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topic of conversation pro and con that is so much in 
evidence today, especially among men, as the subject 
of aerial navigation, and it is amusing and instructive 
to listen to certain gentlemen who are well posted upon 
the subject and to learn from a disinterested stand-point 
just what a hold the subject has taken upon such men. 
Some are loud in their praises of the invention and 
express a desire to try a flight at their earhest oppor- 
tunity, and others take a very positive position and 
declare that it is bound to be a failure from any point 
of view, still others are conservative and quote other 
days when men made rash statements concerning auto- 
mobiles and lived to prove their fallacy, and this class 
are very much in evidence. When one has seen a biplane 
working and has noted the wonderful performances 
given by such men as the Wrights and Atwood they 
cannot help but believe that the birdships have come to 
stay, and that although they are today but toys in the 
hands of these daring few, the time is not far away 
when they will be classed as a practical safe and modern 
means of transportation. There is not a day goes by that 
requests for plans and prices do not come to the Burgess, 
Curtis workshops, and the mail business on that account 
is something tremendous. Hun- 
dreds and hundreds of men, most 
of them motor experts, have taken 
up the study of the biplane and 
are promising all sorts of inven- 
tions that they are perfecting 
with the intention of putting them 
before the public at the earlest 
possible moment. Brains, brawn, 
and the highest intelligence are 
that line, 
and when such attributes are 
brought to bear it would seem 
even to the uninitiated that bird 
men and women are bound to be 
as common in the days to come 
as niotor men and women are 
today. 
The first idea one has of a bi- 
plane suggests innumerable in- 
tricacies that seem indispensable, 
but when one examines one of 
these white winged moths, there seems to be little that 
is not easily explained, and the mechanism is apparently 
quite as simple of comprehension as that of a motor, and 
in fact some make the assertion that it is far simpler. 
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Another View of the Burgess-Wright Biplane 
Atwood in the Avtator’s Seat—ShoWwing th 
Method of Handling Burgess-Wright Machine 
Be that as it may, simple or complex, the biplane is a 
factor in society today that cannot be ignored, and men 
and women who are broad-minded and democratic must 
S0dMmM1t- tae 
such is the 
fact. One pe- 
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aerial naviga- 
tion that has 
yet to be ex- 
plained is this: 
why have 
Frenchwo m en 
taken up the 
subject to the 
extent that 
they have and 
American w 0- 
men who. are 
A Different Type of Machine—the Bleriot 
‘beat the world,’’ are still far behind? 
timid than their sisters across the water, or is the 
explanation’ advanced by a prominent biplane manu- 
facturer correct: ‘‘They are too 
supposed to 
Are they more 
valuable and choice to 
chance of lesing.’’ The latter is a 
pretty theory but unconvincing, 
to be sure it is stated upon good 
authority that Eleanora Sears has 
in mind a biplane all her own 
in which she will startle society 
in the time to come, but up to 
date her name is the only one 
connected with the subject. Many 
women have taken trial trips in 
the machines and come back safe 
and sound, and unquestionably 
when their fathers, brothers and 
sweethearts take up the art in 
very earnest we shall have a few 
venturesome birdwomen _ flying 
the stars and stripes. 
The birds of the air will un- 
questionably wonder at this new 
advocate that is soon to come among them, and what 
their sensations will be when they first realize that 
their domain is invaded by such a giant, featherless, 
songless specie is not hard to imagine. It will be the 
end of their happiness and reign and the be- 
ginning of their migration, but such is the 
history of progress. 
To those men who are pioneers in the art 
of aerial navigation must be given just due, 
their conviction will make possible wonders 
that are as yet but vague mirages in the 
distance. 
As I looked upon the biplane in the work- 
shops I wondered where and when-it would 
first fly into the unexplored regions that await 
it above, and it was certainly a curious sen- 
sation to think of this fluttering white winged 
messenger knocking at the gateways of the 
upper world, where dreams and dreamers have 
wandered, but where humans have as yet but 
knocked in faney.—Article and cuts used by 
courtesy of North Shore Reminder. 
run any 
Don’t worry about your work. Do what 
you ean, let the rest go, and smile all the time. 
