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The Batesville Herald.
VOL »•
BATESVILLE, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEP. 23, 1909.
NO. 37.
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The Uvalde National Bank
Depositary far Zavala and Uvalda County Fund*.
•apMal Stock..................................3I25.BM.M
taeptus....................................... 2M0*M
Stockholder*' Responsibility..................... 12t,
Total RoaponalbIMIy........................$27t,M9.M
BlRjrarAHi}:—T. •. Froat, J. M. Kiucaui, W D Kiuoaid, W. B.
Walcott, F. J. Rhatner, ®eo. A. Kennedy, J. A Mnngum
Vi ut kitui prej»*r*d th»* *t*« t, take car* ,1 all baala*** cotraal*4 t* aa.
Oaa* aa yoar*.
Corner Mala *Ui,l aa« City Mall Pla*a, UVAT.DJt, TU1I
DR. S. E. HAYS
Rottdenoo Phono: Old 39
OR. D. M. MASSIE
Realdenoe Phone: Old IS9
HAYS & MASSIE
DENTISTS
Office over First State Bank UVALDE. TEXAS. !
Phones \ £ldl*6
( New 6
Enlarging Your Business
It you are la
buaineaa and you
want to make
mom money you
will read every
word we have to
aay. Are you
spending your
money (or ad*
vertising in hap*
hazard fathioa
as if intended
for charity, or do you adver-
tise ior Mrect results?
Did you ever atop to think
how your advertising can be
made a source of profit to
you, and how its value ean be
measured in dollars and
cents. If you have not, you
are throwing money away.
Advertising is a modern
business necessity, but must
be conducted on business
principles. If you are not
satisfied with your advertisiag
you ahould set aside a certain
amount of money to be spent
annually, and then carefully
note the effect it haa in in-
creasing your volume of busi-
ness; whether a 10, so or 30
per cent increase. If you
watch this gain from year to
you will become intensely in-
terested in your advertising,
and how you can make It en-
large your business.
If you try this method we
believe you will not want to
let a single issue of this paper
go to press without something
from your store.
We will be pleased to have
you call on us, and we wiU
taka pleasure ia explaining
our annual contract for so
many inches, and how it can be
nsed in whatever amount that
seeme necessary to you.
If you can sell goods over
the counter we can also show
you why this paper will beat
serve your interests when you
want to reach the people of
this community.
SHORT NEWS MENTION
ion’t Use a Scarecrow
To Drive Away the
Hail Order Wolf
You can drive him out
quioklv if you use the mail
order houses’ own weapon
—advertising. Mail order
concerns are spending
thousands of deHart every
week in order te get trade
from the home merchants.
Do you think for a minute
they would keep it up if
they didn't get the busi-
ness ? Don’t take it for
granted that every one
within a radius of 25 miles
knows what you have to
sell, and what your prices are. Nine times out of ten your prices
are lower, but the customer is influenced by the up-to-date adver-
tising of the mail order house. Every article you advertise should
be described and priced. You must tell your story in an inter-
esting way, and when you want to reach the buyers of this com-
munity use the columns of this paper.
OF HOME AND ABROAD OF INTER-
EST TO EVERYBODY.
A fire in Qreenvllle. Texas, Thurs- !
day destroyed six large buildings and
contents, aggregating a loss between
COAST STORM SWEPT COOK NEARING HOME
EPITOME OF LATE DOINGS
Of the Entire Weak of Most Interest-
ing Reading of Importance
of Today.
You Don’t Need a Town Crier
/% to emphasire the merits of your business or an-
nounce your special sales. A straight story told in
a straight way to the readers of this paper will
HR quickly reach the ears of the thoughtful, intelligent
buying public, the people who have the money in
M W their pockets, and (he people who listen to reason
* " and not noise. Our books, will show you ■ hit of
the kind of people you appeal to. Call and see them at this office.
.'DOMESTIC.
Ex-Gov. Vardeman has accepted an i
invitation from the chairman of the I
Democratic state executive committee
of Maryland to deliver a aeries of ad-
dresses in that state ill support of the
constitutional amendment disfranchis-
ing negro voters.
A hundred brief words, weighted
with approximately *100,000,000, and
containing the last testament of E. H.
Harriman, makes his widow, Mary Av-
erill Harriman, one of the wealthiest
076.000 and 086.000.
Reports of shewera throughout 1
South Texas continue to come in. |
While some loealttteu seem to have
been skipped, most counties received
a wetting some time during the week.
