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14 THE MORNING OREQONIAN, TUESD AT, JANUARY 25, 1910. SKY CRAFT DRAW TWO VIEWS AT AUTOMOBILE SHOW WHICH OPENED IN SPLENDOR" YESTERDAY. Wemme's Biplane and Machine Invented Here Attract at Auto Show. Pfflraaed CURIOUS THRONG 1910 THE EYES OF THE COUNTRY ARE ON PORTLAND i Railroad officials are preparing for the largest immi gration during 1910 in the history of the Northwest. Plans for construction work of down-town buildings alone are so enormous that estimates show that it will be more than double that of any preceding year. The BUILDING INSPECTOR'S REPORT Shows that during 1909 the bulk of the home-building was on the East Side. Permits for new homes to the value of $4,375,170 were issued for the East Side. In the midst of all this home-building activity is COVEY FLAWS FOR FLIGHT Friends ofrOwnOT of JPi rat Aeroplane ln-APorttand Tell How He Ordered It Shipped' try Express, Then Got Scared at Cost. Probably the most interesting- display at the Portland Automobile Club'B show, which opened at the Armory yesterday, la the exhibition of two aeroplanes. These machines are H. Henry Wemme'B Curtiss biplane and a similar craft de signed and built by a Portland mechanic, J. C. Burlrhart. and, while not yet com pleted. It to attracting- much attention. The two aerial machines ara quartered In a separate room at the Armory and an extra admlesleon fee la charged to see " these curiosities. This fee Is to be de voted exclusively to a fund to be raised for the Improvement of a road to Mount Hood, and. Judging toy the Interest dis played In these novel aids to locomotion yesterday, the proceeds reaped In this manner will assist the road-bulldlng prop osition materially. E. Henry Wemme's biplane Is the same style of machine Glenn H. Curtiss, the Amerloan aviator, used In his flights In Europe as ' well as In Xoa Angeles, and apparently Is a simple contrivance. How ever, .closer "examination shows the com plex ideas which have been brought to bear in the making of this curious vehi cle. Howard M. Covey, one of the vet eran automobile dealers of Portland, Is the first Fortlandor to become familiar with the manipulation of an aeroplane, and he was seiii. to Los Angeles by Mr. "Wemme to learn the intricacies of aerial navigation from Glenn H. Curtiss, for the 1 purpose of demonstrating the machine now on exhibition. Operation Simple Enough. "The operation of en aeroplane is sim ple enough when one understands it." said Mr. Covey yesterday, "but it is rather ticklish work when first attempted. I have not yet made enough trips In this machine -to become expert In its operation, but think I have mastered the secret of guiding the machine, which consists prin cipally in the swaying of the operator's body according to the direction in which it Is desired to turn. The propelling power is worked with the feet on much the same order as an automobile, for the pressing or releasing of a lever causes the propeller to revolve as de sired. The rudder, or tail to the aero plane, is also worked with the feet, and the hands are used in guiding the front of the machine, consisting of a biplane attachment which, when raised or low ered, controls the ascension or descenslon of the machine as desired. As soon as fair weather sets in I hope to give a practical demonstration of operating this machine, for such is Mr. "Wemme's de sire." The Curtiss biplane is mounted on three wheels, placed as on a tricycle, and in order to take a flight It is necessary to ' propel the machine along the ground for a certain distance before it takes to the air, and a great deal of the success of a flight depends upon the starting. The built machine is noticeable for its appar ent frailty, and yet it is capable of with standing a much greater shock than Is be lievable by looking at.lt. Stout bamboo frames cctstltute the hectagon over which Is stretched heavy canvas, while steel wires bind the different sections of the machine together. Immediately be hind the operator's seat is placed the en gine which propels the machine, and the weight of this is counterbalanced by the weight of the driver. Wemme Didn't Figure Expense. Back of being the owner of the first aeroplane in Portland by E. Henry Wemme, the well-known tent and awn ing man, hangs an Interesting tale that is being