Destroyers Fail To Find Trace Of Lost NC-3 Continued from preceding page 'losing: boat float inn high; no serious Image apparent. Fairfax will tow to KuVsoon as practicable depend "?. 0? state of -sea.' Che cable was ,?nt a: 8 a. m. and was signed by Admiral Jackson. ^?Received 4:15 p. m. from Rear Admiral Jackson at Ponta Delgada: ?present weather conditions westerly '\e sky overcast, visibility eight !*ic's sea rough. Forecast continues strong southwesterly or westerly ?,lds to-day, becoming westerly to northwesterly and diminishing in velocity Sunday night or early Monday (morning. 1308 (9 a. m., New York ti?6)-' " , ,- ?. ?i-i -Received at 4:1' p. m. from Admiral J.ckson: 'All available destroyers .;0;nir:tr scouting line north from t orvo, Luting westward. U. S. S. Columbia directing the scouting line. I ox.is and Florida have boon ordered to join in search for NC-3. 1230 (8:30 New York time ? JVC's Designed To Bomb U-Boats Transatlantic 'Plane s S u g g e s . e d in 19 l 7 b\ Admiral Taylor WASHINGTON, May 18.?American , . eaplai , which have und? r taijen the firsl flieht aercss the Atlan ,;'. Ocean, ?ver? built especially for |,ombing ? ibmar nes, and in ?, g thi ?r design Rear Admirai David W. Taylor, chief of the bureau of construction and repair, had in mind t--e f ? E ships capable of fi'yirig across the ocean, so r.s to avoid : ?iffjeuiti ef delivery during the war. This was disclosed to-day by the Navy Deparament, which made public th? foil? wing memorandum sent by Admiral Taylor on August 25, 1917, to Naval Constructor \V. ?'. Westervelt, his assi tanl for aeronaut ics. ?The United States motor gives pood . promise of being a success, and if we can pU aii-plane end it . ems to m : the submai ?ne menace : be abate ;. ? ven i:' not destroyed, fron, th?1 air. "The ideal solution would bo big fly? ing boat- or th.[uivalent that w? be able to k? pi : r. ?t air i in any weather and a!-;? able to fly across the Atlantic to avoid diffi "...' ies of de? livery, etc." Admiral Taylor, after discussion of the problem with his assistants, di? rected the preparation of tentative plans. Early in :; : r, Glenn II. Curtiss, of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporatioi . nd his engin? ? rs, W. L. Gilmore ai i Henry Kleckler, came to Wash? t the i .-y's in? vitation to and they co?pci n ivy throughout the of the ship. A i of the * design made ? vv is tesl ed by Dr. A. 1 . Z_ the v, id tun? nel at th V . Navy Y:"'1 Consl ruci in ber ?nd coi:. . inder , a navai c i - r. wi - dirt :ted !.'? de . sign the hu boat. A series ? :' mode', s of I wei le up and ?tested bv i tructors McEatee and 11 the 1 w ig ba in a: the Wa ?hi, . ?ard ; nd the best of the ? : adopted. The engin pi ni design was the jwork of the Bui i of St? am Engi jfieering and it v ; to instal ithrec Lil ? rty n ' : ??-. In D< cember, [WIT. a ti - made with the |Gurtis3 compan; for ;...:i:r:g four of ?the boat,, but . .- ? pai s of the craft weie i . ? mber of fac? tories. Th? :. :. the first of the ?Wats, wa . and made a ' succ?s,';! flight i Octi ?er 1, 191*. The month of S ? ?? was spent :- -h?:'-'- : ' ? tl ? ? ? \('-l and ?tony flight . ' - A Fter making various min .? was apparent '?*?'*'? the flying pari of the craft could sustain a greater load if more power ?;*ere ;.?. ? ...-, decided to ?add a fourth ei gine. ??- The second boar was completed in : March. 1910, and successfully flew 'v:'h a tal ?1 ?, ? :' 28,000 pounds. J'~'- NC-3 ;.: d NC ; were completed ?f-'- month. It had been intended to. .??y all four boats across the Atlantic, but an accident to the NC-1 led co the decis on i p ace the wings of the -N'r:- on her, and tl i on.j I ? ree ves? sels wer" left available for the start of th< flig Pan-American Aero Convention Praises Navy for Sea Flight ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Mav 13. A I ting tl e Navy De \ Nrtment an I those who 1 ad a hand in B>e trau jatlai - c ? ,h1 of tl e navy'; Keaplai '"' n of the Second Pai .merican ?eronau? c Convent on. '1 he resolu Bon says; the men ber? of the Pan aeronautic Convention heard ?ith ?? the decision to bridge by a:r the great span between the Old *?ld and the New and have viewed Wl'h '??? i tep conceived ?ii. executed : ' we, In formal con ; ' a ?embled, hereby tender our ? congratulation? to th?; ?