Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-17
phoenix Gazette.)

Loaded to the gunwales with South
ern Pacific folders, L. H. Lands, the
genial agent of the NJ. & P, made an
ascension yesterday afternoon with
Roy Knabenshue, in the latter's air
ship. Lands is the first passe ger
| Knabenshue has taken along with him
! on any of his flights at the fai ounds
why did you do it?"' Were yU,
not scared?' How did you feeI?"
Would you do 1t again. All these
questions and many more have been
fired at Lands today by his many
friends. He tries to answer each pa
tiently, but he now contesses that
he doesn't know why he went up,
wheher he was scared or calm, and col
lected, how he felt or whether he cared
to do it again or not. He is like n
witness after about a score of sharp
lawyers have made him tell all he
knows in half a dozen different ways
/ and a whole lot more that he doesn't
know at all. Lands has answered
so many questions that he isn't sure
of anything except that he went up.
This morning representative of the
| Gazette called on him To get an inter
view with him regarding his flight.
His office was crowded with something
like nineteen admiring friends, all ask
ing questions. The reporter slightly
ard unobtrusively took a seat on top
of roller-top desk, listened to those
friends question poor Lands. In five
minutes Lands had said that he was
scared to death, wasn't frightened in
the least, was captured and forced to
make the flight, and that he had paid
Knabenshue a hundred to let him go
up; that he would like to make flight
every day in the year and wouldn't
look at that airship again for 800.
He merely sat there, answering yes
and no to all questions put to him,
answering the way the questioner
seemed to want him to answer. The
reporter decided that that was good
time to interview him on freight rates
but mercifully refrained.
Finally all the chatteTing friends
became tired and left, each giving a
long, lingering glance at the hero as
he departed. When the room was
cleared with the exception of couple
of dogs, a stenographer, three tele-
graphers. the chief clerk, yardmaster
and little Al, the Salton Sea alligator,
the Gazette representative managed
to get word In edgeways.
'Is It true that you went up in
Knabenshue's airship yesterday" he
asked as cautious feeler
at u.s. was the weak reply.
why did you do it?"
Because for" la Japanese school
boy.
"Will you net tell your experience
for the benefit of the dear public?"
After taking glass of water and
fa-~'-e h'-nself for some minutes,
lands spun this weird tale.
Il went I'd in Knabenshue's airship
That much I can swear 10. I went up
for the purpose Of advertising the NJ.
& P. Be sure and get that in for |
want n serd 2 COPY of the article to
the advertising department / took
aIong ahouf 2oA c, P folders, intend.
ing to throw them down among the
srTFvd J ~ eice ~ - d + so for all
seemed - no a-Frv'-e = s-,reaIves and
hated to spoil their pleasure.
when arrived at the airshiD tent
was NOT nervous was even able to
cot into that khaki suit they gave me
without the assistance of a valet They
told ne that all aeronauts wear khaki
clothes because they are tighter than
any other kind. Knabenshue said I
wight wfa- Wv sf-aet ciofhez- how
ever. II wished. Rut I never like to
be out Of style. When ] am In an air