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THE FIRST MAN TO FLY. INTERVIEW WITH MỲ. ORVILLE WRIGHT.

Above is Mr. Orville Wright,, father of the airplane, as he appears to-day 25 years after he save his invention to the world. In the accompanying exclusive Interview Mr. Wright, tells why he has been unable to dy an, airplane for f the past 10 years.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FEBRUARY 2nd, 1929.

MILLENARY OF ROYAL

MINT, "

THOUSANDTH BIRTHDAY OF ENGLISH COINAGE,

BEFORE THE MAST.

TALES OF SAILING SHIP DAYS.

The passing of the sailing ship he could return' to his ship:- in the latter years of the nine- "Billy, however, had caught the

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To the Royal Mint I went to teenth century has not failed to gold fever, and made up his mind offer felicitations on The thou-call forth tributes of memory, and to stay on the goldfields. He sandth birthday of our English regret. If the change meant the stated that he had a fairly good coinage (writes Laurence Mason in abolition of unspeakable hard-ruu of luck, and, as was the usual the Referee). Yes, this "indeed ships and privations, "the black-way with miners in those days, was the millenary year: uniform jack, the knuckleduster, and the after having good luck, they went cols, all struck by dies from the "crimp," it meant also the end of down to Melbourne to have a good King's Mint on Tower Hill, were an institution inseparably involv- time, as they called it. the first ordained by the Synod of ed" with our history and adding Buying The Dress Circle, Grantley, which met in 928, pro- lustre to it; it meant the passing "During Billy Barton's first stay bably in the autumn.

of a fine tradition of practical in Melbourne he reckoned that he Was no medal to-be struck in seamanship, and the loss of much got through nearly a thousand honour of an anniversary so rare? that was romantic and beautiful, pounds in less than a month. It Alas! no. Yet I should have

In "Before the Mast in Sailing happened that Jenny Lind, the thought the Mint, might have been Ships" Captain John Mason tells Swedish Nightingale, paid a visit more sentimentally felined, for a plain tale of a life spent in sail, to Melbourne, and Billy went to a its history is full of the stuff of of shipmates of the 'eighties and theatrical agent and booked a feat humanity.

'nineties, of rigours and compen-in the dress circle. When the sating joys. Out of a well-stored house was full, Billy marched to memory he gives muny yarns that his seat in his milner's rig-out, the make, the old days live anew. old slouch hat, moleskin trousers, coarse chequered coat, and hobuail As often as not the master was bouts all covered with clay just the monarch's head was a plaina man driver as well as a ship us he left the mine. offence to King Athelstan. Hence driver and exercised a tyrannical "There was quite a commotion the order that all moneyera should authority. Sailing as able sea when Billy sat down amongst some be licensed by him, and should man the author once had the mis-fof the most fashionable prople in come to London for dies that forlane to oversleep, and when

What more, natural than the kingly impulse that prompted the Statute of Greatley? That mints scattered here and there should þe issuing money not even. bearing i

World

· Cast-Iron Discipline,

mak English money the the watch was mustered he was

same in North and South and Eustries-

and West. Ever since then the The captain then turned round Royal Mini on Tower Hill, and asked why I had slept in. thereabouts, has reigned lard informed him that I was tired and paramount over the nation's coin-sleepy, and happened to drop off. |'l-guess,' said the captain, that we make no allowance for the like of this here. It may be human nature to fall asleep, but human

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Lining the Pocket. August, is the function of the Royal Mat. but not magus! the characters of all who figure In her nature is not going to have, its own Melbourne, who were all in even- story. Some monarchs just reway in this packet; cast-iron dising clothes. The runager of the garded the Mint as a perquisite, eipline will he maintained here, theatre appeared on the scene and and spld the mentyer's job to the for this is no ordinary lime juicer.tried to persuade Billy to leave highest bidder. Listen fo Sir You must understand that every the circle, but he stoutly refused Robert Cotton suggesting how one of you hielongs to ine, body and stating that he had paid for his James 1st might wheedle more sout, while you are in this ship; seat and there he was lo remain.

