Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1896, Page 23

FHE EVENING STAR, ‘SATURDAY, -DECEMBER 12, 1896-24 PAGES. HOW WE SHALL FLY AVisit tothe Ped Whore Mr. Lang- : ley Experiments. MOST SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT YET MADE How the Flying Machine is Made and How It Works. a CHAT WITH MR. LANGLEY - -- - (Coprrighted, 1806, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ITHIN THE PAST vention has been made here at Was ington which prom- ises to revolutionize the travel of the world. It may trans- fer the vessels of the ocean to the air and carry the locomotives among the clouds. The development of it will, in all proba- bility, change the uc world, and it may make errible that the national troubles of will be settled by arbitration Mr. Langley’s aerodrome. The s air-runner, and the machine is it runs faster upon the surface air than a horse ean trot. a For sixteen years Mr. Langley has stead- a iga- werk upen t in as! i. Engro nomical inv administering the greatest 2 institutions, he has had his leisure moments to devote to it, now, after thous: of experiments bun Ire¢ upon hu s of failures, he has accomplished what scientists once de. clared to be impossible. Knowing that hi work was almost at the risk of Scientific reputation being questioned, dur- irg the early years of it he kept the object ons to himself. Today the cally nothing of them, after persistent s friend, Prof. knows and it was onl wor ng on the \lexander Graham Bell, that he allowed ed state the fact that he had suc- The Acrodrome in Flight. © then additional improvements have made. A new and better mactine than which flew a half a mile in May last t tested. It has made a more suc- d today Mr. Langley per- to give in my own werds the first scription of his su s to the pub- | vaye spent several days with him up- | in the Potomac river, about below Washington, where ts have been conducted, ar I witnessed the j it S. P. Langley. average parlor, moved by a s hi eam | h was a part of it, dart forth! - launching stage and fly in an al-| straight line through the air a dis-} n 1,500 yards, or over | @ mile. it flew almost h of Pennsylvania ave- nd the rip of myseif moment | and the and as straight as » bay wher o the ings of a bird smoke of athing . as the and the i the it seemed like a d. The great in the tre its way setting whi t nery s of bi the machin Gladness Comes V better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ieal ills, which vanish before proper ef- jith h the pleasant ive, Syrup of Figs, prompt- That is why it is the only remedy with millious of families, andis here esteemed so highly by all ec good health. Its beneficial re due to the fact, that itis the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore mportant, in order to get its bene- 1 effects, to note when you pur you have the genuine arti- ‘h is manufactured by the Cali- fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies arc then not needed. If afflicted with any actuat disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrap of | not a special pi j other part of the machinery. in it to allow it to fly about one and one- half minutes. for about five minu flew by two indepen minute and forty-five, seconds, bein; only flight of any aerial machine e: self which has ever Jasted for more tian a very few seconds. In this minute and three-quarters it flew a distande of almost a mile, going at the rate of over thirty miles an hour, and showing that if it.had been fully supplied with water, it would have flown for more than two miles. As it was, its flight was only lMmited by the ex- haustion of its steam, and there- seemed no reason but that with more steam to run it, it might net have gone on indeti- nitely. With a machine ten times its weight, Mr. Langley told me, a condensing apparatus could be earried upon it which could use the water over and over again, and the same amount of water would carry it for hundreds of times its present flight. The machine flew against the wind..‘Phere was nothing of the balloon nature about There were no gas bags to uphokt it, Its wings were immovable, and they merely steadied it as it flew like a bird through the air. The force which carried it onward was generated upon ft Point Some Wonders of the Acrodrome. As I locked at it I could hardly realize the remarkable thing which Mr. Langiey has accomplished. Let me repeat it. The aerodrome is a machine made almost altogether of steel. A balloon floats be- cause it is Nghter than the air. This ma- chine weighs moge than one thousand times as much as the air through which ir, moves. The working parts of its ma- t_as it was, It the op watehes, one- pt it-- It coul@-haye carried“twater’| ‘ worder what kept them up. I afterward heard the theory that they possessed great muscular power, You know some scientific men