10 THIS SUJXDAI UKJiliUlAi lUKTliA'U,. JAiMJAKlC 152, ltfOS. WANTED. 5HEF5 FOE UNCLE, SAM5 MMM, NMfY Si Forecast 7 ' "' fP; -V: ' '; I lj ' -Q-y-V Among fcA.V . ffi "AC . '. n.Jh-Aeroaromes f'X-P f-i $k )P ' ' . - '&A) -J '-v 1 : B-Hoon. .. MM f' 4 P , Wm 2 ' V 1 - m v - v u : . near ;! Vf-'x ?J&x i Wa7 - 1 CA J IL 1 11 . .-. - - -'. J v S L" WWfi"Vr" 3 ,!c ' f fas1' 1 sf!' ? t22S JIZEXJUmER GfZAHAZT&EZZlS JiZlT-CAARYZZTi?- u4ELO'IANE BY JOHN' ELFRETH W ATKINS. N THE atmosphere above Washington 1 there will be strenuous doings in the near future, when the army com mences Its official testa of the many fly ing machines which will be submitted In response to Its advertisements just Issued. These advertisements mean that the Gov srnment is in earnest in the matter of equipping an aerial navy of the most im proved order; that it will not yield dom ination of the skies to any other world power. It was. In fact, in earnest in 1898 when it appropriated J50.000 for the devel opment of Professor Langley's flying ma chine. That It Is all the more in earnest now is shown by the fact that $200,000 has Just been asked of Congress for the pur chase of airships and experiments there with. With fcS.OOO already allotted for the purpose by the army Board of Ordnance nd Fortifications, the total sum will be 1235.000, if Congress gives the extra sum skcd for. Flying machine inventors have been Slven short notice. Two kinds of airship have been advertised for a dirigible bal loon and an aerodrome, the latter being a mechanically propelled machine heavier than air and having no gas bags whatso ever to assist it. Proposals for the diri gible will not be received after noon, Jan uary 15, while those for the aerodrome must be In by noon February 1. General lames Allen. Chief Signal Officer of the irmy, will receive the proposals on behalf of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifica tions. The tests will be made at Fort Myer, the big military post opposite Washington, on the Virginia side of the Potomac. There Is a modern balloon-house at the fort and plenty of space for mak ing the tests. All of the aeronautic ex perts of the world will look Washington ward when the competitions are com menced. . Langlcj's Vscful Feature. The greatest interest will be focused upon the aerodrome tests. Our army was the pioneer in this field when it took up Professor langlcy's experiments and aid 1 them financially; but that learned physicist, who knew more about aerody namics than any other man of his time, died before his aerodrome, built for the army, was ever launched. He actually made several large aerodrome models, pro pelled by steam, fly over the Potomac and was the first man in the world to perfect a mntor-drlven craft which could fly throuch the air while supported only by a dynamic reaction of the atmosphere. A telcphoto snapshot of his best aerodrome to accomplish this unprecedented feat is attached to this article. He built the first aerodrome of the world also the first war aerodrome, for it was tmilt for the army. Professor I,anglcy was prepared to go the one step farther and show that the enlargement of his lust model would carry a man, when he died. The new tests will be taken more eriously by the press and public than were those made by Lrfingley. He be ing the first Investigator In the field, he was regurded by many as a vision ary, but Santos Dumont. of Paris, and the Wright Bros., of Dayton, Ohio, have since succeeded In flying aero dromes and the public has been taught the lesson that langley was proceed ing on logical lines. They have also rewhett'-d the army's appetite for an aerodrome. But the army wants more today, even th?n it asked of kangley. Wlmt the Army Demands. It wsnts no less than an aerodrome that will carry two persons, or a total weight of BP0 pounds. Besides this it must carry sufficient fuel for a flight of 12a miles. General Allen says fur thermore that he wants It ' to be so designed that Its parts may be quickly and easily assembled and taken, apart and packed for transportation In army wagons. It should be capable of h-Mng assembled and put in operating condition In one hour. Til general 'f urtlierniore says that It should have a speed of at least 40 miles per hour in still air. Bidders will receive a percentage of the cost mentioned in their proposals, depending upon the speed attained during- the trial flight. The price must be quoted on the supposition that the speed attained will be 40 miles an hour. Say that the price mentioned Is JIOO.01'0. If the machine is accepted and the 40 miles per hour speed is shown, then this price will