Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1928, Page 11

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FEBRUARY 5 1928—PART 1. BRIDGE WORK WILL SIARI IN 3[] DAYS Controvcrsy Between Inventor and Late Dr. Walcott Involved Flying Machine Cleveland Company Gets| Contract for Arlington | Built by 'AIRPLANE DISPUTE RECALLED BY WRIGHT GIFT TO BRITAIN Span Superstructure. Work on the superstructure of the Arlington Memorial Bridge will begin | within the next 30 davs, it was an- nounced yesterday by Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the bridge com- mission. following the award of the contract to the Hunkin-Conket Con- struction Co. of Cleveland. Under the agremeent the contractors are allowed 700 davs in which to com- | plete the work. Their bid calls for $1.576,686 The contract for the stone carving 2150 was given today to the North Caro- lina Granite Corporation of Mount Atry. N C.. and calls for $42.000. The National Commission of PFine Arts will meet with officials of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission | and McKim, Meade & White, the archi- tects of the bridge, in New York City | tomorrow. All members of the Fine! Arts Commission are expected to be present. The bridge commission will | be represented by Col. Grant and Maj. | J. C. Mehaffey, i charge of construc- | tion. | At this meeting they will discuss the | proposed underpath to carry Potomac | Park traffic past the bridze. They also will discuss the proposed pylons as well &s examine & model of the bison head eyst The New York meeting was decided on. according to Col. Grant. because three members of the Fine Arts Com- mi are in New York and because the detailed plans for the bridge are in the office of the architects there. $10,000 SENT TO AID NEAR EAST RELIEF Catholics Answer Call for Refugees Driven Out by Turkish Government Authorization to appropriate $10.000 es a contribution from the Catholics of America for immediate relief in the Near East of Russian refugees driven out of Constantinople by the Turkish government was given the Catholic Near East Welfare Association at a meeting of its executive committee held recently. This was made known yes- terday in statement issued by Prof. Edmund A Walsh. S J. vice president of Georgetown University and president of the association. at the New York heesdquarters at 480 Lexington avenue. The Turkish government is unwilling 1o allow the 3.000 Russifn refugees who still in Constantinople to remain nger than February 6. unless they take out Turkish citizenship. Prof. Walsh said he had been imformed. A check for $10.000 was mailed at once to Dr. Pridtjof Nansen in charge of refugee work for the League of Nations. Among other organizations which have contributed notable sums are the American Red Cross. the Laura-Sepl- man Rockefeller Poundation. the Near East Relief, the Russian Refugee Society of America, and the Jewish Joint ~ Distribution Committee. The League of Nations is underiaking to provide the remainder, as well as to supply transportation and other ne- cessities for the voyage. DR. HUMMEL TO.SPEAK. Library Group to Hear Talk on Chinese Culture. Dr. Arthur H. Hummel of the Li- brary of Conzress will discuss “The Cul- tural Renaissance in Chjna” at the Feb- ruary meeting of the District of Co- lumbia Library Association Tuesday night at 8 oclock in the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress. A musical program. arranged by the music division of the Library of Con- gress, will be one of the features. Im- portant matters will be discussed. HONO—R—;OR MACARTHUR. General Will Be Awarded Military Order Medal. Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArihur. com- manding officer of the 3d Corps Area, will be presented with the past com- mander-in-chie{’s insignia by the Dis- trict Chapter of the Military Order of ihe World War at the annual banquet and military ball at the Mayflower Hotel Monday night. Pebruary 13 Senator Pat Harrison has been in- er the principal address. attaches of the various embassies have been inviled to attend Musie will b fumished by the Uni'sd Ftates Marine Band, directed by Ta™'or Brznson MEXICO & WEST INDIES | plane to a British museum recalls to ‘Washington a controversy that raged here from May 1 to June 15, 1825, between the airplane inventor and the late Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and one of the foremost contributors to the ad- vancement of the sclence of aviation. Out of a clear sky Mr. Wright an- nounced that the original power-driven airplane to fly with A man on Decem- ber 17. 