have stated their. belief that the mus- cular strength of birds must be enormously greater in proportion than that of men. Bui this it seemed to me could not be true. I could not believe what some French mathe- maticians calculated, namely, that an eagle must be nearly as strong as man. It finally occurred to me that there must be sometning m the condition of the air which the soaring birds instinctively un- derstood, but which we do not. This idea I held for a lorg time, the flight cf birds centinuing to be a wonder to me. It 1s curious how an {dea of that kind sticks to you. I seldom saw a bird flying that I did not think of it, and even lately I have watched them for hours, trying to under- stand how they could move about through the air, rising and falling, soaring up and sailing down without any motion of the wings.” “But, Mr. Langley, I thought that birds used a great deal of strength to fly. They can't fly without moving their wings, can they?” “The soaring birds ca,” replicd Mr. Langley, and they do fly long distances with apparently very little exertion. Dar- win once watched the South American eondors, ‘which, you know, are immense birds, for hours. He says they ascended and descended, soared and circled about, with scarcely the movement of a feather. | He could not detect a single flap of their | wings. “T remember,” continued Mr. Langley, “how I stood one cold November day on the Aqueduct bridge that crosses the Po- tomac river above Georgetown and watch- ONE OF LANGLEY'S RUBBER MOTOR FLYING MACHINES. chinery are of steel, and it carries a pe- culiar steam engine which forces i through the air. In constructing chine, the question of weight was important one, and everything had to be reduced to the minimum. The aerodrome, weighing less than thirty pounds, carrie about four pounds of water. Th about two quarts, and the little engine is wasteful of it that its flight must be pro- pertionately short, for when the water ha been once converted into steam, the a f : eTO- drome must stop flying, there no more water to furnish stcam to run it. The machinery of the air-runuer is very lignt, inceed, but it requires a considerable force Its one horse is to move it in proportion to its weight. engine is equal and weigh to moce than he movable parts of the ma- You “Think of reducing the size horse to a peck measure, and its weight to of a thai ef a kitten, and you have some idea of Mr. Langley's aerial engine. What does the aerodrome leok like? T have described it in flight. I examined it at rest and I have gone carefully over its different part It is about fifteen feet Jong and about fourteen feet wide from the tip of one wing to the other. The m chine moves through the air on much the same principle as that by which the twin- serew steamer forces its way through the waiter. On each side of the aerodrome there is a sort of screw propeller or pair jes In the shape cf one cutting of a so hi upon a pivot that when th on they tly around at the rate of fons a minute. They h like the wheels of an hen in action. electric fan air rapidly that you cannot see the blac and they are, in fact. a pair of wheels about four feet in diameter fi at this wonderful speed around through the air. they move they screw the air ship onward, and this advancing motion keeps it up in somewhat the same wa: skater can that a swift thin ice. The machinery is in a metal which ends in a smokestack. This is hung to a frame work of steel. The wings, which are stationary, are fastened to the upper part of the frame work, and they extend out above the body holding the The machinery ii but it is as as light as be supporied by They cut the | { receptacle | Dracte | will do this. | | | it | least ed a turkey buzzard which was lazily soar- ing round and round watching something in the river below. The wind was blowmg a gale. It was going at the rate of at thirty-five <ailes an hour, still the bird moved about with the greatest ease, keeping generally on one level, but sway- ing a little as it went round and round. It wa not more than sixty feet above me. I could see it perfectly and could not note the flapping of a wing, though I watched it for a long time. I stayed, in act, until I got so cold that I nad to leav Mr. Langley's First Experiment. ‘Then you early saw that there was some- thing wrong in our theories as to the wind, Mr. Langley?” the reply, “I have aiways nd I remember well when I be- to experiment to see if my supposi- tion was correct. It was after a meeting of a scientific association, in which some one stated that an inanimate ‘hing could, gan under certain circumstances, be made to move in the air against the wind by the power of the opposing wind itself. He claimed that he had made experiments proving this fact, and he stated as an evi- dence of the truth of theory that he had seen birds not only come close