stand. But if only 39 miles per hour Is shown on the test, then the understanding is that 10 per cent will be deducted from the price, which will stand at $90,000, and 10 per cent will similarly be deducted for each mile per hour shown below the 40-mile limit. Aerodromes showing less than 36 miles per hour will be rejected; but 10 per cent more than the stated price will be allowed for each mile per hour above 40. Thus, if the accepted aero drome makes 44 miles per hour the inventor will get 140 per cent of his price. The trial course for the aerodromes will be more than five miles. A flying start must be made In each case, the starting and stopping points being passed at full speed. This timing test will be made both against and with the wind. But before acceptance of any machine it will be subjected also to an endur ance flight, lasting at least one hour, during which the machine must, re main continuously in the air. Further more, it must return to the starting point without any damage, that would prevent its immediately starting out again. During this endurance test It must be steered in all directions with out difficulty and under perfect con trol. Three trials will be allowed for epeed and three for endurance. All must have been completed within 30 days after the aerodrome 'has been de livered at Fort Myer by the manufac turer, who will have to bear the ex pense of the tests. .He will also have to accompany his proposal with a cer tified check amounting to 10 'per cent of his price stated for the 40-mile speed. When the award Is made these checks will be returned to the bidders, and the successful bidder will be re quired to furnish bond equaj to the total price stated. This price must In clude the Instruction of two of the Army's men In the handling and oper ation of the aerodrome. Furthermore, no payments on 'account will be al lowed by General Allen until after ac ceptance. What General Allen says he wanta is a machine which will ascend In any kind of country which may be encoun tered In field service, and whose start ing device is simple and transportable one which will land In any field without requiring a specially prepared spot and without damaging its parts. Ha wants It to be provided also with a device permitting of a safe descent In case of accident to the propeling machinery. It should be. sufficiently simple in construction and operation for any intelligent man to become pro ficient In its use within a reasonable length of time. Prominent Competitors. While all of the proposals sent to Genere.l Allen will be held as confidential. It is believed that the Wright Brothers will be foremost among those who will endeavor to . compete. Their tests have been guarded with great secrecy, but It is well known, that their aerodrome, said to be new wellnight perfected, will be offered to the government which will pay for it. provided that the United States does not care to have it. Professor Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of' the telephone, is also Jdoked upon as a strong probability so far as the contest is concerned. At his private ex periment station in Nova Scotia he is perfecting a large man-carrying aero plane male up of his original tetrahedral cells. I itely he tested thia device -by towing it behind a motor boat. It is said to h'-tw behaved satisfactorily, the attachment the motor being the only further step that is necessary. For the accompanying photograph of one of the nest types of Professor Bell's man-carrying aeroplanes the writer is indebted to the National Geographic Society, which has received it from Professor Bell, A. M. Herring, of New York, who be fore the Langley aerodrome was com menced built a successful soaring ma chine modeled on the turkey buzzard Pleated Shirts -IE pleated shirt has not lost any of Its popularity. Two years ago there was a return on the part of some ; of the haberdashers to the plain bosom, but there are now pleats on all the soft shirts, and this means, in effect, that there are pleats on all the shirts, since the stiff shirts are rarely seen except for evening wear. The soft cuff Is still turned back by men who make it a point to dress well. On the other hand; men in business fre quently declare that thia style, has be come a little too previous for them. A soft cuff cannot be stiffened. To starch it once Is to ruin It forever. The soft cuff soils very easily and it not In frequently happens that a business man on reaching his office finds himself start ing out the day with a cuff no longer fresh. This has led many men to have their shirts for business wear made with a single