From The Mint.

"If you are under orders, · signed To get even with the theatre-going might," he whispered "make articles. 1o obey, which plays people he went to the theatricalja junior clark, who asked no £1000 A year if it were more have with

a week or 90 private agent next day and bought the questions. About redfully regarded."

opinions, and if you fail to hear whole dress circle out for £350, afterwards the captain met Mac Hy some others the Mint was the watch called, you being tired and sat there by himself in his and asked how the fishing was certainly, "heedfully regarded."and sleepy won't excuse you. mining rig out."

1 getting on. 'Oh, I'm no fishing the man who first flew, the man ton tarnished his name by associa

It is not true that Sir Isaac New-will not Have an officer going and The Lunatic Kuper. the noo; I did good fishing when I Another shipmate of Captain fished the money due me, and my Orville before whom the whole aeronau

Mason's Was Macpherson, the discharge; that was verra good The 1941 who first Heal world bowed down, only keption with the Mint as Warden and [afterwards as Master, for it was

Seot, fine sailor but a hardfishing, captain,' was the reply." jexpected, that something above

drinker, a master of wangling and quarter of a century aro while an "We have prophesied so much his emolument should accrue

A Heavy Sea, artful dodging. Macpherson. undertaker waited with his rough too soon. Prophesy should stop: him. But what of, those tight-

On passenger ships the holyston- while in Sydney, replied to hox and bony horse on a windswept we should be content with what fisted money-makers who in the sand dune in North Carolina, is we can do but not begrudve rivalry seventeenth

advertisement for two keepers to ins of deck was generally done! century absolutely

ake charge of a lunatic who was during the night when none of the perhaps the anly man of aeronau- from other folds of science, refused to change clipped and

being sent back to England, and Passengers was about. It was n ties Jayjay who thinks there's "tos cometimes think that right now attenuatied money saTE

and ungrateful task on termis

he get the job for fifty pounds.which the seamen were always nurk prophecy and too me the plane is deine about wirst it advantageous (15 themselves"

During the voyage Mae made! optimism about.

by of will over dn, is doing, a complete One's heart is out to poor Mr.

a special study of his charge's glad to escape by hook, or aviation."

ioli why expert more of it?"

ergok:---- Lawrence, City haberdasher, who'

inctions for future

"The The holystones are fixed in had arrúmulated £200 "in gond Trans-Atlantic Flights.

man was quite harmless, but hiron frames with a handle about tin half-penge and furthles,” vet.

had a mania for fishing; he would five feet long, and are pushed "Trans-Atlantic haps?" Weight could not get them elanged for

sit on the top of a decle-house backwards and forwards over the of his 26th anniversary of what still smiled, his very round, bright his convenience.

for hours with a broom-handle happened, at Kitty Hawk N... "ves a little decisivo.

High Times,

By Allene Summer,] Washington, Dec. 29. Wright.

few "like the birds of the air" à

The future

Orville Wright the first

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for a fishing rod, a piece of deck, which has been

| beforehand. One bright, mnou-į spun-yarn and an old rusty nail

light night we were running fur fishing tackle."

Mae's fifty pounds did not last before a heavy sen and shipping

large'quantities of water at times,¦ ¦ tong, and he had to work his way and about ten o'clock a big resi Aerowati- Conference that drew up dà not believe that the lane ng his place and keeps his vouch."

jack to Australia:- aviation - leaders to Washington ag

mregnis vehicle of trans-As for the inasie: worker, he had;

"He managed to get a pier-heade over where the men.

holystoning. Every man droppedi from many pations,,There were sortation. We should leave the received in "profit," from Jate

jump at Gravesend in a barque his stone when he saw the hig spereles and talk wood lowis Lasipnse to the dirigibles Plans 12th, 1696, to January 19th, 1697,

bound for Sydney. proneer of the Fators of aviation to their work over lanf. Such 5,994 118, itd.

