely an Indifference as to whether any
tn. ng in the aviation line is done or not.
College Park is beginning to take on
quite a lively air as the season ad-
vances. There were three machines IN
the air at one time yesterday. Both
Wright were being operated by the army
officers and Paul Peck, the Washing
ton aviator, had out his little one-man
biplane, a machine Of his own design.
This little machine is SO small that 1t
bears about the same relation of hum
ming bird to a sparrow compared with
the army machines. But 1t Is consld-
erably faster than the Wright ma
chimes and has even beaten the faSt
CurtisS in a match race.
Telephone Is Used.
An experiment was tried by the army
aviators yesterday with telephone it
being used for communicating between
the aeroplane driver and his passenger.
Ordinarily the engine makes so much
noise that it is impossible for the avia-
tor end the passenger to talk. The tele-
phone connection will be an important
military feature when completed unless
the introduction of muffied engine
makes flight silent as automobiling is
Ali of the army aNiators are preparing
for a flight on Monday from College
Park to Chevy Chase. where they will
be the outdoor attraction 10 the field
day of the Washington Aero ClulA
which on that date will celebrate the
anniversary or the first flight of
heavier than-air machine by Prof. Lang
| lev. late secretary of the Smithsonian
| institution. All the army aviators. and
Paul Peck will take part in the exer-
| cises.