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(By One Who Knew Him.):

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926.

SCIENCE OF LIGHT. AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY'S

SIXTY YEARS.

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more than proportionally. So with the vehicles which use "the- Atroets, whether private, public,

recollection omnibusgs have at least doubled in size, and thero must be about ton times as many of them as there used to be. It may well be the case that, the barges on the Thames might use fully be made longer, wider, and

ton Bright and F. Hatton Turner, WATERLOO BRIDGE. the author of "Astra Castra." The Duke of Argyll was first pro- sident, Glaigher was honorary sec- Few people, when they see an retary, and Brearcy was honour- THE CONTROVERSY GOES or commercial. Within my own

An aeronautical aeroplane,, remember that it is the ary treasurer.

ulmination of more than a hun-exhibition was held at the Crystal' Ired years of consistent research Palace in 1868, and pictures of it Recent contributors to the ind experiment, and that the com- which have been preserved caveal Waterloo Bridge discussion in- As gallant a spirit as most of us lete history of its development many cacentricities, but also aolude Lady St. Heller and Sir have known is lost to us by the would fill many volumes. Much few exhibits which clearly bear William Bull, M.P. Both want death of Mr. Edmund Candler that history and a very large direct relation to the practical the bridge kept as a monument, deeper than they are. if their a memorial of London, if only as dimensions were not rigidly' con- science, including fulfillments of the present day. writes One Who Knew Him" in urt, of the

that. Sir William Bull, in sug-fined to such as enable them to Historie Papers. -- · the London Observer. Even those any famous pronouncements,

But the very first general moot. Besting that it should be repaired be safely navigated through the who delighted in what he wrote will be found in the "Journal of

he Royal Aeronautical Society," ing of the Society, held in June, and left as it is, and that a new arches of Waterloo Bridge. and knew the outstanding events

No man can foresee the extent In his adventurous career will which for sixty years (a longer 1866, was destined to become his bridge should be built at Charing

of future development in this a Have the County haye small idea of the essentialife than any other society of the toric on decount of the highly im- Cross, adds a real point to the courage that his modesty concent-kind) hus, brought together the portant paper read by F. H. Wen-Council," ho asks, "put before direction. The Irwall is to-day a ham. This is a classic, and is re-the Port of London Authority the mattor of little importance in the ed. The quality is scarcely, so On the scientific side Great Bri-published as such by the Society. scheme of a bridge broad enough general aspect of Manchester, in much as hinted even in "Youth and the East," which some dayain has at all stages played a This was the first of a long series to contain six tracks of traffic ex- which it may havo originally may take its place as one of the leading part in aeronautical deve by British and also by, foreign actly on the site of Waterloo been the decisive factor. Anyone

In the early days of scentists and experimenters, Bridge? lopmenta

Every bargeo and of an imaginative disposition, ast century Sir George Cayley serios which is still in progress lightorman who uses the river stimulated by the perusal of the greater autobiographies of our

to produce order out of and will continue. One of the knows perfectly well that earlier works of Mr. H. G. Wells, The crowning feat even of this has of former speculations and latest was the paper a few weeks Waterloo Bridge-narrow as it is may be able to form some idea of But for accoplanes and ago on the autogyro by its inven-is very difficult to navigate a London in which the Thamos has never been told. most widely bruited expeniences her

It was this. or airships he indicated the true tor, Senhor De la Cierva, and this owing to the angle at which it is might ebb and flow as unnoticed He went as representative of the

were not personally concerned in Daily Mail (which he called the ads, his work immeditely bear-may well prove to be one of the thrown across the river. You by those of its inhabitants who

Among his sucecasors historie contributions in that rich cap, in my opinion, only build Megaphone) with Younghusband's may be mentioned Walker, Phil-mine of interest, the "Journal" of suspension bridge similar to those looking after it as are now its expedition, to Tibet.

