The Sentinel=record., 1914-08-30
LIVING TO KNOW.

Good fortune indeed is it for a man
whose brain and hands have figured
in the affairs of the world to be en-
abled to live to the frution Of his
works. In the present war, the diff.
ferent war than other wars, the diff.
ference is due to three men. Marconi,
Wright aud Holland
Marconi gave the wireless, Wright
the aerial navigation, and Holland the
wonderful little submarine
Wright and Holland are dead. Mar
conf is here with us.
Marconi alone remaining to see til
Ifulfilment OF his Inventions work.
From the beginning the remarkable
Italian has been pursued by good for
tune. While other inventors, time inn
memorial have had quite as much
difficulty overcoming popuar inertia,
prejudice, and even antagonism as
Idhey have conqueEing natures Sc
crets, Marconi came to fame and
mans estate at the same time, while
fortune soon followed Then, threat
ened with tuberculosis, no was the
subject of much pity by those who
believed he would be cut down in
youth. Again he found luck with him,
and is in far better health than he
was twenty years ago. Even the auto
mobile aecident-so often fatal to the
rich and great-failed TO give Marco
nj the knockout blow, and he is now
alive and keenly interested in the
operation of his invention during the
great conflict. lie is now reported to
be returning 10 his native Italy to
place his hand and brain at the ser
vice OF his king and country in case
the land should, after all, be drawn
into conflict Lucky Marooni!
How different were the cases of
Wright and Holland We refer to
Wilbur Wright, who, all seem agreed,
was the rea force in the Wright pair.
In his case the threat of physical
weakness was only too well grounded,
and his death came before he had con
iquered more than the outposts of avia.
ton. Stin Wright's name, at least,
will be fixed in the popular mind, and
no discussion of aviation will be com
pete without mention of him.
The last OF the trio-Holland--
was even less fortunate, Dying as
he did at the very outbreak OF hostil-
tiles, this mans demise was chron-
icled in The daily press by merely a
few lines and comparatively no com
ment. That Holland was the equal OF
either of the others in originality few
viii declare, but nevertheless It IS
doubtful it, at the present time, I'M
der-the-sea warfare would be what it
is but for the tireless experimenting
done by Holland with his dinky title
submarine of that name and ater Of
his larger and perfected models that
Interested the naval experts of the
world, and are the basis Of practical
Iy all the underwater craft to today.
Although in this way the problem Of
navigation beneath the ocean surface
was as difficult as that of flying with
wings above it, somehow Holland
failed to stir the imagination as
Wright did, ana possibly this was be
cause Jules Verne had anticipated in
fiction ali his successes, and the popu-
lar mind, filled with the deeds of the
Nautilus and of Capt Memo, could not
submit to the modest triumphs oil the
early Holland submarines. 1t seemed
an adverse fatality that after long
and busy life devoted to the one idea,
HOLLAND should have died at the very
moment the worlds two greatest
fleets were approaching one another
in the North Sea, where the value of
the submarine in actual warfare might
be determined at any moment. Lucky
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