stiff cuff, While for dress they have the turned back cuff free from starch. Solid colors are this year more popular than the fancy stripes or all-over color designs for everyday shirts. There is also evidence of a return to more ele mentary shades. Blue and pink as well as mauve are more popular this season than such tints as coffee, champagne, grass brown, fall green and other shades in which there was little decided color. ' The explanation is to be found In tha absence of color in men's neckwear. The knit silk four-in-hand may have a stripe, but it will not be a. decided con trast to the background, .and. there will probably "be no striking eolor in the scarf itself. So the shirts must supply a background of .substantial color. Again, the fashion of wearing no scarf pln has had its effect In requiring de cided color in the shirt. Men who wear scarfpins today usually select some tint that matches the tie anA that makes it possible to have plenty of color in the bosom of the shirt. Much more modish nowadays it is to wear the tie without a pin except on formal occasions, such as a wedding, for instance; then a plastron, for which a pin is Indispensable, will be worn. Few stlft-bosomed shirts are now made' in colored materials, and they are In tended generally for men who never did accept tlie soft shirt as appropriate to daily wear in town. The materials still used for stiff -bosomed shirts in color are striped cambrics and madras. - Usually a stripe should oe sufficiently broad to be effective, and In some of the shops there are dark blue stripes a quar ter of n inch in width against the white background. They are no longer made to run up and down, as they were for a -brief period, but are from side to side. Most of the men who wear these shirts every day also wear their collars on their shirts, which is as expensive a taste as any known. To have a collar attached to a shirt means that the shirt cannot last more than a day. If so long. It also means that the collar will' last less time than the usual brief span of life that the city laundries allow to a collar. On the colored cuffs 'the stripes run aroundi which Is the arrangement always to be adopted If the stripes on the bosom are also horizontal. If the stripes, on the other hand, run up and down on the bosom they should do the. same on the cuffs. The wearers of the srlff-bosomed colored shirts are not numerous nowadays, nor are they very, young in this country. Thi style survives much, more prosper ously In London." For the soft colored shirt oxford, madras and cambric are still popular ma principle, and who after this feat became. Professor Langley's' assistant in his ear lier experiments. Is also looked upon as a possibility, as is C. F. Manly, Professor Langley's principal assistant in the per fection of his last aerodrome. Mr. Manly probably knows more about compact en gines than any other man living. It was he who fell into the Potomac with the Langley machines when the launching apparatus broke prior to Its test. - This machine never has had a test. Tt is now Still Popular terials for men who do iot care to spend the amount necessary to buy the- pongee ! silks and the materials of silk and cotton made up In Paris by the smart haber dashers. If these soft silks are used, they must be in the pale neutral shades of gray, yellow and green. . The heavy oxford materials In solid colors should not be pleated, but are an attractive variation with their plain, heavy bosoms. They come only in white, blua and pink. Madras and cambric make soft, grace ful pleats, and even In the. all-over pat terns they are smart, although the best effects come In the solid colors. Less tasteful and certain to enjoy little popu larity here among men who know what correct dress s are the heavy figured silks for shirts recently imported from France. As if . the heavy brocaded material were not revolutionary enough, these shirts have three pleats in the bosom and turn over cuffs. . They are to be worn with gold studs and cuff buttons. As an excuse for this eccentric garment the haberdashers say that it is intended for wear with a dinner coat, the use to which every garment too outlandish for any other wear is dedicated. It Is safe to predict that no man who is particular about dress will appear- in this product at any time. x ue iiiuners ui smris iu ue nuiu - hi : cheap prices are often more prompt in j laktnf nn a nan; v-1 n thnn T H m mrr f.