to the earth and kang stationary in the air, but even advance against the wind and as- cend in the air without flappiag their wings. He was laughed at, but it is row conceded that what he claimed is not theoretically impossible. I, myself, did not believe he was right at the time, set me thinking. My old interest in the ubject 1 and I began at once to -nake experiments. I wanted to krow the actual facts as to the power needed for flight, and how it was possible that dies heavier than the air they isplaced could keep themselves in the air without falling. I did discover that there was no he. made doubt but that a machine could which could support bodies in the afr, and which would carry them forward. I have shown you here today a machine which I have proved that we have the power, and the only question now 1s to learn how to direct and control it.” Making Brass Plates Fly. “Tell me s Mr. mething of your experiments, Sketch Drawn From Actual Photog: The fuel is ne, which is converte into gas belore it is used, and which fur- nishes elt the boiler in a second if there kept flowing rapidly through the intense heat converting some water into steam as it flows. Every part of the machinery is of the most practical nature and it has been constructed at an enormous exnerse of patience and experi: ment. It may be said that nearly every atom of the aerodrome as it is now put to- gether is the result of experiment. The making of the boiler alone consumed months of work. ery bit of the ma- chinery had to be constructed with scien- \tifie accuracy. It had to be tested again and again. The difficulty of getting the machine light enough was such that every part of it had to be remade many times. would be in full working order when omething would give way, and this part would have to be strengthened. This caused litional weight and necessitated the itting off of that pvich weight from some ‘At times, the difficulty seemed almost heartbreaking, but Mr. Langley went on piece by piece and m by atom, until he at last succeeded in -tting all the parts of the right strength and proportions. Even. after he had com- pleted his model and had it ready for flight, he was confronted with an unexpected dif- s, it seemed at the time, ble to surmount. Launching the Air-Runner. the launching of the machine into the air. One @f the most difficult things that large, soaring birds have to contend with in flying is in getting a start. You know how difficult {t is to launch a ship into the water. It is far more difficult to launch an air ship. Mr. Langley found that his machine had to be clamped down on the launching stage and to be arraaged in such @ way that the machinery could be started. so that it should receive a slight initial velocity and then be released with a spring. This looks easy. It was hard. But Mr. Langley at last succeeded in launching his machine by hanging it to @ movabie table, so that it could be turned to face the direction in which the flight was to be made, and so that the wheels of the iable would carry the aeradreme straight out in a horizontal line and launch it off into the air. The launching a: paratus which we used on November was built on the top of a house boat, and the work of arranging the table was no small one. As I stood upon it and ex- amined its corstruction Mr. Langley said: “It don’t seem to be much, but it is the result of five years of experiments.” Studies of Flying Birds. T here esked Mr. Langley what’ Arst at- tracted his atter.tion to aerial navigation. “I can't tell when I was not Interestes This was » Figsstands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. in it,” he replied. “I use@ to watch the birds flying when I was a boy and to’ horizontal. such an intense heai that it would | were | ap by which the water is | boiler, | of the} “AERODROME,” 1 of the Machine, “aS connected with the astronomical ob- servatory in Pittsburg. It is now more than fifteen years ago that I built my first laboratory for aerial investigation there. A friend of mine, Mr. William Thaw, a wealthy citizen of Pittsburg, suppited the means and I was enabled to make all sorts of tests to scertain the power used in aerial motion. One device which I had was a whirling table. This was an arm about thirty feet long, which swung about on a central pivot, ten feet above the ground. It was moved by a ten horse power steam engine, and it went flying arouad, moving Il speeds up to seventy miles an hour. the end of the arm I put instru- s which would measure the lifting r of the wind upon any inclined sur- hung to them. I had, for inst spring le hung there, and to this brass plates were attached. When the arm was put in motion I found that the faster it went the less weight the piates registered on the seales, until at great speed they al- most floated in the air. I found, in fact, that the higher