}K ": ' ' ' l\\ ,?'??: States Navy ^?i those oi bin deparan? ? ? wl ose co **frat,0n has gecared for this hemi ) , "'"? '"'J':'' ? proud moment of peace ltti triumph, and to th? cr? wt wl -, ??? ? ? ^?nee and daring have made their kwontry pUm-eers in BOCi, coura~( .... ??ronautic acl even ent." Raynham Mishap Bhrw to Hawker ?e*t of Sea Hace Marred When Hrilon Is Forced to Make Flight Alone By Fiarry f.. Tudor tHrettor, thi Air Pilote1 Bureau Knoiv.r,, both Hawker and Raynham ?roo*,, loc.ation with British ? *u'" '-?'. prior to the m t, ?*? *?y that each teget?ed their pro poser! competitive flight across the At? lantic as an aeronautic duel, pure and .-imple. The best of friends personally, they both regarded winning the trans? atlantic pennant as part of the day's CO ALM A N D E R M A C K E N 7.1E GRIEVE Navigatoi- of trie Sopwith 'plane which Hew for Ireland yesterday. ?.vork in conniption with their duties as employes of the Sopwith and Martin and Handyside firms. They have been. '.veil aware that success on the part of either would be merely a "sporting '.vin." and that the Americans, through their elaborately prepared-for flight, would be regarded as the actual pio of air tri vel across the Atlantic. ' Flight Their Life Ambition Both Hawker and Raynham have told ; me at different times that a successful ; flight between America and Great Brit? ain was their life ambition. In 1913 Hawker was the soie survivor of the. seaplane race around Britain. It was sheer determination under the disad? vantage of a disabled arm and bodily . in -hat brought him through. On beint: complimented on his pluck he replied thai he would want more than he had already shown when he could get a machine capable of cross? ing "the pond." Following this event Hawker returned to Australia and be came identified with aeronautical prog? ress in that country, breaking several altitude records. Raynham's principal, crass-water ex? ploit was his flight in an Avro hydro aeroplane to Helgoland -one of the tests that Germany demanded be filled before che purchased the machine. This was in 1912, and although the long talked of German invasion seemed a.-; far distant as ever Rynham after ward expressed regret that the Avro had not failed in the test and so balked Germany's desire to learn the design and principles of the machine. Race Marred by Mishap. Aftor the weeks of weary delay cul? minating in yesterday's jump off, 1 believe Hawker is no less disappointed than Raynham at the latter's mishap.' Neither of them cares for the plaudits of a solo accomplishment where the zest of the contest has been marred. So far as Great Britain is con? cerned the congratulations of the en? tire nation will be most sincerely ac? corded the commanders and crews and designer of the NCs. As a matter of fact, every aeronautical enthusiast in the world has hoped that the United States would attain distinction in aerial effort. The backwardness of this country heretofore has not been the fault of American aircraft designers or aviators or would-be flying men. Ti\e accomplishment of the transat? lantic flight by American flying craft ^s^^^S^??^ll Fable Decorations These charming fruit centres serve a double purpose. They are useful fruit dishes as well as attractive decorations for the table or sideboard. We have a very broad range of crystal and china selections at attractive prices. i "OUT OF TUB CONOE8TBD DISTRICT lit'i CON ; 'K'.iivN'i I,y LOCATED" ! 5TIiAVENUKand30TH.STREET _- ti. Important events in the history of heavier-than-air machines are. briefly, as follows: 1500 -Baptiste Dante made glider flights near Lake Trasimene, Italy. , 1500 Leonardo da Vinci sketched a parachute, an ornithopter and a helicopter. 1742?Marquis do Bacquevillc, using imitation flapping wings, flew from his house on the Seine to Garden of Tuileries. 1781?Karl Meerwein, of Baden, computed the area of a spindle-shaped man-sup? porting surface, from proportions of bird weight, and wing surface. These figures were later substantiated by Lillienthal. Aviator was fastened to the middle of the under surface, holding a rod which operated the wings. One attempt by Meerwein was unsuccessful. 