-in , servative makers. Last Winter the manu facturers put on the. market a turned back cuff of an entirely new character. It was white, broad at, tlie buttonhole, and gradually narrowed- down to half the width on the Inside. It was stiffened. The cuff was not especially ornamental, and as it was turned back ft seemed to serve no useful purpose. It was more durable, however, than the soft cuff. It was attached to colored as well as to white dress shirts. Its arrival on the scene of fashions created no excitement. It was. not re garded as .objectionable, although nobody was Impressed with its beauty or smart- Milrta to Avoid. ness. This year, however, the fashion is flourishing on Fifth avenue, and the most exclusive shirtmakers are copying the mode first sent out by the - manufactur ers. They have this narrow, turn-back cuff to serve as the same ornamental de tail for evening dress that the soft roll does for daily wear. They are not likely to convince many men that anything else is' such good style as the simple cuff of tradition. Two narrow . puffs of pique running down the bosom on either side of the cen ter pleat divide each side into three lines of tiny horizontal puffs of madras. Such a 'shirt has much more, the effect of a woman's shirtwaist than of a garment in tended for man's wear. It is intended for full evening dress, although tha In the custody of the Smithsonian Insti tution and whether the War Department will enter It in the test Is not at present writing known to the Smithsonian au thorities. It would, however, appear to be an odd attitude on the part of the W7ar' Department to ignore altogether a finished but untried aerodrome belonging to it, on which it has spent about 70,000 and whose aeronaut is available for a test. The dirglble balloon which General maker of both of these styles suggested that It 'would go better perhaps with ;a dinner coat. Less pronounced Is the shirt with the 'horizontal tucks and the 'broad pleat in the center. It is quite as remote, how ever, as the other from good taste. Still, for evening dress the classic simplicity of the plain shirt and cuff is the gentle man's standard It Is the fit of the dress shirt that dis tinguishes it. To make the bosom a little broader is the tendency of the fashion this year. The standing collar that closes to the top has been seen this year In the par terre at the opera, although the open points in front are more popular. The standing turnover collar to look well with evening dress must be high, else it is too formal. There Is a shade of difference in theB collars to distinguish them from previous years, and that alteration began also in the cheaper ahops before the other makers took it up. The ends are no longer rounded off In the newer shapes, but are straight and pointed at the bot tom. The difference Is slight and interest ing only to those who must have the latest or be unhappy. With an evening tie these points are not visible. The Sayings of Mr, Finnegan By J. H. M. WENT down to th' hotel and tried to dig me way through a bunch lv m 1 th' United Arteslans, bjit ye might as well try an' get a. hearing In th' com mon council fr Sculin an' his peace society. Thin I tried th' telephone. "Hello Phil," says I, "Is that your" It was this morning! Give me room three double two six! . Can't do It onl-ess ye have th' coun tersign! "Whist." says I. Go to It, says he. Hello, Charley, is that you? Yes, I know y'r vice, but forget It! How's Theodorlc, th' strinuous? Oh. he's trying to pack a 300-pound buckeye up a hill! Can't th' heavy weight pack himself? Mebbe after he gets a good start I Say. what caused th' panic? A run on th' golden rule! How does It look to you? say a Char-Icy.- ' ' ' If one-half I read in th' papers be true th dlvll owns th' fuel trust! What d'ye think of Foiaker, saya I. ' He's dimonstrated th' feasibility lv ariel navigation. Say, has Joe got th' Itch? Well, he knows how to scratch I How's things coming? I'm atln' cake. , What about th' Bristle case? "What th' head won't do, th' heels will have to," as-they say In Missouri. Who's this Chris Shoo'bull? Oh. he's one of thim (Bur-r-r-r zip cluck) from whose bourne no traveler returns. What'll become lv him? What'll become lv a (Bur-r-r-r zip cluck) Hood River apple In th' press gallery? Say, shake up y'r phone, th' dam thing stutters! Ye'll have to keep order in this room byes. I'm talking to a glntleman. Say, what's Binger doing? He's trying to figure out what It will cost a block to haul a dray load lv phllliplcs fr'-m th' Postofflce to th' crematory! , ., nere did ye ate today? Down at Dan Watsons! w-h-a-t. oft th' same plates with Willum Jennings Bryan? I told Dan to fumigate thim! ' I'll tell Jarsre about you! Alltn hopes to obtain for the Signal corps as the result of the other series of tests must be designed for inflation with hydrogen and ' the material for the gas bag silk covered -with an umiuum preparation,, requiring no varnish will be furnished by the Sig nal Corps. He wants bidders to state in their proposals the number of square yards of this rnaterial required. The dimensions and shape of the balloon bag will be left to the inventor, but It muEt not be over -120 feet long.