Rains have run from a alight fall
of an hours durailon to 2V9 inches. 1
Apparently they have come at the
right time to insure good crope of win-
ter truck as well as to start the grass
on the ranges. Prom all accounts the
season haa been -one of extreme dry-
ness and the rains are most welcome.
H. Armour Munson, a prominent cit-
izen and stockman of Brazoria county,
of Anglcton, who, with six other citi-
zens formed a post- - searching for the
three escaped negro prisoners who aro j
charged with killing J. T. (Tut) liar- j
den at Chenango « few nights ago
while he was endeavoring to arrest
them, was shot and killed Wednesday
by Steve Hayes, a brother-in-law of
one of the fleeing negroes.
A statement In which President Taft
announces his findings upon the
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
WAKE.
ITS EXPLORER BARELY FOUR DAYS
FROM NEW YORK.
ALL THE WIRES ARE DOWN WHITNEY SWORN TO SILENCE
women in the world. It is perhaps the
briefest will on record for the dtapos- j charges against the conduct .if the ln-
* “ terlor Department of the government
by L. P. Glavis, chief of the field di-
vision of the general land office, in
connection with thp Cunningham coal
land claims in Ala ta, exonerating Sec-
retary Ballinger of the Interior Depart-
al of an estate of such magniture.
All his property is left to Mrs. Harri-
man. Wall street estimates that Mrs.
Harriman will inherit In realty and
personal property 'between 175,000,000
and *100,1100,000. MV. HariTman's pri-
vate fortune Is supposed to have been j ment alld observing that Mr. Glavis re- .
greater than this by maay millions port embraced or,ly - ahreda of sus 1
The entire plant of tbe Marlin Elec- j plclon. without substauliul evidence,” |
trie Light, Ice and Power Company
was destroyed by fire Friday. The
loss amounts to about $60,000, with
*15,000 insurance. The fire Is said
to have originated in the grass near
was made public Wednesday.
Definite announcement that Senator
Bailey would In a speech at the Fair
Park In Dallas soon answer the argu-
ments of .'ar. Bryan on the tariff has
the plant and was quickly communleat added I(,8t lo the Rrfnerai interest man-
ifested in tbe differences existing be-
tween those two distinguished men.
ed to the building.
In the most important
The home news; the doings of the people In this
town; the gossip of our own community, that’s
the first kind of reading matter you want. It Is
more important, more interesting to you than
that given by the paper or magazine from the
outside world. It is the first reading matter
you should buy. Each issue of this paper gives
to you just what you will consider
The Right Kind oS
Reading flatter
utterance
he has made since his occupancy of
the White House, President Taft Fri-
day, at Winona, Minn., defended the
Payne tariff bill as the best tariff bill j
the people have ever known.
J. H. Thiery, 87
and It is foreshadowed that a large
crowd will go out o hear Mr. Bailey's
side of the story. >,
At a called Bession of the commis-
sioners court Wed^sday in San Saba
years old, te celt - I Mrg. 8. oitvei was elected county
brating the birth of a son In his home j treasurer to fill the unexpired term of
in Long Island City. It is the fourth | her dead husband,
child since he was married eleven I county purchaMd w„dne8day
years ago when 76 years old to Miss
Margaret O'Connor, a comparatively
young woman.
The first of Its kind in the world,
an exhibit for the blind, at the Na-
tural History Museum in New York,
will be opened in the near future,
but there is reason to believe that his
unmarried daughters, Mary and Carol,
a 115-acre tract of land In Fayette
county, planning extensive road im-
provements and desiring a good grave)
supply at all times.
Hurricane warnings for Key West
and South Florida were Issued at New
Orleans weather bureau Wednesday.
A disturbance of marked Intensity west
of Jamaica is said to be moving north-
jd?
ping along the Weil Cuban and boiuh-
west Florida coasts for the next few
days.
Marlin, Texas, is to have another
for in gifts out of hand, trust funds deep well, with its outpouring of Hot,
his married daughter, Mrs. Robert Llv- w, st wftrd „ ,v„ llnsttfe for 8llip.
lngston Gerry, and his two sons, Wil-
liam Averill and Roland, a boy of 14,
Mrs. Simons, and other relatives,
together with his surviving sister,
have all been substantially provided
set aside by Mr. Harriman during his
lifetime.
Hog cholera costs farmers of the
United States *40,000,000 annually, ac-
cording to estimates presented at the
closing session of the Interstate Asso-
ciation of State Boards of Live Stock
Commissioners at Chicago this week.
