St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 44

Four llaxtimt. ST. LOUIS POSJ -DISPATCH My 24. 1904. GLIDERS" Hp3 rrr THE -iP WORLD'S FAIR AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFICIAL CONTEST cTHost Remarkable of All Flying Devices En tered in Great Aeronautic Competition I 11 I I 'tiP i Ax 24, 3 jfj -TtWf if llil -V Jm i Part of the Successful Rliglnt of a Gliding Machine Rrom the Aerodrome to the Transportation Building TTT Strange lights lhat Ul May Be Made With-out the Uplift of Gas Motive Power of Gasoline famous of all was the late Prof.

Lilien- "Tlie chute or sli.lo uill Hut Sune sort of a ratapult start may be made from stream of water flowing over. Octave Chanute ot will stay in the air the swifter its thai, the daring German who lost his the maehiue will run down the full the the oi.erator may rise with his Chicago also employed the uphill system of and thefeTeater ill 1 the list.an.-e it life in testing his latest frlidin" machine itS "nth "itl' rilit up over the -foot fence ard con- starting, that in case of fall the danger might be This is true because, Wing heavier it is emu a and who made neater progress in this rhd wf wi" varv' down as th- Kter momentum i gliding toward the 1 vii 1 reaeliPd. the man be- a (ill-foot altitude. The Lanpley machines are now suspended from this momentum lifts it farther again the i p- science than any Other. It IS probable the machine's wings will shoot olf into -The competitor may provide special devices the ceiling of the Government building at the chute and gives it in turn greater that all the most advanced types of plid- space like a fowl of the air.

for startingind landing at own expense, hence World's Fair as exhibits; and may be seen in opportunity." The gliding machine dej-ends nlLj- ing machines will be seen in action at "A velocity of 12 miles per hour will bave been the exact method of conducting these contests the Smithsonian section. The. scientific Lilien- lutely on its own weight when once in action, for the World's Fair attained from the running start. Twelve miles hard to forecast. The usual method, naturally, thai machine, probably the most perfect yet pro- the reason that its flight is controlled jointly by ermnmo- onnttc will per hour to the is 1o a hiU toP' UP which the wind duced, still awaits another orator daring enough the law of gravity and atmospheric resistance, llie Mmm tonitsis vlil lllll(ue maehinp stability in the air.

With any less speed is sweeping with a steady flow. With the aid of to test it. The Wright brothers' machine is said A prize of $2000 is offered for the gliding ma- 1S SO far as popular knowledge of these jt WOuld drop to the ground like a parachute several assistants he makes a running start, to be among those entered at the Fair, though chine, mounted bv an operator, which bird-flisrbt devices is concerned The -lowly but surely. You have seen a flat till disc pitches off downhill, and in an instant is lifted the entries must be treated as confidential, ac- vance in a calm or against the wind at a vertical A All til -They Depend Solely on the JM Wind and the Law of Gravi-tation for Their Successful Progress What Prof. Myers Says of the Novel Contrivances Mysterious Entries coramg 10 me rules, and tne names are not most acute with the horizon.

It shall make announced by Supt. Myers. at h.aftt 20 glide3 of not ess 40f) fpct eaoh The gliding machine is as varied in form and prize of $100 is offered for the gliding ma-construction as is the dirigible airship, and some mounted by an operator, exhibiting the best new designs are expected when the competition automatic stability in the wind during at least opens at the World's Fair. All of them follow 40 glides, not less than 400 feet each, under the plan of a broad sustaining surface, just as rules to be prescribed by the judges. Each corn-all airships have the balloon, but the shapes of petitor may, provide special appurtenances for the surfaces differ widely and their construction starting and landing, at his own expense, is at va-inm-p.

The T.anglev machine, for in These contests may take pli.e at atlv time GREAT has been the popular interest in the airship competition at the World's Fair that it has had the effect of blinding Twrr Possible Flight of a "Glider" From the Aerodrome to Transportation Building, as Drawn by Prof. Carl Myers average person has seen manv a balloon pyrate backward and forward when dropped into by the wind which enables him to continue his the clear water beneath you. You have observed flight out onto the plain. At the World's Fair, ascension, but never the flight of a -rryV-' vi? the public more or the evolutions of a large strip of cardboard when however, the aerodrome or the catapult start sailed into the air. Those are somewhat the will likely be resorted to." movements which, with the birds, suggested the Yrof.

I.angley used a toioggan chute for his phinp gliding machine or aeroplane. This to the claims of the gliding machine i re ure ot tne orld Fair aerial conipe- i 1 copii durinT the v.m.juimy puMi-ssrs in mc matuuir. 1 nr men was aiso equipped wnn power ot rxuwuiuus is controlled and given automatic stability tiy self-propulsion, and was in reality a propelled shiftable wings and rudders. The rudder is to aeropanP. The Wright brothers, Wilbur and the machine what the tail is to the bird, and by Orville, started from sand hills while making me new auu unKimwn in a most fascinating field of adventure and scientific research.

