UNBAY CITIZEN
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Second Section
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ASHEVILLE, N, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 190.
PAGES! TO Q
s Mow Float Where Hoofs Flew Fast
Old Morris Park Truck is Now
Training Ground For Flying
Machines.
THE
Mship
NEW YOKK, Oct JU Tho naviga
tion or the. air has at la become an
actual problem lit the aicenee of trans.
portatton. Like veiy other develop
ment in tnis neio, tne airship has had
to go through a period' In which It
has been regarded merely as' a scien
tific and expensive toy, attainable only
by the rich. The ; locomotive was
looked on In this manner at first,: and
the bicycle and the automobile have
successively passed through the same
stage, naturally the; airship, partic
ularly the 'heavler-than-alr variety
through which tho Anal solution of
ine pro mem or aerial navigation u
expected, has had to past through the
same stages. For various reasons It
has had a more difficult course than
any of its predecessors. Its develop,
mcnt has been looked ution as belns
In the hand! of a few men, and wealth
has boon regarded as an absolute
requisite. ,''-. . ,.
Now all this Is chanrert fnr with.
In the past few week New York has
not only matfo experimentation In air
nsvigat:on possible for small means,
but ha also sesn the Incorporation of
an aerial travel company, which
plans to cariy passengers through the
air above the streets of the city Ju4
as other means of transportation now
do on the ground. Indeed, It la now
even claimed that ' some not distant
future date will sec the pavements of
arlous city thoroughfares colored In
different tones in order hat serial
navigators may be able to distinguish
easily places In which they may land.
Of course all thia may sound vds
roriary,. Actually, however, It Is not.
There, is nothing more impossible
about It than there was in connec-j
LATE SCIENCE
; THE HIGHEST KNOWLEDGE.
Leaving religion to one side, the
highest knowledge that a man can
have ,ls the knowledge of human na-
ture, the knowledge of wha men have
thought an3 done In the w.orld of
their failures as well as their- tri
umphs. Undoubtedly a young gentle
man may' derive much profit from a
study ot the amphloxus, but "he will
derive vastly more from a study of
Magna Charts. Shakespeare and Mil
ton. It docs seem' as though this
should le clear to all. We have to
live In th; world of Shakespeare and
Milton, liuve to do with men who are
Influenced by these masters, white our
relation to the world of the leaf and
tho frotf Is quite external. A man
had better never haye heard of the
sones-f "tHrtaBT1- unless, of-toutae;
he Is going to be a botsnlst than to
be unable to recognise the classical al
lusions In the books that he reads.
This knowledge that of history, lit
erature, economics, etc. is valuable
for another reason. For lf-the studies
be properly -pursued, tho student gets
not only the drill that Is afforded by
other studies, but also the greatest
treasures with which a human mind
can be stored. You may get as much
discipline from the study of mathe
matics as from the .study of Greek.
But you get little else, whereas from
Greek you get the beauty of a great
literature and a profound sympathy
with the life and thought of a wonder
ful people. In other words, the things
that discipline you stay with you and
are a continual Inspiration. If it be
said that a man forgets his Greek, the
answer Is that the same thing is true
of the higher mathematics. A man
out of college for ten years would And
It quite as hard to prove a geometrical
theorem as. to translate a page of the
Iliad. Tha sclenees. as pursued by the
ordinary, nonspcciallsing student, are
quite as "Impractical" as the classics.
On this score there Is nothing to
choose between them. But you may
forget your Greek without forgetting
nt all the spirit of the Greek elvilliza
tlon, or the beauty and power of the
Greek writers. All this Is valuable be
cause It Is the knowledgo of man rath
er than the knowledge of laws and
things.
ItEFLECTIO.V AND THOt'GIIT.
One. however, does get something
from science lndlrcctl. and It Is the
thing which our newer education sets
great store by. namely, the power of
observation. We are told thut the
chlfd must be taught to observe, and
so we show him pictures, put him
through a course of of symbolic play
and generally seek to draw his atten
tion to the things about him. Science
contributes very directly to this same
result. But unfortunately it .happens
that the last thing an American needs
to learn Is to observe, for he Is the
most strained, attention (for short
periods) and observant or men. Cu
riosity Is almost a disease with him.