passage not, when near Australia,reybeard was to tumble on the top of him, and made a race for but none of it from this quiet

tapping you gently, and asking you Mag started the insinue

the alleyway. little man frem Dayton, Ohiņ „eemofally' when duite ongside our

There was Elora Mestroll, to get up if you are too tired and started fishing in the same "As soon as the deck was clear. They fired a vols he and his province,

who made money most indu

to dusto," "

manner as the lunatic who was of water some of them rushed¦¦ -brother Wilbow Weirlf, may dendi

trially only not in the ́ Mint, i

under his charge on the passage. "Women in aviation Wright One rather plties him, however.

threw holystones, dower in Kitte Hawk that men ufted deprecating hands. orable Devember day in 19 for

He had romel from France and

It was a hard, rough-and-tumble 'to England. Sometimes he would along and the privilere of breking a werk. "Another of those indler silly convinced Queen Elizabeth that he life. Too often the ships were be at the wheel and call out totckets, and brooms all over the Premoulize? could turn and coins without simply floating hells. Every officer he relieved as he had to go and side. The hus'n, who was forward by attempting man's first airlane There's too much talk, ton murk hitting them with a hammer and bad to be a fighting man, and fish., As soon as he got relieved at the time the big sea came over, standing in the alleyway." "What's light. But no jurk wes broken. Beneralization, toa much boast-misshaping them and Elizabeth generally he had a belaying-inhe.woull get on the forward deck came aft and found all the men

had attended at the Tower fa ser handy in his sea-boot, Primitive house and sit with his legs dangthe matter? said he.

was rampant, and, not ling over the side of it, with his all washed over the side, said he first rain struck by the new savagery method. Yet when later she was seldom in allicer had to go into apprised that he had yielded to hiding (when the belaying-pin or tempistion she consigned him to handspike hit its mark too effec- the hangnan, with certain attentively.

One such refugee was Billy) Bons in addition to the rope.

as the awed onlookers believed, stions.

the plane flew, -

Unable to Ply Plane,

Mirvest

Why

Both Wright and Lindbeth,

men at the confere But, strangely enough, the joys love the same, humility and as

of piloting an aindane are depilaste for personal kow-towiny. ip Deville Wright 10-day, and have been for ten years. He has

Makes No Speech.

·

Club Law,

at heen able to operate a plane Wright, though guest of hon! I am a bit sorry, also, for old Barton, who took shelter in Bal- in nearly a decade,

|baar. would not make a speech. Jan Roettier: royally as he fared at till he received word that| "The vibration of the stick' is He would Bose for only one as chief engraver, Brought from

too much for my siatica," he ex-picture, and that unwillingly. He Holland by Charles I, he was an embossed. If more gracefully plained, with a smile.

would not permit a pre-convention assigned £150 a year for each of ordered and mare accurately en- "I can ride, though, and I do, strip of film for publicity urbis three sons for helping him.Kraven to relieve him,

When Charles turned the eyerol |

as often as 1ean," he continued, joses.

him."

Aviation's Future,

aviation."

erret."

loften

thirty years afterwards sómi-body

in

after

a thing of the past. It may be, man hostlery at which he always tier over, and his indignation at One complaint persists, though shipping office,' said the caplain,

"But I can't drive my own plane. The committee of arrangements discovered that though the sons prejudice un the priceless pieces broom-handle and string, with a

had long left the Mint, and one of Thomas Simon he did himself rusty nail for a hook. any Matte. That's the way lifejsomed that he would bring a

and the country, as well as the "The captain of the vessel ap- goes, isn't it?"

staff of secretaries. They made indeed was lighting for the King

parently became very anxious, as He sailed again as he indicated elaborate arrangements for his of France, yet dan was still draw-proud artist, injustice,

Mint's Mistakes..

it meant the man would have to a youth in avistion toga who was agrommodation. They learned ing their Salaries,

there was ant even one secretary.

Petition Coinage; crossing the, hotel lobby.