told by Mr. Wemme's friends. Mr. Wemme was so enthusiastic to be the owner of the first airship that would fly in Portland that he spared no expense, at the start, to execute lils plans, which would culminate in glory at the auto show if only the aeroplane could be secured by that time. As the story goes, Mr. Wemme at first determined to get his ship direct from the factory at Hammondsport, X. Y., and telegraphic communication was entered with the iirm, the messages growing to as high as 200 words before final arrangements were made satisfac torily to both parties. Butthis tele graphic expense "was nothing? . no, nothing at all," said Mr. Wemme, -"if only I can land that ship here, that's all I want."' His next trip was made to the of fices of the Wells-Fargo Express Com pany, where he contracted to have the airship handled by them direct from the factory to Portland, the same to arrive here in time for the auto show. There was no question of the cost on the part of Mr. Wemme; he never thought of that phase of the question. It was like the telegraphic dispatches, he didn't mind the expense. Neither did the Wells-Fargo people care, so long as they landed the contract, and an airship by express, set up or laid down, would mean a nice little sum, which would add to the stock dividends at the next cutting of the dividend melon. , Worried Look: Disappears. Mr. Wemme was happy; he had con tracted with the airship factory for his flying machine direct from the factory; he had contracted with an ex press company to hurry the ship through; freight was too slow and. any how the switchmen's strike might hinder matters further. Mr. Wemme told his friends about it, he was so happy. "How much Is it going to cost you to ship the airship by express?" they asked the enthusiastic Portland sports man. "I don't know; never thought of that." was the reply. "Gee, I wonder how much it will cost, anyhow?" One of Mr. Wemme's friends told him it would be in the neighborhood of J500 or $600, with which statement Mr. Wemme lost all powers of speech, grabbed his hat and coat and scurried to the express company. He Inquired lh?costL he was tom 11 "might be $1000 or $1500," and soon the telegraph wires were burning with messages to stop shipment of (machine by express. The airship factory replied that they feared their inability to get the ma chine out of the factory in time to reach Portland for the auto show. Wemme breathed a sigh of relief. He "called oft the deal" with the factory and Mr. Covey was dispatched to Los Angeles to get the "best airship he . could find for the money" and bring it i to Portland. He did, and Mr. Wemme Is again happy and telling his friends how happy f ?. m mzl -zk 4 h . tea sgj .If : '-J lrtV -&4: h1W''x' fV'HS i : 1 r he really is, but he says he "worried some for a while." Such is the tale "as it was told to me," say Mr. Wemme's friends, who this week are congratulating him on his honor of being the first aeroplane owner of Portland, Or. Burkliart Machine Home Made. The biplane constructed by J. C. Burkhart differs from the Curtiss ma chine in a number of respects. While the general outline is' somewhat sim ilar, the -biplane part, or wings, of the machine are practically hinged on either' Bide of the center and to the casual obsterver, who does not examine it carefully, the machine would seem likely to buckle together if a sudden descent were to be made. On closer examination,, however, it will be seen that when one side partly buckles the other straightens out and by this means Burkhart expects to control the raising, and lowering , as . well as the course of his machine to a certain extent. The Burkhart machine will start from skids, at. least such Is the intention of the inventor, when he makes his initial flight, for he says it will be impos sible to equip his flier with the tri cycle appliance by the time he desires to make a emonstraon. The Burkhart machine Is constructed entirely out of Oregon material, for only the mechanism, a Curtiss engine, will be a foreign piece of the "home made", machine. . The frame work of Burkhart's contrivance is constructed out of Oregon spruce and the aeroplane looks neat and attracts attention. MAKE GOOD IS COMMAND British - Columbia to Investigate In- surance Companies. VICTORIA, B. C." Jan. 24.