Therefore U would seem as though we
were educating the faculties that were
least In need of it. The old studies, on
. the other hand, tend to develop pre
cisely those faculties that arc weakest
In our people, namely, the faculty of
reflection. Instead of Jumping from
one subject to another. n the chil
dren do In tho klndfergnrtens and the
schools, we need to learn how to con
centrate, how to think hard and
straight to think persistently, and. of
course, to think of something that Is
worth thinking about. It is hot so
necessary that we should "see things"
as that we should know what they
mean when we do see them, should
know their relations to one another
and to us, know their place in the gen
eral scheme of knowledge. The study
of relations is one that we need to
give much attention to. We seem,
therefore, as a people to stand vastly
more in need of a literary, social and
classical education. As for the scien
tific method, which Is. of course, ex
cellent, therfe Is no field or Investiga
tion in which that cannot be used.
Science teaches us to ask questions
hlc we know how to do pretty well
as It is -but it takes the wisdom ot
the age ta ensMe us to answer them
lion with the phonograph or the tele
phone. And. In addition to this, the
general development of this practical
side of flying is now for the Brat time
underway and In tpls city.
, Up to now this has open In the
hands of a few men. In this country,
and Indeed throughout the world, In
terest has been largely centered In
tho Wright - aeroplanes, the famous
"June Bug' of the Hammond sport
group of experimenters and abroad
in the machines of Farman, Dcla
grange and a few others. All these
are men of means or backing. All
of them have had the advantage of
experimentation - grounds offered by
various governments and the Incent
ive of rich cash offers.
But now the development of flying
has for the II rut time been made pos
sible for the man ' of small means.
Within a few months this city has
seen the organisation of the Aero
nautic society, made up of men inter
ested in a practical wy in aeronaut
ics, which has for Its purpose the fur
nishing of testing grounds, tool sheds
and all the necessary paraphernalia
for experiments In the navigation of
the air by heavler-th&n-atr machines
At the grounds of the society any
man who thinks he has anything- to
contribute tovthe solution of the prob
lem of aerial-Ulght will have the best
facilities and all assistance In trying
out his ideas, and the millionaire ex
perimenter will have no advantage
over the wage earner.-'
Nothing could exemplify better than
the organisation of the Aeronautic so
ciety not only that there la an Im
portant future for air navigation, but
the belief that as a practical problem j
WIDOW OF
For the first time In a number of
years the United States does not num
ber among Its citlxens a living former
President of the .Republic, and the
number of living widows of presidents
Is comparatively, small, considering
the fact that not a few of the nation's
Chief Executives havu murrlud women
many years their Junior.
The roster , of presidential widows
now comprise Mrs. Garfield. Mrs. Har
rison, and the lately bereaved Mrs.
Cleveland. Regarding the life of Mrs.
Garfield end Mr Cleveland since they
loft the White House the public has
heard more or less from time to time,
but Mrs. Harrison has lived So quietly
and In such seclusion that It is safe to
assume that a large proportion of the
American pebji) jjVe been unaware
'bTlier'sxlstcnccir'''-;''
Mrs. Harrison , has a comfortable,
home on North Delaware street, In In- j
dlanapolls the city which was always
"home" to her late husbaml but she!
spends but a fraction of each year In
the Indiana metropolis. President Har
rison's wodow Is fond of travel, and
devotes not a llttel of her leisure to
Journeys by easy stage In one part or
another of the European continent.
When she does elect to spend an In
terval quietly under her own roof she
manifests a stronu preference for her
quaint country home In Herkimer
county. New York. Here Mrs. HarrU
son can usually be found from early
summer until late autumn.
That this rural retreat In northern
New York should prove a magnet of
undiminished power for our leust-
known presidential widow Is by no
means strunge. Tho place Is, for her.
full of associations. It was at a farm
house in this Immediate vicinity that
Generul Harrison and his bride spent
their honeymoon. The former presi
dent was always a great walker, even
In the days when his time was occu
pied by the manifold duties of Chief
Magistrate, and he and his wife
tramped over the whole countryside
during that first summer of their wed
ded life, and then and there selected
the site of tho habitation which they
built the fidlowing year. Further
more, tills habitation w hich Is fraught
with so many memories for the presl
dential widow is conducive In the
highest craves.
Berkeley Lodge.
Berkeley Lodge, as the Harrison
place was named in honor of the an
cestral home oI the Harrisons In Vir
ginia, Is situated on a point of land
that Justs out Into what is known us
Second Lake of the Fulton Chain a
scries of those connected uaterwuys
w hich are so abundant In the northern
part of the Empire stale. Not only Is
the Harrison estate distant a number
of miles fr-'rn the nearest railroad, but
It is wholly Inaccessible by wagon
road. The only means of communica
tion with the outside world Is via the
small steamers which ply on the lake
ami which slop on signal at the pri
vate dock which Mrs. Harrison has
had constructed on her pr iperty.
