Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1910 — CHILDREN IN AERIAL LEAGUE [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN IN AERIAL LEAGUE

English Boys and Girls Organize to Aid In New Science of Aero- \ nautlcs. London. —Although the science of aeronautics has only just found a footing in England, schemes for helping it along are springing up on every side, and the latest of these has developed in the shape of the Boys’ and Girls’ Aerial league, In the organization of which Miss Gertrude Bacon is actively Interesting herself. Mies Bacon is herself an aeronaut of considerable experience, though that, up to the present, has been confined to ballooning. The object of the institution's to educate and Interest children in all mat- , ters of aviation, to encourage them by means of competitions In modern flying machine construction, and In essay writing on aeronautical subjects, ■aid to stir up public interest by organizing a lecture campaign through tha