Flights Made by Lillenthal progress of the aeronautic display. So far as novelty and peril are concerned, the flights of the gliding machines promise to exceed those of the dirigible balloons. a cup or a nip 01 tne ru.uiei i ne at Klt1y taU. j. M.uu.e V(Mv -fter tfce (h(, tile competitors express theii rca.iiness.

due n.Ti-e oung mill-nine xo siuiucn lellUia the eminent gilder who made butterllv. with win-'s. while the (hanute of course. Lcinir mven thp 0ST peculiar of all the aerial contests to desired distance is reached, then he may drop progress than any other before losing or ma.hilM. is instructed after the lx- U-nefit of the public.

When h. be seen at the World's Fair will be, downward like the eagle pouncing upon its prey, hi- life in testing his late-t machine, always j(1pa ith gliding pTforn.ances of a single contestant' will perhaps, the gliding events. Carl F. Also mav these flights be on a scale 11 101 1 .1 1 1 1 1 11 aiiaiiicti. ii im i u.

Marled III- r.igui up a ilvl- mnfinuo vrr.l ..,,.1 SO ambitious as to mark a distinct for- ,5 numcrous ent the machine glide- su.ssfully the gentle br.ze that swept over the hill, ad- the its of MlM-il)5nR Mirfa( tainment is promised the' pul.li, in this ae, Je partment. ward step in the science Ot aerostatics. number of the total of 91 entrie- bcin' freeze or 111 a caim. ior mi iesisiame. iu.ring 1o Hie sunace as aa wouiu a says Nipt.

-Myers, "the longer the gliding machine Pari V. Afver snnerintendent of for the the or atmosphere Hits it. When its 1 rv vwim ft. XJIC 'I 111 1 1 1 1 KIV height is reached it can swoop downward in a the aeronautic department, outlines a partment aggregate $3000 KITCHENER SAYS ARMY DANDY MUST GO raceful curve till another luaMiimm velocity is Ki( run 1 ui till uii'M 'n 1 "i -V- f4U i. probable and what he considers a practi- one of the contestants has yet made request fu.d thp ORD KITCHKXER just puhlislie.l 1 1 I i'iir ui lllIIt, UUl I MM.

on the wind again. Tt us the fight of a gliuln- kmtwleile must l- uiHtoirtitetl. an. I ttn ent.iils on them the ot.ii;ttion of an army oruer wnicn siriKes a liea 1 SianiftraTtr 1 a Dapanr 1 A fr A blow at me earc.ess poio-piaying me i i.tlv and ot constant or j-t teal ai.i.ii..t of the Urilis-h regimental officer In India. Establishing New and More Rigorous Jn this way alone can ti-y i.r.-i.r- It Is designated to convert Ouida lux their troops for war.

and at the same tim. .41....1 1 Test nf Fffirionrir Ha Tin TT fnr ury-lappea exijuisin- iw train mcmwivM as to tx" tie 1 1 Polo-Playing Military Exquisites. working professional soldiers, who must either take r'pimcntal work seriously or to dischnrite h' great l.icn will liwolve ojKin i c. Um li t-Minmaii'l iii i ft Iorl Iitt i full) -s ti lose their careers in the service. It nails tain one garrison class, which will be for the efficiency of both the ten.

led only bv officers who have failed t. oflicers and the men of the regiment upon pass direct from their regiments. Should burden he is putting uti hi of. fleers, and he announces a numlx of urcs h- i t.iKintJ to them to bear tt, 11 ts ptartlr.ff a -lltne at Wiieitu. where earefuliy f-le('t-d offU'crs wtll ir uncd for it.iff duties lu India.

is In creasing the strength of the jmiitsI "luff. the colonel commanding, it maKes rne gen. such officers subsequently be nuccessful. eral of the district personally answerable, after attending the class in question, it will not only, as at present, for reporting de- be a reasonable inference that the system fects In the corps under his control, but of education in their repimet.ts is defer-also for such defects. tive, and for this eommanding officers 1 r.r.l Kitrhrner holds that the regiment, must be hel interesting idea of gliding machine emergency that may arise or anv special request 'T il-t represented a wayy hue draw flight.

He states that they mav start that may be made. throu-h tw irT a fr, and graduallv approaching the earth. from the roof Of the aerodrome, first The ma.hme comes as an original ihh av1 entered i.i the dipping downward, then rising to pass the bird, and, patterning after World-3 Far aerom.utientests mav dart down over the 30-foot inclosure that surrounds of the eagle, men have sought the indilie ttkm the roof thc lim.h the balloon field then will mount and t0t. eon9trn.0t1 a that from ple' into space, dip down to within ten or twenty feet the OailOOn-lieiU, men "Wilt mount and vations might sail through the atmosphere at fv .1 1 ii tt 11 1 1 of the earth, soar upward and sweep over the top iioar above the Hall of Congresses, down angles so acute with the horizon that greatdis- 1 fi 6 of the lnclosurc that surrounds the held, again into the court of the Admimstra- tces might be covered before the aeronaut mmmt stm hi above turn building, over the roof of which "tnik the arth S'm' or to wIth a building, and sweep downward again into the .1 mentum against the wind in meh a manner that 41 111 thev Will next sail, thence in a serpen- iV court of the Administration building, mount 1 tne man and machine might be lifted up bv the i i mi an 1 fli-i-M-n tWfii rli 1, again on the winds and skim gracefully over the tine course up ana down tnrough the current and in turn might take still greater 3 4 0 fe roof and towers of the Administration building air to the Transportation building, 2300 fi.Rht sa.bng dow once more. and descendi the Mn mav its 6er.

