Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1909 — LONDON MAKES LIONS OF WRIGHT BROTHERS [ARTICLE]

LONDON MAKES LIONS OF WRIGHT BROTHERS

“Unspoiled as ThonghThey Were Nobodies,” Says Speaker, London, May 4. —There was a demonstration of enthusiasm, rmnarkable in its at the Insmutton Of Civil Engineers when the Aefonaullcal Society of Great Britan conferred its first gold medal on Wilbur and Orville Wright. Sir Hiram Maxim, Lieutenant General Baden-Powell, Captain F. S. Cody, cn American, who is struggling, but thv.s far unsuccessfully, to perfect his c- i aeroplane for the British army, end a large number of scientists and v enen were present. Colonel J. E. Capper, the war office’s rerenautieal expert, referred to the Wright brothers as “unspoiled, as though they were nobodies,” and declared that the nation which failed to keep pace with the flying developments might get badly left in war. Both Wilbur and Orville Wright made brief speeches, tersely expressing their thanks. The brothers were besieged for autographs.