-- Special.) I. -S. Lennie, D. H. , MacDowell and "A. B. Erskine were today appointed by the. British Columbia government a special commission to investigate and report on fire insurance conditions,. Including ,the placing In this province of Insurance with United. States companies. . The Investigation will recommend es pecially as to the best methods of gov ernment supervision of thS operations and status of such "American companies as wish to do business, here and with respect to compelling them to secure provincial licenses and furnish adequate security to British Columbia policyhold ers that all valid claims will be promptly paid. Saved at Death's Door. The door of death seemed ready to open for Murray. W.- Ayres, of Transit Bridge, N. Y., when his life was wonder fully saved. "I was in a dreadful con dition," he writes, "my skin was al most yellow; eyes sunken; tongue coated; emaciated from losing 40 pounds; growing weaker daily. Viru lent liver trouble pulling me down to death In spite of doctors. Then that matchless medicine Electric. Bitters cured me. I regained the 40 pounds lost and now am well and strong." For all stomach, liver and kidney troubles they re supreme. 60c at all druggists. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is not a common, every-day cough mixture. 2 w,a metorious remedy for aU the troublesome- and dangerous complica tions resulting from cold in the head, throat, chest or lungs. Sold by all deal ers. TO CURE A Com IX ONE DAY. ?(k,2.ATIVS! BROMO Quinine Tablets. E w nnnvi"1, money If it fail, to cure. . GROVE'S inature ! on each box. 25a. If! IU3 UfL is' SCENE IX GENERAL CURTISS BIPLANE EXHIBITED BY E. HENRY WEMME. FINE CAES SHOWN Twenty-three Local Dealers Display 90 Autos. DELAYS DO NOT DETRACT When Exhibit Machines Do Not Ar rive, Agents Call on Owners Who Lend Cars, Some of Which Have Been Used for Year. In point of number of oars tho Keats Auto Company leads, at the second an nual Portland automobile show. This company has 12 cars- in its space, which takes up over half of the ballroom on the second floor and is three times larger than the exhibit space of any other con cern. In all there are 90 cars, of every description, representing the exhibits or 23 dealers, all of whom maintain local offiecf. The Keats Company has two Pope Hartford touring cars, a. Peerless seven passenger touring car, five Chalmers Dtroks, including a chassis "30," a "40" touring car, "30" touring car, "30" toy tonneau, 5" Hudson roadster and a Baker eleorlc,.. ' Owing to the switchmen's strike In St. Paul, which tied up freight traffic for some weeks, leaving it still heavily congested, many of the local dealers were , unable to get their ehow cars here, and the Keats Company prob ably suffered from thlsthe greatest of any. Some of the cars are those kept in stock or" used as demonstrators, while others were borrowed from local owners. One car ,a Baker electric,, has been in use almost a year. "We are rather congratulating our pflves on this," said Sales Manager C. H. King last night. "We find that we are able to show by this what our oars can do In service and maintain their ap pearance." High-Power Machines Shown. The Covey Motor Car Company and the Jj E. Crowe Automobile Company are next in point of the number of cars ex hibited. Each has eight. The exhibit, of- the Covey Company is distinguished particularly because of a beautiful Prince Arrow six-cylinder 48-horsepower landau let. This car has been sold to Mrs. Sol Blumauer ad is being displayed through th.- courtesy of Mrs. Blumauer. Three other Plerce-Arrows are in the Covey booth. They are a 6-48 touring car, a 6-3S touring car and a 6-48 miniature. Three Cadillacs and a Detroit electric make up the remainder of the Covey ex hibit. One of the Cadillacs is a stripped chassis. All have 30-horsepower engines, one being a touring car and another a deml-tonneau. The Crowe Company represents the Thomas Flyer, which it is featuring in the exhibit Oldsmobile, Marmon, Over land and Marlon. The big Thomas Flyer has a National reputation for its touring qualities. This year's model has 16 Im EXHIBITION ROOM. PioiiillillllilM provements over 1909, all of which are clearly shown by the uncovered hood of the car. A large intake manifold with the valves half the diameter of the pis ton anG a stroke ie and a half inrVs longer than the bore