the speed the less was the ferce required to keep the plates from falling. This seems at first a contradiction of known principles, but I nave no time row to explain it. I found that not one- twentieth of the force before supposed to be required to support bodies under such con- ditions was needed, and what before had seemed impossible began to look possible. Easier to Fly Than to Stand Still. “This means that I found,” continued Mr. Langley, “that an entirely wrong estimate had heen made as to the force needed to sustain moving bodies in the alr. Some mathematicians, reasoning from false data, had concluded that If It took a certain amount of power to keep a thing from fall- ing, it would take much addicional power to meke it advanea My experiments showed just the reverse. I found that it took much less force to push a hody rapid- ly through the air than was needed +to simply sustain it there. I found, in short, that the conditions of air travel with my planes and of land and sea travel were in one important respect the opposites of one another. An ocean steainer running at twenty knots an hour will take several times as much coal as is required to run it at the rate often knots an hour. The limited express uses a great deal more ceal than the slow freight for the same weight and distance. This is not so in aerial flight..with planes. Actual experi- ment shows, I repeat, that the faster the speed the less the force required to sus- tain the planes, and that it would cnst less to transport sucn planea through the air at @ high rate of speed than at a low one. I found further that one horse-power could carry brass plates w« ‘ing pounds at the rate of more than forty miles an hour in horizontal flight. Everything, however, upon the ilight being strictly I found that if t were the least. ifregolar’ Bfwer inust be in- creased in proportion to the irreguiartty.” A Ten Years’ Search for a Principle. “It must have begn interesting, Mr. Langley,” said I. “ se “It was interesting,” replied Mr. Lang- ley, “but so far it had been conducive to no practical results. E had been working now for years, seeking,ta learn the prin- ciples involved in flight. I thought I dis- covered some of them. , The question ws how to apply them. The field, you know, was eniirely new. I Mhd to make, and to a large extent invent, the machinery I used. My experiments-showed me that I must have a very light engine; but they did not telt-me how te get it.” They did not show me how to Keep. the flight. hori- zontal, nor did they give me any idea how such a machine as I might construct could be made to start and lifht in safety. There were a number of ofhtr things whicn 1 should have liked to know, and some of which I still hoped to learn which were en- tirely in the dark. As. the result of my work I had some extremely important and valuable facts, but my experiments so far had not told me how to apply those facts to the making of machines for flying. I had only the conviction that what had hitherto been an impossible fancy might in the future become a mechanical’ fact. I could see, at any rate, from what I had learned, that the subject was worth a new and sclentifie investigation.” His Experiments With Rubber Motors. “How did you go about the work of ap- plying your facts?” said I. “T next began a very different kind of experiments,” replied Mr. Langley. “The average man might have looked upon my next work as somewhat childish. I spent many hours in experimenting upon little toys, which I tried to make actually fly. I had my facts, you know, and I wanted to see how they would work out in actual practice. The only thing that had yet been done in making toys or anything that would fly was by an ingenious Frenchman, named Penaud, who a decade or more ago had made a flying toy by twisting strands of rubber, which in untwisting turned a little propeller wheel made of a couple of feathers. The propellers moved the toy forward. They kept it in the air for a number of seconds, enabling it to fly from fifty to one hundred feet. Simple as this toy looked, it was the father of a future flying machine, and France ought to have the credit of it. I tried the same thing again and again on a larger scale, my ob- ject being to learn what the conditions were by which we could secure a horizon- tal flight in free air.” “What did you find?” “I did not find out a great deal. The rub- ber models flew so Irreguiarly and for so short a time that I could not learn much from them. I soon saw that I must have a better motive power. IT must have some- thing that would make a machine fly long enough for me to observe low it flew. In other wcrds, in order to rn how to make a flying machine, I must have a flying ma- cl to begin with. How the Steam Engine Was Built. “I examined and experimented on every “y the battery, the primary battery and other things, including the gas en- The last was the most promising, and y some day prove to be the best: but hing else I found it too h 5 for you see the engine hasi to be exceeding- ly iight in proportion to the power. After much experiment of this kind I concluded that the only immediate nope was in the steam engine, and that it could only be used provided it could becbuilt to a degree of li nich had hitherto never been att I had to have*nearly one horse power to give me a goott chance for any practical experiment.:’ New, it’ is only few years since an engine developing this amount of power weixhed as much as a horse himself. In other words, it weighed something like 1,000 pounds. 