- In side the gas bag he wants one or. two "balloonets" having a capacity of one sixth of the gas bag. Balloonets art little balloon-like bags inflated inside balloons In order to keep their ertj velopes at a uniform stiffness. Those Inside the new army dirglble balloon must be connected by ruben to a blower which will maintain within them a constant air-pressure. The fabric of these little bags will also be supplied by the army. The suspension frame supporting the car and motor should be made so that 'it can be quickly as sembled or taken apart. This airship, like the aerodrome, must carry two persons, or 350 pounds, but In addition 100 pounds of ballast, which will compensate for the In Great Trip EVERY sweetheart, every sister, every mother of every sailor of every ship in the Atlantic squadron, under Rear Ad miral "Bob"' Evans' command, will soon begin to watch the mails as she has sel dom watched them before, for now begins the unprecedented trip of a fleet of bat tleships from the Atlantic seaboard around South America, through the tor tuous Strait of Magellan, up the Pacific to Magdalena Bay, on the Coast ot Lower California. Souvenirs of the. trip should begin to arrive In the first part of January, for the fleet of battleships is expected to cast anchor In the harbor of Port of Spain, on the Island of Trinidad, the night before Christmas. They -know the fleet Is coming, and if "Jack" doesn't have a good time -ashore It will not be their fault. In fact, the people of Trini dad are rather preparing to "spread themselves" on the American tars' ac count. Trinidad will keep open house and the American tars may do about as they please." They may bathe in the breakers of the Gulf of Parla, they may enjoy golf, polo, football or cricket in Queen's Park, they may watch the races and '.'play the ponies," or they may make a trip to wonderful Pitch Lake, the great asphalt reservoir from which so much material for paving the streets of New York has come. It Is doubtful if his friends at home will hear from "Jack' on this trip again- until Admiral Evans' fleet drops anchor at Rio de Janeiro, where they are due January 11, to remain until January 21, and the letters which come from there should be well worth reading to other mothers who have no sons with "Mr. Evans' boats." or to other gials who have no sweethearts wearing the navy blue, for they will probabb contain much about the capital of Brazil, over 350 years old, with its .beautiful parks, public build ings and private houses, oddly inter spersed with structures of great antiquity, among them the Sah Sebastian Church, which was built In 1567. The letters from Punta Arenas will then tell of passing, from the heat of midsum mer to the cold of Winter while going south all the -time, and there will un doubtedly be a complaint or two about the country. And there may even be un kind remarks In the letters about Magel lan, who nearly 400 years ago discovered the strait -through which Admiral Evans plans to take his fleet. For Magellan strait, although an undoubted aid to navi gation, is not much to look at. About 310 miles long, the channel through which Admiral Evans' fleet will pass Is for the most part only about as wide As the Hudson River near this city. Chile owns the land on either side ot the strait what was part of Patagonia on one side and Terra del Fuego on the other. The vege tation on both sides of the great water way is said to be as scanty as the cloth ing of the natives, which would barely permit of their entertainment at a Turk ish bath In this country. At Punta Arenas, which 'was formerly a -convict station for Chile, "Jack" on ois shore leave will see all sorts of persons. The Indians, or' native Patagonians, are great traders; ir fact, they will trade anything they have, and If Admiral Evans' ters are keen for bargains, more than one sister or sweetheart at home may -be fortunate enough to get a souve nir of the trip in the shape of a cloak which the native Patagonians fashion from the breasts of young ostriches. Or. the gift may take the form of "an otter skin wrap from the back of some canni bal native of Terra del Fuego, "the land of fire," Just across the strait from Punta Arenas. There