President Taft, during a stay of
twelve eventful hours In Chicago
Thursday, plunged with a will into the
long program of entertaining which
awaits him on his long Western and
Bouthern itinerary. With perfect' sailed Sunday for Sydney and New
weather and crowds that fairly fought York, proudly flying the Nor.h Pole
flag. This flag was made at Battle
health-giving waters. That question
was definitely and emphatically settled
Wednesday, when a committee of citi-
zens called on the people of the town
for stock subscriptions to bore tho
well. The sum of *20,000 was wanted,
and the money was raised in just two
hours and ten minutes.
FOREIGN.
Followed by the cheers and shouts
of half a hundred Labrador fishermen,
and given a farewell cannon salute,
the Peary Arctic steamer Roosevelt
to catch a glimpse of the chief ex-
ecutive, the first city to be visited
set a high mark of enthusiastic wel-
come. whioh the president seemed
deeply to appreciate.
The Western Union Telegraph com-
pany has applied for a writ of error
In the case In which the State of
Texas recovered judgment against it
for *100,040 permit fee. Since this
judgment was obtained in the court i
of civil appeals for the Third district
the law has been changed so as to
limit the amount of the permit fee
to *10,000. but the company refuses
to pay even this sum.
Albert T. Patrick, who is serving
a life sentence in Sing Sing prison for
the murder of Wm. Marsh Rice In
New York In 1900, has Hied with the
clerk of the court of appeals notice
of au appeal from a decision rendered
by tbe appellate division, dismissing
the writ of habeas corpus granted him
by Justice Wm. J. Oaynor last Feb-
ruary. Patrick claims he is confined
Illegally, and that Gov. Higgins bad
no right to commute his sentence
from death to life Imprisonment. Pat-
rick's appeal will probably come be-
fore the court lu October.
The third deplorable tragedy grow-
ing out pf the escape of the three ne-
gro prisoners from the Angleton Jail
occurred early Thursday morning at
Duke, Texas, a station on the Santa
Fe In Fort Bend county, when Charles
Knoble, a young man from Navasota.
Texas, was mistaken for one <s tbe
fugitive negroes and accidentally shot
and killed by Henry Golden, one of the
men who had hem stationed ut that
point by the authorities.
Max Becker ol Houston, Texas. has
been appointed a messenger in tin-
weather bureau service at Houston.
The secretary of the interior Thurs
day amended the regulations govern-
ing leases of Osage Indian allotments
by providing that surplus lands will
not be leased for any purpose for a
longer period than one year at a time; 4
that no person, firm or corporation
will be permitted lo lease for grazing
purposes more than 5,0U0 acres, and
that lessees will not be permitted to
•ublease or assign their holdings with-
out tb« consent thereto of tbe lessor
In writing being first obtained and the 1
name approved by tbe secretary of the
Interior.
Harbor. The Roosevelt, now home-
word bound, Is scarred and blackened
from contact with the mountains of
floating lee and boring through Ice
floes.
The insular government at Manila
will soon ship to the bureau of Insular
affairs at Washington nearly half a ton
of opium, the proceeds of many cus
toms seizures. The government plans
to dispose of the opium for medical
purposes among drug manufacturers,
receiving In exchange medicines for
hlspitala and other great Instltu'lons
In the Philippine*.
Official announcement Is made In
Tokio of the appointment of Yuchlda.
former minister of foreign affairs and
now ambassador to the court of Aus-
tria. to succeed Baron Takahira, Jap
anese minister to Washington.
Charged with being Implicated in
ihe plot to kill President Figueroa of
the republic of Salvador, Gen. Join Do
lores Preza and Gen Damas Coplnel
are behind prison bars in the capl'al
of that republic of Central America,
according to letters received in Mexi-
co City Friday.
K1 Roghl, the rebellious subject of
the sultan of Morocco, who was re-
cently brought to Fez a prisoner In
an iron cage, was put to death inside
the palace and In the presenee of the
imperial harem. The death of the
rebel appears to have :he sultan's re-
ply to the protest of the French consul
against the- torture Inflicted by the
sultan's soldiers on rebellious Moors
who have been brought captives to
Fez. The sultan gave orders recently
that El Itoghl would no longer be ex
posed to public view in his lion cage.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bttsta-
nv< rite and the Peruvian minister to
Bolivia Friday signed a protocol for
the settlement of the differences that
long have existed between Peru and
Bolivia over the boundary question.