1 had to have a one horse p engine and boiler which together would weigh less than ten pounds, or one-hundredth the weight of a horse and I at once went ta work to make it. took me a year to construct it, and I haa ne Kind of a motor,” Mr. Langley went on. tried compressed air, carbonic acid storage many gine. the best of mechanics to help me. f{ re- duced the weight atom by atom, building and rebuilding, until yyw 4 have what I be- liev to be the smallest one horse power ne in the world. ;Its;moving parts, as I told you, weigh just twenty-six ounces, or less than two pounds, . Ay it was with the engine, so it has been.with every part of | the machine. Every part, of it aas had to | be m over and over again, until, asthe result of the greater part of my leisure for the past fifteen years, | have accomplished what you haye seen today."” The Flying Machities of the Futare. “Yes, Mr. Langley,” said I, “that is true, you have worked, but you have succeeded. Yes," replied Mr. Langley, “I have suc- ceeded. I have proved both theoretically and practically that machines can be made which wil travel through the air. . The question of the development of the fact is one of the future. My motive and interest in the work up to this time have been purely scientific ones, but if I had the time and money to spend upon the construction of a large machine, I believe I could make one on a seale such as would demonstra to the world that a large p: ing flying machine can be well as a scientific succe many things yet to be learned it, but T have no doubt that they will be discovered in the future. * moment that men see that such mach are not only | practicable, but that they y be made commercially profitable, there will be } thous inventors working upon the prob- jem is ni 1 e, however, t flying machine will first come into ional in the arts.of war ther than th f a great war chine the arm’ In an event of peace. yy means of an aerial ma- of one nation will be able to know exactly what those of the enemy are doing, thus radically changing present military Strategy and. tactics, to say noth- ing of their power of dropping down bombs out of the s I believe, however, that such inventions will finally | greater advantage in the arts of peace. have faith that the swiftest and perhaps the most luxurious, if not the safest, trav- eling in the future may be through the air. “But will it not be impossible to induce people to risk their lives in the first experi- ments ou such machines?” “I think not,” replied Mr. Langley. “If I had a large acrodrome constructed on the principles of the one you have seen to- day, though the danger of the initial ex- periment would undoubtedly be great, I am sure I should have to turn away any number of men who would be anxious to risk a flight upon it.” FRANK G. C > In a Gale. be of even I aR. She—"I thought you said you were going to stop swearing He—‘So I am as soon as I get this um- brella down.”” eoet Of Course She Admired It. From the New York Herald, Maud (at the art exhibit)—‘Now, I like the sort of picture which tells a story.” Clara—“How fond you must be of your own, dear; It makes you. positively beauti- ul. i os +e+ Overheard Near Bergen. From Pune Norwegian Host (whose English is not perfect—to_ British tourist)—‘What that I tell you, Sarr, it is quite true. Nansen killed his last dog to save the others: * ART AND ARTISTS Mr. R. Le Grand ‘Johnston has placed upon exhibition at Veerhoff's a number of the canvases which he painted during the summer. The most important one is a large picture, which was executed entirely out of doors. It was pammted in New Hampshire and shows a typical New Eng- land field with the coloring of late Sep- tember. Browsing around the boulders, which are characteristic of the region, is a flock of sheep studied directly trom na. ture. The landscape setting is of itself a picture, and is treated in a very. skillful manrer. Another of the canvases exhib- ited is a faithfully studied barnyard scene, and a simple landscape showing a stretch of pasture land is also notably good. * * * The rear gallery at Veerhoff's is now given over to an exhibition of prints by the Berlin