Through thip lone artery of transpor
tHtlnti come the occasional guests en
tertained by Mrs. Harrison, their baK
cjaire. I he mull and all supplies of every
character Intended for the house hold.
Mrs: Harrison's home Is half a mile
or more from the nearest neighbor but
Isolation was the aim of General Har
rison when he built this residence. In
deed he and several wealthy men win.
co-operated with him purchased prac
tically all the land bordering on the
little lake in order that the district
might not become too thickly popu
lated. The Harrison estate comprises
only about thirty-six acres; hut
thmuhgh the arrangement above men
tioned the Harrisons were from the
outset of their occupancy insured
against intrusion.
Building Is rk'turrsque.
Berkeley Lodge, which is In truth
not a single dwelling, bnt awhole clus
ter of log structures, occupies a knoll
overlooking the lake but is is os hidden
by trees- that It Ir unobserved until
the visitor is close upon It. live main
building Is a picturesque two-story
structure with a large octagonal tower
on each forward corner. The space
between these towers across the front
of the house, is oeeupied by a wide
porch. Practically the whole central
It will be solved by practical Investi
gators snd not by persons of wealth,
who merely regard (lying as offering
a possibility of new and expensive
sensation. '
The land which has Been leased
by the society ;on which to jconduct
experiments Is none other than the
old Morris park race track in this city.
In former years the scene ot many an
exciting contest between turf favor
ites. Here wtth a clear air track, the
first of Its kind In the world, measur
ing more than two miles, airships, the
latest development in transportation,
will supplant ths. horse, In the club
house, now devoted to the work of the
Aeronautic society, photographs of
every yoncelvable kind of air machine
and models of all kinds of aerial con
struction, from Kites to dirigible bal
loons, have supplanted the portraits
of famous equine racers. Already at
this first practical air park in ' the
world more than a doxen machines
are completed or In the course of con
struction, and Jn connection with the
whole -project' nothing is mors sig
nificant of the practical future of the
airship than the fact that most of
the experimenters are men of small
means- wage earners, mechanics and
the like. It was primarily to give an
opportunity to such men as these that
the Aeronautic society was organised.
Perhaps the most Interesting of the
various flying machines now being
tested at the new aviation grounds Is
the helicopter of W. R. Kimball. Ex
cept for Maxim's dirigible. It Is the
most, expensive and the most beauti
fully constructed airship In the world.
Its motor la a marvtl. Weighing only
128 pounds, . It nevertheless develops;
LATE BEN JAMIN HARRISONIN RETIREMENT
portion of this building Is given over
to a huge living room, open to the
roof, and with a monster fireplace of
add stones Jald up roughly with no
mortar showing.
Conspicuous on the mantel Is a por-
trait of ths late General Harrison
draped with the American flog. Tho
twers -which flank this unique struc-
ture ara given over to tiny bedrooms.
those on the second floor being reach.,
ed by, galleries to which stairways as-
cend from either end of the livlns
room. -' These sleeping apartments are
ren rved for the use of Mrs, Harrison, "
her (laughter and closest personal
'friends, -"v vr - --Hp -- r r
Lnriitnd a. fw cards distant ' from V
the main building and connected Wftlt
rnx rnan ria-ri-:AHa.
"houikeepors unm-x'' which contains..
th .union rnnrn. kitchen unit mmrter.
for tl-e servants. These rooms alike Refuite." a two-story struct ursrus- They l.lve Very Simply,
to all those at Berkeley Lodre, are 'c like the rest set In the midst of a Although there are several bed
celled In st-locted spruce which though densely wooded area. This bulldlm; rooms at Berkeley Lodge and a greater
unvarnished retains the beautiful was erected by the late General Har- or less number of guests are bslng
cream tint as though It were put In rlson In order that he mUrht have a entertained almost constantly, Mrs.
place h 't yestoray. The windows are place to carry on Important work Harrison lives very simply and main
of leaded glass and all the open lire- wholly undisturbed and here he did all tains a most unpretentious cstabllsh
places ere of vrouirh static similar to his premlllrtary work on the celebrated mont. The wants of the household
the one In the living room. A nook Venezuela case and other Important are looked after by a capable house
In the "annex" that would, prove of legal undertaking upon which ho en- keeper; "George, an old oolored ser
BIG MEN' OF FUTURE WILL
(dllscn CorrfHpoixIciice.)