News has come in to Nairobi, British
Eawt Africa, that Theodore Roosevelt,
who has been hunting In the Mweru
district, has killed a bull elephant with
greax tusks. Kermlt Roosevelt has
been hunting Independently at Guaao
Nytro and has been very successful,
bagging five lions and three buffaloes.
80 Strong Was the Wind That the Wa-
ters of Mississippi Backed up From
Gulf a Hundred Miles.
New Orleans.—After attaining a ve I
locity of sixty-six miles an hour at
New Orleans Monday the West Indi-
an hurricane which struck the Louisi-
ana and Mississippi gulf coast left in
its wake four dead at New Orleans,
and perhaps others along the gulf
coast, though no definite advices of
mortality in other sections have thus
far been received. The property loss
in New Orleans will exceed *100,000
and many houses were unroofed and
frail buildings In numerous instances
were purtially destroyed. With all
wires down it is impossible to ascer-
tain the loss of life or property along
the gulf coast.
At a late hour Monday night the
tracks of tbe Louisville and Nashville
railroad, which have been Inundated
somo twenty miles east of New Or-
leans, have not been fully repaired
and it is impossible to say when a re-
sumption of traffic will begin.
Tbe list of dead In New Orleans:
Victor Pujol, steamship Inspector,
killed by live wire: James Garretson,
foreman street railway company, killed
by live wire; Charles Schultz, klljed
by falling smoke stack at Louisiana
brewery; John Arends. killed by live
wire; steam ferry Assumption sank at
the head of Napoleon avenue; no lives
lost. Considerable property damage
was done along the river front.
The storm apparently moved Inland
to Southwestern Louisiana. Velocity
of wind at New Orleans was the most
intense in the history of the local
weather bureau.
So strong was the force of the wind
that the waters of the Mississippi
backed up from the gulf a hundred
miles below, rose three feet at the
New Orleans levee. The neighboring
lakes were agitated until they all over-
flowed, covering the adjacent lowlands
with a large expanse of torrent. The
gulf waters from Lake Borgne were
added to Ihe volume of the flood. And
when the latest dispatch came out of
New Orleans there were outlying parts
of the city covered with water, while
the winds had damaged several build-
ing ■
Throughout the day this hea>y wmu
was maintained, but apparently It was
not destructive In its force until Into
In the afternoon when It swept across
the country. The direction or the wind
was northwesterly. Its area was great
for it reached far up to the northern-
most line of Louisiana, eqst of :he Mis-
sissippi river, and where an early blow
destroyed the tracks of Ihe Ixiulsvllle
& Nashville railroad along the coast
east of New Orleans, this latter gust,
wiping out the tracks of the Isolated
city on the Illinois Central.
Houston and Galveston. Texns, re-
port that throughout the afternoon
they have been unable to get info com
munication with New Orleans.
Probably Fatally Wounded.
Cleburne, Tex —Bike Parker, about
25 years of age. was shot through the
liver Monday while in East Cleburne.
Henry Fine surrendered lo the county
authorities.
Bishop Ward Dead.
Tokio.—Attended by his son Seth
and members of the mission to which
he gave his life to aid. Bishop Seth
Ward of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, died Monday. Early
in the day he began sinking, and, slow
ly declining, sank peacefully Into death
in the harness of his chosen profes-
sion and the work he loved so well.
WINS FAME IN AIR
Glenn Curtiss Long Interested in
Aviation.
Delinquent Companies.
Austin, Tex.—Sixteen foreign fire in-
| suranee companies ate delinquent tin-
| dcr the provision of the law of the
! Thirty-first legislature requiring sueli
' concerns to tile with the commission-
er of insurance a bond for the protec-
ion of Texas policy holders. About 120
have complied with the law. The de-
I partment of Insurance and hanking has
notified the delinquents tliai the time
for the filing of the bonds has passed,
Snd that they should discharge tills ob-
ligation with the utmost dispatch.
Inspected Dairies.
College Station, Tex. - Dr. J. It. Lay.
surgeon of the agricultural and me-
chanical College of Texas, has re-
turned from an extended summer trip
In the East. While absent he visited
the largest dairies In the country and
made an Inspection as to all sanitHry
methods, conducted under the latest
laws of health and science, with a view
to Including some of the sanitary reg
illations of such business concerns In
the sanitary code at t.he Agricultural
and Mechanical College of Texas.
Fabulous Prices for Seed.
LeciKYllle, Tex. The continued fair
weather has been favorable for cotton
picking. The bulk of the crop has a.
ready been gathered. The two gins
have put up about 925 bales. Seed Is
being bought by the local glnners at
fabulous prices.