1809?Sir George Cayley built a glider of 300-foot wing surface which skimmed the ground and sailed from hilltops. 1842?-Hanson patented a monoplane to be driven by a steam engine. It had a wing span of 140 feet. 1855?Captain Le Bris made a partially successful flight with his glider. 1871?M. A. Penaud built a toy model which flew 131 feet in the Garden of the Tuileries. 1S77?William Kress made a model fitted with two propellers and double control. 1890?Clement Ader, near Gretz, France, experimented with a monoplane. driven by a forty horse-power motor. 1891?Lillienthal began experimental flights with monoplane gliders near Berlin. 1893?Horatio Phillips constructed a multiplane aeroplane, with wings superim? posed, after the principle of Wcnham. It was equipped with a 5.5 horse-power motor and one propeller. 1894?Sir Hiram Maxim built a three-man carrying machine with propellers op? erated by a 300 horse-power engine. Total weight 8,000 pounds. Machine was wrecked. 1895?Percy S. Pilcher built monoplane gliders which operated successfully. 1896?Professor S. P. Langley's steam-driven toy monoplane model flew over the Potomac successfully for over 3,OHO feet, at from twenty to twenty five miles an hour. 1900-?Wilbur and Orvillc Wright experimented with gliders with arched surfaces and adjustable rudder in, front. 1903 -Wright brothers' machine, weighing 7F0 pounds, flew at speed of thirty to thirty-five miles per hour for period ot twelve seconds. 1905?Wright brothers flew for a distance of twenty-four miles in thirty-eight minutes. 1906?Santos-Dumont made the first officially recorded ICuropean flight, leaving the ground for a distance of thirty-six feet at the rate of twenty-three miles per hour. In another flight he remained in the air twenty one seconds and flew a distance of 700 feet, winning prize offered by French Aero Club. 1907?Delagrange demonstrated a Voisin biplane, and Henry Farman, an Eng? lishman, flew a Voisin over 2,500 feet in "i'I.'i seconds in a straight line. 1908?Henry Farman made a complete circuit of about a mile in one and one-half minutes. Delagrange flew at Milan in a Voisin machine covering a distance of ten and one-half miles in sixteen minutes. Glenr II. Curtiss'flew his June Bug at the i-ate of Thirty-nine miles per houi Henry Farman remained in air for 21.5 minutes, flying three-quarters of a mile and carrying a passenger. Orvillc Wright, made officia flights at the Camp of Auvours, surpassing French records for dura? tion, distance and height. Later he made a flight of one hour's duration followed by one of on?i hour and thirty-one minutes' duration, covering forty-two miles. He also made another flight of one hour's duratior with passenger. Farman made first 'cross-country flight from Chal?n: to Rheims, a distance of sixteen miles, in twenty minutes. The firsi great aeronautical salon held in Paris, more than a dozen full-sized machines be;ne exhibited. Orville Wright made flight of two hours and nineteen minutes' duration, with passenger. 1909?Cap'ain Spelterini, an Italian officer, explored the Alps in neighborhood of Mont Blanc. Latham, in trial miles over the Channel, fell into the sea seven miles from shore. Bleriot crossed the Channel from Calais to Dover in thirty-seven minutes. Glenn H. Curtiss won the James Gordon Bennett Cup in an international speed race at Rheims. At? tained a speed of forty-three miles per hour in Curtiss machine. Seven aeroplanes were in air. Wilbur Wright flew around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Henry Farman broke the world's record for distance, covering 1 -4 "? miles in four hours, eighteen minutes and fifty-three seconds. Paulhan broke the world's record for altitude, at? taining a height of 970 feet. 1910? Latham set the world's record f,or altitude, climbing 3,281 feet in a flight of forty-two minutes eleven and two-fifths seconds. Paulhan surpassed Latham by climbing 4,163 feet. Demonstrated bombing "rom aeroplane. Sommer established the world's record in flight with three passengers, covering 4.3 miles. Curtiss. made Albany-Governor's Island flight of 135.4 miles in two hours and thirty-two minutes. It was the first flight in which a river was used as a guide