NEW YOKK. Oct 24. The future
groat men of the United States will be
in the majority of cases of city birth
and upbringing, .according to the con
elusions of scientific Investigators. The
traditional advantage which the rural
districts haw had heretofore as the
breeding ground of millionaires and
statesmen Is already disappearing In
favor of urban localities, say these
skilled students of sociological condl
tlons. After the lapse of another
half century the autobiographies of
the country's great men will read,
"He began life us a poor boy In
city tenement." Instead of using the
present popular phrase, "He started
life as a farmer's boy." The future
poet will have to content himself with
the pale-faced city boy to the exclu
sion of the "barefoot boy with the
cheeks of tan."
For a good many decades now It
has been the populur Idea, and with
ijimhI reason, that the country, the ru
ral districts, were the source of supply
for our big men. Three-quarters of
the present day leaders point -with
purdonahle pride to the fact that they
began I Iff on the farm or In a country
village. Washington, Jefferson. Jack
son, Clay. Calhoun, Sherman, Grant.
Lincoln these are only a few of the
great Americans who had a rural boy
hood. But here 1 a significant fact,
and ono worth noting. Theodore
Itooscvelt was a city loy, and Just as
he stands for a Kood deal that Is new
In his present office, so his metropol
itan youth may presage the coming
dominance of the city boy over the
country boy. Likewise, William H.
Tart was brought up In the city. While
single Instances ,o not prove the
case, lr. Luther Gullck, who is prob
ably the best authority In the country
on this subject, asserts that city con
ditions In the last decade have so far
Improved that the average city boy
nuw has a tx-ttcr chance In life than
the average country boy.
There are many reasons for this
changed state of affairs, according to
Lyman Beech, r Htowe, who discusses
the matter In Apple ton's Magazine. In
the first place, he points out the often
forgotten fact that during the early
history of the United States the coun
try1 boy predominated numerically to
a great extent for the simple reason
that there were few city boys. Even
after the cities began to grow, the
country boy was supposed to have a
great advantage. But now all this Is
-changed, and as a result of the new
conditions we must look to the cities
for our great men of the future. Mr.
Stows makes some rather surprising
statements In his article to account
for this change. Of course ths mat
ter of future uaefuiness depends very
ISO horsepower, by which the 20 pro
peller blades art driven. This hell
copter,' which curt 10.000, is of
Wright aeroplane, it consists of a
frame on which the motor In plaeed
In front With the Beat for the 'opera
tor dlretctly behind. Above are the
twenty propellers w hich not only drive
the machine forward hut lift as well
These i ropelles resemble nothing
more than the old-fashioned wooden
fas often seen Jn restaurants. The
motor, however, Ik capable of turning
them at a rate r more than 2. sou
times: a minute. At this speed the
blades ars of con mo Invisible. In the
next shed tJ this 110.000 beauty Is
the. Williams "biplane." so called be
cause of the manner In which Us
planes, are rigged, in The very hear
future, too, " the Kchroeder "arrow-
plan" la "to be tried out. according to
its inventor.' This machine takes Its
name from Its form, being low and
norrowtf shaped like an arrow, and
with Its center of gravity extremely
low. This low o uter of gravity It is
expected wilt give the machine great
steadiness and eliminate the danger of
capsizing which has always been a
difficulty In the use of air planes. The
most remarkable thing about this new
machine, however. Is Its shape, or
rather the significance of the shape.
Other air planes are broad, so broad,
Indeed, that they could" never light in
a city street, J The new machine how
ever. Is designed to do just this suc
cessfully, and therefore marks the llrst
commercial application of the navi
gation of the air.
These, of course, are all expensive
machines, as the term is generally un
derstood, and while they are remark
able they do not In one way typify
Interest to every housewife ts the
"store room."
The Tin CloM't. '
, Housekeeping half a down miles
from the ncrest market requires fore-
thought even If you have your own
vegetable garden, and so Mrs. Harrl-
"n has -capacious closet, the well-
1"5 sholvaa-nf which remind ons of
full-Hedge grocery store, While on
the subject mention inuy be made of
another unique adjunct ot the Harrlr
son country seal the tin closot. This
tin eloset consists of a small room,
eompietw waca witn tin in wtucn is oers, Mrs. tiarrison is or jn.p op.inj.on.
atowd' U .th 4eddlK,.'t;Uithlnc,-''t4e,TthBt''Wl1ll(hmri hi Ukr-hftu pari
when thd Rouse is ciost-d for the sea ty at ths lodge It Is good for both
soonocegaary precaution to .thwart hostess and guests not to soe too much
'ths field; nie destructive, post Jn
lnwff th; eoiintm'.-..,;; :
inirawtTinir-jrrTnciparBtruci-
tires on the Mawlson estate is 'The r
largely on the early physical environ
ment and development, and there Is a
good leul of shock for the supposed
ly healthful country In his statement
that "the air In the poorest tenement
Is seldom worse than the air In an
ordinary farmhouse during winter.