are some of the. new features. The Northwest Buick Company has five cars in its exhibit,, including a chassis. A White Streak four-passenger surrey is one of the features. Two 40-horsepower machines, one a touring car and the other a roadster for four passengers, with a four-passenger 22-horsepower roadster, make up the exhibit. - Exhibit Cars Delayed. Neate & McCarthy, local agents for the Locomobile and the- new Everitt "30," also suffered from the inability of the railroads to rush cars here for the show. They have, however, four Locomobiles in their exhibit and expect to get an Everitt here before the close of the show. One of these cars is a landaulet, another is a seven-passenger touring car and two tour ing cars. The Portland Motor Car Company, Win ton "six" agents, have four macUnes in their exhibit, the features of which are a polished chassis shipped here from the New York Madison Square Garden show and a torpedo body roadster. The other two are a toy tonneau and a seven-pas-, senger 48-horsepower touring car. Fred 'A. Bennett, one of Portland's largest dealers, who represents the North west with the Reo, Stoddard-Dayton and the Renault, has four of the prize models of his cars. This exhibit, while no at tempt was made at an extraordinary dis play, was the center of no small amount of interest on the part of visitors. i The Barnes Automobile Company, re-presenting the Mitchell, has three of its models In the show. One of these is a six-cylinder seven-passenger touring car. The other two are a ' four-cylinder five passenger touring oar and a four-cylinder three-passenger roadster. C. M.- Menzies and D. S. Du Bois have charge of the Menzies Auto Company booth, local agent for the Franklin. Mr. Du Bois was formerly with the Franklin factory in Syracuse, N. Y., and came here to take charge of the garage and re pair shop of the company. Three Frank lins are on exhibition. One is a polished chassis, which was shipped here from the factory, x Late Models Are Displayed. The Western Auto Company has three Molines, including a stripped chassis, a delivery wagon and a touring car. They also have a gray tonneauette Knox. The Cecil B. Lloyd Auto Company has a Firestone Columbus touring car. a stripped Columbus electric and an elec tric victoria in its booth. , The Studebaker Brothers , Northwest Comtpany, Northwest branch of the Studebaker Automobile Company, has five cars, including two chasses, one of each of its 40-horsepower and 30-horsepower touring cars. Two of the same cars, fully equipped, are also in the exhibit, which, with an electric laudaulet, make up the Ave. The Stearns Auto Company's exhibit has three of its best 1910 models. These cars are attracting their part of the- at tention. The -Ford, the Rambler, the Auburn, the Jackson and the Palmer Singer companies each have three cars. The Maxwell agency has four cars, all 1910 models, featuring the new roadster, which made its debut in Portland only a few days ago. . , The Graham 'Motor Car Company, agents for the Stevens-Duryea; the R. H. Thompson Company, representing the Speedwell "50"; the Ross City Electric Company, representing the Babcock elec tric; C. W. .Vaughan, representing tho Cartercar, and the Smith Motor Car Com pany, representing the Haynes, each has one car. . FLAGS EXPRESS SORROW Memory of L,ate Professor Gregg Honored Funeral Waits. Arrangements for the funeral of Pro fessor John T. Gregg, lawyer and edu cator, who died at the Good Samari tan Hospital Sunday night, will not be made until after the arrival of his son, John P. Gregg, Jr., a student at Stan for University, who left California yesterday for this city, and Is expected to be here some time today. It is probable the funeral will be held Thursday. News of the death of Professor Gregg caused deep regret among those who have been assocaited with him in his years of activity in positions of pub lic trust. The Hawthorne school, .if which he was principal, dropped its flag to halfmast yesterday in honor of his memory, and orders will be issued for the lowering of all school flags on the day of the funeral, when the Haw thorne school will close. Professor Gregg was born n Allen County, Indiana, September 20, 1847. He came west to California in 1855, where he obtained his early education. 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