Shot in the Back.
Victoria, Tex.—Viola Coleman, a col-
ored woman, waa shot In the back Sat-
urday night, from the effects of which
she died Monday afternoon.
Accounts for Evasive Replies to
Peary's Questions.—Esquimo Told
Peary Cook Was Dead.
On Board the Steamship Oscar 11,
at Sea. Via Marconi Wireless Tele-
graph to Cape Itaoe, N. F.—"Tell the
people of America to have the fullest
confidence in my conquest of the pole.
1 have records of observations made
by me which will prove my claim. 1
shall be glad again to set my foot
on American soil.”
This was the brief message Dr. Fred-
erick A. Oook Friday asked the Asso
elated Press to give to his countrymen
as he nears home on the steamer Os-
car II, bound from Chrlstlansand, Nor-
way, to New York. The Oscar II Is duo
to arrive there some time this week.
Dr. Cook discussed freely with the
Associated Press correspondent the as-
sertions of Commander Peary that he
(Cook) had never reached the North
Pole, uud from him was drawn a de-
tailed story of Ihe causes that brought
about the dissensions between the two
explorers.
When he departed for the North. Dr.
Cook said he left a depot of provi-
sions at Annatook. north of Etah, In
charge of Rudolph Francke and sev-
eral Eskimos. Francke had Instruc-
tions to go south aboard a whaler and
return later. This he did, but missed
the returning vessel owing to a slight
illness. He was then taken aboard
Peary's ship, the Roosevelt, and pro-
ceeded north.
"Commander Peary found my sup-
ply depot at Annatook," Dr. Cook con-
tinued, "and the Eskimo in charge
told him that I was dead, as they fully
believed It to he true at the time.
"Peary placed two men In charge
of the depot. Boatswain Murphy and
another, Harry Whitney, the New
Haven hunter, also remained there.
Murphy had orders not to search for
me, but was told he could send Es-
kimos northward the following spring
from the relief depot.
“When 1 returned from the pole un-
expectedly Harry Whitney was the
first to see me and to tell me what
had occiii-red. Whitney waa placed In
possession of the facta concerning my
Journey to the pole on condition that
he would not Inform Com-fiiunder
Peary or kU men. At the same time
the Eskimos who had accompanied me
north were told to maintain the strict-
est silence.
"When 1 went Into the depot there
was a dispute between myself and
Murphy, who delivered to me written
Instructions he had received from
Peary, nlthough he himself could nei-
ther read nor write. These lnstruc
tlons showed that he was making u
trading station of my depot, the con
tents of which had been used in trad
Ing for furs ahd skins."
Dr. Cook said he was Intensely an-
noyed at the alleged wrongful use of
his supplies and threatened to kick
out Murphy and his companion. Fin-
ally, however, he consehted fb their
remaining at the depot, as there was
no other shelter In the vicinity for
them.
“On one occasion Murphy asked me
abruptly, 'Have you been beyond 877’
But 1 was determined not to let Peary
know of my movements, and replied
e-vaslxely that I hod been muoh fur-
ther north. From this statement has
been concocted the declaration that 1
had said that 1 had not reached the
pole.”
Dr. Cook declared that neither Har-
ry Whitney’s nor hla (Cook's) records
are on board the Roosevelt, and that
therefore Peary's Information concern-
ing him emanated from Boatswain
Murphy.
Dr. Cook said also that he had
made arrangements for the two
Eskimos who went with him to the
pole and Knud Rasmussen, whom lie
! met In Greenland, to go to New York
and confirm the story of his discov-
ery.
ltr. Cook is thoroughly enjoying his
iest aboard ship after the strenuous
I days at Copenhagen. He sle< ps eight
hours each night and spends a long
time dally In writing and In walking
the decks and conversing with the
American passengers, who all have
been formally presented lo him.
Boatswain Murphy Talks.
"Commander Peary told me to go
’ ashore at Etah to guard the stores
which I saw taken from tin- Roosevelt
and Ihe Erik Prltohard was with me.
| Some time last spring a white man
came Into cutup, and Mr. Whitney told
me that it was Dr. Cook, lie did no*,
I stay long in camp and soon went away
Cook looked tired and worn out, and
said he wuh hungry. 1 had an argil-
men! with him, as he claimed that
some of the stores that we wcri guard-
ing helpnged to him. He only ha$ two
Eskimos with blip, and as all his dogs
I were dead, he pulled his own sledge."
