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366 TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE<br />
LEAP FOR LIFE<br />
'X'HIS thrilling- feat of leaping from an<br />
*•<br />
airship in full flight was recently<br />
performed by a western camera artist<br />
on a photographic plate. In the photograph<br />
the performer is seen guiding the<br />
machine in mid-air at the same time that<br />
he is making the hair-raising jump, so<br />
that no damages resulted except to the<br />
camera's reputation for veracity. That<br />
received a sudden and fatal jolt. This<br />
picture is one of the clever "fakeographs"<br />
made by this artist of mystification and<br />
his partner by means of a stationary "airship"<br />
and a combination of negatives to<br />
form a print.<br />
Silver Ship for Peary.<br />
Gift of Royal Scottish Geographical Society to<br />
American explorer.<br />
BIGGEST OF RECENT GIANTS<br />
/^XE day, not long ago, a giant ar-<br />
^^ rived at the port of New York.<br />
He<br />
was probably the tallest man that has<br />
been seen in this country since the days<br />
when the famous Chang toured the<br />
PEARY'S SILVER SHIP<br />
TTIIE accompanying illustration shows<br />
* a model ship which was presented to<br />
Commander Peary by the Royal Scottish<br />
( jeographical Society. The ship is of<br />
silver, weighing over one hundred<br />
ounces and standing about two feet in<br />
height. It represents a three-masted vessel<br />
of the late sixteenth century type in<br />
full sail. On one of the sails is engraved<br />
the badge of the Royal Scottish Geographical<br />
Society, while another bears an<br />
inscription in Latin, the translation of<br />
which into English reads as follows<br />
"This representation of a ship such as<br />
was u.sed by John Davis, Henry Hud.son.<br />
William Baffin, illustrious Arctic navigators<br />
of the olden time, has lieen presented<br />
by the Royal Scotti.sh (Geographical<br />
Society in token of congratulation,<br />
admiration, and recognition of<br />
Robert Edwin Peary, American citizen,<br />
an explorer of the frozen Arctic not less<br />
daring than his daring predecessors, who<br />
was the first to attain to that noble goal<br />
so long sought by innumerable bold<br />
mariners—the North Pole." Edinburgh,<br />
I'nn.<br />
Mav 24tii.<br />
.\ MkKKY I.KAl" for LlFF.<br />
Kakionrapb" that gives a startling effect of reality.
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