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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
years previous was answered — they were not geese — the two specks were Johnstone and Hoxsey descending from an altitude flight of nearly ten thousand feet above the earth's surface. As they neared the ground another shadow passed athwart my vision, and Latham in his bird-like monoplane swooped gracefully upwards, the golden sunset glinting on the under side of his broad pinions as he swerved and dipped in his circling flight, paraphrasing the heron whom I had not forgotten.
And still more wonders ! Here were the "wild ducks," the saucy little Demoiselles, and the baby Wright ; Grahame-White 's Bleriot and Moisant's monoplane, nine in all, circling and wheeling; crossing and recrossing; whirring and buzzing until the air seemed to be, and literally was, full of huge bird-like creations, conceived, built and operated by the genius, skill and daring of man. The domain of the air was conquered. This is a story of conquest.
Later in the week little Moisant with his quiet, confident smile and his courageous black eyes, nonchalantly stepped into a monoplane that he had tried for only a few minutes and triumphantly flew from the middle of Long Island to and around the Statue of Liberty and back to almost the identical spot from which he started. To-day I read that the same
intrepid little air voyageur had flown four times over the city of Richmond. Another conquest ! and yet, as in all conquests, the price has to be paid — the cost is dreadful. Poor, genial, dare-devil Ralph Johnstone has paid Death's toll and many others went before, in the same quest, and still more will follow. So, after all, is the question answered yet? Can man with all his human intelligence be compared, so far as flying goes, with the simple goose ?
"A double task to paint the finest
features of the mind, and to most
subtle and mysterious things give
color, strength and motion." —
A li e n side.
"A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created." — Tuckerman.
''The object of art is to crystalize emotion into thought,
and then to fix it in form." —
Delsarte.