1903. would be sent to the museum because he feared to trust it with the Smithsonian Institution. as the latter had ‘mutilated” the plane of Prof. Samuel Pierpont Langley. At this time Mr. Wright was quoted in Dayton by the Associated Press as having said: “For 20 years I have kept possession of the machine in the | hopes that a suitable home for it could be found in America. Several Anter- ican museums have asked for it. but | | the one institution among these which | seemed to be national enough in char- acter was one to which I would not care to intrust the machine. | Refers to Langley Machine. { “This lack of confidence was the| result of the way the officers of this | institution had allowed the priceless relic of the Langlev machine of 1903 to be taken out of the museum in 1914 and the original materials of its struc- ture to be mutilated for the purposes of private partics fo a patent litigation. The machine now hanging ip the museum is not the origmal machine. but is mostly a new machine. with many of the restored parts of different construction from the original. The label now hanging on it is true neither of the restored nor of the original ‘machine. “1 could not be assured that our ma- chine, if given to this institution would be any safer from mutilation than Langley’'s has been. or that the label put on it would b> any more true than the label on his. Our machine still possesses its original parts, with only a few replacements. made necessary by an accident after its fourth flight. on December 17, 1903. and by slight dam- age suffered in the Dayton flood of 1913." To this statement Dr. Walcott re- plied with an emphatic denial of mutilation. He emphasized that the Langley plane had not been taken from the museum. as charged. but had been removed from the old workshop of Prof. Langley, where it had been stored since 1903 and equipped with pontoons in an effort to assist it in landing and getting off the water. With the orig- inal engine it was flown at Ham- mondsport. N. Y. and then another engine of greater power was installed with the necessary changes to give it strength, Dr. Walcott said Even when flown with the original engine the plane was 40 pounds heavier owing to the additional weight of the pon- toons. Wright's Conditions. Arguments waged back and fdtth on the “mutilation” question and then a new turn was taken. It was announced on behalf of Mr. Wright that he would not send the plane to England if the following conditions were fulfilled 1. That the machine (Wright) be Mother! Child Gets Sick, if Constipated Mother! Your child isn’t naturally cross and peevish. See if tongue is coated. This is a sure sign the little stomach, liver and bowels need a cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn’t | cat. sleep or act naturally, has stom ach-ache. diarrhoea, remember, a gentle Jiver and bowel cleansing should always®be the first treatment given. Nothing equals “California Fig Syrup” for children’s ills. Give a teaspooniul, and in a few hours al the foul waste. sour bile and fer- menting food which is clogged in the bowels passes out of the system and you have a well and playful child again. All children love this harm less, delicious, “fruity laxative.,” and it never fails 1o effect a good cleancing” Directions for b children of all ages and grown are plainly on the hottle Keep it handy in your home WHITE /TAR LINE The busy person’s ideal winter vaca- The determination of Orville Wright | labeled the first airplanc actually to | to send the original Kitty Hawk air- fly, Langley. 2. That the label on the Langley plane bs made clear to the public that the machine was not actually flown until essential changes were made in its structure years after the inventor's death. 3. That the correspondence between Dr. Walcott and Mr. Wright in the controversy be published in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution A conference_was held and the up- | shot was that Dr. Walcott appointed a | special committer to inquire into the | capabilities of the Langley plane and also to see if an injustice had been done to the Wright brothers by the label on the ship as it hangs in the Smithsonian. This committee was composed of Dr. Joseph F. Ames and Rear Admiral D. W. Taylor, retired, chairman and vice chairman. respec- tively, of the National Advisory Gom- mittee for Aeronautics, an independent Government establishment. | The committee reported that the Langely plane failed to fly late in 1903, because it had not been launched successfully and also recommended a slight change in the label. The orig- inal label read: “Original Langley fiy- ing machine, the first man-carrying aeroplane in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight.” Label