in Now York on that site. affluents tho Westbourne, the Ty Ile was lips. Henson, and Stringfellow. the Society. standing anong a group of armed uliconing had become mainly the The followship and Associate think the Port Authority would bourno, and the Fleet River. Tibetans when they first turned howman'a affair, hat: Glaisher Followship of the Society are look askanco at a new arch bridge on the invaders. They slashed

and used the balloon in the cause highly esteemed distinctions, im- on the sito, howover wide tho at him with their long heavy science, and it was in part due plying the possession of definite arches, because of their breadth." Another correspondent, Sir swords, but were so many

his recognition of the limita attainments. The Society's gold close that the blows were awk- ward. Hle warded his head with tons of the balloon that the medal has been awarded to the Herbert Stophon, draws attention his hands and arms, and fell with Aeronautical Society, was found-late Wilbur Wright and his bro-to "the fundamental fact under

ed.

ther Orville, to Professor Bryan, lying the whold controversy the one band half-severed at the wrist

The late F. W. Brearey, at a 15. T. Busk (one of the martyrs to fact that London has outgrown, and is more and more outgrowing and half-a-dozen hend wounds be- British Association meeting, had the science). 0.

Chanute, and

the Thames. sides. He crawled from the

insisted upon the necessity for others. And the Society pursues

The Thanas Embankment not press as the guns began to speak.mechanical menus, and these many activities, in addition to

about six He was left in hospital while the

wassions and a special students' sec-lines of traffic but actually loss of such an adventure was

Founded on January 12,"1866, at tion, ami is the custodian of cer-diminishes the width of the river. more than hia eager spirit, could the residence of the Duke of in annual prizes founded in All the principal streots tond to Argyll. The first council of the memory of great aeronautical beone wider, and the buildings society included Six, Charles Tils- pioneers.

and

ng fruit.

MODERATE PREMIUM ATTRACTIVE PLAN expedition proceeded; but the problems being at the time cager-the holding of fortnightly discus. only accommodates

ly discussed, the Society

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endure, He escaped from hos- pital, secured a pony, and rode of towards Lhasa holding a pistol. in the right hand and throwing! the reins on to the elbow of his handless and bandaged, aṛni,”

His nerves were in such a state that more than once he fired the pistol at trees and stumps, like! some tilting Don Quixote; but the wiki journey through a hostile country was successful.

many days he rejoined.

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Expedition and enter Lhasa with them." The reticence is wholly Į characteristics

Ja obituary notices that have have been written of him nothing is said of his searcely credible

experiences in Russia after the

war.At the end of many strange journeys among conflicting armies he caught typhus and while he lay, as all thought, dying, he was being condemned to death by the Bolsheviks; and one of the sounds that he first heard on recovery was the; ulatter and chatter of the firing squad. He wrote nothing whatever about his final escape to Constantinople, but much about the beauty of the character of the Russian aristocrat who was his servant and carried him to safety

His frail and slender body, dri- ven by a spirit that sought adven- Iture as naturally as it shrank from publicity, suffered at various dates from choleru, dysentery, wounds and typhus; and latterly was only saved by insulin. It 18 astounding that after the exhaus- tion of the Mesopotamian expe- dition of which he wrote the most courageous and moving tale in the annals of the war-he! should have faced those Russian journeys. Tired and poor, he re- tired to a villa at Hendaye, look- ing across a shifting estuary to the Pyrenees. His favourite oc- cupation was to fill the ground under the pines in his garden with; the many varieties of orchids that ourish in the neighbouring fields. Almost his last letter spoke of his desire to see them flower. ·In thal quiet retreat he wrote "Youth And the East" (which the writer holds to be almost unique among spiritun autóbographies) and a burlesque novel, "The Dinosaur's Cgg," which contains as rich a description of English landscape as exists in the language.

Very modest, very humorours, so fearless that he did not know his own courage, he could never depart by a hair's breadth from what he held to be good and honest in literature and in life. He fol- towed his personal sense of right- ness and obeyed his own character with so little deviation that he could scarcely expect to be what the world calls a success. But

no one has written truer pictures of life in India and the East, and some of us must believe that the best of his work will abide. touched the heart of things.

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