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GIRL ASKS TO ROCKKT WITH # CAPT. COLLINS TO THF MOON. Commander of New York Air Police Describes his Plans for Most Fantastic Adventure Kver Conceived by Man?Gigantic Wireless Plant to Communicate With Karth After His Arrival. New York, March 27.?"If by doing so I could get the American people back of military aviation, I'd even hop to Mars in a rocket." This statement was jocularly made by Claude R. Collins, president of the Aviators' Club of Pennsylvania and captain of the New York City air ponce. But the newspapers took his letter i making the astounding offer seriously and now Captain Collins says he will have to make good?provided he is asked to do so, and it can be proved that a rocket can actually be sent to Mars?or the moon, as Prof. Robert H. Goddard, of Clark College alleges is possible. Moreover, at least two enthusiastic kindred spirits have expressed a willingness to make the trip with Captain Collins, among them being a woman, Miss Ruth Phillips, of Kansas City, vV Ma. i Sharp featured, square jawed, with a wide, intelligent brow, from beneath which peer a pair of expressive oiue eyes, round which a smile is incessantly breaking, Captain Collins presents that type of clean cut young American manhood which composed the American air service during the V S\ I world war. Captain Collins said: "I made this statement to a newsSS&r: * paper man a few days before the report was published that I was ready to leap to Mars. It was said on the spur .of the moment to denote the earnestness of my desire to make a national tour, by airplane, to arouse tan interest in the dire condition ot aeronautics in America. No one was more astounded than myself when I discovered the statements played up t:' so vividly in the newspapers. "That I have been forced to swalr. low unlimited chiding and even well meant insults need not be said, but as I made the statement it is one of the golden rules of life to keep one's word?if it can be done. "Therefore, in answer to the several scientists who have questioned the I can only say that I am prepared to carry out my part of the agree roe lit snouia ine suyuiauuua mr " filled and should scientists summon me. "I have been flooded with letters* : Many want to learn how I intended to prepare for the hop, what I was going to do when I arrived on Mars and how I intended to get back. "Young ladies, mothers, and old men have sent letters urging me not I'... to sacrifice my life. Most of these : ; appeals were certainly sincere. However, I am far from being tired of living, and I don't intend to sacrifice f. my life needlessly. Ready to Take Risk. "Many (persons have wanted to 3. ;, know whether or not I have corresponded with Prof. Robert H. Goddard, the Clark College scientist, who has invented the super-rocket, which the Smithsonian Institution declares U can be shot to the moon, and which others believe msry be able to reach Mars, carrying within it a human being. I have not. r\-? , * "If, when this rocket is tested, it landed oh the moon or on Mars and communication is established with the planet, it will be up to me to live r . up to my word. "The rocket which Prof. Goddard 1 has prepared, I understand is constructed on the theory of the toy ^ . rockets with which every boy is acquainted. However, it is sO arranged that the bases, caused by the explosive mixture within, would escape through a nozzle at the bottom, at the % ^^ ? AAA fAAf CQPAT1 ^ ThpI I 1 dIC Ul V,UVW 1COI, pvi dwuuvi. i "v rocket would contain a series of explosive charges. "To carry the rocket to the moon, 233,819 miles from the earth, at least 1,274 pound? of explosives are needed. The Smithsonian Institution's bulletin points to the possibility of filling the pose of one of those A rockets with a charge of brilliant flash powder and a percussion cap, so that when it struck we should be able to see the flash. "To my mind nothing is impossible. By this I do not mean that I believe a rocket can be shot to Mars, but I can not say it is impossible. An Uncomfortable Speed. "I have been forced to consider what might prove the outstanding features of suclj, a leap. Speeding at 5,400 miles an hour through space could hardly be comfortable. As it would take some days to make the trip to Mars, it would be necessary to eat and to sleep. One must also have oxygen to breathe, as it seems aocurad cnrrmlpfe vacuum px "bump' upon landing on .Mars. "This is something to think about. But scientists assure me arrangements would be made to stop the flight of the rocket by control levers. "In actual tests Professor Goudard declares the rocket he is making has made a maximum speed of U miles per second. "He has discovered, through experimentation, that, contrary to the general opinion, the action of escaping gases would prove more effective in the vacuum existing beyond the limits of the Gocoronium of the earth than within the air composing that atmospheric blanket. This, he says, would mean even a greater speed, and with no air to cause friction the possibility of the metal being melted away would no doubt be eliminated. Has Received Letters. "It has been suggested that fins be placed on the forward end, or nose, of such a projectile and a valve arranged to cut off the passage of the escaping gases, so that the speed of the rocket might be decreased* and possibly a safe landing made, with parachutes or other means. "Here I wish to call attention to several letters I have received from persons who have offered to make a similar leap or to 'go with me.' Among these, the most interesting are the offers of Captain Charles N. Fitzgerald, a flier from Texas, now living in New York, and Miss Ruth Phillips, a young woman of Kansas City, Mo. "Captain Fitzgerald is so thoroughly interested that he has called and volunteered his willingness to proceed, accompany or follow me in a rocket. "From his statement, Mr. Fitzgerald seems confident he could com plete such a leap. He has performed a long list of feats, such as jumping Arant Orangeburg, 5 ; ;' [ ::: '||:;:: I : , I. : : : . :\&'x\*>>x*x'x*>x*r\vx<*x*& f ' : Ml ' i iiiib ifc:; ffiii' -ii i . Jx:! x ? : rV-: I ists beyond tee limits or tne eartnsj atmosphere. "What sort of material could be used to stand such terrific speed without burning up or flying to bits? Another thing is the possibility of the ?flridg $n We are glad to say that ( a greater success than we z er was thoroughly amazed SPRING CLOTHING. If y yet, don't put it off. It wil so at once. 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" 'Scientists have agreed for years that life exists on Mars,' he told me. 'This being true, human beings should be found there. If that proved true, it would be quite simple to establish there some sort of communication known to this world.' "We fliers have a general idea of the rudiments of electricity. Why, j then, would it not be possible to arrange a great wireless plant on Mars ! to establish communication with the ' earth? | "Strange things have been accomplished in our age. The impossible is being done every day, and no educated, free thinking man will admit anything is impossible. Unlike Captain Fitzgerald, I am not impatiently awaiting the chance to step into the rocket, but should I be called upon to keep my word I should do so." Captain Collins is a keen minded young business man, about 35 years of aere. 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