The most refuse llttvred street Of the
slums Is more sanitary than t - open
drain liat'k of tho ordinary farm
house, and, he might have added, the
pig pen.
That the problem of helping the,
neglected city loy or giving hlui the
chance at an opportunity Is 'by no
means Insoluble, even If difficult. Is
shown by I lie Improvement w hich
makes the foregoing statement possi
ble, ."But." says the Appletou arti
cle, In accounting in another way for
the coming superiority of the city buy,
"the problem of the neglected coun
try boy Is much more difficult. All
these things (organization and work
for his good i take money. There Is
little money m the ordinary farm or
village community. However, the first
step toward.- helping him Is lo realize
that he need help. Therefore, the
Sooner we rMiiove the halo which
tradition ha- i(l'if him and see hlin
In the cold light of reality, the better
for him. ry county In every state
should haw n country school athletic
league, a h;i Ulster county. New
York. Tin "iintry boys still form
almost half of our boy population.
Their very numbers dctouitd. for the
good of the nation, that they be not
neglected. The burcfoot boy with
cheeks of mo' who has no tiaiuliiK
other tba'i In. home duties ami the
district sel I Is no mulch In tin
sharp com " 1 1 1 ion of modern III, for
the paler i il .-. boy with playgrounds,
gymnasiums, recreation centers and
organized athletic sports."
in a large sense the reason for tlii-
change In tie source of good Amer
ican c-illKenship. due lo the alleged
Jecadi nee of the country boy, may be
found In t! Id saw which sas that
all work and no play makes Jack a
dull . boy. 11 does even more than
that, and in lb" long hours of difficult
labor which fall to the lot of the av
erage country boy is found a handicap
to his propi r physical and mental de
velopment. The average city boy, on
the other hand, works during far
shorter hours and the means now pro
vided for his physical strengthening In
the shape of playgorunds and gym
nasiums are far In advance of those
to which the country boy has access.
Two decades ago this was not true.
Then there wire less than fifty gym
nasiums In New York, most of them
either private or expensive, and there
fore prohibited the poor city boys.
Today In this city there are twenty-
flve hundred gymnasiums, most of
the purpose of the An nautfc club so
well as many others. The purpose
ot the society Is to encourage and aid
the experimentation by persons who
without such assistance could never
afford to develop,- and test their Ideas
Is little realised, that tho greater part
of the construction now underway at
this llrst 'air course" In the country
Is actually being carried on by men
of small means. There nre gliders and
wind wagons. In fact nearly every kind
of construction known and unknown
and as a result It may yet happen,
as the Aeronautic society hopes, that
from some how oliactire source will
come the realisation of a ' praetlul
flying machine. Naturally the man of
small means realises best the need
of an Inexpensive machine which will
not be merely a millionaire's toy. And
while public Interest has been centered
in the experiments of ths Wright, It
Is an extremely significant facT for the
future of flying that nearly two dosen
Ideas are now being tried out at Mor-
rise Park by quiet men who are all
working for a practical solution of
the problem of aerial navigation.
To most persons, of course, this
problem Is a sealed one. Somehow
it seems hard to realise that the fly
ing machine la coming. But to see
the practical work now going on at
Morris Park is to understand the mat
ter In a different way. In the sheds
which equine klt.gs formerly occupi
ed are now various machines, tools
and models, and almost dally Tsstk are
being made. Although , the course,
which has been leased for a year Is
open at all times, Sundays especial
ly are open days when the public, Is
invited to come and Inspect In the
same spirit, too, any one with any
sort of an Idea for air navigation or
gaged following his retirement from
the presidency, on the first floor of
the ltefuge Is former President Ham-
son's old workroom with Its broad Win
dows and large open fireplace, In ths
center of which latter is the remark-
able heart-shaped stone which the
General and Mrs Harrison found ri
one-of tholr honeymoon walks.. : ..
