Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-12-24

was asked by the New York World
what dream Of the future he was build
ing as q result of the remarkable de-
velopment of the aeroplane by the
war in Europe. With a smile MIR. Cur
tiss replied:
I've left on dreaming. Visions OF
the future are In the repair shops get
ting new motors: the old couldn't keep
up with the pace that plain facts are
setting these days. No. we don't dream
now; we draw deductions"
So the question was altered to.
well, what are your deductions as to
the future?"
Recall the facts" returned Mr..
Curtiss, and you can make your own
deductions. What are we seeing? In
the greater part of Europe today the
aeroplane and the seaplane. as they
call the airboat over there. are play
ing large part. a very large part. In
what is now the daily life OF those
sections of the earth. It is not the life
of the times of peace. ! grant you. but
the difference Is such that It il really
greatly in favor of the future when
you ask whether aircraft will remain
part of the daily life in Europe after
the war.
Common ~ Ships.
I'm not going to say that we shall
see aeroplanes as common as auto
mobiles on Fifth avenue and Broad
way. But they have undoubtedly won
their place. Their use in war has
proved their utility in peace. AZ to
seaplanes and airboats. am confident
that they will very soon be as COM
mon q sight as ships and motor boats
are today.
odd as the idea may seem at the
moment. the war will certainly result
IN knitting the peoples of the world
more closely together. The wireless
telephone will come apparently ipme-
diately peace IL established. andvthat
will emphasize the ever increasing
feeling for closer relations and the
demand for speed In transportation
which IL q necessary consequence.
The seaplane will become an absolute
necessity. Its development may. per-
haps. be practically without limit.
"As q beginning someone will cross
the Atlantic in an airboat the first
flne day that the world il again free
to take interest In that side of the
development of flying. This could be
done any day now. Craft are already
In existence which could cross the At
lantic In Q single nonstop flight
The Feat Historic.
Whoever IL first to hy across the
Atlantic win certainly still accomplish
. feat that will be historic. But the
flight will not now be . freak per-
Torrance which might not be repeated
In years. So much IL such . flight
now within the range of daily expert.
ence that the man who first does It
may not improbably. after brief rest.
turn round and ny back.
Il do not think am giving away Q
secret when l say that Rodman Wan
amaker. for whom built the America
to ny across the ocean last year. Ii
still a. keenly interested as ever In
the transatlantic flight. When. after
the war had broken out and Lieuten-
ant Porte. who was to have made the
attempt ut the transocean air trip. was
called back to service in England. Mr..
Wanamaker was induced to sell the
America back to me. 1t was with the
understanding that I would build him
another plane to fy the Atlantic. and
that will be done at the first possible
Next time-and we are hoping It
will be next year-we shall. l think.
start the flight actually from New
York city. That in itself will show
you something of the development to
date. The first leg Of the fight will be
10 st. Johns, Newfoundland. and the
next to the Azores. The two stops
viii BE- more 70 meet the possible
needs of the aviator than the necessi-
ties of the machine.
Before, We were working expert
and in doubt and darkness.
Now we can work and speak with
The second transatlantic
flight will. am pretty sure. cover the
ocean in all probability without
stop. It will all depend on the man at
the wheel. The machine will easily
carry all the supplies necessary for
q nonstop flight of that distance to-
gether with an allowance a. . margin
for possible exigencies. Do you won
der that have left OF dreaming!
Plan Trial. Flishts..
To give the aviators the necessarN
experience in ocean flying we purpose
locating the machine here In New
York city and making flights along
the coast and to sea-at least. such
are our present plans. When q man
can do. say about $50 miles at the
wheel in one spell. the transatlantic
flight will present little further din
Guilty to him."
And then afterwardr' put In the
Questioner.
The next deduction should not be
hard" replied Mr.. Curtiss, and then
stopped.
A regular Transatlantic air service
New York to London In IS hours!"
was suggested.
i told you was doing nothing IN
the way Of Visions" returned Mr.. Cur.
tiss. with his smile Of the Sphinx
DOG HAS "THE RARE SENSE"