Adopted. The recommended label, w adopted and which now igenti ey craft in the institution he opinion of many competert to sudge. this was the first heavier-than- air craft in the history of the world capable of sustained free flight under | its own power, carrying a man - “This aircraft, slightly antedated the | machine designed and built by Wilbur | and Orville Wright, which on December 17, 1903, was the first in the history | of the world to accomplish sustained | free flight under its own power, carry- | The next heard of from Mr. Wright was that the machine would be shipped | to England “in two months. which ould make the shippi; the middle of August o 2out The controversy died out with an | observation by the President that Mr Wright had the right to do as he| pleased and the country should con- | cern itself more with the future devel- | opment of the airplane ; Back in 1910. when the world was still agog over the performance of the | Wright Army plane at Fort Myer, Dr.| Walcott wrote Wilbur Wright as fol- lows “The National Muscum is endeavor- | ing to enlarge its collections illustrat- | ing the progress of aviation, and in | this connection. it has been suggested | that you might be willing to deposit | one of your machines, or a model thereof, for exhibition purposes | “The great public interest manifested in this science and the numerous in- quiries from visitors for the Wright machine make it manifest that if one were placed on exhibition here it would form one of the most interesting speci- | mens in the national collections. It is | sincerely hoped that vou may find it possible to_accede to this request.” Wilbur Wright replied. under date 28. 1910. as follows “Your letter of the 7th of this month has been received If you will inform | | % Cross, Feverish T . S AANAIANNANANAS AAAAARARAAA otay saves a sek Coid but get the ger sk 1giist for a hottle Cali iornia Fig } that it < made by “The California Fig Syrup | Company.” vour MEDITERRANEANM WHITE /TAR LINE To Europe’s smartest playground, us just what yeur: preference would be in the matter of A filer for the Na- tional Museum we will sce what would be possible in the way of meeting your wishes. At present nothing is in con- dition for such use. But there are three possibilities. We might construct a small model showing the general construction of the airplane, but with a dummy power plant. Or we can re- construct the 1903 machine with which the first flights were made at Kitty Hawk. Most of the parts are still in existence. This machine would occupy a space 40 feet by 20 feet by 8 feet. Or a model showing the general de- sign of the latter machine could be constructed.” Then Dr. Walcott wrote the following, to which no reply ever was received: “Yours of March 26 came duly to tlon of the Wright airplane has been very carefully considered by George C. Maynard, who has charge of the ‘3. A full-size Wright airplane. In- Muscum. that the matter might be placed clearly | paired or reconstructed, would seem before you and your brother. In his re- | most suitable. port he says: illustrating the, Wright tnventions would | would answer the pu: make a very valuable addition to the | judgment might decide the question. aeronautical exhibits in the museum: ] “‘4. If the Wright brothers have an | Myer, Va., in September, 1908. Such|for close inspection that will be de- & model equipped with a dummy power | sirable.’ hand and the matter of the representa- | and. the one used at Kitty Hawk, a sec- | halls. The three Langley quarter-size | ond model of the latter machine would | models are on exhibition. The natural | be very appropriate. ‘ plan hwou 1 Wright division of technology in the National | asmuch as the machine used at Fort | ley machines, making the exhibit il- | 1 told Him to indicate what | Myer has attracted such world-wide in- | lustrate two very important steps in he would like for the exhibit, in order | terest, that machine, if it can be re-|the history of the aeronautical art. do to - 11 AGENTS LOSE BADGES: Robert L. Livingston, former prohibi- tion chief for this city, and now a pro- “The' request. of Mr. M | na marcobie sucnis B havs oot ther r. Ma; | and nar w] t S 1f, however, the Wright | rather a large one, but we v’v'fi?'g..v':’ official bronze and gold b,:fl;: e ‘The following objects | brothers think the Kitty Hawk machine | to leave it to your discretion as to whati ing to a list made public last night by better. their |you think it is practicable for you | Prohibition Commissioner Doran. Fallure of Dr. Walcott to Thbee ruhmdma mmv: . “‘1. 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