Queer mistakes, even in modern be sent to England, which would "That boy has all Die fun in the “But people will bother you."

Jan became suspert is a Papist,times, have been made by the be a heavy expense on the ship. business." he said. "It is our job said the committer. "We'll keen wrote Sir Isaac Newton on Mint. The first florin coined was Mae did not fish every day, as that to do the research work to protect your room and phone number Raettier have the use of the greated in 1887 proved to be too much working. On the day before arrival, October 2nd, 1698, "pray let Mr. minus "D.C.," and sixpences coin-was a part of the game he was crown press for coyning of the like half-sovereigns to be kept in the captain (who was a young man “Oh, I can answer my phone as Medalls, but let some person whom circulation. But the worst mis-newly promoted) asked him if he I asked him about the future of with me," said Wright. I don't that Mr. Routier make no other Queen Victoria was brought up to arrival in Sydney. Mac said he

as people want to bother you can confide in attend to gee take occurred when the image of would like to go fishing

"How can any of us say whitiust tell them that they're misy Jan was driven from his home slight, girlish, figure which had man.

mind being bothered, and 1 cause of the said press," Eventual-date in her Jubilee year, The would, as he was a born fisher- comes next?" he asked me, smiling biken and I'm not the person they

Good Fishing. a bit sadly.

the Tower, where, however, persisted since 1837 had been in- need to talk to. It just happened there is now a tablet to his not congruous enough, but positively "On the day after arrival in "Real progress is a matter of 'but I flew first."

anhonoured memory.

ridiculous was the austere head, Sydney the captain sent for Mac all things working together. ft. It was with the greatest

The misfortune that befell with a crown athwart it at a rakish and asked him if that was 'one would be so easy to say, for In-dificulty that the committee lured Boettier, was nothing compared angle, that followed, and the of his fishing days. 'No' said Mac, stance, that aviation would revo-him into the palatial hotel of the with "that which smote his special committee that "ant" on it but I feel it coming on me again, Jutionize mall service; That mail onference headquarters naway rival. Thomas Sino was en-well, sat on It effectively, and a expect I shall be fishing to- carried on trains would soon be from the modest travelling-sales-graver when Charles invited Roet fresh figure was designed.

morrow again.” 'Come to the

but how ean we say that our "stops," she puts it.

the preference given to the designs confessedly it would be better to who was gind of the chance own pet child, the airplane, is the There is none of the modest of the new comer hastened his bellow it in the Treasury than in get rid of him before he took one poseur about Orville Wright, No dismissal.. It was then that he the guard chambers of Tower Hill of his pecullar turns. As it was! "Look at what wireless is doing, superiority. He ken people and designed his celebrated "Petition In 1920, when silver was costly, very unusual for captalus to pay Mall by wireless, by radio, may admits it. He likes helping out Calunge," most tragie, as it is the portion of it was reduced from all sailormen at that season of the take the place of the plane. Life on other people's jobs.

incomparably, the most beautiful 925 in 1,000, to which it had been year when wages were very high, moves sa fast-so that"

"I do wish I had something big ever fashioned in England. Fired raised hy the liberal polley of there was just a possibility of the Other men at the conference to say to you," he told me, smiling at once by patriotism and pride is Elizabeth, to 500 in 1,000. Silver shipping muster getting suspi- talked glibly about a livver plane graciously.

"But averything's the inarription on it:

is cheap again, but it has not been cious. in every home, a landing field_inheen said, and so many words are Thomas Simon most humbly reinstated In our money; and "The captain had to caution every back yard, a plane for Paso futile. And there's so much prays. Your Majesty to compare appropriate indeed It would have Mac in case any questions were Ma and all the kids. Henry Ford to do. It is much better to let these his Tryall Pieces with the been to return in this special asked by any of the officials. Mac said he foresaw an "air age." But deeds speak for themselves." Dutch and if more truly drawn your, to a true silver coinage. was paid off in due course before

answer?

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