Adjoining this room Is that formerly
occupied by the General's secretary,
This room and those on the second
floor -reached by an outside stairway
are all now1 utilised us guest chain-
of eae.lv other and consequently she
tfvw'her visitor a sens swtJspr.aT
enee wy installing mem m m naoivanun
of their own, so to speak
BE CITY-BRED
them public and free. Within the last
decade, too, have come tho play
grounds, medical Inspection, food In
spection and the like, all of which
have tended to make the opportunity
of the city boy better than that of his
country brother.
There would seem to be a good deal
of misconception about the country
and city boys at present. Probably
nine persons out of ten would laugh
at the assertion that, country boys are,
on the average, physically Inferior to
city boys Yet It Is made made as
a result of most careful Investigation.
Popular fancy is wrong, for the city
boy of today Is not the pale-faced,, hol-tow-chested.
stunted "kid" that he has
so long been pictured. In such com
petitions between city and country
schools as haw been recorded the
city boys. Yet It Is made as
victorious Apparently, he can outlast
his country rival, both physically and
mentally.
I)f course this decadence of the
country boy may seem to man to be
as yet an unproven theory. For ob
vIoum reasons It Is not fully demon
strated for the reason that Improved
unlit Ions of physic al development In
the city are of ry recent origin, but
then- Is plenty of evidence to point
toward the superiority of the city bo.
A computation made lust winter
showed that a majority of the per
sons listed In Who's Who In Amer
ica" were of city birth. This, so far
as th- good of the -whole country is
concerned. Is not a fair comparison,
lor II Is neither on the Kreal nor tile
near-great that the future of the
country depends, but on that Indefin
able character known as the average
eiti.en Com pa rut I e figures aro not
uanting in this field, however.
"It is well known." says the Apple
ton article, "that the city recruits in
the Colon army during the civil war
made better soldiers than those from
ihe country. They were quicker,
braver, more Intelligent, and. what Is
more remarkable, could stand more
hardship. A Spanish war officer told
me tfet his New York city recruits
were the best anil bravest men he had,
with the exception of some Bowery
toughs, who were worse than useless.
The tough Is the waste product of the
modern city."
Statistics dealing wfeh adults In this
connection havo been collected with
great detail In France, where It Is
found that th most thickly populated
district shows forty-three men df
genius to every one hundred thousand
inhabitants, ss s gainst five to every
one hundred thousand In rural dis
tricts. The figures show conclusively
that the largest cities are invariably
proportionately far ahead of country
districts.
any sort of a vehicle driven by an air
propeller la welcomed by tne society.
Every Wednesday night at tho weekly
innutlnir all fliich o.rHona am Invited
to be present. To them is given all
the aid of the society In testing out
their Ideas. Morris Park Is now really
a nuniin nvinir murM alio me sneas
flhooH mid tools and advice of the S3'
clety aro freely given to all who are
Interested.
A catapult or launching apparatus.
has been erected which will give tne
necessary Impetus to gliders and aim-
liur machine. The slider. Indeed.
while It has no engine and la really
only a sort or huge gits, is interesting
because U represents what may be
called the II rat steu In flvlnir. With the
operator sitting or lying below the
kite wings it is projected from tns
catapult by realeasing a heavy weight
and shot Into the air witn a large in
itial lmpulee. Once launched It is up
in lha nnorator to keen his balance by
twisting his body about. As this prob
lem of balance is a most aimeuii one
in motor driven air planes like the
w.iHt fAv iiiatiancft. the slider Of
1, i t a mau h. M-nnlMrf tl th first StSD
In flying. In theory It Ts similar to
ths sailing flight of birds which hav
. .tialnort an Initial velocity may
glide Tor miles through ths air without
moving a pinion, ,v
Of course not even the most en
thusiastic look for the Immediate pro-
t...lf, nt m nraetltml stfuT cheafi fly
ing machine. But ths Aeronautic so
ciety and the work which it la carrying
on at the old race track are extreme
ly significant. Without doubt It marks
tho beginning of a new stage. In air
..ii.,iinii. Nnvr before have men
of small means been able ts test their
Ideas, and the existence of ths first
vltor. who has been in tho employ of
Mm. Harrison for a number of years,
and a aeneral utility man, whoss du
ties range all ths way from gardening
to service as gulds and boatman on
the occasion of these picnics or one
day excursions which constitute the
one form of diversion favored by Mrs.