Photograph Company. Mr. Lama- sure's exhibit of water colors closed with the end of last week, and he is planning to take the collection to Philadelphia. * * % Miss Bertha E. Perrie will hold an ex- hibition of water coiors at the Art League building upon Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Her pictures will be hung in the rooms occupied by the School of Design, and will be supplemented by several studies by Miss Aline Solomons and by an attractive collection of water colors by Miss Emily Tyers of New York. Miss Perrie’s display promises to be ex- ceptionally good this year, and will in- clude several of the best of her previously exhibited pictures, and a large number of the charming sketches which she made at East Glouccster this summer. There will be a very wide range of subjects, but ma- rines executed in Miss Perrie’s well known manner ¥‘ll be especially in evidence. Pur During the latter part of last week a very interesting exhibition was held at Miss Grace Lincoln Temple's studio of Ap- plied Art in the Cairo. Miss Tempe de- votes herself entirely to planning schemes of decoration for residences, and the ex- hibition was composed largely of new de- signs in papers and hangings. * x * Miss Juliet Thompson has been quite busy with a number of portraits in pastel, a meGium with which she is thoroughly fa- miliar. She has been at work upon like ;Resses of Mrs. T. V. Hammond, Mrs. Par- sons Jeffrey, Miss Winifred, Waterman and several others. In addition to this work in color she has executed a few portraits black and white, the most recent of these being one of John Bak * * Carnegie ptizes * The award of the been eagerly awaited by artists and lovers evecywhere.» Winslow Homer's ture, which received the first prize of is entitled The Wreck, and is vigorous Gramatic in its treatment. The prize of $3,000 has been awarded Melchers for his picture called The Ship- builder. Americans aione were eligible in the competition for these two money prizes, and the pictures will become the property sie Art Gallery in Pittsburg. three other awards made the na- tionality of the artist was net considered. John Lavery of Glasgow, Scotland, re- ceived the gold medal, J.’ F. Rafaelli of Paris received the silver medal and Cecitiz Beaux of Philadelphia was awarded the bronze medal. and second to Gari * * * The exhibit of the Water Color Cub, which closes today, has been well attended throughout the entire week, and a num- ber of sales have been effect The artis lic cover for the catalogue, which has bé much admired, was designed by William | Fuller Curtis. x cd The meeting of the Soctety of Washing- ton Artists on Tuesday evening was very largely attended, and many topics of inter- est were discussed. It ts practically set- tled that the exhibition of the society is to be held in April at the Cosmos Club. The admission of outside work has re- sulted so successfully with the Water Color Club it is probable the older organization will follow the same plan unless the space is very much needed for the work of local artist: Those present at the meeting were Messrs. H. H. Nichols, W. H. Chandlee, George Gibbs, U. 8. J. Dunbar, Parker Mann, Max Weyl, Carl Weller, H. J. Elli- cott, E. F. Andre: Ww. Chilton, L. 5. Brumidi, E. H. ler, Jerome Uni, Wells Sawyer, Edward Siebert, W. W. Christmas, Louls Redfern, W. H. Coffin and Miss Juliet Thompson. * Among the new pictures which are en exhibition at Fischer's the most ing is a study called Her Royal Hig! by Evart Van Muyden. Another fine ture is the landscape by F. De Haven ot New York. There is a small studio :n- terior by Edouard Manet. Miss Hattie Burdette, whose Girl Reading ha much admired at the exhibit of the Color Club, has placed on view an able head in pastel. * + At the new Congressional Library the decoration of the four corner pavilions as been entirely completed and the connecting corridors thrown open so that visitors may now make the circuit of the building upon the second floor. George Willoughby M nard’s frescoes for the southwest pay were the first completed decorations in the building. Robert Dodge’s paintings for the southeast pavilion, the pavilion of the Wie- ments, as it is called, were finished a short time ago, and Van Ingen’s decoration for the pavilion of Seals in the northeast cor- ner were completed at about the same time. ‘The paintings of Robert L. Dodge for the northwest pavilion were placed in position about a week or more ago. Unlike the decorations for the other pavilions, which were painted upon the plaster, Mr. Dodge's subjects were executed upon canvas, and he was, therefore, enabled to exhibit them in the Paris salon this spring. The best of his decorations is the circular one in the ceiling, entitled “Ambition.” A crowd of men and women are pursuing Fame, who. rrounted upon Pegasus, remains just above them and