I Pritchard said these Eskimos told
him they had been way, way north.
First Eaplorer to Arrive.
New York.—Dr. Cook's arrival In
N< w York this week will be the first
I of the rival explorers to set foot on
! native soil. New York awaits his Com-
! |ng eagerly Just as Sydney, C. B., looks
| forward to the coming of Commander
I peafy. The reception to the home-
coming Brtioklyn physician who first
reported! ta the world that he had dte-
covered the North Pole depends almost
solely upon himself. While committee,
are ready to do him every honor.
Had Little Time to Prepare for Con-
test In Which He Captured Inter-
national Aviation Cup—His
Remarkable Biplane.
New York.—By his achievement In
winning the International Aviation
Cup at. Rhelms recently, Glenn H..
Curtiss has Jumped Into world-wide
renown In aerial circles. That hla
victory was a surprise even to hta
closest friends In this country Is ex-
pressing It mildly. When Mr. Curtiss
left for FTance on August 6 his ma-
chine had never been tried out, and he
admitted that be was afraid he was
taking a big chance with tbe limited
time left him to get In condition at
Rhelms and try out his motor thor-
oughly. But after two or three days’
tuning up on the field the machine
performed admirably at every ap-
pearance, and when he established ft
world's record for speed at eight min-
utes 32 2 5 seconds for the circuit hie
American friends predicted that ho
would win, and fje became a favorite
at Rhelms.
If there Is one thing that Curtiss
does know thoroughly It 1b something
about motors. He was an enthusiast-
ic motor cyclist a few years ago, and
held many speed records. He has
been manufacturing motor bicycles
for several years at bis factory In
Hammundsport, N. Y.. Quickly read
Izing the future of aerial flight, ho
was one of the earliest In America to
devote rareful attention to the manu-
facture of aero motors. He was In-
vited by Prof. Alexander Graham Bell'
to become one of the six members of
the latter's Arelal Experiment asso-
ciation, and with tbe exception of the
experiments carried on at Baddeck..
Nova Scotia, lust winter, the greater
part of their work In solving problems
of aerial flight was done at Ham-
mondsport. It was there that the four
aeroplanes designed by members of
tbe association were built and tried’
out. The third machine, which was-
the most notable previous to the long-
distance flights of the Silver Dart over
l(f mmmam
i R ijuviiu! lTncTlx^vlvn
fjmM
Curtiss at Wheel of His Flying,
Machlna
tbe Ice at Baddeck last winter was'
the June Bug. It was with that ma-
chine that Curtlsa challenged for the
Scientific American cup, and won In-
one minute 42 seconds. He was only
required to go one kilometer, .621 of
a mile.
When the Aerial Experiment asso-
ciation was disbanded last spring Mr.
Curtiss directed bis attention to mak-
ing practical aeroplanes at Ham-
mondsport, and the machines he has
turned out embody many of the Ideas-,
gained from hla work with the asso-
ciation.
The first machine which he com-
pleted was purchased by the Aero-
nautic society of New York city. Mr .
Curtiss gave some creditable exhlbl
tlons with It at Morris park In July,,
and then transferring his flying ex
pertinents to the Hempstead plains,
near Mlneoln, made his best (light in
thlH country of 52 minutes 30 seconds
on July 17 last, covering 29V4 miles,
which Is now Ihe record flight for tho
Scientific American cup for 1900.
Mr. Curtiss' machine which he took
to Europe is practically a duplicate
of the one he used here with the ex-
ception of the motor and therein lies
the secret of his success. Instead of
using a four-cylinder motor he built
a special eight cylinder one. water
cooled. It develops 60 horse power,
and weighs complete about 200
pounds He carries a thirteen gallon
gasoline tank and a three-gallon oil
tank, the Biel weighing 60 pounds.
The engine develops propeller thrust
of 280 pounds, against 160 pounds on
the old June Bug.
ills machine, n biplane. Is about 30
feet wide, with a total expanse of sur-
face of 226 feet. The total weight of
the entire machine ready for flight
Is 700 pounds, abont 100 pounds heav-
ier than the first machine used at
Mlneola.
It Is Interesting to note that Cur-
I tlsH was the second choice of tbe
Aero Club of America. Efforts had
been made to Induce one of the-
Wrlght brothers to represent America,
but they declined on account of other
duties. Mr. Curtiss was definitely no-
tified of his aeceptance by the Aero
club within six weeks of his departure
to Europe.
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