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BOSTON NEWS BUREAU. 



T U E S D A Y M O E N I N G , SEPTEMBER 13, 1910. 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLYING MACHINES. 



Their Commercial Value. 



Boston — As noted in the Boston News Bureau Saturday, 

 i many financial problems are opened up by the onrush in the de- 

 | velopment of the navigation of the air. The declaration that 

 aviation shows no commercial use reminds one of the declaration 

 of that Kentucky congressman who fought the first appropria- 

 tion to establish the Morse telegraph because it had no commer- 

 cial value and could do nothing. After the government began 

 building the first line and private capital could not be interested 

 on a commercial basis, the southern congressman was appealed 

 to by his neighbors, who declared, "Now you see it; the poles 

 and wires are going up." 



"O, that is all very well," replied the congressman, "I have 

 always admitted that the Morse electric telegraph might be so 

 constructed and developed as to carry letters and small express 

 packages, but I vow it will never carry a bale of cotton." 



Many people fail to see that carrying coal is only a coarser 

 means of light communication and that the essentially highest 

 communication is the transference of light by intelligences. 

 The telephone today is more important than the telegraph. 

 Flash communication is the highest form of news and the one 

 everywhere most valuable. The mail is more valuable than the 

 express and both pay the highest rates in transportation . 



The New York, New Haven & Hartford is the most valuable 

 railroad in the United States because it deals with the smallest 

 packages and thereby with the most diversified business. 



The aeroplane is not being developed, as many people sup- 

 pose, for war purposes, because logically it abolishes war. War 

 is for the development of man; peace follows for the develop- 

 ment of humanity. Peace, war and all development of life 

 come by communication. 



What may it not be worth in the future to get a communica- 

 tion quickly through where no wire or wireless system exists? 



How many times in history have man and horse been power- 

 less to convey a decree that would have saved life or changed the 

 fates and the recorded facts? 



What may not be the value in the future of the ability to 

 send faster than by motor car or express train a document or 

 stock certificate, a deed, a signature, a proof in evidence, bonds 

 for collateral security, signed notes, endorsements, a witness, 

 a notary with power of certification, a doctor, a surgeon or a 

 captain of industry with the only brain that can quickly solve 

 a knotted problem of great danger or value? 



When the Northern Pacific panic was at its height certificates 

 were rushed fiom Philadelphia to New York by express to meet 

 contracts where shares were selling, for that day only, at $1000, 

 or nearly ten times their raal value, and hundreds of millions 

 of property were hanging in the Wall Street balances. 



With a few hundred flvm fc machines in operation between 

 financial centers, corners in shares become well-nigh impossible. 



The development in man's conquest of the air is breaking 

 all speed records. We are now in the last quarter of the first 

 century of railroad development, and dealing with the problem 

 of rate regulation. We are 60 years in our telephone develop- 

 ment, and more than 20 years of this was taken up with the prob- 

 lem of making a musical tone break forth into human speech. It 



took some years after this to find the use of the telephone; and 

 only one of 30 proposals surv ved, and that was the exchange 

 system. It took 15 years to develop the glider into the flyer, the 

 Wright brothers finally accomplishing it in their three years' 

 work from 1900 to 1903. Seven years more and the season of 

 1910 is closing with the great Boston meet, the greatest ever held 

 in the world. There has thus far been a week and a day of men 

 flying in the air, with novice passengers male and female, and 

 no person has rece'ved a scratch or jolt. 



This is remarkable when one considers that the record a few 

 months ago was 110 pioneer aviators with 48 of them dead. 

 Who can say what the next seven years, or the last quarter of 30 



j years of development, may not produce? 



Next Sunday begins the flight over the Alps. Paris offers 

 $50,000 annual prize for an aerial circuit of France, passing 

 through the larger cities. She is organizing her military relay 

 stations for 12 aeroplanes to cross the Sahara desert 1000 miles 

 to Timbuctoo. This journey requires now four months. With 

 proper relays a few days will do it. The French army has 45 

 machines, and has just ordered 30 more,- — 10 Bleriots and 20 

 Farmans, seven of the atter to carry a pilot and two passengers. 



j Twelve thousand dollars is offered the French builder who within 

 12 months will furnish a machine to carry a load of 600 pounds 

 200 miles at 40 miles an hour. 



This is speed, and Boston and Paris are in it. 



SOUTH STATION PASSENGER RECORD. 

 Boston — The largest day's business in the history of the 

 South Station was that handled on Saturday on account of the 

 Squantum Airship Meet. The number of people transported 

 to and from Atlantic approximated 45,000. This was in addi- 

 tion to the 50,000 regular passengers that passed in and out of 

 the station at the time the extra trains were being run. It re- 

 quired 49 additional collectors to take up the tickets, one to each 

 car. 



The management has issued a circular letter thanking the 

 employees for the part each one played in the successful transpor- 

 tation of the great throng. 