out of their reach. The figures are painted as though seen from below, | and, while the best authorities upon mural painting have always questioned the wis- dom of this method, it gives opportunities for a clever study of foreshortening. Draw- ing is not Mr. Dodge's strong point, how- ever, and in the many nude figures which he has introduced in his paintings it is especially evident. His coloring is very pleasing, and the figures are well grouped in the four lunettes upon the sides of the rcom, The subjects of these are Litera- ture, Art, Music and Science. * * * William Brantley Van Ingen’s frescoes for the pavilion of seals represent the eight executive departments of the government. Female figures personify the different de- partments, and in the background are ob- jects which suggest these branches. Thus the Capitol is seen rising behind the figure representing State, and the treasury build- ing behind the figure typifying that de- partment. The walls of the room are cov- ered with aluminum leaf, and upon this glowing surface the seals of the several departments are~painted. For the ceiling Mr. Elmer E. Garnsey has made a design eontaining the great seal of the United States and around this decoration fs a band with Lincoin’s words, “That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of free- dom, that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” Besides his decorations for this room Mr. Van Ingen has painted two lunettes for the grand stair hall, based up- on Milton's poems “L’ Allegro” and “I! Pen- * x * A very artistic little volume is a book by Philander Johnson, illustrated by Wilt H, Chandlee. The book is entitled “Sayings of Uncle Eben,” and- upon the co drawing of “Uncle Eben” by Mr. Chandles Mr. Chandlee’s illustrations are all in pen and ink, and consist largely in effective marginal drawings and vignette sketches. Besides the negro sketches, which are ex- cellent, there are many equally good bits of landscape, executed in a decorative style, * i ** Mr. 8. Jerome Uhl ts now busy on a por- WHY THE TIME-LIMIT TS EMPHASIZED To Avoid Hurrying and Confusion During the Latter Days of the Month--While Dr. McCoy’s Offices in Washington Are Permanent, the $3 Opportunity is Not--It Positively Closes January 1, and Will Under No Circumstances Be Extended: The extemston of the $8 raf® beyond the lim! which Doctor, McCoy first, get for it, that is, Xé Yember Ist, was made necessary by the crowds of People who Thtomged the offide during the conclud- ing days of October. If Doctors McCoy and Cow den had been twenty doctors Instead of two doc- tors they could not have begun to have cared for all the penple during the last two or three days of the month. Many were turued away. It is not Patt of Doctor McCoy's plan to burry patients, to have his offices uncomfortably crowded or to com- pel patients to wait long hours before seeing thelr physician. When be made ihe extension of the rate, therefore, he made the time ample and gen- erous—two full months—for the very purpose of avoiding any mor such scenes as those that char- acterized the concluding days of October. Now, about two weeks remain during which ad- vantage can be taken of the rate, and atuple no- tice having been given that the opporzunit tively closes January 1, and that it will md oxtended te circumstances or on no condition be yond that date, Doctor MeCoy destres ot 1 the scenes of hurrying and confasion which were phasis to the purpose of this extension, ty avoid 80 annoying to patients and physicians alike. Doc tor McCoy respectfully asks, for this sake and for their sake, that all those who desire to avail them- selves of the opportunity of the $3 make their application at once rather than wait w the last few days of the tmonth. Doctor M desiros that no person this opportunity. He has done all in bis power i rate be make the limit of time known, and those wie come during the last days of December and tind it Is physically impossible for Doctor MeCoy to see them will have only themsel) n, after January 1, they w are or MeCoy’s practic manent in the period du advantage can be taken of the $3 cate ts not permanent; it ends pritively with the t vear. AM treatment before Junuary ist will be who place cured at the uniforn This rate treated antil rate of 8% a month. all treatment and cove ers expense of medicines and in- udex Deafness and all disenscs, COULD NOT HEAR THE Voice OF HER CHILDREN, Mrs. B. Marcey, Cherryda’ od was so deaf when I went to Doctor M-Coy for treatment that I cond not hear the r whistle I could not ing in the same s. [had ringing confused me very uch vous. I went to Doctor Mei of the many wonderful cures had been deaf. [can now and the striking of lest to me enth talk and und low. iolres in my e had clock, sounds that were I ently eam hear n are sayin dd the whistles bl My hearing is already