in aerial high? way. Latham surpassed Paulhan in altitude flight, attaining 4,541 feet at Rheims. Curtiss, leaving Atlantic City, flew over sea for a distance of 49.6 miles in one hour and fifteen minutes at height of 1,600 feet. McCurdy received and sent wireless messages from an aeroplane at Sheepshead Bay. Dfexel, at Lanark, raised world's record for altitude to 6,604 feet. Leblanc flew one mile in fifty-three seconds, break ng speed record. Legagneaux set altitude record for the year at 19,171 feet at Pau. Labuteau set distance record for the year of 362 miles ,at Buc, 1911?Curtiss successfully rose from water, making a sustained and controlled flight after experiments extending over several years. Eugene Ely alighted on and flew from the deck of a battleship at San Francisco. McCurdy flew from Key West to shore off Havana, a distance of ninety nine miles, in two hours. Lincoln Beachey flew over Niagara Fails and through the Gorge. C. T. Weyman flew a Nieuport monoplane at eighty miles per hour. Prier flew from London to Paris, 290 miles, without a stop. 1912?-Fowler flew across continent from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Francisco. 2,232 miles, thus making the first transcontinental flight. Lieutenant Andreadi flew from Sebastopol to Odessa and Petrograd, covering 1,860 miles in twenty-seven days. Lieutenant Lybousky flew from Sebastopol direct to Petrograd, a distance of 1,612 miles, in thirty days. Carros set altitude for year of 18.4S0 feet at Tunis. Jules Vedrines won the James Gordon Bennett Cup, flying a 400 horse-power Deperdussin monoplane at 105 miles per hour. 1913??Biclovucio, flying a Hauriot, crossed the Alps. Perreyon set altitude record for year of I'D,270 feet. Provost established speed record of 126.59 miles per hour. Robert Fowler flow across Isthmus of Panama. Brindejonc flew from Paris to Warsaw, stopping at Berlin, a distance of 933 miles in eleven hours. Verplank and Haven made an all-water trip fron Chicago to Detroit, following the line of the Great Lakes. Distance 880 miles. Pegoud made the first voluntary loop-the-loop, in a Bleriot monoplane. Sopwith produced the first small, high-speed biplane o! the "scout" class, with a speed of ninety-two miles per hour. 1914?- -Trials of the America, a Curtiss flying boat, built to fly across the Atlantic. 1916?Curtiss tri-plane flying boat made successful trial flights in England. 1914-1918?Aviation developed to its highest degree, with many new com? mercial and battle models produced. 1919.American NC seaplanes make successful 'cross-ocean flight. and American crews will supply the necessary impetus to commercial avia? tion throughout the United States. There are to-day thousands of experi? enced air service men anxious to stay in the game, even to their financial disadvantage. I anticipate an imme? diate boom that will solve the prob? lems of many of them. NC>3 Able to Signal On Ten-Mile Cireuit Coupling Wireless With "Skid Fin" the Only Trick That Is Left Them to Summon Aid There is one way in which Lieuten? ant Commander R. A. Lavender, radio operator of the missing seaplane NC-3, can communicate with the destroyers searching for him, despite the fact that the surface sending set was discarded i at Trepassey, N. F., before the machine j started for the Azores. He can couple up the wireless tele? phone set with which the seaplane is equipped to the "skid tin" aerial stretched between the two tins on the extreme edges of the upper wings of the seaplane. In this manner he would be able to talk by word of mouth over an approximate distance of about ten miles, which if persistently kept up might be caught by one of the search? ing destroyers. By inserting a sending key in tin place of the telephone transmitter he would be able to use the set as a wire? less telegraph sending apparatus, in which case the range would be ex? tended by four or five miles. The only difficulty in this case would he due to the fact that he would be sending on "undamped" waves which the de? stroyers are not especially equipped to receive. There is no reason, however, why the operators of the destroyers should not connect up their receiving instruments in such manner as to re? ceive the "undamped" signals. American