Jovt distant from the starting place. no propelling power jOTtine npward anil downward throuu The flights may also be made in Oppo- "thPrJ8n lmtal Start UhCn the air till the Transportation building is reached. equipped with motor or mechanical device of direction, the course Of the Wind de- it becomes a propelled aeroplane 2300 feet away. That rtould make one of the tcrmininsr the flight for each day. While the initial starting stations have noi been WciUt w' a il ai.r- j- success of the gliding machines flight is min'i Famous gliding machines Will com- stalled at the aeronautic concourse field, reas- more of an unknown quantity than is that of a pete ill this contest, under the terms of byJ 3u dirigible b.lloon.

In this Lcrtainty. vet in which, however, the list of competitors vw I 7l Ihe pcsibility for graceful maneuvers, lie, the mul' tn a view to the installation on top there- 4 4 is liOt to be made public. The most of, with a few davs' notice, of elevated slide, or 7 celebrated experimenters in this field are 8tartlnK chutes tor the use of gliding machine ake in content. tion from t-ie imaginary course deecribed, for the and not the gariison class, must the should again fail, it will be equally fair fining the attmnea to i. young officer- training school, and he is to attribute the double failure to their hl" lo "f- lntro.lucing an ingenious te.t to settle indolence or incapacity, and their further ru from tJ-n from thnr eKu- whether failure, where such occur, to retention In the service will then become 1mrlt elr general, to bo reach a definite standard of efficiency, is an impossibility." Inside offices and conver.ed.

hns due to defects in the regiment, in which The amlf.8 fjr 'r 1' the Mame is to rest upon the officer holds the general of the d.strl, respond to IU, th e.i,,- commanding, or to incomictence on the ble are no less onerous than whicn Bnd commn1 part of the Junior, whose m'lllry career, he Imposes on the colonel emending. throughout India, to meet the altered conrti- under these circumstances, he intends to "Troops," he says, "must be arrustomed tior thxt have rt.en with the con.tructton cut fhort. lrd Kitchener reognues to thelr a necessarily of tjilw4 and tha extension of ltritih frankly that there may be commanding of- hostUe fm t(rrlI()ry fxers who through igr.orance. Indolence, or to ftn) fauU t(ir TIl, armv I. a (nmrter ef a mil-incapacity, may fail to properly instruct trutd waf tIl(Mr lioi.

strong. It is b-ing mad e.f.up-those under them;" and he declares that in tH.ace an(1 a), Umpjl h-U- poiting in regard to nupplira and tr.u-.i-he does not intend to allow the prospects uh(f and to promote their wel- port. It ham Its own ammunition f4C-of young officers to suffer on this account, faI an, (J rpart. no rffort to Increase lories anJ will shortly fully lie in abolishing garrison classes, as a their preparedness for the stress of active with th mot modwn of cordit. lyddite, wiioie.

on the ground that they tempt offi- service." n. on, in his remarkab.e rifles, field runs nd gun erJS all crs to cram for their promotion examlna- memoriui.lum. lu dwribr the uuaiiftcallouj manufactuml In India In works anumg tions. but he is making one exception. will require general officers.

the lieit eiulpid in the world. Its ic-which may best be describeU In his own t0 be regarded as leaders," he serves are being liierrd and Lord; Kltrh-woiUa. "they must be comjx tent to to be ere ts engaged in raimg the ttnOr "1 therefore propose." he wriies, "to re- accepted ma Instructors, their professional of efficiency of it 1 1 rot. lingiey 01 uie, uuiuuaumu flight must take place in the opposite direction -ih Wri-ht brothers. Wilturn 1 exP, "I't- Myers, wlll be 00 to the wind.

The aeronaut mav 6ail away across I -J til .1. (mi intiii miauie oi ine i ,1 nevilli v.bn receiltlv wade success- the woods to the westward, or out across the the woods to the westward, or out across emu irn unnra considerable angle "bad lands of St. Louis County to the north. 1111 Illgius Hi runrr -no o. me Mruruire, ner.

a jump-off "On the other hand, the flying from 1he "On the other hand, the flying start from 1 'Chitff 'TO. The most from the ground isHlI be ecconntered. roof of the aerodrome not lie resorted to. OctHve Chiuuf.