Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-09-21

time lmmemorial Tor the Improve
ment OF the mail service TO the
citizens OF the United States, but
never before has the department been
pushed to experiment above the
clouds II is oil due TO the fact that
the Post Office department is consid-
ering establishing night flying. Fly
Ing by night means much more than
flying by day. It means lighted
fields Also It means constant com.
muRication between the planes In
fiight and the stations. AT Boiling
Field, this city, a mail plane has
been htted with both receiving and
sending radio telephone apparatus for
communication tests During flights
over the capital city above the
clouds conversatiM has been main
tanned successfully with the radio
telephone station In the Post Office de-
partlaent.
Just as ships on the ocean without
radio lose themselves II the sun and
stars are ohscured, the ships of the
cir lose themselves At night mail
airplanes without radio equipment
would be very likely to lose their
way, run out Of gasoline and finally
crash to the ground. The Post Once
department wants to establish good air
mall service, but 1t insists that the
service must be safe. With radio tel
ephone equipment ships could be
given their position In ten minutes or
less, 1t Is estimated by officials Of
the air mail service. The operation
woule De something like this: A
mail plane flying at night would call
for its position. Radio operators In
the stations from which the plane de-
parted and to which II was going, by
means of rotating finder would de-
termine the exact direction the mes
sage came from. One station would
then report the angle to the other
station. This operator would draw a
triangle on a map from the In
formation received. The plane, Of
course, would be az the apex of the
Triangle. The flyer. informed of his
position, could quickly make dis way
back to the route
VIII Report Ground Conditions.
Radio win also be used to report
ground conditions at the stations to
planes In flight, II heavy fog set
ties over San Francisco. the flyer
with mail will be warned to land
some place else. The passenger and
mail planes between EnPiand and
| France are equipped with radio sets
for such emergencies. Further ex-
periments which viii now be con-
Quoted by the afr mail service, look
toward simplifying the radio equip
ment in order to reduce the weight.
The mail plane reels in its expert
mental antenna as a fisherman reels
In a trolling line. The antenna con-
sists of a 300-foot copper wire which
sails out behind the plane when In
use, weighted by little lead fish.
Electric current to operate the
radio telephone is manufactured by
a generator run by fan which spins
at high speed as the plane PUSHES
through the air.
National Gallery OF Art Assured.
The federal governments interest
In a national gallery of art APP
pears to be increasing. 1t is a mat
ter of particular feiicitation that
congress has granted a fund sufficient
to permit the organization Of the gall
| lery as a separate unit Of the Smith
sonian foundation and to provide
modest curatorial staff, thus relieving
the museum Of rapidly growing bur-
/ Of hA arra IN
the long-delayed opportunity Of laying
the foundation requisite to a reason
able and symmetric development Of
the nations gallery of art.
The death of Mr.. Freer this year is
great loss to the art interests of the
country, In presenting his collections
of American and oriental art to the
Smithsonian institution Iii 1906, Mr..
Freer stipulated that they should re-
main In his possession during his life,
and at that time he provided in his
viii 100000 for the erection by the
Smithsonian institution of a suitable
building for housing them, near the
| national museum. He reserved the
right to add to the collections, and In
the intervening years he has about
tripled the number of objects original
ly transferred by title to the institu-
tion. Increasing the building fund to
| $1,000000 and waving the original
conditions, Mr.. Freer In 1915 decided
upon the early erection OF the struc-
ture and the transfer Of the collec-
lions to Washington. The building,
now completed, was begun In 1916.
Mr.. Freers Vast Request.
That Mr.. Freer was not permitted
to see the consummatlon OF his plans
for the development Of the art inter-
ests Of the country is greatly de-
plored Sis experience and advice
would be invaluable In inaugurating
this independent unit NJ the national
gallery of art which he so generously
provided. The building and collec-
tons represent an outlay of some six
or seven million dollars and constitute