Harrison '; ' ';':'V;sr'6-.'vt'':'1
Mr. Harrison la enabled to ilv in
a style befitting the widow of n
American president owing to ths fact
that shs has' independant means
There la no doubt but that congress. If
th matter wsre brought to the aatten
tlon of ths national law-making body,
would grant Mrs, Harrhun a psnalon
of ti. 000 per year, such as Is now re
ceived by Mrs. Garfield and such as
.-. Mm McKtatoy after tnM
v,.inRtion "oTTKa late President,'. Mrs
Harrison, however, ha nsfsr mads
sppllcstlon for any annuity, nor even
for the privilege of franking her let
ters, although any Presidential wodow
can presumably bo placed on ths pos
tal 'free list" for tne asking. . Any
such action has been unnecessary, as
General Harrison left his family well
provided for.
It need -scarcely be explained that
Mrs. Harrison, who Is now In fifti
eth year, waa the second wits' of Ben
jamin Harrison. The first Mrs, Har
rison, who was Caroline Lavini Scott
and, to whom Harrison was marrlfcd In
18D3, died at the Whits House m few
days before the Presidential election
ln'l82. In 1 when Harrison was
sixty-three years of age, he was mar
rii d to Mrs Mary Scott lord tlm
mock. a niece of his first wife.
The second Mrs. Harrison, who was
at the time of the wedding thirty
right years of age. Is a native of
Pennsylvania and wus a widow when
she married the former President.
Her first husband was Walter BrskltH"
Dlmmock, son of Samuel B. Dim
mock, Attorney General of Pennsyl
vania. Mie was married to Olm
mock in 18sl, when sne was
twenty-three years of age, and ths
young man died In January of the
following year. Mrs. IJtrrrmock had,
therefore, been a widow fourteen
vr when sue was weaueu iu
General Harrison early In April, 1S9
In arranging for his second mar.
rlaae former President Harrison set
tled the bulk of his fortun on his
children by his first wife andthi set
about making a new fortune.' In this
he was very successful, for his pro
fessional services were In Constant
demand and bis fee large. Estimates
of this second fortune at the time of
his death ranged all the way from
$100,00(1 to $200,000. His largest
single fee, reported to be $100,000,
wus received for his services as chief
counselor for Venezuela before the
Intornntlonal commission which met
In I'arls In June, 18:i lo settle the
boundary dispute between Great Brit
ain and Vchc.culii which had for
three-quarters of a century been a
source of international complications.
Mlsn Kllattcili Harrison.
Komi us Mrs llurrlson is of her
life at Berkeley Lodge with Its oppor
tunities for quietude and absence of
convention she does not derive such
keen enjoyment from tin- experience
as dor her Utile daughter Kllzabeth
the only child of the former Pres
ident by his second wife. Miss Klizu
heth Harrison, who Is now In her
eleventh year, and whose first portrait
Is prewnted herewith. Is an excep
tionally attractive girl wtth a rare
elusive type of beauty that Is almost
wistful.
Little Miss Harrison has large dark
eyes, similar In their depth of rolor
to those which contribute so much to
the distinguished appearance of her
tall and stately mmher, and a wealth
of chestnut brown hair tht rolls
back from an unusually high fore
head. As Is characteristic of children
who have spent most of their time
with older folk and have flayed little
with other children, tnls youngest liv
ing daughter of an American Presi
dent is quiet and demure with beau
tiful manners and a sly modesty that
adds greatly to ths c-hurm of her per
sonality. The United States produces more
corn than all the (est of the world. .
public air track in the world is lit
Itself a remarkable indication that
there Is a practical future for air" ma
chines. With work and experiments
going ahead steadily It Is also ths .
purpose of the society to hold special
public exhibitions from time to time,
Strong In ths belief that no point la
too small to be caretufly studied,
prises will be offered for even kit fly- -Ing
by schoolchildren. The now fam
ous tetrahedral kits has taught much, '
and It la the belief of the members
of the society that It may teach still
more. Nothing In connection with any
air apparatus, It Is held. Is too small,
to be considered, Ths steam engine ,
started from a tea kettle, ths baloon
front a paper bag. So while all kinds :
of air vehicle will bs seen at ths
park Including various famous ma
chines, nothing will be looked upon
as Insignificant. : The Aeronsdtto so
ciety believes that flying will be solv
ed In a practical way. As a result ot
this belief New York now has ths first
and only public flying grounds -and
shops In ths country, where ths rmps-
ounlous experimenter can test his :
Ideas and receive advice and assist
ance Juet as well as can the million
aire. ' It may- looks llko socialism or
philanthropy. In reality It is neither.
It la. however7an extremely significant
development In th solution of ths
problem of flying, i '
Doors that awing of themselves are
th latest. At ths lintel Astor ths
attendant who standi at th main en
trance merely has to press a bulb
and the door, which la operated by
electricity, revolves. This plan has
the advantage or Keeping ins speeu
uniform. Nsw Tort Sun.