Flying Club Gets All Flight News y etc Wireless Service Only Otii of numerous Features f: interest Aviator Member:, Up on the roof of the American Fly? ing Club, at 11 East Thirty-eighti-: Street, a brand new radio outfit sput? tered and sparked. It was picking up the latest news from The transatlantic fliers as they beat their way onward through the Azores fogs. Below in the clubrooms, while the crowds in the streets pressed close around newspaper bulletin boards, a lit? tle knot of United States army aviators h?ve a choice selection off MEN'S BLUE SUITS ("Altmami standard") at . . . $45.0(0) The materials are navy lb lune serge and ?mnfin.shed worsted, in the right weights for the warmer days now, and the approaching Sanmimer season? The coats are in ?models sun table to wear with white flannel trousers?, (SIXTH FLOOR) ?jEafctscm atenu? ?jftft?j &tenue* $eto iork Htyvtploutty street C?irt^fifti) street : sat at their ease getting the freshest ! tic-tails of the big feat toward which. ' the eyes of the world were turned. That is a sample of the sort of ser ? vice the latest aviation club in America : is going to render its members. It is a sample, too, of the sort of service that, the club purposes to pass on to ; the public as soon as its machinery is fully operating. "Our object," said Lieutenant John P. Cahen, special representative of the AN ARMY OF TEN THOUSAND Investors have purchased Five Hundred and Fifty Million Dollars of our GUARANTEED MORTGAGES with never a dollar of loss, a record of which we feel justly proud. "35 years -without lo?s to our Investors." LAWYERS MORTGAGE CO. RICHARD M. HURD, President Capita! .Surplus & Pr. $9,000,000 38 Liberty St..N.Y. 1S4 Montague St.,"Bka. club, just back from overseas service, "is to see to it that aviation remains a live thing to every man, woman and child in the country." It is equally, or perhaps even more, their object to see to it that every American aviator is provided with a rendezvous of a sort which, they de? clare, never before has been possible. "First of all," said Lieutenant Caben, "our organization is an arm;. organization. The government and the United States army are actively behind it. Major General Charles T. Men oher, head of the aviation section, is our honorary president. Major C?d? erai Leonard Wood is our honorary vice-president. Practically every American flyer you ever heard of is a member. Every American flyer you're ever going to hear of is Roing to be. And American flyers are first, last an.i ail the time to be made to realize that it is their club and no one else's, to be run as they wish." Nine weeks ago the new organization moved into its present quarters on Thirty-eighth Street. The actual be? ginning, though, was made just a year ago on the flying fields of Flanders. Credit for that beginning is given by the boys primarily to Laurence L. Driggs, the magazine writer. Louis Bleriot, Channel Flier, Says Americans Make His Feat Small PARIS, May 18. -All the newspapers pay warm tribute to the feat of tho American seaplanes in flying across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to the Azores, and say that May 17 mark.: one of the great events in the history of the world. Louis Bleriot. in the "Excelsior," re? calls his flight across the English Channel ten years ago. He said his flight at that time was deemed an ex? traordinary performance, but. it was insignificant compared with the bril? liant exploit of the American naval ' officers. He declares that none better than he is able to appreciate their prowess, and says he is glad to see the Americans succeed, although French aviators showed the wav. f^ Offer (Remarkable Values in a 9~ xioras Very Special At $5.95 These are the best Oxfords seen in a long time at $5.95. The lasts are very graceful and the workmanship of a character that imm'edi' ately inspires confidence. The leathers are: Dark tan leather %vith Neolin-sole and heel, Patent coltskin, black gun metal leather, and dark tan leather, with leather sole and heel. | All sises. Fifth Floor ks&C?ompemt} Broadway at 34th Jlcreet CLOTHES OF CUSTOM QUALITY rHY should one beat about 'the bush in an advertise? ment ? 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