is a 3000-mile run before the fleet creased weight of the balloon ahould It get wet. The desired speed is fixed at -half' that wanted in the aerodrome, or 20 miles per hour In still air. Fif teen per cent of the cost will be added or subtracted for each mile per hour made above or below this. The trial course will be . bet-nun two and five miles agulnst and with the wind. Fuel for two hours must- be carried and the engine must have cooling arrange ments. There will be three trials for speed and three for endurance, as in the case of the aerodromes, and ascending, descending and maintaining equilibrium must be regulated by shift ing weights, movable planes or use of the balloonets rather than balancing by the aeronaut. Bidders for this air ship must accompany "their proposals with a certified check for 15 per cent of the cost at the 2o-mile soeed. General Allen's assistant in prepar ing for the competition is Captain C. De F. Chandler, the principal aeronaut of the army, who recently won the Lahm cup 'for a long-distance flight In the army's new balloon. Captain Chandler's photograph, posed befors the basket of the balloon In which h won the cup is published herewith. ' Washington, D. C. for the Jackies after leaving Punta Arenas, about Feb ruary 5, until the next stopping place, Callao, Peru, Is reached. When the ves sels cast anchor off that port on Febru ary IS Admiral Evans' ships will have covered a total distance of something like 10,7000 miles. Were the Panama Canal now built, by passing through It the fleet could have shortened the. dis tance to Callao by 7100 miles. Callao, Is even now preparing for t's coming of the fleet and so is Lima, nina miles inland, of which Callao la t. e sea port. The Peruvians plan to entertain the fleet in a manner In keeping with ths reputation for hospitality their nation enjoys, and so, while persons here at home are busy trying -o keep warm 09 Washington's birthday, "Jack" will prob ably be lolling In the shade and sipping ices and cooling drinks, and perhaps ,..e rascal may even so far forget ...mselt as to loll in the shade and sip those cool ing drinks with one or more of Lima's fair daughters, for more than one trav eler has agreed that the women of Lima are among the most beautiful In - the world. There is much else to claim the atten tion of rhe American sailors in course of their stay in the capital of Peru, euch as the old Cathedral, dating back to 1540. which contains what is reported to be the skeleton of Pizarro. This grewsome re minder of the past is contained in a glass coffin, and in a glass jar at the feet of the skeleton are brains alleged to have been those of the great leader. Perhaps the letters home will contain a reference to visits paid the building where inquisitors sat in Judgment upon their victims many years ago and whera legislators and their attendant clerks are now busy working for the upbuilding of the state. Perhaps there will be a reference In the letters to a vi-it to tha plaza where so many were burned at the stake In the dark days of Peruvian his tory, or of a trip -along the route which La Plata, the great viceroy, is said to have taken when he is said to have rid den a gold-shod horse with mane and tail strung with pearls, over a way paved with Ingots of silver. But wHether "Jack" writes of these things or not, it will probably be with genuine regret that he will turn his back upon the hospitality of the Peruvians on or:' about February for on March 14, when the ships are due to drop annc'.or in Magdalena Bay, on the coast of Mex ico, ell thoughts of the pleasures of the long trip around South America must give way to strict attention to the worX of target practice; if he would secure a place in any of the crack gun crews of Uncle Sam's Navy. .After practice the fleet will probably to San Francisco, and orders received there may take it to the Philippine Islands or bring It horns again. New York Tribune. "Atmoephere." Mildred Stiprman Kloan. Th scribe was t-crlhbUnr In his den;, The air with smoke was denh. The Ink fair blistered on his Den. The heat was most intense. "The Christmas t?tory must be done." The editor had said. "And put in type September one." The Scribe was filled with dread. He wrote of Yule lots. Christmas trees And sleds that by us wlriz. And Ion-ring meanwhile for a breeze. He drank a large mint fizz. - ' He wrote of dear old Santa Claus F And all the Christmas Tun; He fanned himself without a pause Ths heat was ninety-one. December first the tale appeared. And with It cently .d-alli-c. The careful critics all declared Twai full ot Christmas feeling.