nearly perfect cont under treatment anti tt is Test Trs. Va. Maicey, Cherrydale, Cured of deafness. STONE DEAF IN fr the I had to give of amusement. My wateh tick pl twas stone deaf, church been restor; in my lett held six inches away oh HAD CATARRH OF THE STOMACH FIVE YEARS. Mrs. Mary Donovan, 231: n.w.: “Phe week befere I went to Do McCoy and Cowden I fainted from 1 had suffered from Catarrh of the Stomach for tive weakness. years. I had tried all sorts of remedies without any benefit. I had much pain. “My food wd on | my stomach and distressed me. Much of the ti I was not able to attend to my work. My tougue was constantly coated, 1am now free f ud my eyes wer mm pain, my tongue aud e: clear, L eat and digest iy tvod with comfor I really feel like another being. 1 heart! ommend Doctor MeCos’s treatment yellow. ree DOCTOR McCOY CURING CBRONIC DYSPEPSIA. Mrs. S. Fitzgerald, “For years I had been a chronic sufferer digestion. I had a grest deal of pain in th of tke stomach. Often I could hardly breath. I raised much gas. the agonies of a dyspeptic. was incurable, as all the remedies I used gave me no relief. I read of the many remarkable cures that Doctors McCoy and Cowden were making, aud | I am giad that I placed myself under their treat- ment. I hav? no more pain or distress. I have no indigestion aud no raising of gas. I am perfectly well again after years of sickness and distress.”” CURING ASTHMA. Mra. S. B. Marconnier, 1073 2d st., Georgetown, D. C.: “I suffered from Asthma for years. Foor different doctors said they could mot | do anything for me. Dr. McCos has completely cured me. Since his treatment I have gained fre | CURED OF BRONCHITIS AND LUNG TROUBLE. W. A. UNe, 641 Maryland ave. s.w.: “I bad been a great sufferer from Bronchit!s and Lang Trouble for a long time before I went to Dr. MeCoy. He bas entirely cured me of both ” COPIES OF DR. McCOY’S MUNO- GRAPH ON DBAFNESS WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICATION TO THOSE DIRECTLY INTERESTED [NX THE themselves under | examination, | Champlain | re | » and | |DR. McCOY’S RECORD. The Six Years of Preparation. Matriculant at University of New York. First honor mau i@ tis claws. 55 Winner of famous Loomis prize. for BeNetne WF competi ation, pen to the doctors of the world, rosident phys! Bellevne Mospital.................2.M During service at B. elected visiting April, 1880 Study in bospttais of Londen aud Dablin.. Formulation of regular treatmest fer chronic t Dies as a result of hospital experience. . Formulation of regular treatment for th catarrhal, ‘ial and lung diseases Announcement of Dr = ASST Ist McCoy's cares first introduced voluntarily by well-known Journalists, with pic tazes and intery Doctor MeCoy treat thonth. Extension Ss of patients cured. April, ISS4 over one thousand patients a faciities by my BL Serving ip the liboratories of Prof. Koch, ot Be wl of Berlin and Formulation of a sys: of potson in the syn by hy Dr. McCoy's Dis for Deafness, Location of a ton. . Septem: nal practice in + Maredy | cv. L. L. Smith, 606 6th st. s.w. Cured of Deainess. REV. MR. SMITE TESTIFI 9 NEARING RESTORED. 606 Cth s. De T most ieartiiy recommend has « 4 my bearing ALMOST TOTA | Miss Elizas Pope, on had been deaf for (on years. Tw j deat when J went to Dr. MeCoy been « ly restored.” WAS STONE D attract VADARES. sows N YEAHS. 4th owt me 8 1 went to Pr, Met I hea My bearing Is eonipl | DEAF PAWEL YEARS. | Mes. Maria Bradley, 919 1B st. sow. 6 Dr. MeCoy My by HEARING C¢ HPTELY RES TC | Wm. Art M st. now been deat fy month | moises in any head md, {hear anything. Under J am con tely cured. COULD NOT HEAR THE NO Mrs. Thox. Moore, Brookland, D. ©. ‘L was so when I played the pisno 1 could net the motes. My ears discbar 2 great deal. Dr. MeCoy has restored my and stopped the disc 2 a z = 5 tempt to do were afraid has cutirely CURED OF CHEST TROUBLE. W. HL Morse, 321 Maryland ave. ne: treated me ahout CURED oF Joba D. Barker, 1310 12th st. mw.: “1 had Eexema three years, My body was brokes oat all has complete! curd ie after many others had failed.” | Mes. B. King, 482 Bo wt. sows on sare } fered from Eczema for three In months I bave been entirely cured, for CURED OF SKIN DISEASE. J. M. Woodward, 1002 © st. s.w.: “For 20 years I suffered from skin disens: Iw broken out ail over my body. I have been com: | pletely cured by Dr. McCoy.”” McCoy Systemof Medicine -Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. 718 13th Street Northwest. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a.m. 1 te 5 p.m. @ tos p.m.daily. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m summer, but the most interesting of all his sketches is a forest scene, where the leaves are in the very heighf of coler, Though painted fn a very low key, !t is rich In tong, and has all the elements which go to make up a fine picture,