KALHOUN'S LOGIC
Possum Krtrk. 10!fl, teen and t.
I regret exceedingly to have to an
nounce that It will b sums 1.1ms yt
before mv flyln tnasheen or aeroplatm.
a yu like It, will ready for military
duty. Ive expended untold predlgested
mental energy on th konstruotlon ot
this masheen, but ths nd la not yet,
ivs mot with almost numebrles dif
ficulties already. Ids draft a plan an
was sure ml, masheen, -wud rise i
wliyura rlley ' and kllntb tha aerial
ladder, to to (peak, but than other Im
portant kwestlons arose like hideous
spertors to annoy ml pride,, distress
ml k on science and blur ml moral vis
Ion, lit a manner. How to make head
way up stream against a, strong cur
rent of air wax a problem that lv not
fully1 solved, , - ' i
lv neen kurrents of air that swept
away houses, uptuutud .,.,biigutxe.fn,,
turned over railroad trams and many
.Ich Ilka things. Now 1 opine that ons
of theis taroadoes wud atop ml ma
sheen in its wild kereer and ka use It
to repent, or words of Mks import. In
fact mout dlsabls It for ilfs. Then
again another difficulty I found waa
how to' adjust and manipulate, mis-
tcrr In oar rudder sose to make nil
masheen g and haw at will and tsks
ths right road when It kams to where
ths rods forkt, and now to snjust mi
llghtnln rods1 sose to divert the at
tention of llghtnln when It mads up
its mind to dally with ml tnasheen. 1
ses where llghtnln frnllckt with ons of
these masheens In Yoroper and ftr
ths frollck sssd tnashesn lookt ilka
thirty cents, or wuss. And how to pre
vent a north east wind kumln front
west In a sotuherly direction stricken
her amid ship and : keelln her over,
hai' engaged mi most serious thot,
but ths solution has not yet matured
sufficiently to settle the mattsr in ml
think rssorVrlow toH tm masheen
In deep wind, turbulent wind, and
shallow smooth wind Is another mat
ter that I ses must bs konstdercd. ,
Alt of these things have engaged
the minds of othsr great men bef ore
mi: men have fcf warty years bin
grapplin with thexo great problems,
ind now and then men havs thot they j
had succeeded, but at ths last mo
ment fromathln' alius happened- and
these alleged glylft , tngsheens ; wers
stord sway for future reference, and
the great genius who dadlcd the In
vention krawld Into a holt" and ,hl
name was suoA forgotten. " :
Ide bin goln uil Into the loft svery
chant 1 got and wad work on ml
drawings: I had wings and tall feath
ers snd all sorts of daVlcM to toe used '
In blldln ml great Invention tnapt out '
and pletered off.' Ths old Oman had
noticed ami examined chicken wings .
and sich, and she got some sort of an :
Idea as to what I wax up to. Ho one
day she ascended the ladder and went v
Into ml laboratory and knme tott ml .
drawlns down snd fed them to the
flames, thereby at one fefl swoop- de
stroyed the greatest ideas ever put
on paper Uoticernlng a successful flyln ,
masheen, I think. When 1 began to
protest tcllln her how valuable these ;
plans were, she ted, "ya I kno; thera -is
another thing I kno and that is
th ro Is a place at Kuoxvllle called
Lyons View a lunatic assylum that :
wud Jist tit all stub critters as yu
are." And she went on to talk about ;,
ml honord self and others with whom. -she
kompard me. till I bekame dls
com raged . So I kan not tell Just at
present how soon ml flyln clouds up
above the world so high and dodge
around the world of stars. i
When komploted i shall, I thlnki an
ker to Murs first, and from what lv
heard by it how who hud bin ther
about the slln kllmate of Mars, t may
open up a real estate office and boom
the place, bring back with me samples
of vegetation, minerals and other:
products of Mars. 1 sail also bring:
with me a specimen or two of ths kll
mate, let men test It and see how they
like It I shall also visit the moon, hut '
shall not do any blsness for the moon
Is too dry. The moon went dry long ,
ago, berore Maine did, in tact. Iv
bin told bl men who shud not He that
the man in the moon had not had a .
dust of water In Sty years; they first
voted out water, and then small beer.
and wine, then whiskey and finally
every thing wet. This Is karryln the
Joke too far. I dont like a kuntry :
tbats to xasperatingly dry.